Legendary rocker Alice Cooper spoke to Aol’s Noisecreep about “Welcome 2 My Nightmare”, a sequel to his 1975 concept album “Welcome to My Nightmare” – his first “solo” release after the break-up of the original Alice Cooper band.

“It will be out next year,” he said, “We have to do the whole festivals tour first which will be South America, Australia, Europe, Canada, all over the States. That’s going to be a big kind of heavy Alice show. But the [tour] after that will be ‘Welcome To My Nightmare Part Two’ – ‘Welcome 2 My Nightmare,’ and it’s going to be a full-out nightmare so I almost can’t wait for that one. The next show is going to be fun. The show after that, the nightmare show, is going to be unbelievable.”

In a recent interview with Billboard.com, Cooper said about the forthcoming CD, “I had an idea to do a part two to (2008′s) ‘Along Came a Spider’,” Cooper says. “I came to [producer] Bob [Ezrin; Pink Floyd, Kiss] with it, and he listened and goes, ‘Eh. I would be more excited if ‘Along Came a Spider’ was a No. 1 record.’ He wasn’t really into it. Then we started talking about ‘Welcome to My Nightmare”s 35th anniversary or something like that, and he said, ‘What if Alice had another nightmare?’ All I was trying to do was get Bob to say, ‘Yeah, I want to produce the album,’ so we found a place where both of us really felt comfortable, and that was doing ‘Nightmare 2′.”

“Welcome 2 My Nightmare” features the original “Nightmare” tandem of Steve Hunter and Dick Wagner, with Vince Gill guesting on a track called “Runaway Train”. In addition, surviving Cooper band members Michael Bruce, Dennis Dunaway and Neal Smith appear on the song “When Hell Comes Home”.

“There are certain songs where we let some of the themes from (the original) ‘Nightmare’ slip in,” Cooper told Billboard.com. “All of a sudden you’ll hear the little piano part from ‘Steven’ or from ‘The Awakening’. I wanted (the albums) to be married together. I think we even make reference to a couple of characters from the original (album).”

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