Alice Cooper Road 180g 2LP, CD & Blu-Ray Video Box Set

The road will make you or break you. To survive it, you need to be as tough as asphalt and move fast enough to make the competition eat dust. Throughout 2022, Alice collaborated closely with the members of his touring band as well as longtime producer Bob Ezrin, putting together what would become his 2023 studio album, Road. You can feel the energy and lightness that the band brings with every riff and hear the story behind what inspired them. Bringing everything full circle, it channels the spirit of old-school Alice with instantly recognizable grit and plenty of gusto. It's everything you'd hope for from him and more. And this time his trusted longtime bandmates - Ryan Roxie [guitar], Chuck Garric [bass], Tommy Henrikson [guitar], Glen Sobel [drums], and Nita Strauss [guitar] - are riding shotgun.

Kane Roberts (a touring and recording collaborator with Alice's band in years past who briefly rejoined Cooper on the road in 2022) makes a special guest appearance, contributing the raucous and rip-roaring "Dead Don't Dance." Other special contributors to the album include Rage Against the Machine's Tom Morello, who co-wrote, and plays and sings backing vocals on "White Line Frankenstein," and Buckcherry's Keith Nelson and MC5's Wayne Kramer, who also co-wrote new songs with Alice.

...Road finds Alice Cooper half a century into his weird and fantastical rock & roll nightmare but sounding fresh and invigorated as ever....Though they were recorded in the 2020s, moments like the winkingly self-aware opener 'I'm Alice' or the sleazy riffage and pounding backbeats of 'Welcome to the Show' could pass for vintage Alice Cooper. Longtime producer Bob Ezrin sculpts a back-to-basics hard rock sound that's powerful and not overly polished. Minimal overdubs put the focus on the energy the band is generating, and the entirety of the album sounds like a group playing live in a room, feeding off each other's excitement....[A] surprisingly inspired collection of new material. With Road, Alice Cooper and his band make it clear that they intend to keep the show on the road until the wheels fall off the tour bus.