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Speak With The Devil
(Rue Morgue - November 2000)

He's responsible for the death of countless babies. He's been romantically involved with a corpse. He's fought off black widows, he's hung with Vincent Price, he's survived attacks at the hands of Jason Voorhees, and every night he's had his head removed...

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Classic Cuts Presents...
(Rue Morgue - August 2005)

Every promise land has its Moses — light or dark — and there are a few costume ghouls in modern mass-market horror, black metal or goth realms who'd dare leave Alice Cooper off their list of progenitors. Although the seed of horror rock's theatrics...

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Alice Past and Present
(Rue Morgue - November 2005)

The idea behind Cooper's phenomenally successful 1973 Billion Dollar Babies was to "exploit the idea that everyone has sick perversions", and to that end, Alice loaded it with themes of reverse rape (Raped and Freezin'), gender-bending (Mary...

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Return of the Spider
(Rue Morgue - September 2008)

Alice Cooper is perhaps the world's highest functioning schizophrenic. He's one the the world's most recognizable rock personalities, a target of family-friendly music watchdogs (the PMRC), golf celebrity, radio show host, ...

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Still Creepin' While You're Sleepin'
(Rue Morgue - September 2011)

The last time we saw Alice Cooper, he was hacking the limbs off dead bodies and using them to build a giant arachnid. Or at least that's what his latest fictional character was doing on the 2008 serial killer concept album Along Came A Spider....

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Alice Cooper Goes to Hell
(Rue Morgue - November 2012)

The legendary rocker found himself in the 1987 film after meeting director John Carpenter through his manager, Shep Gordon, who would go on to executive produce They Live (1988) and Village of the Damned (1995) for the filmmaker...

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