…More’s the pity. Come inside to see a selection of stomach-churning photos from Alice Cooper’s recent audition to find support artistes for his upcoming Halloween shows at London’s Roundhouse.

As we reported on the Classic Rock website yesterday, The Coop held his audition at the London Dungeon. Seated in a blood-spattered throne, Alice selected four winning acts from 12 finalists, themselves hand-picked from a veritable multitude who’d originally enrolled online, crashing Cooper’s website five times in the process.

A bloody fine time was had by all – as you can tell from the gore-splattered pix (taken by Kevin Nixon) below.

Alice and his human menagerie.

He’s drinking milk through his nostril. We think his name is Crisalys.

This is the fat opera singer who jumped up and down on broken glass. The skinny fella then bisected a melon on her belly with his sword.

This man dismantled his face bit by bit, while dressed as a woman.

The Vivid Angel dangles weights from her eyelids. Planet Rock DJ Nicky Horne (background) hugs himself in horror.

This was all a bit ‘murder in the nursery’ as she disembowelled her Teddy bear and then decided to eat its intestines.

While The Preacher lay on his bed of nails, his assistant helpfully hit him with an axe.

This is Sexor. A pregnant man who performed an auto-Caesarean before eating his foetus.

Here’s the lovely Sexor again. (If you’re worried, dead babies can, of course, take care of themselves.)

This is Britain’s Got Talent evictee Damian S. Fears. He really did bleed a lot, this bloke.