The full release details for Alice Cooper’s hotly anticipated Welcome 2 My Nightmare album have been revealed with fans in for a treat as the shock rock king rolls out his latest record in every format imaginable.

A special Fan Pack will be released via Future Publishing on September 16 with the standard UK album hitting stores the following month. Single I’ll Bite Your Face Off will be available as a limited edition seven inch picture disc on September 12 and Alice can’t wait for the world to hear the latest addition to a legendary canon.

“This is Alice’s nightmare 35 years later,” he said. “Bob [Ezrin] and I created this character and we know how to write for him. I play the part but we’re not writing for me, we’re writing for Alice. 

“We kept the first Nightmare album very personal to us. On this one we found more humour and we were more open. This was our world and we want to present it to the fans. The original album was my first solo album after all those huge hit records with the original band and now that nightmare is exposed, this one can be a little bit more open. The music crosses all sorts of boundaries. We went where the lyrics took us.”

There is an array of collaborators on the new album, including original Alice Cooper members Denis Dunaway, Michael Bruce and Neal Smith reunited on three tracks. Contributors include global pop superstar Ke$ha, who affectionately calls Alice “dad”, and legendary Alice and Lou Reed guitarist Steve Hunter, who is part of Alice’s current touring band and featured prominently on the first Nightmare album.

Glimpses of themes from the original album are intertwined throughout with each track representing a different aspect of Alice’s nightmare.

“I wanted a 70s feel for When Hell Comes Home,” added Alice. “And I didn’t even have to ask for it, it’s just how they (Dunaway, Bruce and Smith) play and they did it live in the studio. When they got done playing the basic track, Bob and I just looked at each other and acknowledged that that sound is built into their DNA. We didn’t need to go and fix anything. The way they finished was a little bit ragged and that’s the way we used to finish songs. That’s what I like about it.”

Co-writers include Ezrin, Ke$ha, Neal, Dennis, Michael, plus Buckcherry’s Keith Nelson, Desmond Child (who famously co-wrote and produced “Poison” with Alice), longtime collaborator Dick Wagner, current touring band member Chuck Garric and film composer Jeremy Rubolino.

“That’s my rebellion,” added Alice of the more surprising guests. “I like people that don’t belong and yet what they’re doing works perfectly. I don’t care where it comes from, as long as it’s right.  If you tell me something doesn’t work, I’ll work my head of until it does then shove it down your throat.

“I think a lot of my audience is going to go ‘KE$HA!?’, but she probably wrote the most disgusting lyrics in the song – we had to rein her in. I like people to know that just because artists are put in a pigeon hole, that doesn’t mean that’s what they are. Give people a little room.”

The full range of W2MN releases is as follows:

Welcome 2 My Nightmare is to be released first as a Fan Pack in conjunction with Future Publishing in September, with a conventional release following in October. The Fan Pack includes the album, a giant poster, a facepaint set, a metal badge, an Alice face mask and a 132-page magazine dedicated to all things Alice.

 

FAN PACK TRACKLIST

1. I Am Made Of You
2. Caffeine
3. The Nightmare Returns
4. A Runaway Train
5. Last Man On Earth
6. The Congregation
7. I’ll Bite Your Face Off
8. Disco Bloodbath Boogie Fever
9. Ghouls Gone Wild
10. Something To Remember Me By
11. When Hell Comes Home
12. What Baby Wants
13. I Gotta Get Outta Here
14. The Underture

Exclusive Fanpack Bonus Tracks:
Under The Bed
Poison (Live at Download Festival)

STANDARD UK & INTERNATIONAL TRACKLIST

1. I Am Made Of You

2. Caffeine

3. The Nightmare Returns

4. A Runaway Train

5. Last Man On Earth

6. The Congregation

7. I’ll Bite Your Face Off

8. Disco Bloodbath Boogie Fever

9. Ghouls Gone Wild

10. Something To Remember Me By

11. When Hell Comes Home

12. What Baby Wants

13. I Gotta Get Outta Here

14. The Underture

Standard Bonus Track:

15. We Gotta Get Out Of This Place

 

DELUXE UK & INTERNATIONAL TRACKLIST

1. I Am Made Of You

2. Caffeine

3. The Nightmare Returns

4. A Runaway Train

5. Last Man On Earth

6. The Congregation

7. I’ll Bite Your Face Off

8. Disco Bloodbath Boogie Fever

9. Ghouls Gone Wild

10. Something To Remember Me By

11. When Hell Comes Home

12. What Baby Wants

13. I Gotta Get Outta Here

14. The Underture

Deluxe Bonus Tracks:

15. We Gotta Get Out Of This Place

16. No More Mr. Nice Guy (Live at Download Festival)

17. The Black Widow (Live at Download Festival)

 

General Album Formats –  released via Universal Music Group:

1. 2xLP blood-red vinyl with poster and exclusive track ‘Flatline’

2. Deluxe digipak CD with exclusive ‘ticket to hell’ not available anywhere else, plus poster and bonus tracks “We Gotta Get    Out Of This Place”, “No More Mr. Nice Guy (live at Download Festival)”,“Black Widow (Live at Download  Festival)”

3. Standard CD/Digital Album with bonus track “We Gotta Get Out Of This Place”

4. iTunes-exclusive Album with bonus track ‘A Bad Situation’ and track-by-track commentary