He wrote very inspiring lyrics, looking at the history of the Scorpions and also what you experience along the way by playing around the world. And then Klaus somehow got the inspiration to write lyrics. RELATED ARTICLE: 10 greatest Scorpions songs of the '70sĬonfirming the same story about the label request for an album like Blackout, Schenker says his answer was, “Yeah, that’s a good idea, but let’s see. And you know, it’s easier to say than to do, but we thought about it - somehow he planted that thought in our minds.”Īs a sort of parallel to having the drums in early, Schenker explains that a similar thing happened with the lyrics, with both procedural differences resulting in extra life across these Rock Believer songs. But I would say that the earliest point when we considered making another album was some time in 2018 when a good friend and fan, and also somebody who works for the record company, addressed us with, ‘Oh, guys, it would be fantastic if you could do an album again like Blackout, from the early ’80s.’ This is his favorite album. We decided if we do another album at all, which wasn’t clear, like for a long time, we have to go into a harder direction and make it more rock, make it more rough. “ Return to Forever was, I think, a pretty good album,” reflects Jabs, “but we were coming to a point with our friends from Sweden, our producers - they are really our friends as well - where things were a bit too clean, too polished. Now here’s that Blackout thing, which, when you hear the album, the connection will ring through loud and clear. You know, it saves time, it saves money: It’s one of those, fly the drummer in, he knows the complete arrangement because he could rehearse it and get ready, and the album is done in two days and that’s it.
That was the way the Swedes (producers Mikael Nord Andersson and Martin Hansen) were working. “He played last, because we had done all the arrangements and recordings to programmed drums, a programmed drum track. “With James, we usually recorded the modern way,” explains Jabs, referring to previous drummer James Kottak, who played with the band on five studio albums (depending on how you count) stretching back to 1999’s Eye II Eye. This gives an extremely good drive to the music.”īut the DEE factor - the Swedish dynamo is best known for his work with Motörhead and King Diamond - reveals itself in another key way as well. I noticed this already the very first time we played together. And when we play together, Mikkey does the same thing. You know, when I play, I’m a little bit before the point, because of the energy. “Especially by finding out that he plays so much ahead of the beat, pushing the beat. “First of all, a new drummer, Mikkey Dee, brought some fresh wind into the machine,” begins Schenker, asked about the personality of this slamming new collection versus the band’s last album, Return to Forever, from 2015.
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