He said: "As you may know, four years ago, this month, I had a major accident, where I damaged my spine. 25 on the Billboard 200 album chart – the highest position Krokus ever achieved.Ozzy cancelled an upcoming tour earlier this year and told fans he's 'physically weak' (Image: Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for SiriusXM) "Screaming in the Night" was one of three Headhunter tracks (along with "Eat the Rich" and a cover of Bachman-Turner Overdrive's "Stayed Awake All Night") that hit the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. "and what was really special to me, was the part where my chains are broken and I put on my Nikes and climb down the ladder into that diner, then go walking over all the guy's breakfasts after seeing see my loved one is alive reading the news on T.V. Humankind has to do with whatever's left and you're still fighting evil, as always. "It's like after holocaust or after the end of the world, or after a big nuclear war. Director Joe Dea "came up with this concept that reminds one of The Road Warrior movie," Storace told VWMusic. One of the early '80s finest power ballads, "Screaming in the Night" is largely remembered today for its over-the-top video – a dystopian fantasy with Storace as the persecuted hero. "I could sing circles my highest note, and my highest notes – I was hitting four octaves on my best day." "I was at my peak then, you know?" he explained to VWMusic. Storace claims he nailed the eventual single "Screaming in the Night" on the very first take. Watch Krokus' 'Screaming in the Night' Video And we'd join through headphones and we went through all the songs." "And a huge studio behind the glass, where you had the drums set up and all these little compartments with glass, and everyone was like in his own little world. "This was done in an old-school way, with an analog desk – a big, long desk – and a Studer tape machine, 32 tracks or whatever," he told Rock Music Star. Storace recalls the setup Krokus used to make Headhunter. He met with the band, listened to their demos and made suggestions before everyone decamped to Florida for Bee Jay Recording Studios in Orlando. Producer Tom Allom had worked extensively with Judas Priest and helmed Def Leppard's debut. It was an amazing time and we had so much energy." I wrote most of the lyrics sitting outside on hot rocks, with suntan lotion and a beer – a really nice atmosphere where nothing could disturb you and you could concentrate on the music. We built a stage there, and it was really hot. "We isolated ourselves in the middle of nowhere, out in Arkansas," Storace explained to Rock Music Star, "and there was this big, tin, corrugated iron – it was like an airplane hangar. When it came time to write music for Headhunter, Krokus holed up at their manager's home, in an unlikely location. They were "an opening act, playing 30 minutes in every godforsaken hellhole with front-row drunks screaming in our faces with smelly breath, and working our sweaty way up, gig by hard gig, coast to coast, slowly to the top." "Two years before we had just landed from Switzerland and started doing the slog, like every new band," Storace told Sounds Like New. Perhaps Krokus' hardscrabble climb in America, from nightclub to arena stages, served as some inspiration. The song is about taking it away from the rich and giving it back." "You don't have to go to India to see it just take a look at the people in the Bronx. "It's a science fiction song – a future vision about social imbalance, about the very rich and the very poor," he told Creem. Everything is laid out in the chorus, as the song's title is repeated four times, with Storace interjecting, "Life is a bitch" and, more tellingly, "Out of the palace and into the ditch." "Eat the Rich" is another fist-in-the-air anthem, this time with income inequality as its central theme, years before it became a common term.
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