Humanity: Hour 1

Performer: Scorpions
Engineer: Jon Vella; Brendan Dekora; Noel Zancanella
Producer: James Michael; Desmond Child
Distributor: Universal Distribution

Notes: This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files. Scorpions: Klaus Meine (vocals); Rudolf Schenker, Matthias Jabs (guitar); Paul Maciwoda (bass guitar); James Kottak (drums). Casual observers might have lost track of German metal crossover kings the Scorpions after their 1980s heyday, but the faithful know that the band has been holding steady throughout the decades. Their metallic crunch has been leavened somewhat over the years; HUMANITY: HOUR 1finds the Teutonic terrors collaborating with mainstream pop hitmakers Desmond Child and Eric Bazilian, and laying on the big pop choruses. For all the lighters-aloft power balladry and acoustic guitar reveries, though, the Scorpions still wield the same unerring knack for a gargantuan riff and an inescapable hook. Those with a passion for the more melodic side of '80s metal should feel right at home here.

Kerrang (Magazine) (p.49) - "[With] '321', the best out-and-out rock song The Scorpions have made in years."

Scorpions are one of Germany's most popular rock exports. As part of the first wave of 1970s heavy metal, the band played a tight melodic version of the increasingly harder and heavier rock that was becoming popular at the time. Scorpions would go on to influence hair-metal acts like Motley Crue, as well as more aggressive bands like Megadeth and Metallica. The band's 1989 Cold War power-ballad "Winds of Change" was an international smash and sold several million copies worldwide.

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