“I started crying like a baby, it was like Jesus coming back and anointing you!” How Crossbone Skully coaxed legendary producer Mutt Lange out of retirement to work on their album

The debut album by Crossbone Skully, led by Alice Cooper guitarist Tommy Henriksen, is out this week and it sounds BIG

Tommy Henriksen, the guitarist best known for his work with Alice Cooper and Hollywood Vampires, has talked about how he coaxed super-producer Robert John “Mutt” Lange out of retirement to work on Evil World Machine, the debut album by his side project Crosbone Skully.

The album, which is released on October 22, is a concept album that, we’re reliably informed, tells the story of “an avenging superhero from outer space, returning to earth to save the world and reconnect with his lost deity love Piper and Kyd, the son he never knew he had.”

“Evil World Machine is an unanchored, unapologetic record that’s true to life,” Henriksen tells Classic Rock. “The stories are real, reflecting the journey we all go through. It all started with the line, ‘I’m Unbreakable‘ [from the single of the same name, released last year].