Hardware (album)

Hardware

Studio album by Krokus

Released

March 1981

Recorded

Roundhouse Studios, London, November–December 1980

Genre

Hard rock, heavy metal

Length

37:33

Krokus chronology

Metal Rendez-vous
(1980)

Hardware
(1981)

One Vice at a Time
(1982)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]
Martin Popoff	^[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

"Celebration" - 3:23
"Easy Rocker" - 5:28
"Smelly Nelly" (Tommy Kiefer, von Arb, von Rohr) - 3:42
"Mr. 69" - 3:02
"She's Got Everything" - 3:58

Side two

"Burning Bones" (von Arb, von Rohr, Marc Storace) - 3:37
"Rock City" - 4:47
"Winning Man" - 5:34
"Mad Racket" - 4:02

Personnel

Band members

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

Charts

Album

Year	Chart	Position
1981	Billboard 200 (North America)^[4]	103
	German Album Chart^[5]	56
	UK Albums Chart^[6]	44
	Austrian Album Chart^[7]	16
	Swedish Album Chart^[8]	50

Singles

Year	Title	Chart	Position
1981	"Burning Bones"	Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks^[4]	46
1981	"Winning Man"	Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks^[4]	26

References

↑ Hinds, Andy. "Krokus Hardware review". Allmusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 2012-08-06.
↑ Popoff, Martin (1 November 2005). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 2: The Eighties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. ISBN 978-1-894959-31-5.
↑ KROKUS ONLINE - official homepage - Discography - HARDWARE
1 2 "Hardware Billboard Albums". Allmusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 2012-08-06.
↑ "Album- Krokus, Hardware". Charts.de (in German). Media Control Charts. Retrieved 2012-08-06.
↑ "Hardware Chart Stats". Chart Stats.com. Retrieved 2012-08-06.
↑ "Krokus - Hardware (Album)". Austriancharts.at (in German). Media Control Charts. Retrieved 2012-08-06.
↑ "Krokus - Hardware (Album)". Swedishcharts.com. Media Control Charts. Retrieved 2012-08-06.

Krokus

Chris von Rohr Fernando von Arb Marc Storace Mandy Meyer Dominique Favez Flavio Mezzodi Freddy Steady Hansi Droz Remo Spadino Tommy Kiefer Jürg Naegeli Steve Pace Jeff Klaven Dani Crivelli Many Maurer Peter Haas Peter Tanner Tony Castell Carl Sentance Chris Lauper Patrick Aeby Stefan Schwarzmann Mark Kohler

Studio albums	Krokus To You All Painkiller / Pay It In Metal Metal Rendez-vous Hardware One Vice at a Time Headhunter The Blitz Change of Address Heart Attack Stampede To Rock or Not to Be Round 13 Rock the Block Hellraiser Hoodoo Dirty Dynamite

Live albums	Alive and Screamin' Fire and Gasoline Long Stick Goes Boom - Live From Da House Of Rust

Compilation albums	Early Days '75-'78 Stayed Awake All Night - The Best The Dirty Dozen Definitive Collection The Collection Best Of Long Stick Goes Boom: The Anthology

Singles and EPs	"Tokyo Nights" "Heatstrokes" "Bedside Radio" "Winning Man" "Rock City" "American Woman" "Save Me" "Bad Boys Rag Dolls" "Stayed Awake All Night" "Screaming in the Night" "Midnite Maniac" "Ballroom Blitz" "Our Love" "School's Out" "Screaming in the Night (Live)" "Let the Love Begin" "Let It Go" "Wild Love" "You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet" "I Want It All" "Angel of My Dreams"

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