It's hard not to pan the stunning averageness of Switzerland's
Krokus
, one of the more insignificant -- yet visually amusing -- European contributions to the mid-'80s hard rock landscape. Yeesh! Talk about aging badly. At their best (
"Long Stick Goes Boom"
and
"Eat the Rich"
), the group sound like a very poor man's
AC/DC
; at their worst, their cock-rock posturing simply defies description. OK, so the near-thrash intent of
"Headhunter"
does manage to evoke the infinitely superior
Accept
, but there's little else here to even justify the group's existence. In all fairness, there definitely were worse bands than
, but you'd be hard-pressed to find them, and the material here hardly deserves a "best of" tag. ~ Eduardo Rivadavia