Heart Attack (Krokus album)
Heart Attack is the tenth studio album by the Swiss hard rock band Krokus. It contains the singles " Everybody Rocks ", " Let It Go " and " Wild Love ".
Background
After the disappointing predecessor Change of Address and the live album Alive and Screamin ' was again moving into the personnel carousel of the band: bassist Tommy Keiser and drummer Jeff Klaven vacated their posts and were replaced by the founding member Chris von Rohr and Swiss drummer Dani Crivelli. In addition, it saw the band after the negative experiences to the creation of the predecessor was a need to change the record company. These steps should lead to a musical course correction and so was the resulting in the Pink recording studios in Zuchwil album Heart Attack - by the members today as a last attempt, the band together during a deep crisis, is considered - one while still remaining discreet with Glam Metal provided, but geradlinigeres, more sounding hard rock album by Krokus. Supported by the singles " Wild Love ", " Everybody Rocks " and in addition you promoted by a video "Let It Go" as well as the live classic " Rock ' n ' Roll Tonight", reached the plant, which on the cover of a completely altered Crocus lettering which number 87 in the U.S. Billboard charts and number 5 with the. 's largest-ever chart success in Switzerland Crocus seemed to have come into the track again. Following the album release we completed a co-headlining tour with Ted Nugent Europe and another North American tour, as well as the headliner. But after the last concert in New Orleans it came to the next negative staff - bang: The long and the band members Marc Storace crucial mitprägenden and Fernando von Arb declared its withdrawal due to symptoms of fatigue and management problems. The result was a temporary resolution of crocus. Below undertook Chris von Rohr, along with singer Peter Tanner, lead guitarist Many Maurer, the rhythm guitarist Tony Castell and Peter Haas on drums under the name Grand Slam a tour through Germany, Austria and Hungary, which is denied in part as the opening act of Bonfire. The end of crocus appeared at that time close to, but ironically reanimated Fernando von Arb with these same musicians, who were traveling together with Chris von Rohr as a Grand Slam, only a year later, remarkably, not crocuses and in this occupation in which von Arb the served lead guitar but the bass, finally emerged the successor Stampede.
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- "Winning Man" is a re-recording of the song that was originally released in 1981 on the album hardware.
- The 12 " single of" Wild Love " contains with " Bourbon Street " the only song recorded in the studio the band's history, which was released only as a B-side.