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KROKUS Honored For 'Metal Rendez-vous' Album 35 Years After Release

January 22, 2014

35 years after the release of "Metal Rendez-vous", Swiss hard rockers KROKUS have finally been honored by their record company for sales of around three million copies. The LP is considered the most successful hard rock album in Switzerland of all time.

Says KROKUS singer Marc Storace: "This album awakened the Swiss music scene from their slumber."

Three songs from "Metal Rendez-vous" landed in the U.K. charts, all at the same time ("Heatstrokes" at #1, "Come On" at #12 and "Bedside Radio" at #20),and KROKUS toured the U.S., playing to hundreds of thousands of fans.

"We recorded the album for just 15,000 Swiss Francs [about $15,000]," guitarist Fernando Von Arb recalls.

"We lived in a cellar hole, put everything on one card and had nothing to lose," says bassist Chris von Rohr. "We never would have expected that it would take off as it did. Great thanks to all the fans! "

"Dirty Dynamite", the 17th studio album from KROKUS, entered the German Media Control chart at position No. 17. This marked the first time in KROKUS' history that the band landed in the Top 20 of the German chart.

"Dirty Dynamite" was released on February 22, 2013 in Europe via Sony Music and in North America on March 5, 2013 via The End Records. The CD marked the return of KROKUS guitarist Mandy Meyer after 30 years. Sound engineer for the recording sessions was again Dennis Ward, who also recorded the band's previous album, "Hoodoo".

Drummer Freddy Steady left KROKUS in May 2011 because he "concluded that he really wanted to play music just for fun in small clubs rather than conquering the world, playing arenas on huge stages with pyro props, etc.," according to guitarist Fernando Von Arb.

KROKUS has since recruited Flavio Mezzodi as the band's new drummer.

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