Scorpions – Rock Believer (180g Vinyl LP)

Legendary rockers Scorpions return with their new album Rock Believer, which was created in the studio during the lockdown in their home base of Hannover. “The album was written and recorded in the style of the classic Scorpions DNA with core Schenker/Meine compositions. We really went back to the essence of what defined us in the first place,” says frontman Klaus Meine. He goes on to explain how the new songs came to have such incredible, fresh energy and fervor: “We recorded the album as a band, live, in one room, like we did back in the Eighties. We can’t wait to get started and finally play for our fans again.”

The sound of the new album has massive energy, delivers a real adrenaline rush, and shows uncompromising quality. Each track here is a lyrical short story, minimal poems in prose, presented in a lavish sonic guise, featuring the Scorpions’ characteristic trademarks from the early 1980s, yet produced from a 2020s perspective. The wealth of inspiration from their longstanding career is an overflowing treasure chest that forges an arc between yesterday and tomorrow. Rock Believer is perhaps the group’s most characteristic album to date – a recording by a band at the pinnacle of their musical art.

Standard 180g vinyl LP edition with 11 tracks.

1. Gas In The Tank
2. Roots In My Boots
3. Knock ’em Dead
4. Rock Believer
5. Shining Of Your Soul
6. When I Lay My Bones To Rest
7. Seventh Sun
8. Hot And Cold
9. Peacemaker
10. Call Of The Wild
11. When You Know (Where You Come From)