Headhunter is the seventh album by Krokus

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...

 and was released in 1983. It achieved Gold status in the United States

United States

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. The track "Screaming in the Night" was the band's biggest hit to date, and is still played on classic rock radio

Radio

Radio is the transmission of signals through free space by modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible light. Electromagnetic radiation travels by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space...

 stations. Headhunter is the only Krokus album to feature Steve Pace on drums, and includes the Bachman–Turner Overdrive cover "Stayed Awake All Night".

Track listing

1. "Headhunter" (Butch Stone; Chris Von Rohr; Fernando Von Arb; Marc Storace; Von Chris Rohr) – 4:30
2. "Eat the Rich" (Fernando Von Arb; Marc Storace; Chris Von Rohr; Butch Stone) – 4:14
3. "Screaming in the Night" (Fernando Von Arb; Marc Storace; Chris Von Rohr; Butch Stone; M. Kohler) – 6:38
4. "Ready to Burn" (Butch Stone; Chris Von Rohr; Fernando Von Arb; Kohler; KohlerMark; Marc Storace; Mark Kohler; Von Chris Rohr) – 3:54
5. "Night Wolf" (Butch Stone; Chris Von Rohr; Fernando Von Arb; Marc Storace; Von Chris Rohr) – 4:10
6. "Stayed Awake All Night" (Randy Bachman) – 4:24
7. "Stand and be Counted" (Butch Stone; Chris Von Rohr; Fernando Von Arb; Marc Storace; Von Chris Rohr) – 4:07
8. "White Din" (Chris Von Rohr; Fernando Von Arb; Von Chris Rohr) – 1:50
9. "Russian Winter" (Butch Stone; Chris Von Rohr; Fernando Von Arb; Marc Storace; Von Chris Rohr) – 3:31

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...
  
  
• Chris Von Rohr - bass
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
   & percussion
• Steve Pace - drums
  Drum kit
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• Mark Kohler - rhythm guitar
  Rhythm guitar
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Additional musicians

• Rob Halford
  Rob Halford
  Robert John Arthur "Rob" Halford is an English singer-songwriter, who is best known as the lead vocalist for the Grammy Award-winning heavy metal band Judas Priest. He is nicknamed the "Metal God" as a tribute to his influence on metal, and after the Judas Priest song of the same name from 1980's...
  
   - guest vocals on "Ready to Burn"
• Jimi Jamison
  Jimi Jamison
  Jimmy Wayne "Jimi" Jamison is a rock vocalist and songwriter, best known as the lead singer for the band Survivor from 1984–1989 and 2000-2006.- Further biography :...
  
  - backing vocals

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