Peter Waelti from the KROKUS Globe Club For Clan And Fan has issued the following update on behalf of the band:

"Krokus wishes all of you 'hoodoo men' and 'hoodoo women' a healthy, prosperous and Happy New Year! Thank you for making last year such a memorable and magical one!

Let’s have one last “flash-back” to last year. The band played their last concert in 2009 on December 18th as part of the “Rockin’ Christmas” festival series. To view pictures from that concert, click on this link.

Thirty years after the original line-up conquered the world with their straight forward/no-nonsense rock’n’krok, the band’s long anticipated new CD Hoodoo was released last year. And sold worldwide more than 100,000 copies!

Marc Storace: 'It exceeded our boldest expectations, we never expected such a huge success!'

With all the commercial success of Krokus since the reunion, most importantly there is finally total harmony amongst the band members. Gone are the heated arguments and heavy disputes that troubled v in the past and resulted in constant line-up changes and are non-existent these days. Krokus founder and bassist Chris Von Rohr sums it up best: “We finally learned to accept the flaws and individual characteristics of each other and live with it”.

And what will the (immediate) future bring? The only Swiss rock band ever to have sold 13 million albums worldwide since 1976 is planning a follow-up to 2010’s Hoodoo release.

Chris Von Rohr confirms: 'Beginning of the year we start writing new songs.' Those of us that know Chris’ talent as a producer and the rest of the band as song-writers/composers as well, also know that with the success of Hoodoo the bar is set even higher for Krokus to deliver a worthy follow-up album. And it is an exciting challenge they are looking forward to take on!

Once the first step of writing songs is completed, recording will start most likely in the second half of 2011 with a release date in 2012 the latest. By then the rockers from Solothurn, Switzerland will be on average 60 years old. Asked by the largest boulevard paper of Switzerland: 'No slowing down?' Chris Von Rohr answers quickly: 'No way.' Reflecting a moment, he laughs and adds: 'We are the prime example that rock music keeps you young – besides AC/DC and the Rolling Stones of course.'

Stay tuned for updates down the road…"