Actor-musician Johnny Depp has joined singer Alice Cooper and Aerosmith's lead guitarist Joe Perry to form a new band called Hollywood Vampires.

`Alice Cooper and Johnny Depp have been partners for a while and now with Joe Perry also on Hollywood Vampires, they will 'rock it out' yet once again,` Cooper wrote on his website, reports aceshowbiz.com.

In the past, Cooper also shared that Hollywood Vampires will make their debut at the 2015 Rock in Rio music festival, which will take place in September in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

The Hollywood Vampires is the name of a famous band in the 1970s. Cooper fronted the music act alongside the likes of John Lennon, Harry Nilsson, Keith Moon and Ringo Starr.