To Rock or Not to Be
To Rock or Not to Be is the twelfth studio album by the Swiss hard rock band Krokus, released in 1995. The album stayed seven weeks in the top ten of the Swiss charts, peaking at number 5.[3]
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| Released | 27 March 1995 | |||
| Recorded | Winter 1994/1995 | |||
| Studio | Pink Tonstudio, Zuchwil, Switzerland | |||
| Genre | Hard rock, heavy metal | |||
| Length | 54:41 | |||
| Label | Phonag | |||
| Producer | Fernando von Arb, Many Maurer | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   |
| Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal | 8/10[2] |
The album briefly reunited 4/5th of the One Vice at a Time line-up, with only bassist Chris von Rohr missing who was working as a producer and songwriter for Swiss act Gotthard at the time.
Track listing
- "Lion Heart" (Fernando von Arb, Jürg Naegeli, Marc Storace) – 5:16
- "Flying Through the Night" (von Arb, Naegeli, Many Maurer, Storace) – 3:56
- "To Rock or Not to Be" (von Arb, Storace) – 3:23
- "In the Dead of Night" (von Arb, Maurer, Storace) – 5:07
- "Natural Blonde" (von Arb, Naegeli, Maurer, Storace) – 5:12
- "Doggy Style" (von Arb, Freddy Steady, Naegeli, Maurer, Storace, Mark Kohler) – 4:02
- "Talking Like a Shotgun" (von Arb, Steady, Naegeli, Maurer, Storace, Kohler) – 4:08
- "Soul to Soul" (von Arb, Naegeli, Maurer, Storace) – 4:55
- "Stop the World" (von Arb, Naegeli) – 5:14
- "You Ain't Got the Guts to Do It" (von Arb, Naegeli, Maurer, Storace, Kohler) – 3:06
- "Wagon Gone" (Naegeli, Maurer, Storace, Kohler) – 5:01
- "Stormy Nights" (von Arb, Naegeli, Maurer, Storace, Kohler) – 5:14
Personnel
- Krokus
- Marc Storace – lead vocals
- Fernando von Arb – lead guitar, keyboards, bass, producer
- Mark Kohler – rhythm guitar
- Many Maurer – bass, lead guitar, producer, engineer
- Freddy Steady – drums, percussion
- Jurg Naegeli – keyboards, bass, mixing, engineering
- Additional musicians
- Andy Portmann, Chris Egger, Tony Castell – backing vocals
- Production
- Ian Cooper - mastering
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References
- Anderson, Jason. "Krokus To Rock or Not to Be review". AllMusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 2012-08-22.
- Popoff, Martin (August 1, 2007). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 3: The Nineties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. p. 235. ISBN 978-1-894959-62-9.
- "Krokus – To Rock or Not to Be". Hitparade.ch (in German). Media Control Charts. Retrieved 2012-08-22.
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