''Stampede'' is the eleventh studio album by

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band Krokus. It features an almost completely different line-up to that of their last album (with the exception of

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), and was recorded near the band's home town of

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by Jürg Naegeli, a former member of the band. It was also the first Krokus album since 1978's ''

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'' not to feature

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on lead vocals. His replacement, Peter Tanner, had previously been a member of Swiss bands Witchcraft, Bloody Six and Headhunter as well as a voice actor in the late 1970s. ''Stampede'' is also marks the Krokus studio debut for Many Maurer, a bandmate of Tanner's in Headhunter and founding member of

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. The album reached No. 18 in the Swiss album charts. In 2000, Tanner and Storace would unite to record the D/C World album (with Tony Castell on bass), consisting of 5 strung together blocks of passages from 30 different

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songs, with Tanner singing the

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parts and Storace in the

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role.

Track listing

All songs by

, Many Maurer and Peter Tanner, except where indicated # "Stampede" – 4:41 # "Electric Man" – 5:24 # "Rock 'n' Roll Gypsy" – 4:35 # "Shotgun Boogie" (von Arb, Maurer, Tanner, Patrick Mason) – 5:25 # "Nova-Zano" (von Arb, Maurer, Tanner, Mason) – 6:28 # "Street Love" – 4:32 # "Good Times" – 4:43 # "She Drives Me Crazy" (von Arb, Maurer, Tanner, Mason) – 5:15 # "In the Heat of the Night" (von Arb) – 7:02 # "Rhythm of Love" (von Arb, Maurer, Tanner, Mason) – 5:24 # "Wasteland" (Maurer, Tanner) – 7:08

Personnel

;Krokus *Peter Tanner –

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*Many Maurer –

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, bass, co-producer *Tony Castell –

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, bass,

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–

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, keyboards, producer *Peter Haas –

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*Jurg Naegeli – keyboards, bass ;Additional musicians *Rahel Studer – cello on "Nova-Zano" *Chris Egger – backing vocals ;Production *Jürg Naegeli – engineer, mixing assistant *Pedro Haldemann – co-producer, mixing assistant *Hanspeter Huber – mixing at Soundville Studios, Lucern, Switzerland *Katrin Brändli – mixing assistant *Ian Cooper – mastering at

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, London

Charts

References

External links

''Stampede'' page on the Krokus official website
{{Authority control Krokus (band) albums 1990 albums