Pain Killer (Krokus album)
1978 studio album by Krokus
Pain Killer is the third studio album by the Swiss hard rock band Krokus, released in October 1978, through Mercury.
About the album
Pain Killer was recorded at The Manor Studio in Shipton-on-Cherwell, England, and took just six days of June to produce.
The album was also released with the title Pay It in Metal, and featured different covers for different regions. In all, five different covers were released, all containing exactly the same tracks.
“Pain Killer (Krokus album)” enters the record as 1978 studio album by Krokus. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Pain, Killer and Krokus can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q338437. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1978.
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