5/25/2023 0 Comments Scorpions through my eyes![]() The band kicks in all heavy after about 2 1/2 minutes and the intensity grows even more and that ballad is now full on power. ![]() It feels like there is an orchestration accompanying the piano which adds to the drama and the intensity that keeps growing. It is Klaus’ best vocal performance on the album as his vocals really do soar and with the music it is all so beautiful. It opens tenderly with a piano and builds throughout for the payoff in the choruses as they get more intense each time. “Maybe I Maybe You” gives us that soft, emotive vocal that Klaus has done so many times before and I am all for having it. Then they go in to the first of a few ballads and this one is the best in my opinion. More proof that any pop rock or whatever they were doing with their last two albums was long gone. Mathias slays on the solo and gives us one of the better ones on the album. The song is melodic and it’s quick tempo feels like you are racing down the road at break-neck speed. “Blood Too Hot” explodes with a rip-roaring riff and a snare drum that is pounding away. The song doesn’t blow me away, but it has it’s moments though. There is some more great guitar work and the chorus is full of harmonies and it some great melodies to offset the heaviness. “Borderline” opens with some crazy percussion and then the drum plays a heavy beat throughout giving the songs a driving force forward. The song sticks with me long after its over which is a good thing. ![]() I love the groove on this one and the riff is pretty cool too. Klaus sings in an almost loud whisper before really letting let loose on the chorus. There is a background vocal that reminds me of Def Leppard, but the song is all Scorpions. The song is moody, dark and at times really heavy. One of my favorite tracks on the album is “Deep and Dark”. A catchy chorus, a driving beat, a great guitar solo and a wailing Klaus is all you need and this song has all of that and more. It sounds a little gritty, a little dirty and I feel that Scott Stapp might have stolen that guitar tone for his solo albums. Then we get the uptempo rocker “Love ‘Em or Leave ‘Em” which to me feels like early Scorps maybe from the ‘Taken By Force’ era. A brilliant track that reminds a lot of the opening tracks from a lot of bands in the 80’s as it has that grand feel and runs close to 6 minutes. The hypnotic guitar riff is stellar and the song sounds so modern yet so like classic Scorpions at the same time. It all starts with the killer opening track “New Generation” which starts out with a slow build that keeps getting grander as you go and then the song really kicks in slamming it home. This probably elevates this one a little as a result, but still so much goodness. I think a lot of what I like about this one is due to the fact of there was so much I didn’t like about the last two. This is the album that reminded me that Scorpions still had the goods to deliver what the fans like best. They brought back the heavy riffs, the great bombastic choruses and even modernized it all a little. It saw the light of day on and I have to say after the last two albums were a departure from what we expect from Scorpions, this one brought the band back to form. The courted Jeff Pilson (Dokken) and Jimmy Bain (Rainbow/Dio), but they wound up with Paweł Mąciwoda who was able to play on about 10 of the 13 tracks.Īfter recording from October 2003 to January 2004, the album was finally complete. But that wasn’t all they were shopping for as they also needed a bass player. In the end they ended up using Erwin Musper and he did a pretty good job. They wooed Bob Rock, Max Martin, Rick Parasher, Erwin Musper and even old time producer Dieter Dierks. They shopped for a producer and they had a number of people on the list that they sent the demos to in hopes of hiring a producer. Finally after another short tour, they went back in to the studio a third time in September 2003 and did another 20 songs and finally they felt they could pull an album from those tracks. They tried again in June 2003 and nothing much from that one either. Not a bad start…but…they scrapped every single one and started over. They went to the studio in late March or early April and recorded 16 demos. The band had some success with their live albums ‘Moment of Glory’ and ‘Acoustica’ and after some touring, the guys were ready to go at it again. It had been 5 years since their last studio album, ‘Eye II Eye’, which was not a success. We are now on to the 15th Studio album from the Scorpions called ‘Unbreakable’.
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