Raise Your Fist and Yell

Raise Your Fist and Yell
Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 1987[1]
Recorded1987
Genre
Length36:53
LabelMCA
ProducerMichael Wagener
Alice Cooper chronology
Constrictor
(1986)
Raise Your Fist and Yell
(1987)
Trash
(1989)
Singles from Raise Your Fist and Yell
  1. "Freedom"
    Released: November 1987 (US) [5]
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic [6]
New Musical Express5/10[7]

Raise Your Fist and Yell is the tenth solo studio album by American rock musician Alice Cooper, released in October 1987, by MCA Records. 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 second and 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.

  1. ^ Strong, Martin Charles (1995). The Great Rock Discography. Canongate Press. p. 170. ISBN 978-0-86241-541-9.
  2. ^ a b Prince of Darkness – Alice Cooper | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic, retrieved April 8, 2021, a pair of hard rock albums for MCA: 1986's Constrictor and 1987's Raise Your Fist and Yell;both albums were largely spotty affairs; instead of returning to the raw garage rock of his early-'70s peak, Cooper attempted to stay in step with the then-thriving pop-metal scene
  3. ^ He's Back – Alice Cooper | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic, retrieved April 8, 2021
  4. ^ "Every Alice Cooper album, ranked from worst to best". Louder Sound. March 9, 2021. Retrieved July 18, 2023.
  5. ^ "Alice cooper singles".
  6. ^ Raise Your Fist and Yell at AllMusic
  7. ^ Pouncey, Edwin (November 14, 1987). "Alice Cooper: Raise Your Fist And Yell". New Musical Express. p. 37.