SCORPIONS To Present New Album In Moscow In March

According to Russia-InfoCentre, German hard rock veterans SCORPIONS will present their new album, "Sting In The Tail", for the first time in Moscow, Russia on March 18, 2010 at the sports palace Megasport on Khodynskoe Field.

"At the Moscow concert lots of songs will be performed for the first time — it will be a trial of the band's new 'sting' on the already tested audience," guitarist Rudolf Schenker is quoted as aying.

In 1991, SCORPIONS became the first western band invited by the USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev to a meeting and a concert in the Kremlin.

"Sting In The Tail" is being recorded at a studio in Hannover, Germany with Swedish producers Mikael "Nord" Andersson and Martin Hansen (the team behind THE RASMUS' "Dead Letters" CD).

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."

Although SCORPIONS' new CD is tentatively due in Europe in March, a U.S. release date has yet to be pinned down.

SCORPIONS recently extended their record deal with Ariola, which is part of the international media conglomerate Sony BMG Music Entertainment.