In 1994, Cooper released The Last Temptation , his first concept

In 1994, Cooper released The Last Temptation , his first concept album since DaDa (1983). The album deals with issues of faith, temptation, alienation and the frustrations of modern life, and has been described as “a young man’s struggle to see the truth through the distractions of the “sideshow” of the modern world”. Concurrent with the release of The Last Temptation was a three-part comic book series written by Neil Gaiman , fleshing out the album’s story. This was to be Cooper’s last album with Epic Records since according to Brian “Renfield” Nelson, Cooper’s personal assistant, “Alice was interested in going to Hollywood Records even before ‘The Last Temptation’ was released because Bob Pfeifer, who originally signed Alice to Epic, was now the President of Hollywood Records. After ‘The Last Temptation’ was finished, Alice requested that Sony /Epic let him go so that he could make the switch to Hollywood. He just wanted to go where his friends are.” and was his last studio release for six years, though during this period the live album A Fistful of Alice (1997) was released, and in 1997 he lent his voice to the intro track of Insane Clown Posse ‘s The Great Milenko .