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Krokus (band)
Krokus is a hard rock/heavy metal band from Switzerland. They enjoyed moderate success in North America during the 1980s.Krokus was founded in Solothurn in 1974 by bassist Chris von Rohr and guitarist Tommy Kiefer...

' ninth album, and is largely seen to be their least successful. It has been described as "plainly one of the worst efforts" from Krokus, and the band's website claims that they and their musical style were put under too much pressure from their record company. Unsurprisingly, Krokus changed their record label for their next studio album, Heart Attack
Heart Attack (album)
Heart Attack is Krokus' tenth studio album, and is described by the band as "The last attempt to keep the band together in a deep crisis"....

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Track listing

  1. "Now (All Through The Night)" (Jeff Klaven; Marc Storace; Von Arb) - 4:23
  2. "Hot Shot City" (Jeff Klaven; Keiser; Marc Storace; Mark Kohler) - 3:48
  3. "School's Out
    School's Out (song)
    Female pop duo Daphne & Celeste, released a cover of the song in 2000. The chorus is based on Alice Cooper's hit of the same name, and some other elements of that song have been retained, although much of the song is "original", in a pop-rap style...

    " (Alice Cooper
    Alice Cooper
    Alice Cooper is an American rock singer, songwriter and musician whose career spans more than four decades...

     cover) (Alice Cooper; M. Bruce) - 3:16
  4. "Let This Love Begin" (Jeff Klaven; Von Arb) - 5:02
  5. "Burning Up The Night" (Marc Storace; Von Arb) - 3:46
  6. "Say Goodbye" (Jeff Klaven; Marc Storace; Von Arb) - 5:18
  7. "World on Fire" (Jeff Klaven; Marc Storace; Von Arb) - 6:12
  8. "Hard Luck Hero" (Jeff Klaven; Marc Storace; Von Arb) - 4:12
  9. "Long Way From Home" (Jeff Klaven; Marc Storace; Von Arb) - 5:06

Personnel

  • Marc Storace
    Marc Storace
    Marc Storace is a Maltese rock vocalist and songwriter. His career in music started in the 1960s, but he is most noted for his position as frontman, lead singer and songwriter of Swiss hard rock band Krokus from 1980. Before joining Krokus he sang with the Swiss progressive rockers TEA following ...

     - vocals
    Singing
    Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...

  • Fernando Von Arb
    Fernando Von Arb
    Fernando von Arb or simply FVA, is a Swiss guitarist, songwriter and producer. He is known for the consistency of being the Swiss based, hard-rock guitarist of Krokus.- Career :...

     - Lead Guitar
    Lead guitar
    Lead guitar is a guitar part which plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs within a song structure...

  • Jeff Klaven - drums
    Drum kit
    A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....

  • Mark Kohler - Rhythm Guitar
    Rhythm guitar
    Rhythm guitar is a technique and rôle that performs a combination of two functions: to provide all or part of the rhythmic pulse in conjunction with singers or other instruments; and to provide all or part of the harmony, ie. the chords, where a chord is a group of notes played together...

  • Tommy Keiser - Bass Guitar
    Bass guitar
    The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....


Additional musicians

  • Leon Gaer - Bass
  • Paul Fox
    Paul Fox (musician)
    Paul Fox was a British musician and singer, best known from his work with the UK punk band, The Ruts. The Ruts' style combined punk with dub reggae, a sound that owed much to Fox's guitar skills and earned him respect and admiration...

     - Keyboards
  • Jai Winding - Keyboards
  • David Mansfield
    David Mansfield
    David Mansfield is an American violinist, mandolin player, guitarist, pedal steel guitar player, and composer....

     - Acoustic guitar
  • The brat choir - on '3'
  • Tom Kelly - Backing vocals
  • Tommy Funderburke - Backing vocals
  • Bob Garlyle - Backing vocals
  • Allan Holdsworth
    Allan Holdsworth
    Allan Holdsworth is an English guitarist and composer. He has released twelve studio albums as a solo artist and played many different styles of music over a period of four decades, but first drew attention for his work in jazz fusion...

     - Guitar on "9"


Andrew T of N.Y. metal band Blackout fills in for Kohler on select dates during this tour.
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