Heart Attack (Krokus album)

Heart Attack
Cover art by Chris Achilleos
Studio album by Krokus
Released 25 March 1988
Studio Pink Tonstudios, Zuchwil, Switzerland
Genre Hard rock, glam metal
Length 47:17
Label MCA
Producer Fernando von Arb, Chris von Rohr
Krokus chronology
Alive and Screamin'
(1986)		 Heart Attack
(1988)		 Stampede
(1990)
Singles from Heart Attack
  1. "Wild Love"
    Released: 1988
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal6/10[2]

Heart Attack is the tenth studio album by the Swiss hard rock band Krokus, and is described by the band as "the last attempt to keep the band together in a deep crisis".[3] As well as being the band's first album on MCA Records, it saw the return of original Krokus founding member Chris von Rohr. The track "Rock 'n' Roll Tonight" was a live hit, and is still played by the band in concerts.

Track listing

All songs written by Krokus, except where indicated

Side one
  1. "Everybody Rocks" - 3:50
  2. "Wild Love" - 4:01
  3. "Let It Go" - 4:31
  4. "Winning Man" (Fernando von Arb, Chris von Rohr) - 5:15 (originally on Hardware)
  5. "Axx Attack" - 4:24
Side two
  1. "Rock 'n' Roll Tonight" - 3:58
  2. "Flyin' High" (Krokus, Jürg Naegeli) - 4:14
  3. "Shoot Down the Night" - 4:37
  4. "Bad, Bad Girl" - 5:58
  5. "Speed Up" - 6:24

Personnel

Krokus
Production
  • Jürg Naegeli - engineer, mixing assistant
  • Michael Wagener - mixing at The Enterprise, Los Angeles, California
  • Scott Blockland - mixing assistant
  • Stephen Marcussen - mastering

Charts

Year Chart Position
1988 Swiss Albums Top 100[4] 5
Billboard 200 (USA)[5] 87

References

  1. ↑ Anderson, Jason. "Krokus Heart Attack review". AllMusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 2012-08-19.
  2. ↑ Popoff, Martin (November 1, 2005). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 2: The Eighties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. p. 192. ISBN 978-1-894959-31-5.
  3. ↑ KROKUS ONLINE - official homepage - Discography - HEART ATTACK
  4. ↑ "Krokus – Heart Attack". Hitparade.ch (in German). Media Control Charts. Retrieved 2012-08-20.
  5. ↑ "Krokus Awards". AllMusic. Rovi Corporation. Archived from the original on 30 April 2016. Retrieved 2012-08-06.
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