The Best of Krokus: Stayed Awake All Night

<i>Stayed Awake All Night</i>, a collection of hits from Swiss hard-rock band Krokus, focuses on the band’s howling, guitar-rich jams from 1982 to 1986. Their gnarled, skyward guitar solos (“Eat the Rich”) and chugging drum-and-guitar rhythms (“Headhunter”) put them in the ranks with other big acts of their time like Iron Maiden and Judas Priest, also progenitors of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal. Marc Storace’s soaring, operatic singing (“Stayed Awake All Night”) pushed their sound over the top, into the realm of timeless heaviness.