{"id":12294,"date":"2025-04-23T10:22:22","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T15:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=12294"},"modified":"2025-04-23T10:22:24","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T15:22:24","slug":"the-original-alice-cooper-groups-new-single-black-mamba-featuring-robby-krieger-of-the-doors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=12294","title":{"rendered":"The Original Alice Cooper Group\u2019s New Single \u2018Black Mamba\u2019 Featuring Robby Krieger of The Doors"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"617\" height=\"511\" src=\"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/ALICE-ULT.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12295\" style=\"width:649px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/ALICE-ULT.png 617w, https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/ALICE-ULT-300x248.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 617px) 100vw, 617px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em><strong>Order Alice Cooper The Revenge Of Alice Cooper Ultimate Collector\u2019s Edition Numbered and Limited to 5000 copies $75<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ear-music.shop\/product\/The-Revenge-Of-Alice-Cooper-boxset\"><strong>https:\/\/ear-music.shop\/product\/The-Revenge-Of-Alice-Cooper-boxset<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The reunited&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ultimateclassicrock.com\/tags\/alice-cooper-group\/\">Alice Cooper Group<\/a>&nbsp;have released \u201cBlack Mamba,\u201d the first track to appear from their upcoming album.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/ultimateclassicrock.com\/the-revenge-of-alice-cooper-album\/\">The Revenge of Alice Cooper<\/a><\/em>&nbsp;arrives on July 25 and breaks a 51-year silence from the lineup that formed in 1968, including guitarist Michael Bruce, bassist Dennis Dunaway, drummer Neal Smith and late guitarist Glen Buxton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The video for \u201cBlack Mamba\u201d \u2013 which features a guest appearance by the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ultimateclassicrock.com\/tags\/the-doors\/\">Doors<\/a>&nbsp;guitarist&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ultimateclassicrock.com\/tags\/robby-krieger\/\">Robby Kreiger<\/a>&nbsp;\u2013 can be seen below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"nv-iframe-embed\"><iframe title=\"The Original Alice Cooper Group - Black Mamba (Official Video)\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jgbkuJo1ifU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Lead singer&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ultimateclassicrock.com\/tags\/alice-cooper\/\">Cooper<\/a>&nbsp;described the track as \u201cdefinitely an Alice Cooper, from-the-ground-up song\u201d in a recent interview with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/rock\/alice-cooper-reunites-original-band-first-album-51-years-1235951013\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Billboard<\/em><\/a>, adding: \u201cWe didn\u2019t know where it was gonna go. At the end we looked at each other and went, \u2018Oh, that\u2019s pretty good!&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt wasn\u2019t even a song yet,\u201d Dunaway said of the studio session that spawned the track. \u201c[W]e start jamming on the riff and warming up together. The next thing you know we get this swampy feel and decide it\u2019s gonna be about a black mamba snake, which is very deadly, and it fell into place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt was so new Alice had to stop us at one point and ask me if I remembered what the melody was. It was very spontaneous.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Alice Cooper Sings Differently With His Original Band<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Producer, co-writer and backing musician&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ultimateclassicrock.com\/tags\/bob-ezrin\/\">Bob Ezrin<\/a>&nbsp;added: \u201cWhen we started to play that\u2026 I knew the spirit of the Alice Cooper group was back and that what we were making was very much an album that could\u2019ve been [from] the \u201870s, when we were last together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt had the psychedelia, it had the artful drumming and bass playing, the great atmospheric guitars. It has Alice telling a really fabulous story, in character.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cooper reported that they\u2019d made certain not to approach the record like one of his own. \u201cIf we\u2019re gonna do an original Alice record, I want it to sound like the original Alice band,\u201d he said. \u201cThe original band has a darker sound, and a heavier sound. It\u2019s a very different personality, and I even sing differently when I sing with those guys.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Story Source: www.ultimateclassicrock.com<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Order Alice Cooper The Revenge Of Alice Cooper Ultimate Collector\u2019s Edition Numbered and Limited to 5000 copies $75 https:\/\/ear-music.shop\/product\/The-Revenge-Of-Alice-Cooper-boxset The reunited&nbsp;Alice Cooper Group&nbsp;have released \u201cBlack Mamba,\u201d the first track to appear from their upcoming album. The Revenge of Alice Cooper&nbsp;arrives on July 25 and breaks a 51-year silence from the lineup that formed in 1968,&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=12294\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Original Alice Cooper Group\u2019s New Single \u2018Black Mamba\u2019 Featuring Robby Krieger of The Doors<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12295,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12296,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12294\/revisions\/12296"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}