Krokus

Stayed Awake All Night

1983 · Heavy Metal · Arista

Germany · 600 802

Credits

Producer: Tom Allom
Written by: Randy Bachman, Butch Stone, Chris Von Rohr, Fernando Von Arb, Marc Storace

Bay Area Thrash Metal

Riffs cut like machine tools, tempos past 200bpm, and a garage circuit that rewrote American metal.

West Midlands Metal

Downtuned riffs from a factory city — Sabbath to grindcore, four decades of Birmingham making music heavier.