Hardware (Krokus album) explained

Hardware
Type:studio
Artist:Krokus
Cover:Hardware cover.jpg
Released:18 February 1981
Recorded:November–December 1980
Studio:Roundhouse Studios, London
Genre:Hard rock, heavy metal
Length:37:33
Label:Ariola
Producer:Krokus
Prev Title:Metal Rendez-vous
Prev Year:1980
Next Title:One Vice at a Time
Next Year:1982

Hardware is the fifth studio 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.[1] However, the album entered the charts in the US, UK and other European countries.

UK-based company Rock Candy Records reissued the album on CD in 2014.

The 1981 exploitation film Mad Foxes features the songs "Easy Rocker" and "Celebration."

Track listing

All songs by Fernando von Arb and Chris von Rohr, except where indicated

Side one
  1. "Celebration" - 3:23
  2. "Easy Rocker" - 5:28
  3. "Smelly Nelly" (Tommy Kiefer, von Arb, von Rohr) - 3:42
  4. "Mr. 69" - 3:02
  5. "She's Got Everything" - 3:58
Side two
  1. "Burning Bones" (von Arb, von Rohr, Marc Storace) - 3:37
  2. "Rock City" - 4:47
  3. "Winning Man" - 5:34
  4. "Mad Racket" - 4:02

Personnel

Krokus
Production

Charts

Singles

YearTitleChartPosition
1981"Burning Bones"Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks (USA)46
"Winning Man"26

Notes and References

  1. Web site: KROKUS ONLINE - official homepage - Discography - HARDWARE . 2012-08-06 . 2013-06-13 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130613063615/http://krokusonline.seven49.net/Web/en/Discography/_HARDWARE.htm . dead .
  2. Web site: Krokus Awards . March 15, 2024 . . . https://web.archive.org/web/20160430041951/http://www.allmusic.com/artist/krokus-mn0000105685/awards . 30 April 2016.