This collection improves on the original Krokus greatest-hits collection from 1989 by expanding the tracklist and improving the sound quality. The Definitive Collection polishes the chrome on classic '80s songs like “Long Stick Goes Boom,” “Headhunter,” and “Midnite Maniac,” which helps make Krokus feel less like a metal relic and more like a timeless exponent of a hard-and-wild tradition of rock music. Even when the band's popularity crested during the hair metal heyday of 1982 to 1988, there was always something classic about Krokus. Like AC/DC, Krokus believed in the original blueprint of rock 'n' roll: celebrations of cars and lust and malfeasance, played loud and rude but underwritten with a danceable groove. The band was part of an ongoing hard rock ritual, an inheritance illuminated by its proud covers of Sweet’s “Ballroom Blitz,” The Guess Who’s “American Woman,” and Alice Cooper’s “School’s Out.” Any purist will tell you that Krokus is one of the all-time great metal bands, but The Definitive Collection is a crucial reminder that it was also a flat-out great rock band.