It’s been six years now since Swiss metal legends Krokus announce their retirement and vowed to embark on their farewell tour. However, the farewell tour ran into difficulties in 2020 when the pandemic and the band have made several announcements over the years insisting that the farewell tour would continue at some point. Well, it seems that there’s no need to resume the farewell tour as Krokus doesn’t intend to say farewell after all.
In a recent interview with The Metal Voice (that was transcribed by Blabbermouth), vocalist Marc Storace was asked if the band was “packing it up now” after the promise of a farewell tour as well as the release of Storace’s solo album Live and Let Live in 2021. "No, no, no, no. KROKUS is reborn,” said Storace. “We all feel fresh again. We've had a really nice run and the feeling in the band is really harmonious. And I don't sense any bad vibes for doing my solo stuff, because they know I did it because I was in a lockdown situation and that's how it started and the ball kept on rolling. So it's something I'm doing not because I wanna leave KROKUS."
"KROKUS is my lifetime work,” continued Storace, “it's been my main baby since 1979, end of 1979, with a couple of breaks here and there. That happens in all bands, and we had so many musician changes and everything and ups and downs and troubles and lawsuits and all this. But we're still together because the music holds us together and our history holds us together. It's a sentimental thing. It's a brotherly love kind of thing without being cheesy about it, because we're not really like that. We don't meet up to go and drink a bottle of wine together or we don't really meet up outside working hours, if you like. I enjoy every time I have to drive down to Solothurn where the band comes from and do a rehearsal. And, yeah, it works. There's a nice team. The crew is fixed, and it's great."
When asked if the band would consider putting out any new music anytime soon, Storace said that that doesn’t seem to be on the table at the moment, but it does seem like Krokus has absolutely no intention of saying goodbye anytime soon.
