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Here’s the track list from the new album:
1. Raised On Rock 3:57
2. Sting In The Tail 3:12
3. Slave Me 2:44
4. The Good Die Young 5:14
5. No Limit 3:24
6. Rock Zone 3:17
7. Lorelei 4:31
8. Turn You On 4:25
9. Let’s Rock 3:21
10. SLY 5:15
11. Spirit Of Rock 3:43
12. The Best Is Yet To Come 4:34
13. Thunder and Lightning (Bonus Track)

http://www.the-scorpions.com/english/discography/records/sitt.asp – lyrics to the new songs

The first single from the album will be “The Good Die Young” – the duet with Tarja Turunen( former singer of Finnish symphonic power metal band Nightwish).

SCORPIONS will release their final studio album, “Sting In The Tail”, in North America on March 23 via Universal Music Enterprises. The CD was recorded at a studio in Hannover, Germany with Swedish producers Mikael “Nord” Andersson and Martin Hansen (the team behind THE RASMUS’ “Dead Letters” CD).

SCORPIONS will release their final studio album, “Sting In The Tail”, in North America on March 23 via Universal Music Enterprises. The CD was recorded at a studio in Hannover, Germany with Swedish producers Mikael “Nord” Andersson and Martin Hansen (the team behind THE RASMUS’ “Dead Letters” CD).

After the release of the album and a three-year mammoth tour, which will take the SCORPIONS across five continents, the band will end its career. The group broke the news on its web site on Sunday.

Important Message to our Fans:

It was always our pleasure, our purpose in life, our passion and we were fortunate enough to make music for you – whether it was live on stage or in the studio, creating new songs.
While we were working on our album these past few months, we could literally feel how powerful and creative our work was – and how much fun we were still having, in the process. But there was also something else: We want to end the Scorpion’s extraordinary career on a high note. We are extremely grateful for the fact that we still have the same passion for music we’ve always had since the beginning. This is why, especially now, we agree we have reached the end of the road. We finish our career with an album we consider to be one of the best we have ever recorded and with a tour that will start in our home country Germany and take us to five different continents over the next few years.
We want you, our fans, to be the first to know about this. Thank you for your never-ending support throughout the years!

let’s get the party started and get ready for a “Sting in the Tail”!

Here are two samples from the upcoming “Sting in the Tail” CD

Raised To Rock – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGVfSdcDL4A
The Good Die Young – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJyqBtaSJl0&NR=1

See you on the world tour,

Yours
Scorpions

Columbia, Maryland(Merriweather Post Pavilion) – June 19,2010

Due to the earthquake this week in Haiti this announcement will be rescheduled for later this month. Our Thoughts and Prayers go out to everyone in Haiti!!!!

June 19th, 2010 M3 festival in Columbia, Maryland – at Merriweather Post Pavilion

Confirmed acts: Scorpions(Headliner), LA Guns, Danger Danger, Nelson, Kix, Dizzy Reed, Jetboy, Z02 from Z Rock and Warrant
Other acts they are talking to are:TESLA,JACKYL, DIRTY LOOKS, SEBASTIAN BACH, WINGER AND BRITNY FOX

An insider at Merriweather Post and at 98 Rock in Baltimore are confirming this information. I do know that this festival wants the Scorpions!!!! but the big question is will the Scorpions sign on at this festival. I will keep you posted

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=133144

Polish web site Plejada conducted an interview with guitarist Rudolf Schenker and vocalist Klaus Meine of German hard rock veterans SCORPIONS when the band performed in Zabrze, Poland on December 5, 2009. Watch the chat below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNfkZcCoY50

Commented Rudolf: “After ‘Humanity – Hour 1’, which was more in the concept-album [vein], talking about the problems in the world, we said, ‘OK, we talked about all these things which [were] happening and now we don’t wanna talk again about problems, now we wanna party. We’re going back to the roots of the band. “We have great rock songs — fantastic rock songs — we have great ballads… The mixture if 10 percent ballads and the rest is up-tempo and mid-tempo [material]. And I think we have a great team of people working for us, producer team from Sweden — they’re great people — and we’re doing this recording in Stockholm and in Hannover, where my studio is. “It looks great. We have a fantastic sound, because my studio is very good for guitars, and this time we’re looking very much also to bring the guitars up, and, of course, with the great voice of Klaus, with the right melodies, giving the right vibe — the typical SCORPIONS sound.”

Added Klaus: “We recorded the last album in the U.S. This has a more European kind of feel, I think, working in Germany and in Sweden. And we’re looking very much forward to releasing this in the spring and we can’t wait to play the songs live on stage.”We tried to find this spontaneous moment — not to overproduce things and to keep things really fresh. “There are a lot of great songs on this record. And we always had our fans in mind [when putting the material together], especially the tour next year, because we hope many [of the new] songs we can [perform live] on the road.”