Scorpions Share Third Episode Of ‘Rock Believer’ YouTube Docu-Series
The band’s long-awaited new album, ‘Rock Believer’ will be out on February 25.
German rock legends Scorpions have shared the third part of their three-part docu-series about the making of their hotly-anticipated new album, Rock Believer. You can watch the episode below.
Rock Believer will be released on February 25. The LP was recorded primarily at Peppermint Park Studios in Hannover, Germany and was mixed at the legendary Hansa Studios in Berlin, Germany with engineer Michael Ilbert, who has earned multiple Grammy nominations for his mix work with producer Max Martin on albums by Taylor Swift and Katy Perry.
Scorpions’ new album will mark their first release since 2017’s Born To Touch Your Feelings – Best Of Rock Ballads – which was an anthology of new and classic material.
The band originally intended to record the new album in Los Angeles with producer Greg Fidelman, whose previous credits include Slipknot and Metallica. However, because of the pandemic, some of the initial work was done with Greg remotely, after which Scorpions opted to helm the recordings themselves with the help of their engineer Hans-Martin Buff.
Vocalist Klaus Meine previously told Talking Metal that the goal with using Fidelman to produce “Rock Believer” was to bring “the old vibe from albums like ‘Blackout’, ‘Love At First Sting’ or even ‘Lovedrive’. We try to focus on those albums and this attitude,” he said. “If we get there, who knows — it’s so many years later. But it’s the spirit and it’s the whole vibe around this album. This time, the focus is on the harder songs.”
Scorpions will kick off their “Rock Believer” world tour in March in Las Vegas where the band will play nine shows as part of their residency at Planet Hollywood Hotel. Afterwards they will cross the Atlantic to Europe where they will play six concerts in France and six shows In Germany supported by Wolfgang Van Halen’s new band Mammoth WVH.
Scorpions’ last full-length collection of new recordings was the aforementioned Return To Forever, partially comprising songs the band had in the vault from the ’80s. It was the final recorded appearance of Scorpions’ longtime drummer James Kottak, who was dismissed from the band in September 2016. He has since been replaced by Mikkey Dee, formerly of Motörhead.
