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Hoodoo (Krokus album)

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Released
  
26 February 2010

Hoodoo (2010)
  
Dirty Dynamite (2013)

Release date
  
26 February 2010

Label
  
Columbia Records

Length
  
42:48

Artist
  
Krokus

Producer
  
Chris von Rohr

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Recorded
  
House of Audio, Winterbach, Germany Pink Bild+Ton, Solothurn, Switzerland Henson Studios, Los Angeles

Genres
  
Heavy metal, Hard rock, Glam metal

Similar
  
Krokus albums, Hard rock albums

Hoodoo is the 16th album by the Swiss hard rock/heavy metal band Krokus. It includes a cover of the Steppenwolf song "Born to be Wild". The album failed to reach the Billboard Top 200 in the U.S., unlike their last album (Hellraiser), but the release was successful overseas. The song "Hoodoo Woman" is featured on the soundtrack of the movie Saw 3D.

Contents

The album has received mixed to positive reviews from publications such as About.com and Allmusic. Critic Chad Bower of About.com labeled the release as being "packed with big hooks arena ready anthems". Critic Alexey Eremenko praised the album for Allmusic as having the band "rocking as hard as ever", with "dirty, swaggering" hard rock songs.

Hoodoo was certified Platinum in Switzerland.

Krokus drive it in


Track listing

All tracks written by Fernando von Arb, Chris von Rohr and Marc Storace, except where indicated.

Personnel

Band members
  • Marc Storace – lead vocals
  • Fernando von Arb – lead guitar, backing vocals
  • Mark Kohler – rhythm guitar
  • Chris von Rohr – bass, piano, backing vocals, producer
  • Freddy Steady – drums
  • Additional musicians
  • Mark Fox – vocals
  • Kenny Aronoff – drums
  • Production
  • Dennis Ward – engineer, mixing
  • Jürg Neageli, Steve Churchyard – additional engineering
  • Ted Jensen – mastering at Sterling Sound, New York City
  • Songs

    1Drive It In3:32
    2Hoodoo Woman3:38
    3Born to Be Wild3:34

    References

    Hoodoo (Krokus album) Wikipedia