Opener Too Young covers similar generation-clash lyrical ground to the likes of Eighteen or Teenage Lament ’74, but the album – bereft of Furnier’s macabre, blackly comic approach to writing – does tend to lean much more towards the old staples of relationships ( Shine Your Love, Wasn’t I The One, I Miss You) and rock ‘n’ roll ( Dance With Me, Rock ‘n’ Roll Radio) than their previous work. Bruce’s vocals have a similar tone and timbre to those of Vincent Furnier, if not quite the same levels of expressiveness or charisma. To answer the most obvious question – yes, of course it sounds like an Alice Cooper work Michael Bruce has stated that the project was originally planned and written as the farewell AC record. This is a shame, as Battle Axe is a very good album.
The album, when completed, was released with a mastering flaw that caused the stylus to jump out of the groove, rendering the LP unplayable, and the consequent recall killed the marketing effort, the album’s sales momentum and, ultimately, the band. The planned stage show, conceived on the same sort of scale as the Alice Cooper shows, turned out to be prohibitively expensive, and the tour was iced after a mere four dates. Unfortunately, events continued to conspire against them. The line-up solidified as AC alumni Michael Bruce on rhythm guitar and lead vocals, Dennis Dunaway on bass, and Neal Smith on drums, along with the AC band’s touring keyboardist Bob Dolin and newly-drafted lead six-stringer Mike Marconi. Calling themselves Billion Dollar Babies after their previous band’s most successful album, the new act hit the studio to produce what turned out to be their only record: Battle Axe. The remaining members, understandably disgruntled, eventually reassembled in 1976 (minus lead guitarist Glen Buxton, who had also been absent from the last Alice Cooper album Muscle Of Love due to “problems that Glen was having with the demons of rock and roll at that particular time”) to form a new band. The enormous success of his first solo record Welcome To My Nightmare sealed the fate of the original band. As it transpired, they never did entirely reconvene frontman Vincent Furnier adopted the band name as his own and ran off with it, taking the band’s career with him in the process. Personalities had been clashing, tempers had been fraying, substance use had been getting out of hand, and it was time for a break. When the original members of Alice Cooper left the stage in Rio De Janeiro in 8 th April 1974, they were planning to take a year-long hiatus, write some new material, maybe do a solo album or two between them, and then reunite fresh. Bruce’s vocals have a similar tone and timbre to those of Vincent Furnier, if not quite the same levels of expressiveness or charisma.” “Calling themselves Billion Dollar Babies after their previous band’s most successful album, the new act hit the studio to produce what turned out to be their only record: Battle Axe… To answer the most obvious question – yes, of course it sounds like an Alice Cooper work Michael Bruce has stated that the project was originally planned and written as the farewell AC record. Find yourself.❉ The Alice Cooper-less Alice Cooper Band’s sole album exhumed from the archives. They'll stop at nothing to find out the truth about their memories and about the strange world they're trapped in.Ĭome for the adventure. A flooded temple, ransacked barracks, mysterious forest, a buried hive, and a wizard's tower. If you like gritty fantasy, awe-inspiring realms, larger-than-life characters, vicious monsters and eldritch horrors-then you're in the right place.Įpisode 1-5: The first fateful realms. Together, they'll have to survive impossible realms and find their memories in the process.Īs her powers come back, Helesys feels confident that the two of them will make it out or die trying. Her only ally is a towering barbarian who's as cold as his blade. As her powers come back, Helesys feels con The first Book of Battleaxe!Ī sorceress with a metal arm and a barbarian with a battleaxe journeying across impossible, changing realms. Together, they'll have to survive impossible realms and find their memories in the process.
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