Hollywood Vampires Announce Live Album From 2018 Montreux Jazz Festival Show

The Alice Cooper, Johnny Depp, and Joe Perry supergroup will release the recording digitally on August 7 and on CD and vinyl on October 16 via earMUSIC.

Hollywood Vampires, the rock supergroup of Alice Cooper, Johnny Depp, Joe Perry, and Tommy Henriksen, have announced ‘At Montreux Jazz Festival,' a live album drawn from their 2018 performance at the storied Swiss festival. The release includes several cover versions not previously put out by the band, among them a rendition of Motörhead's ‘Ace Of Spades' recorded as a tribute to the late Lemmy. It arrives digitally on August 7 and on CD and vinyl on October 16 via earMUSIC.

What's on the Record

The album captures a 19-song set that spans Hollywood Vampires' original material alongside the classic rock covers that have defined the group's live reputation since their formation. A lead single, ‘Raise The Dead,' is already available alongside a live video from the performance.

Among the covers on the tracklist are ‘Baba O'Riley,' ‘Sweet Emotion,' ‘School's Out/Another Brick In The Wall,' and David Bowie's ‘Heroes,' placing the Montreux set firmly in the band's tradition of honoring rock's fallen figures. The inclusion of ‘Ace Of Spades' is framed explicitly as a tribute to Lemmy Kilmister, and it represents one of several tracks that had not previously been released by Hollywood Vampires.

• I Want My Now
• Raise The Dead
• I Got A Line On You
• 7 And 7 Is
• My Dead Drunk Friends
• Five To One/Break On Through
• The Jack
• Ace Of Spades
• Baba O'Riley
• As Bad As I Am
• The Boogieman Surprise
• I'm Eighteen
• Combination
• People Who Died
• Sweet Emotion
• Welcome To Bushwackers
• Heroes
• Train Kept A-Rollin'
• School's Out/Another Brick In The Wall

The Chemistry Behind the Supergroup

Cooper spoke to Billboard about the dynamic between three performers accustomed to leading their own projects. ‘That's a very odd thing about this. You've got three alpha males who are used to running the show, and all of a sudden, three guys are sitting there with zero arguments,' he said. ‘The whole thing is, “Okay, let's try that.” Every time they would send me a track with scratch vocals on it, if I worked on it and chopped it up and did my thing, it would turn into an Alice song. I took my fingerprints off of it. I would hear the song and say, “Let's do it as it was written.” My instinct might be to say that this part goes too long or the intro goes too long, but that's what makes it interesting.'

That collaborative restraint has been a hallmark of the group since their self-titled debut in 2015, which debuted at No. 43 on the Billboard 200 and featured star-studded collaborations alongside classic rock covers. Their second studio album, ‘Rise,' followed in 2019.

Montreux and the Band's Broader Legacy

The Montreux Jazz Festival has long served as a prestige booking for rock acts, its reputation built over decades of landmark performances across genres. For Hollywood Vampires, the 2018 appearance represented a natural fit: a band whose entire identity is rooted in celebrating rock history, performing at a festival that has itself become part of that history.

Since their debut, the group has accumulated millions of streams, strong physical sales, and global media attention, according to the band's own account of their trajectory. The Montreux live album extends that catalog while giving fans a document of a specific night that, until now, existed only in memory and bootleg form.

What we know

• Hollywood Vampires consists of Alice Cooper, Johnny Depp, Joe Perry, and Tommy Henriksen.
• ‘At Montreux Jazz Festival' will be released digitally on August 7 and on CD and vinyl on October 16 via earMUSIC.
• The album documents the band's 2018 performance at the Montreux Jazz Festival.
• The release includes several cover versions not previously released by Hollywood Vampires, including a rendition of Motörhead's ‘Ace Of Spades' as a tribute to Lemmy.
• A lead single, ‘Raise The Dead,' is available now alongside a live video.
• The band's debut self-titled album in 2015 debuted at No. 43 on the Billboard 200.
• Their second studio album, ‘Rise,' was released in 2019.

The take

Hollywood Vampires have always operated as a living tribute act in the most serious sense of the term. The group takes its name from a real-life drinking club that convened at the Rainbow Bar and Grill on the Sunset Strip in the 1970s, counting among its members John Lennon, Keith Moon, Harry Nilsson, and Cooper himself. That lineage gives the band's cover-heavy setlists genuine weight rather than mere nostalgia tourism. The decision to finally release the 2018 Montreux performance fits a pattern that has become increasingly common for legacy and supergroup acts: vaulted live recordings, once left to circulate as bootlegs, are now treated as legitimate catalog additions with full label support and vinyl pressings. EarMUSIC has built a strong niche in exactly this space, handling archival and live releases for major rock names. The Motörhead cover is the headline item here, and understandably so. Lemmy Kilmister died in December 2015, just months after Hollywood Vampires released their debut, and ‘Ace Of Spades' is one of the most recognizable songs in hard rock. Performing it live as a tribute and then holding it back from release for seven years before finally committing it to an official record gives the moment a certain gravity. For a band whose entire premise is honoring the fallen, that restraint reads as respect.

Why it matters

For Classic Rock fans, ‘At Montreux Jazz Festival' is more than an archival release. It captures a supergroup at a peak moment, on one of the world's most prestigious stages, performing material that spans five decades of rock history. The unreleased Motörhead cover alone gives longtime followers a reason to revisit the set. More broadly, the release signals that Hollywood Vampires remain an active creative and commercial entity, not a one-cycle novelty, with a label partner willing to invest in physical formats including vinyl at a time when that market continues to reward catalog depth.

What's next

The digital release of ‘At Montreux Jazz Festival' arrives August 7, with the CD and vinyl editions following on October 16 via earMUSIC. The lead single ‘Raise The Dead' and its accompanying live video are available now.

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