Scorpions have shared the title track for their new album, “Rock Believer.” Listen here and below. The official music video will follow on Jan. 18.
Commenting on the advance release of the title track of their latest album, due out on Feb. 25, 2022, Klaus Meine, singer and author of the lyrics, said: “Over the years, we’ve heard people say lots of times that rock is dead. But there are still millions of rock believers out there all over the world that prove them wrong. Our fans are the best in the world. We’ll see you someday somewhere out there, because we’re Rock Believers, just like you.”
“The new material sees us return to our roots,” Meine said. “We simply wanted to reactivate the original Scorpions’ DNA—great riffs, strong melodies. We tried to transport that live feel to the studio with all five of us playing in one room again at last. Having Mikkey Dee in the band is like a shot of fresh energy and real fun.”
Due to the pandemic, the recording sessions planned in America had to be canceled and relocated to Germany.
Guitarist Matthias Jabs said: “In a way, the situation was a blessing in disguise for us.”
The band had already hired a studio in Los Angeles, but their plans were thwarted by fate. Instead, the musicians found themselves stuck at home, three of them only a stone’s throw away from the legendary Peppermint Park Studios in Hanover, and as soon as travel restrictions were relaxed, Pawel Maciwoda and Mikkey Dee were able to join them from Poland and Sweden respectively.
“And everything suddenly felt like it had back in the 1980s, when the five of us rocked together, hanging out at the corner pub in the evenings and talking about our music,” Jabs said.
“We had already started to talk about a new album back in 2018,” guitairst Rudolf Schenker said.
In March and April 2022, the band are set to perform at the Planet Hollywood Resorts & Casino in Las Vegas as part of their residency, followed by a European tour scheduled to kick off with a number of shows in Germany in June 2022, with more concerts around the world in the pipeline.
Listen to the previously released “Peacemaker” here.
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