"The Eyes of Alice Cooper" is the twenty-third album by Alice Cooper, recorded in 2003. With this album, Cooper returned to his earlier, original hard rock sound, leaving the heavy industrial metal sound found in his last two studio albums. Rock singer, songwriter and musician, Alice Cooper's career spans more than four decades. With a stage show that features guillotines, electric chairs, fake blood, boa constrictors, and baby dolls, Cooper has drawn equally from horror movies, vaudeville, and garage rock to pioneer a grandly theatrical and aggressive brand of heavy metal designed to shock. He helped to shape the sound and look of heavy metal, and is seen as the one who "first introduced horror imagery to Rock 'N' Roll, and whose stagecraft and showmanship have permanently transformed the genre.
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