KROKUS singer Marc Storace spoke with Deb Rao from Rockmusicstar.com recently about a number of topics including their new album, Hoodoo. A few excerpts from the chat follow:

Rockmusicstar.com: Tell us about the writing process of the new album Hoodoo? Were you looking to re-capture the secret formula that launched the band onto the charts back in the '80's?

Storace: "There really wasn't that much of a strategy or plan when we started out. Fern and Chris worked on some riffs in Solothurn and Chris and I wrote the lyrics and vocal parts to the rough music tracks . We finished 12 demo-songs in three separate batches. We even recorded in three separate stages. It gave us time to listen and contemplate in between ...to see the songs objectively. Fern and I, from the start, wisely allowed Chris to do the producing. All went much easier with Chris`s talent of sifting the chaff from the corn! Basically when Chris, Fern and I write together we tend to automatically favour the early '80's style that made the band famous. When the band plays together we automatically sound the way we sounded back in the early '80's. After all we still use more or less the same equipment and instruments we did back then. Our motto is still less is more!"

Rockmusicstar.com:: Krokus has been on os many great tours including MOTÖRHEAD, AC/DC and SAMMY HAGAR. What was your favorite tour? Any highlights that you would like to share with us?

Storace: "Although the band is forever grateful to Sammy Hagar for having taken us on his tours when we were just beginning to make a name for ourselves in the USA, and I admire Motörhead for their endless determination and longevity, I still preferred being with AC/DC out of the three. The best tour ever for Krokus to date was the Pyromania Tour with DEF LEPPARD in 1983. Not only was it the biggest tour out for that year, but, our Headhunter album shot to number 24 in the Billboard Charts. We were experiencing the zenith of our commercial career with standing ovations and repeated calls for encores every night. Def Leppard with, in my opinion, the best album in their career, were sitting up at number 2, just below MICHAEL JACKSON's Thriller, and it was mayhem every night!!! An amazing era and pretty unbelievable when I think back, that we were lucky enough to have been a big part of it...so cool."

Rockmusicstar.com: What are Krokus future touring plans? Are there any European or US dates planned to promote the album?

Storace: "The Swiss dates went down really great and we`re now looking forward to the coming European dates!

As for the good old USA, we`re still looking. We would love to come over and tour as part of a package. It's a matter of how much local promoters interest we can arouse. They are the ones that will or will not pick up the phone and call our US Booking Agent. A lot depends on how many Hoodoo CDs our US fans will actually buy, as opposed to download, of course. The business has changed and to get an album sold in the big box stores is almost impossible. If our US fans can't get our new album Hoodoo at their local record store, they should go to web sites like amazon.com as the artwork and enclosed booklet is pretty sensational as well. Our dream is to get back in the Billboard Charts like we did with a handful of our albums back in the '80's, and only our loyal fans can put us back there."

Read the entire interview here.