{"id":4731,"date":"2022-01-18T11:19:26","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T17:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/?p=4731"},"modified":"2022-01-18T12:50:04","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T18:50:04","slug":"scorpions-rock-believer-official-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/?p=4731","title":{"rendered":"Scorpions &#8220;Rock Believer&#8221; Official Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TllvFtkXMBE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><b>SCORPIONS<\/b> have shared the official music video for their new single, <b>&#8220;Rock Believer&#8221;<\/b>. The single&#8217;s cover art was designed by <b>Klaus Voormann<\/b> and can be found below.<\/p>\n<p><b>&#8220;Rock Believer&#8221;<\/b> is the title track of <b>SCORPIONS<\/b>&#8216; 19th studio album, which will be released on February 25.<\/p>\n<p>Two months ago, <b>SCORPIONS<\/b> released the official music video for <b>&#8220;Rock Believer<\/b>&#8221; first single, <b>&#8220;Peacemaker&#8221;<\/b>. The track features music courtesy of guitarist <b>Rudolf Schenker<\/b> and bassist <b>Pawel Maciwoda<\/b> and lyrics by singer <b>Klaus Meine<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>Asked in a recent interview with Chile&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.futuro.cl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Radio Futuro<\/a> what fans can expect to hear on <b>&#8220;Rock Believer&#8221;<\/b>, <b>Meine<\/b> said: &#8220;Well, you can expect an album that is dedicated to all the rock believers in the world. And we&#8217;re very excited after all these years. We thought, when you think about all the touring we did the last 10 years, after the release of <b>&#8216;Return To Forever&#8217;<\/b>in 2015, the time was right to go back into the studio, to write new material, to write new songs and check out if the creativity is still working. The big aim was, the goal was to make a rock album \u2014 to make an album with lots of attitude, power and focus on the good old times and really enjoy the music and have some fun with the music. And that feels really good.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Speaking about the <b>&#8220;Rock Believer&#8221;<\/b> album title, <b>SCORPIONS<\/b> guitarist <b>Rudolf Schenker\u00a0<\/b>said: &#8220;Look, we are around the world since 50 years or more. And when somebody can say he&#8217;s a rock believer, then this is us. And of course, we meet our rock believers in front of us, our audience.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So many people said rock is dead. It&#8217;s <i>not<\/i> dead,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;It&#8217;s always coming back \u2014 sometimes, okay, more stronger [or] less strong \u2014 but in the end, it&#8217;s great to play around the world in over 80 countries we&#8217;ve played so far, and all rock believers. It was always great to share the music with them together and be in connection with them. I mean, that&#8217;s so amazing and so fantastic, that we are very happy to come out with a new album. And yeah, let&#8217;s see what&#8217;s happening.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Added <b>Meine<\/b>: &#8220;Over the years, we&#8217;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&#8217;ll see you someday somewhere out there, because we&#8217;re rock believers, just like you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Asked if <b>&#8220;Peacemaker&#8221;<\/b> is representative of <b>&#8220;Rock Believer&#8221;<\/b> as a whole, <b>Klaus<\/b> said: &#8220;It is an uptempo rock song, and this album really rocks. There are some heavy songs on the album, like when you think about <b>&#8216;China White&#8217;<\/b> and <b>&#8216;Animal Magnetism&#8217;<\/b>, there&#8217;s a track on the record that is really in the best way of those songs. There are many uptempo songs and, believe it or not, there are even faster songs than <b>&#8216;Peacemaker&#8217;<\/b>. [<i>Laughs<\/i>] There&#8217;s also a very beautiful ballad on the album, and I&#8217;m sure there are fans out there especially love the\u00a0<b>SCORPIONS<\/b> ballads, and they will enjoy this record as well very much. <b>&#8216;Peacemaker&#8217;<\/b> is the appetizer for what the album is all about. It rocks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>&#8220;Rock Believer&#8221;<\/b> was recorded primarily at <b>Peppermint Park Studios<\/b> in Hannover, Germany and was mixed at the legendary <b>Hansa Studios<\/b> in Berlin, Germany with engineer <b>Michael Ilbert<\/b>, who has earned multiple <b>Grammy<\/b> nominations for his mix work with producer <b>Max Martin<\/b> on albums by <b>Taylor Swift<\/b> and <b>Katy Perry<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The album was written and recorded in the <b>SCORPIONS<\/b> DNA with core <b>Schenker<\/b>\/<b>Meine\u00a0<\/b>compositions,&#8221; said <b>Klaus<\/b>. &#8220;We recorded the album as a band live in one room, like we did in the &#8217;80s.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>SCORPIONS<\/b>&#8216; new album will mark their first release since 2017&#8217;s <b>&#8220;Born To Touch Your Feelings &#8211; Best Of Rock Ballads&#8221;<\/b>, which was an anthology of new and classic material.<\/p>\n<p><b>SCORPIONS<\/b> originally intended to record the new album in Los Angeles with producer <b>Greg Fidelman<\/b>, whose previous credits include <b>SLIPKNOT<\/b> and <b>METALLICA<\/b>. However, because of the pandemic, some of the initial work was done with <b>Greg<\/b> remotely, after which\u00a0<b>SCORPIONS<\/b> opted to helm the recordings themselves with the help of their engineer <b>Hans-Martin Buff<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Meine<\/b> previously told <b>Talking Metal<\/b> that the goal with using <b>Fidelman<\/b> to produce <b>&#8220;Rock Believer&#8221;<\/b> was to bring &#8220;the old vibe from albums like <b>&#8216;Blackout&#8217;<\/b>, <b>&#8216;Love At First Sting&#8217;<\/b> or even <b>&#8216;Lovedrive&#8217;<\/b>. We try to focus on those albums and this attitude,&#8221; he said. &#8220;If we get there, who knows \u2014 it&#8217;s so many years later. But it&#8217;s the spirit and it&#8217;s the whole vibe around this album. This time, the focus is on the harder songs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/bravewords.com\/medias-static\/images\/news\/2022\/ScorpionsRockBeliever.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCORPIONS have shared the official music video for their new single, &#8220;Rock Believer&#8221;. The single&#8217;s cover art was designed by Klaus Voormann and can be found below. &#8220;Rock Believer&#8221; is the title track of SCORPIONS&#8216; 19th studio album, which will be released on February 25. 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