Triple Disc Box Set That Packages the Three Albums Metal Rendez-Vouse, Hardware and Once Vice at a Time…
PAIN KILLER (aka PAY IT BACK IN METAL) finds Krokus honing a brasher, hard rock sound that is more focused than their first 2 albums…
Hardware is the fifth album by the Swiss hard rock band Krokus. It did not match the success of their previous album, Metal Rendez-vous, going only Gold in Switzerland. However, the album entered the charts in the US, UK and other European countries…
To You All is the second album by the Swiss hard rock band Krokus, released in 1977. The line-up of Krokus changed radically from their debut album as founding members Chris von Rohr and Tommy Kiefer were joined by Fernando von Arb, Jürg Naegeli, and Freddy Steady, previously active as a trio under the name Montezuma…
Thirty years after their self-titled debut album first appeared, Krokus are back for more with 2006's Hellraiser. Prior to the album's recording, the group suffered quite a blow when longtime guitarist Fernando Von Arb (who had appeared on seemingly just about every single Krokus album) had to exit the band due to complications from wrist surgery…
Heavy on the cheese, Krokus' Metal Rendez-Vous is a fairly enjoyable record, though more than a little silly. The butt of jokes even within the mostly irony-free metal world, Krokus were major poseurs jumping from prog rock to glam metal in timely fashion as trends changed in the late '70s…
Swiss rockers Krokus had already been around the bend a number of times by the time they scored their first (and only) American platinum success with 1983's Headhunter. Shameless bandwagon hoppers that they were (their origins lay in cheesy, late-'70s progressive rock), the band at least deserve credit for mixing their musical stew just right on this occasion…
Throughout the '80s, it seemed like Krokus were always one or two steps behind the heavy metal pack. Starting out as an AC/DC derivative, the group softened its sound later in the decade (à la Def Leppard), in hopes of massive chart success…