Unbreakable (Scorpions album)
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| Studio album by Scorpions | ||||
| Released | 3 May 2004 | |||
| Recorded | October 2003 - January 2004 | |||
| Studio | Peppermint Park Studios, Scorpio Sound Studios, Hannover, Germany (track 13) |
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| Genre | Hard rock, heavy metal | |||
| Length | 56:30 | |||
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Ariola|/BMG Sanctuary/BMG (US) |
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| Producer | Erwin Musper & Scorpions | |||
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| Metal Hammer (GER) | 6/7 |
| Rock Hard | 8.0/10 |
Unbreakable is the fifteenth studio album by German hard rock band Scorpions, released in 2004. In this release, Scorpions return to the style of music of their most successful albums, after experimenting with many different concepts and influences in the 1990s. This was the first album with Paweł Mąciwoda on bass guitar. Despite critical acclaim and extensive touring of the album, Unbreakable was not a big hit on the charts.
After the success of the cross-over album Moment of Glory recorded with Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and of the unplugged album Acoustica, Scorpions reunited in studio with long-time producer Dieter Dierks to record two songs for the compilation album Bad for Good: The Very Best of Scorpions. The songs "Bad for Good" and "Cause I Love You" came from the band's archives and this was the first time Scorpions collaborated with Dierks in 14 years.
Scorpions started actively to work on a new album while touring in 2002. Drummer James Kottak said: "We would sit in the back of the tour bus late night, playing each other songs each of us had written, writing, listening to new stuff on the radio, and brainstorming what each one of us thought which direction should the new CD take". The band had the back lounge of a tour bus converted into a studio to write, rehearse and record the demos of the new songs. Guitarist Matthias Jabs said in that period that the new material would be classic rock. He explained: "We are classic rock, and most radio stations don't play that. But a lot of things are changing, so you never know."
After finishing the North American tour with Whitesnake in late March 2003, band members gathered at Scorpio Sound Studio to record the first batch of demos. They demoed a total of 16 songs and none of them made the album. A second demo session started in June 2003 and during that session the band demoed songs that Klaus Meine, Rudolf Schenker, Jabs and Kottak had written individually. In the late July and early August, Scorpions embarked on a three-week tour where Kottak spent most of his time writing, demoing, and playing guitar. He explained: "On some songs I only play for Matthias, some only for Rudolf, and the sensitive ones I play for Klaus". On 1 September 2003, the band went back again to Scorpio Sound Studio for a two-week demo session and they recorded other 20 songs. Kottak said about the songs: "We now felt we have the meat of the record...8 to 10 "good ones"".
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