★★★★★
The Scorpions were on the rise in the early Eighties. When Blackout, their eighth studio album, hit the streets in 1982 it became their best selling album to date. The band embarked on a monumental world wide tour and laid waster to audiences with their catchy and accessible melodic hard rock twisted with heavy metal. Scorpions: circa 1982 But its final form could have been different. Vocalist Klaus Meine was facing vocal chord problems, so the band tapped Don Dokken for the first demos...
- www.dangerdog.com
2014-12-30
★★★★★
On the evening of March 24, VRT and RTBF joined forces to bring the European tv viewers an extraordinary show, called "Stars of Europe", organised by Belgium and the Brussels Capital Region. Twenty European acts shared the stage to perform in a major concert, which was held at the foot of the Atomium. One of the acts was Scorpions and they seized the opportunity to perform "Humanity", a track of their upcoming album. I liked it immediately and I suppose I wasn't the only one...
- www.rockreport.be
2012-09-10
★★★★★
Sound: This is 21st album of the legendary band Scorpions. The band after realising Unbreakable (a great album with a 'return to the roots' feeling after accoustica, moment of glory, eye to eye) went to L.A. to record it's 21st album with Desmond Child and James Michael as producers. The result is 'Humanity - Hour 1'. This album is a concept album with a global theme about humanity and mankind. The sound of the band is very different from the album of the 80's and even from Unbreakable...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2012-04-12
★★★★★
With a few exceptions, creativity and ingenuity are finite forces. Even the Beatles all individually "dried up" only a little while after the release of Abbey Road and Let It Be (and I don't even want to get into how downhill things went for Michael Jackson after Thriller)...
- www.popmatters.com
2012-04-02
★★★★★
Last year when Scorpions announced that they were going to go into retirement at the conclusion of their Get Your Sting and Blackout tour everyone assumed that their 2010 release Sting in the Tail would be the band's last. That assumption still stands as far as new original music goes but the band has produced one last treat for their legion of fans in Comeblack, an album of re-recorded favorites and cover songs...
- www.antimusic.com
2012-02-02
★★★★★
This 19th studio album from those sweet German hard rockers (est. 1965 - amazing!) is a fun one. First, you've got rerecorded versions of a handful of their 80s classics, including headbangin' anthem Rock You Like a Hurricane and syrupy, whistling power-ballad Wind of Change (please don't laugh)...
- hour.ca
2012-01-23
★★★★★
Release Date: March 23, 2010 When I read that the CD I'd be reviewing Scorpions: Sting in the Tail was supposedly the bands "last album", my original thought was "Well that's about two decades too late". However 10 seconds into the opening track Raised on Rock I realized that Scorpions presents us with an old-school rock sound that the radio has greatly been missing. This is cock-rock incarnate. Most of us know Scorpions massive 1984 hit Rock You (like a Hurricane)...
- absolutepunk.net
2011-01-17
★★★★★
So the Scorpions are retiring, and Sting of the Tail is their final grand swan song. Knowing the industry, and what goes around comes around, I wonder if this venerable German band will retire as many times as KISS. However, the real question is, are the going out strong with heads held high. Does Sting of the Tail display the heritage, stamina, and glory of this seminal melodic hard rock band...
- www.dangerdog.com
2010-12-06
★★★★★
Scorpions ? or "Scorps," as they were known in '80s metal circles ? are the most goofily loveable heavy-metal band in the history of the German republic. The veteran quintet has about as much interest in subtlety as they have in harpsichords and break dancers. No self-respecting English or American hard-rock band would devote itself to the deliciously ham-handed likes of the charging "Rock You Like a Hurricane" or the post?Cold War kitsch ballad "Wind of Change...
- www.blender.com
2010-08-22
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