| Brutal Planet | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | Alice Cooper |
| Cover: | Brutalplanet.jpg |
| Released: | June 6, 2000 |
| Recorded: | 2000 |
| Studio: | Blue Room, A&M (Hollywood) |
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| Length: | 47:58 |
| Label: | Spitfire |
| Producer: | Bob Marlette |
| Prev Title: | A Fistful of Alice |
| Prev Year: | 1997 |
| Next Year: | 2001 |
Brutal Planet is the fourteenth solo studio album by American rock musician Alice Cooper, released in 2000. Musically, this finds Alice tackling a much darker and heavier approach than on previous albums, with many songs approaching a somewhat modern-sounding, industrial/metal sound. Lyrically, it deals with themes of dark "social fiction", including domestic violence ("Take It Like a Woman"), prejudice ("Blow Me a Kiss"), psychopathic behavior ("It's the Little Things"), war ("Pick Up the Bones"), depression, suicide ("Sanctuary"), Neo-Nazism and school shootings ("Wicked Young Man"). The album was followed by a sequel, titled Dragontown (2001).
Doug Van Pelt, editor of the alternative Christian music-oriented HM Magazine, found that the lyrics communicated biblical morals "in a very powerful way". Van Pelt stated further that the final argument is provided in the title track, which condemns the systems of judgment that the world uses. Moreover, "Blow Me a Kiss" urges the listener to think deeper about spiritual matters.