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Hardware
Studio album by Krokus
Released	18 February 1981
Recorded	November–December 1980
Studio	Roundhouse Studios, London
Genre	Hard rock, heavy metal
Length	37:33
Label	Ariola
Producer	Krokus
Krokus chronology
Metal Rendez-vous (1980) Hardware (1981) One Vice at a Time (1982)
Singles from Hardware
"Rock City" Released: February 1981 (UK) "Winning Man" Released: April 1981 (US) "Smelly Nelly" Released: 1981 (Germany)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal	6/10

Hardware is the fifth studio 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. 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.

The 1981 exploitation film Mad Foxes features the songs "Easy Rocker" and "Celebration."

Track listing

All songs by Fernando von Arb and Chris von Rohr, except where indicated

Side one

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

Side two

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

Personnel

Krokus

• Marc Storace – lead vocals
• Fernando von Arb – rhythm guitar, keyboards, bass, backing vocals
• Tommy Kiefer – lead guitar, backing vocals
• Chris von Rohr – bass, drums, backing vocals, percussion, keyboards
• Freddy Steady – drums, percussion, backing vocals
• Jürg Naegeli – keyboards, bass, backing vocals

Production

• Mark Dearnley, Nick Rogers – engineers
• Ian Cooper – mastering at The Townhouse, London

Charts

References

1. "Krokus singles".
2. "Krokus singles".
3. "Krokus singles".
4. Hinds, Andy. "Krokus - Hardware review". AllMusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 2012-08-06.
5. Popoff, Martin (November 1, 2005). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 2: The Eighties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. p. 191. ISBN 978-1-894959-31-5.
6. "KROKUS ONLINE - official homepage - Discography - HARDWARE". Archived from the original on 2013-06-13. Retrieved 2012-08-06.
7. "Austriancharts.at – Krokus – Hardware" (in German). Hung Medien. Retrieved March 15, 2024.
8. "Offiziellecharts.de – Krokus – Hardware" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved March 15, 2024.
9. "Swedishcharts.com – Krokus – Hardware". Hung Medien. Retrieved March 15, 2024.
10. "Official Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved March 15, 2024.
11. ^ "Krokus Awards". AllMusic. Rovi Corporation. Archived from the original on 30 April 2016. Retrieved March 15, 2024.

• Krokus (band) albums
• 1981 albums
• Ariola Records albums