Hardware

by Krokus

Hardware cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: February 1981
  • Label: Ariola
  • Country: Switzerland
  • Length: 37:36
  • Community rating: 2.91/5 from 2 ratings

Artists on this release: Freddy Steady, Marc Storace, Chris Von Rohr

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Recorded in London amidst the surging tide of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, 'Hardware' leans heavily into straightforward, high-voltage riffs. The album helped propel the Swiss act toward international rock prominence, characterized by its unapologetically derivative but undeniably forceful anthems.

Genres

Descriptors: melodic, pastiche

Tracklist

  1. Celebration (3:23)
  2. Easy Rocker (5:28)
  3. Smelly Nelly (3:42)
  4. Mr. 69 (3:02)
  5. She's Got Everything (3:58)
  6. Burning Bones (3:37)
  7. Rock City (4:47)
  8. Winning Man (5:34)
  9. Mad Racket (4:02)

Credits

  • Chris Von Rohr - bass, percussion, composed by [all compositions by], written-by
  • Fernando Von Arb - composed by [all compositions by], guitar [guitars], written-by
  • Forty Morell - concept by [cover concept by]
  • Freddy Steady - drums
  • Tommy Kiefer - guitar [guitars], written-by
  • Marc Storace - vocals, written-by

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