''Dirty Dynamite'' is the seventeenth studio album from Swiss melodic

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band Krokus, released through

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in North America. It includes a cover of

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Reception

Since its release, the album has been met with mostly positive reviews from critics. William Clark of Music Enthusiast Magazine described the album as "an album of 12 rampaging rock songs that sounds just as good if not better than anything they released back in the day".

Track listing

All songs by von Rohr, von Arb, Storace, except where indicated # "Hallelujah Rock n' Roll" (von Rohr, Kohler, Storace) – 3:27 # "Go Baby Go" – 3:38 # "Rattlesnake Rumble" – 3:49 # "Dirty Dynamite" – 3:51 # "Let the Good Times Roll" (von Rohr, Kohler, Storace) – 3:55 # "

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) – 4:27 # "Better Than Sex" – 4:17 # "Dög Song" – 3:48 # "Yellow Mary" – 3:32 # "Bailout Blues" (von Rohr, Kohler, Storace) – 3:30 # "Live Ma Life" (von Rohr, Kohler, Storace) – 3:58 # "Hardrocking Man" – 3:10

Personnel

;Band members *

Marc Storace Marc Storace (; born 7 October 1951) is a Maltese-born Swiss musician. His career in music started in the 1960s. He is most noted for his position as the lead singer and songwriter of the Swiss hard rock band Krokus from 1980. Before joining Kro ...

– lead vocals *

Fernando von Arb Fernando von Arb or simply FVA (born 17 January 1953) is a Swiss guitarist, songwriter and producer. He is best known for being a guitarist of the Swiss hard rock band Krokus. Career In the early 1970s, Von Arb was playing in the band Monte ...

– piano, lead guitar, rhythm guitar, bass, backing vocals *Mark Kohler – rhythm guitar, bass, engineer *

Mandy Meyer Armand "Mandy" Meyer (born 29 August 1960) is a Swiss guitarist best known for being a member of the hard rock band Gotthard (band), Gotthard, the progressive rock band Asia (band), Asia, and the heavy metal music, heavy metal band Krokus (band), ...

– lead guitar *

Chris von Rohr Christoph von Rohr (born 24 October 1951 in Solothurn) is a Swiss rock musician, record producer, author, columnist, radio and television presenter. He is best known for being a member and founder of the hard rock band, Krokus. History Child ...

– bass, piano, drums, percussion, backing vocals, producer, engineer *

Kosta Zafiriou Kosta Zafiriou is a Swiss musician and music manager, one of the owners of Bottom Row Promotion company, which currently manages the bands Helloween, Axxis, Gotthard and Krokus. A former hard rock drummer, Zafiriou is known as one of the fou ...

– drums, percussion ;Guests *Mark Fox – vocals, engineer * Tommy Heart – vocals ;Production * Dennis Ward – engineer, mixing *Helge van Dyk – engineer *Darcy Proper – mastering at

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