Back in the day, Alice Cooper was indeed hardcore into drugs. He nearly died of them circa 1981 before he came back from the brink and got clean (the lead guitarist died of alcoholism, but that was long after the band and Alice broke up and Alice went with hired hands to continue--Billion Dollar Babies was the last original-lineup album). Their early stuff was larpy and intentionally Satanic just to shock--"Dead Babies," etc... I think the album cover here is more of the same, but how much truth do they "accidentally" reveal? What was considered fringe and shocking back then is now considered revelatory. Because it turns out the world is run by Satanists, and they're just now deciding they no longer need to keep that fact a secret.
Back in the day, Alice Cooper was indeed hardcore into drugs. He nearly died of them circa 1981 before he came back from the brink and got clean (the lead guitarist died of alcoholism, but that was long after the band and Alice broke up and Alice went with hired hands to continue--Billion Dollar Babies was the last original-lineup album). Their early stuff was larpy and intentionally Satanic just to shock--"Dead Babies," etc... I think the album cover here is more of the same, but how much truth do they "accidentally" reveal? What was considered fringe and shocking back then is now considered revelatory. Because it turns out the world is run by Satanists, and they're just now deciding they no longer need to keep that fact a secret.