- hard rock, rock
- 44 min
- 11 tracks
- Steamhammer
Along Came a Spider is the eighteenth solo and the twenty-fifth studio album overall by American rock musician Alice Cooper, released on July 29, 2008 by Steamhammer/SPV. A hard rock/heavy metal concept album, it chronicles the activities of a psychopathic serial killer known as 'Spider' and the eventual undoing of his plans. A commercial success, it ended up becoming Cooper's highest-charting studio effort in the United States since Hey Stoopid (1991).
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Classical in form, unpretentious, spare and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
- warmbleak
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Tracks
- 1Prologue / I Know Where You Live4:21
- 2Vengeance Is Mine4:26
- 3Wake the Dead3:53
- 4Catch Me If You Can3:15
- 5(In Touch With) Your Feminine Side3:16
- 6Wrapped in Silk4:17
- 7Killed by Love3:34
- 8I’m Hungry3:58
- 9The One That Got Away3:21
- 10Salvation4:36
- 11I Am the Spider / Epilogue5:21
11 tracks, 44 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Alice Cooper
- Label
- Steamhammer
- Released
- 2008
- Type
- Album
- Format
- CD
- Country
- US
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