Hardware (album)

Hardware
Studio album by Krokus
Released March 1981
Recorded November–December 1980
Studio Roundhouse Studios, London
Genre Hard rock, heavy metal
Length 37:33
Label Ariola
Producer Krokus
Krokus chronology
Metal Rendez-vous
(1980)Metal Rendez-vous1980		 Hardware
(1981)		 One Vice at a Time
(1982)One Vice at a Time1982
Singles from Hardware
  1. "Rock City" / "Mr. 69"
    Released: 1981 (Europe)
  2. "Winning Man" / "Mad Racket"
    Released: 1981 (US)
  3. "Smelly Nelly" / "Burning Bones"
    Released: 1981
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal6/10[2]

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.[3] 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.

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
Additional musicians
Production

Charts

References

  1. ↑ Hinds, Andy. "Krokus - Hardware review". AllMusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 2012-08-06.
  2. ↑ Popoff, Martin (November 1, 2005). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 2: The Eighties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. p. 191. ISBN 978-1-894959-31-5.
  3. ↑ KROKUS ONLINE - official homepage - Discography - HARDWARE
  4. ↑ "Krokus - Hardware (Album)". Austriancharts.at (in German). Media Control Charts. Retrieved 2012-08-06.
  5. ↑ "Krokus Official Charts". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 2017-01-18.
  6. ↑ "Krokus - Hardware (Album)". Swedishcharts.com. Media Control Charts. Retrieved 2012-08-06.
  7. ↑ "Album- Krokus, Hardware". Charts.de (in German). Media Control Charts. Retrieved 2012-08-06.
  8. 1 2 "Krokus Awards". AllMusic. Rovi Corporation. Archived from the original on 30 April 2016. Retrieved 2012-08-06.
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