Labels put all sorts of pressures on bands in the mid eighties to add keys to their sound, to make them more radio friendly. I think that’s called the Def Leppard effect. Krokus had great success in cranking out the tunes with guitars a blazing (which they were great at), so why try and change them? The sales were not as good for this album and their subsequent releases, so I guess it was an experiment that failed.
It’s an okay album, it just doesn’t sound like Krokus. Take the final track Long Way From Home, and you’d swear that you were listening to Foreigner. The only song that really shakes my tree is Hot Shot City, as at least the guitars are loud.
Sometimes labels should leave bands alone.
6.5/10 from The Grooveman.
