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The countdown for the heaviest metalfest of 2015 starts today! We’re celebrating two decades of Graspop Metal Meeting next year and that calls for a super heavy line-up. With Kiss, Slipknot, Scorpions, Korn and Judas Priest, five out of six headliners for the two main stages have already been confirmed. Other top acts include Alice Cooper, Motörhead, In Flames, Bodycount, Within Temptation, Five Finger Death Punch and Godsmack, supplemented with 35 other names.

https://www.graspop.be/en/poster – 2015 Graspop Festival poster

July 25th 2015 – Maidstone – United Kingdom – Mote Park – Ticketmaster – Ramblin’ Man Fair

http://www.ticketmaster.co.uk/event/1F004D5BB6B08DE3?camefrom=CFC_UK_BUYAT_220331

German hard rock veterans SCORPIONS will celebrate their 50th anniversary in 2015 with a special tour and new studio album. More information will be made available soon.

http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/scorpions-to-celebrate-50th-anniversary-in-2015-with-new-studio-album-tour/

German rock band Scorpions confirmed that they will celebrate their 50th anniversary next year with the launch of their 20th album and an accompanying tour. “Yes, we have started already. We have 12 songs. We found songs mainly from the early 1980s Blackout and Love At First Sting days, which many people consider our most creative and best time,” said the band’s lead guitarist Matthias Jabs in an earlier interview.

“The leftover tracks sound good, but they were never finished. They don’t have lyrics or vocals, and they’re not recorded to a click. So, we have to do everything new, but it sounds quite good so far,” he added.

Rudolf Schenker, who launched the band in 1965, said two of the new songs on MTV Unplugged, Dancing With The Moonlight and Rock & Roll Band, have been saved as bonus tracks. “We’ll put them out as electric versions. I think we have a total of 15 songs from the 70s and 80s that we want to release. In 2014, we’ll finish the places we haven’t played yet on tour, and then get back to the record,” he commented.

Interestingly, the band had announced in 2010 that they will end their career following a three-year farewell tour. In an interview, Schenker, Jabs and the band’s lead singer Klaus Meine were asked what changed their minds.

“When you start a three-year farewell tour, you know you’ve got a long time ahead of you. But that long period went by much faster than we imagined. The closer we got to the goal (Munich in December 2012), the stronger the feeling was that we hadn’t come to the end,” Meine said. “There were so many images in our minds and so many emotions in our hearts. Everything we experienced between 2010 and 2012, the 200 concerts — it was all so powerful.”

Meine epitomised the band’s sentiment when he said: “You stand on stage, look down and see so many fans including the younger generation, who are really getting into it and saying: ‘Guys, this is so cool. We’re seeing you for the first time. When will you be back?’ It’s so motivating and inspiring to play for three generations. We’re all having too much fun to put down the guitars.”

Schenker said the band had initially announced the farewell tour because they didn’t want to be standing on the stage and not able to deliver what people expected from them. “The success of the farewell tour bowled us over,” he said.

“At first, there were plenty of arguments in favor of stopping,” revealed Jabs. “But we were quickly overshadowed by the feeling of how much fun it all is. It doesn’t matter where we went, the shows were packed. So, we just thought: This can’t really be the end.” “It’s one thing to say, ‘This is going to be the end of the Scorpions’ and another to do it,” said Meine.

Live Video Full concert- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhLWe0CU1EQ

Scorpions Setlist: 1 Hour 38 minutes
Sting in the Tail
Make It Real
Is There Anybody There?
The Zoo
Coast to Coast
Loving You Sunday Morning
The Best Is Yet to Come
Send Me an Angel
Holiday
Raised on Rock
Tease Me Please Me
Hit Between the Eyes
Drum Solo
(Johan Franzon & PiTTi Hecht)
Blackout
Six String Sting
Big City Nights
Encore:
Still Loving You
Wind of Change
Rock You Like a Hurricane
Encore 2:
When the Smoke Is Going Down

Note: Johan Franzon is filling in for James Kottak on drums

Finally!!!! The Scorpions will be on the Music channel Palladia next Saturday night January 11th at 9pm and midnight to premiere their upcoming release “MTV unplugged” concert from Athens , Greece. The official release in North America will be Tuesday January 21st.

Palladia website link – http://www.palladia.tv/

Scorpions Rock and Roll Forever 2014 Tour Dates
March 7th 2014 -Madrid – Spain – Palacio Vistalegre (Sold Out)
March 8th 2014 -Madrid – Spain – Palacio Vistalegre(Sold Out)
March 10th 2014 -Lisbon – Portugal – MEO Arena
March 18th2014 – Krasnodar – Russia- venue- TBA -with Orchestra
March 22nd2014 -Rostov-on-Don – Russia- venue- TBA -with Orchestra
March 24th2014 – Volgograd – Russia- venue- TBA -with Orchestra
March 26th2014 – Saratov – Russia – venue- TBA -with Orchestra
March 28th2014 – Nizhny Novgorod – Russia – venue- TBA -with Orchestra
March 30th2014 – Samara – Russia – venue- TBA- with Orchestra
April 2nd 2014 – Ekaterinburg – Russia- venue- TBA -with Orchestra
April 29th 2014 – Munich – Germany -Olympiahalle – MTV Unplugged
May 1st 2014 -Cologne – Germany – Lanxess Arena- MTV Unplugged
May 2nd 2014 -Hamburg – Germany – O2 World- MTV Unplugged
May 4th 2014 -Stuttgart -Germany -Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle- MTV Unplugged
June 13th 2014 -Murten -Switzerland -Stars Of Sounds -Ticketcorner

CONCERT FLYER FROM THE SOLD OUT MARCH 8TH MADRID SHOW: