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A little more mainstream then my other bands and definitely more safe than yesterdays band is the Swiss rockers KROKUS Starting back in 1976 this band released approx 4-5 albums before they started to get noticed with the 1980 release Metal-Rendezvous
followed by the 1981 release Hardware
heres a pic of the band circa Hardware
then came the 1982 album One Vice at a Time
1983 brought out in my opinion and lot of other Krokus fans best album Headhunter
With the 1984 release of the Blitz came the bands most sucessful release along with their best known single in "Midnight Maniac"
heres a pic of the band rockin on stage circa The Blitz
After The Blitz the bands success began to dwindle as lot of their true die hard fans thought the band started to soften up to much as with a lot of metal bands in the 80's became to obsessed with trying to gain more commercial success by trying to write hit singles and losing focus on rocking.
The band is still around today and has relesed roughly 20 albums. The band has had way to numerous lineup changes to even begin to start listing them but mostly their biggest levels of success came with Marc Sorace on lead vocals.
For the first half of the 80's Krokus was one of the best metal bands around and even though they never quite made the A-List of metal they definitely were right on the brink of reaching that plateau but never quite got passd the B+-list.
Best songs by the band
Eat The Rich Screaming In the Night Long Stick Goes Boom Smelly Nelly Stayed Awake All Night Tokyo Nights
I'm sure there's some of you who liked these Swiss metalheads.
[ 01. February 2005, 14:10: Message edited by: Sam Hain 666 ]
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Well if it isn't the shapeshifting Krokus. Headhunter was okay, the only thing I really gravitated to was Eat the Rich, and mostly because the singer is so Udo-reminiscient.
And to be perfectly honest, the only reason I really like it was because I've heard the Fozzy (Chris Jericho) cover of it.
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Well now one of us has to start the ACCEPT topic. I'll do it.
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funny thing is yesterday I almost made Accept my band of the day but decided on Krokus at the last moment.
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