Welcome 2 My Nightmare is the nineteenth solo album by American rock musician Alice Cooper, released on September 13, 2011 by UME. It is a sequel to his 1975 album Welcome to My Nightmare. The idea for the album came about soon after the thirtieth anniversary of the original Welcome to My Nightmare album, when Cooper spoke with producer Bob Ezrin, who proposed the idea of a sequel. Cooper liked the idea, and decided to recruit previous members of the Alice Cooper band. The concept of the album was described by Cooper as "another nightmare, and this one is even worse than the last one." He said that he had originally intended to make a sequel to his previous album, Along Came a Spider, but decided to make the Nightmare sequel after Ezrin explained that he "wasn't really into it." Cooper announced the album's completion in February 2011 on his radio show, Nights with Alice Cooper. It was first scheduled to be released late in 2011 on Bob Ezrin's Bigger Picture label as part of a deal involving marketing, touring and production work by Bigger Picture for Cooper in the future. The album was then announced as being delayed until some time in 2012 due to Cooper's touring commitments, however it was finally released on September 13, 2011. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.