Arthur Brown’s Nature & Alice Cooper’s Book Tour

Flamboyant and theatrical, with each new generation’s mind etched by old footage of “the God of Hellfire” from back in 1968, Arthur Brown is still going strong. His operatic banshee vocals were at once an influence on metal rockers like Deep Purple‘s Ian Gillan and Iron Maiden‘s Bruce Dickinson, yet he has also worked with space-rockers Hawkwind and the AOR-oriented The Alan Parsons Project, his solo music far more diverse than the casual listener would presume across his long career.

Now the octogenarian has a new album due on 4th September through Prophecy Productions, created in collaboration with Dan Smith and entitled Nature, alongside solo tour dates throughout the year, as well as hosting Alice Cooper‘s UK book tour in October.

New album title track ‘Nature’ is out now as a single, with a video featuring live footage that you can watch below.

“This is a time of confusion and choice,” the legendary rock musician mused. “Deep inside us is a consciousness, which is the basis of everything. Can we find a way to know ourselves as being it? At the moment all our social structures, our laws, education system, everything in our culture are no longer using the parts of our brain that can care for the world in its totality. From this comes our discomfort in our living. All our problems arise from this dualistic world image. We need to find a way to stand before this consciousness and drop all our current answers.”

Nature stands as a profound and poetic culmination of Arthur Brown‘s artistic journey. After six decades on all the stages of the world, boundary-breaking performances, pioneering and innovating rock music, fate and life have brought the iconic singer back to where he came from, both as a creative artist and in his personal geography.

One of the most singular figures in rock music, Arthur Brown is recognised as a true visionary whose work has always moved beyond conventional songcraft and crossed over into theatre, ritual and sonic experimentation.

In recent years, Brown has been contemplating how he would like the final chapter of his musical journey to unfold. After decades of global travel and artistic exploration, the question became not how to continue, but how to remain true and authentic to himself. Originally planning to settle in the United States, he found the Norns weaving fate pulled some strings. Brown and his partner and creative director, Claire Waller, found themselves unexpectedly in North Yorkshire, in the north of England.

What at first looked like only a temporary change of plan soon revealed itself as something far more profound. Settling down among the vast landscapes of the North York Moors, Brown discovered that he had followed something powerful, the call of his blood. The iconic rock pioneer found himself living in his ancestral home, only miles from the final resting place of his great-grandfather, grandfather and father on one side. On the other loomed that ancient fishing town at the heart of many a dark folk tale, Whitby, the place of his birth. These discoveries made his return feel almost magical in its poetic symmetry.

Nature is a reflection on a life that has been, and remains, dedicated to the search for meaning through creativity, spirituality and artistic exploration. Throughout the singer’s life, one idea has returned time and again: the cosmic unity of existence. Nature places that philosophy at its centre. It is not intended as a final word but rather the distillation of a lifetime spent exploring the mysteries of being. It is the sound of a wandering minstrel pausing, at last, to listen to the wind in the trees. And quite literally so.

Nature’s call changed the way Brown was used to working on new music. Rather than constructing the album purely within the walls of a studio, he began recording the natural sounds that surround his home. The bubbling brook. The flow of the nearby river. Wind moving through trees. Wind chimes hanging in the air. Footsteps across soil and woodland paths. The crackle of fire in the hearth. All these sounds and more became part of Nature‘s sonic palette.

He also sought out what he considered “perfect collaborators” for the project. Working with his friend and producer Isaac McInnis of Crooked Room Studio, the veteran musician developed the conceptual framework of the record, blending environmental recordings with improvisational composition. When he was satisfied, Brown called upon another friend, the composer, multi-instrumentalist and collaborator Dan Smith, also a member of the current The Crazy World of Arthur Brown live line-up, to help shape the music.

Together with McInnis and Claire Waller, the creative process unfolded organically, step by step. Brown brought with him a lifetime of lyrical writing, poetic prowess and philosophical reflection. The songs evolved through a series of improvised recording sessions guided by instinct rather than rigid structure.

Following these sessions, Dan Smith continued to expand and develop the musical landscape. He worked alongside McInnis, Waller and Brown to shape what would ultimately become Nature. Intended as more than just another album, the record offers an interwoven tapestry of natural sounds, improvised exploration of instruments, traditional composition and joyful collaboration.

Recorded and mixed by Isaac McInnis at Crooked Room Studio, York, and mastered by Kevin Tuffy at Tuff Mastering, Berlin, it will be available as a limited hardcover 48-page 2CD artbook with essays by Arthur Brown and a bonus CD including two exclusive studio tracks, a limited gatefold marbled natural and clear vinyl LP (400 copies), a limited gatefold brown vinyl LP (400 copies), a gatefold black vinyl LP, and on Digipak CD. It can be ordered here.

ARTHUR BROWN LIVE 2026
27 Jun – Shepton Mallet (UK), Midsummer Festival
05 Jul – Knislinge (SE), Rock City, Time to Rock Festival
31 Jul – Inverness (UK), Belladrum Tartan Heart
01 Aug – Glasgow (UK), Slay Glasgow
05 Aug – Jaroměř (CZ), Brutal Assault Festival
15 Aug – Borre (NO), Midgardsblot Festival
31 Aug – Wokingham (UK), Wokingham Festival
12 Sep – Helsinki (FI), Kulttuuritehdas Korjaamo
18 Sep – Athens (GR), Gazarte Ground Stage
19 Sep – Thessaloniki (GR), WE
2–4 Oct – Pratteln (CH), Konzertfabrik Z7, Up In Smoke Festival
07 Nov – Hebden Bridge (UK), Trades Club
04 Dec – Sheffield (UK), Sidney and Matilda

ALICE COOPER UK BOOK TOUR, HOSTED BY ARTHUR BROWN
13 Oct – London (UK), Palladium
14 Oct – Brighton (UK), Dome
17 Oct – Stockton (UK), Globe
20 Oct – Wolverhampton (UK), Civic Hall