Scorpions - Return To Forever

Facts Limited double vinyl LP pressing. 2015 release from the German hard rockers, the first album of all-new studio material since their 2010 'swan song', Sting In The Tail. Surprised that the band has recorded a new album since retiring? So was the band. "We only wanted to finally record some song ideas for the fans, which we had worked on in the past but never put on an album, and then release them without much fanfare," guitarist Matthias Jabs recalled. But the sessions, helmed by producers Mikael Nord Andersson and Martin Hansen, quickly turned more productive. "We quickly had eight songs, which partly had to be finalized first and were then recorded from scratch. During the work, increasingly new song ideas were added from our end, as well as from [Andersson and Hansen]," continued Jabs. "We had so much fun working and suddenly we found ourselves in the middle of the songwriting process once again. And in the end, it turned out to be a brand new Scorpions album after all."