Alice Cooper, Raise Your Fist And Yell

Alice Cooper, Raise Your Fist And Yell

Raise Your Fist and Yell is the tenth solo

studio album by American rock musician Alice Cooper,

released in October 1987, by MCA Records. Alice

Cooper’s Raise Your Fist and Yell album cover is a

vivid, unsettling tableau. A clenched fist dominates

the frame, with a screaming face and eyes on the

knuckles, conveying a visceral shock. The artwork is a

blend of horror and surrealism, with the band’s name

in a dripping, blood-red font that accentuates the

intense visual impact.

Raise Your Fist and Yell is the seventeenth studio

album by rock musician Alice Cooper released on

September 5th 1987. It features the track “Prince of

Darkness”, which is featured very briefly in the John

Carpenter film of the same name, in which Cooper has

a cameo as a murderous vagrant. The song can be

heard on the Walkman of one of his victims. A music

video was made for the song “Freedom”, which also

became the album’s sole single. Raise Your Fist and

Yell is the only Alice Cooper album to feature Ken K.

Mary on drums and the last to feature Kip Winger on

bass.

The album continues the slasher film trend created by

Cooper’s previous album Constrictor. The track “Lock

Me Up” features a guest appearance from Robert

Englund, who portrayed Freddy Krueger in the A

Nightmare On Elm Street series. The album cover

for Raise Your Fist and Yell was painted by artist Jim

Warren.

Over his career, Cooper has sold well over 50 million

records. Cooper has experimented with a number of

musical styles, mainly hard rock, glam rock, heavy

metal, and glam metal, but also new wave (1980–

1983), art rock on DaDa (1983), and industrial rock

on Brutal Planet (2000) and Dragontown (2001).

He helped to shape the sound and look of heavy

metal, and has been described as the artist who “first

introduced horror imagery to rock’n’roll, and whose

stagecraft and showmanship have permanently

transformed the genre”. He is also known for his

wit offstage, with The Rolling Stone Album Guide

calling him the world’s most “beloved heavy metal

entertainer”. Away from music, Cooper is a film actor,

a golfing celebrity, a restaurateur, and, since 2004,

a radio disc jockey (DJ) with his classic rock show

Alice’s Attic. After the band broke up, Furnier legally

changed his name to Alice Cooper and began a solo

career in 1975 with the concept album Welcome to My

Nightmare.