Heart Attack (Krokus album)

1988 studio album by Krokus

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

"Wild Love"
Released: April 1988 ^[1]

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[2]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal	6/10^[3]

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".^[4] As well as being the band's first album on MCA Records, it saw the return of original Krokus founding member Chris von Rohr.

Heart Attack is the only Krokus album to feature drummer Dani Crivelli who played drums on von Rohr's 1987 solo album, Hammer & Tongue, and previously recorded and toured with Solothurn rivals Killer. In the early 1980s, Crivelli was a member of Detroit, a hard rock band that featured Krokus guitarist Fernando von Arb's then wife, Birthe von Arb, on lead vocals.

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

"Everybody Rocks" - 3:50
"Wild Love" - 4:01
"Let It Go" - 4:31
"Winning Man" (Fernando von Arb, Chris von Rohr) - 5:15 (originally on Hardware)
"Axx Attack" - 4:24

Side two

"Rock 'n' Roll Tonight" - 3:58
"Flyin' High" (Krokus, Jürg Naegeli) - 4:14
"Shoot Down the Night" - 4:37
"Bad, Bad Girl" - 5:58
"Speed Up" - 6:24

Personnel

Krokus

Marc Storace – Vocals
Fernando von Arb – Lead and rhythm guitar, bass, piano
Mark Kohler – Rhythm and lead guitar, bass
Chris von Rohr – Bass, piano, percussion, drums
Dani Crivelli – Drums, percussion

Production

Jürg Naegeli – Engineer, mixing assistant
Michael Wagener – Mixing at The Enterprise, Los Angeles, California
Scott Blockland – Mixing assistant
Stephen Marcussen – Mastering
Chris Achilleos – Cover illustration
Richard Evans – Art direction and design

Charts

Chart (1988)	Peak position
Finnish Albums (The Official Finnish Charts)^[5]	36
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)^[6]	5
US Billboard 200^[7]	87

References

^ "Krokus singles".
^ Anderson, Jason. "Krokus Heart Attack review". AllMusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 2012-08-19.
^ 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.
^ "KROKUS ONLINE - official homepage - Discography - HEART ATTACK". Archived from the original on 2013-06-27. Retrieved 2012-08-19.
^ Pennanen, Timo (2006). Sisältää hitin – levyt ja esittäjät Suomen musiikkilistoilla vuodesta 1972 (in Finnish) (1st ed.). Helsinki: Kustannusosakeyhtiö Otava. ISBN 978-951-1-21053-5.
^ "Swisscharts.com – Krokus – Heart Attack". Hung Medien. Retrieved 21 February 2021.
^ "Krokus Awards". AllMusic. Rovi Corporation. Archived from the original on 30 April 2016. Retrieved 2012-08-06.