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Hardware (album)

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Released
  
March 1981

Length
  
37:33

Release date
  
March 1981

Label
  
Ariola Records

Recorded
  
November–December 1980

Artist
  
Krokus

Producer
  
Krokus

Genres
  
Heavy metal, Hard rock

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Studio
  
Roundhouse Studios, London

Hardware (1981)
  
One Vice at a Time (1982)

Similar
  
To You All, The Best of Krokus: Stayed A, Painkiller, One Vice at a Time, To Rock or Not to Be

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.

Contents

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

Krokus 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
  • Marc Storace – vocals
  • Fernando von Arb – lead guitar, backing vocals
  • Tommy Kiefer – rhythm guitar, backing vocals
  • Chris von Rohr – bass, backing vocals, percussion
  • Freddy Steady – drums, backing vocals
    • Additional musicians
  • Jürg Naegeli – keyboards, backing vocals
    • Production
  • Mark Dearnley, Nick Rogers – engineers
  • Ian Cooper – mastering at The Townhouse, London

    • Songs

    1Celebration3:25
    2Easy Rocker5:30
    3Smelly Nelly

    References

    Hardware (album) Wikipedia
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