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''Sting in the Tail'' is the seventeenth studio album by the German rock band Scorpions. It was released on 19 March 2010 in Europe (March 14 in Greece) and on ''March 23'' in ''North America''. At the time it was a farewell album, released prior to their farewell tour. In an interview, Rudolf Schenker explained that their goal was to update their sound from their classic period in the 1980s. He explained: "If you take the best song elements from the '80s albums, and put these on one album, you come up with the ''Sting in the Tail'' album. So in this case we tried to re-invent the Scorpions sound from the '80s, using the same DNA after putting in a modern twist, to make it sound like today's music."〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Raised On Rock )〕 The album features a duet on the song "The Good Die Young" with the Finnish symphonic metal singer Tarja Turunen.〔(The Gauntlet: Interview with Scorpions in 01-27-2010 )〕 A tentative title for the album was ''Humanity: Hour II'', however this was eventually scrapped. First week sales in the United States were 18,500 copies sold placing the album at No. 23 on the ''Billboard'' 200 chart. In Germany the album debuted at No. 2, but fell in its second week to No. 3, in France at No. 16 and in Greece at No. 1. The album also peaked at Number 2 on the ''Billboard'' Rock Charts. The Get Your Sting and Blackout World Tour promoting the album was initially reported to be the band's last tour, though this proved not to be the case. In later interviews given after the tour had started, at least two band members (Klaus Meine and Matthias Jabs) stated that the band was not going to stop touring and was in fact, working on new material. ==Background and recording== In the early April 2009, Scorpions fan club ScorpNews.com announced that Scorpions would have entered the studio in the fall of the same year to record a new album. A couple of weeks later Klaus Meine in an interview for Deutsche Welle officially confirmed that the band was working on new material. He explained that "after a very turbulent 2008 with 60 shows in 22 countries, we're now trying to breathe a bit and charge our batteries — but also to be creative". Two months later, the band had extended their record deal with Ariola. The band prepared about 18 songs for the album and teamed up with Swedish producers Mikael Nord Andersson an Martin Hansen. All the songs from the album are new written material, except four songs: "Slave Me", "No Limit", "Turn You On" and "The Best Is Yet to Come" which were written during the recording sessions for ''Unbreakable''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=examiner.com )〕 During those sessions "Turn You On" had a different title and "The Best Is Yet to Come" was also planned to be recorded for the album following ''Unbreakable'', but when the band received an offer from Desmond Child to record ''Humanity: Hour I'', they kept the song and recorded it for this album.〔 James Kottak in the interview for Sleaze Roxx explained: "The first four songs that we wrote for this record were actually dark. I call them dark songs because they were probably too heavy compared to the stuff we've done in the past. They were in the vein of "The Good Die Young", but you can't have too many songs like that. I love "The Good Die Young" but I'm glad the way things evolved took us away from where we were headed initially in the songwriting process. We also co-wrote with our producers, Martin Hansen and Mikael Andersson, who took the whole thing to an entirely different level".〔 Recording process started in May 2009 and took place in four different recording studios. Main recording was done in Scorpio Sound Studio. Vocals were done in The Garage Studios in Stockholm, while additional vocals were recorded in Vocal Land Studio. Drum parts were recorded at Atlantisstudion in Stockholm.〔 By the mid-December 2009 the band had finished with the recording of the album. Just before Christmas, they invited people from the European record company people to a listen session. After they listened the whole album the next day the management told the band that the record company loved it and that it was the best record in years. The management proposed the idea of this album being the last studio album and announcing a final tour. Matthias Jabs explained "We had never spent a second thinking about this. For us, subconsciously, we thought it would go on forever. We were taken back a bit, but after a couple days living with the thought we decided together – that would be the right thing to do. We want to go out on top while we are still healthy and can still do a high-energy show that’s two, sometimes three hours a night."〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=Cuttingedgerocks.com )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sting in the Tail」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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