New from Scorpions: Stream “Shining of Your Soul,” from ‘Rock Believer’ Album Out 2/25

German hard-rock icons Scorpions are a week away from releasing Rock Believer, the band’s new studio album.

Over the past few weeks, the legendary band has been sharing songs from the album, and the latest arrived on Friday. Titled “Shining of Your Soul,” it’s a showcase of Scorpions’ ability to slow things down a bit but still rock out just as powerfully:

What is the “shining of your soul”? Said front man Klaus Meine in a statement:

“When someone enters the room and you sense an aura that makes everything else fade into the background. When the atmosphere changes inexplicably, and one is enveloped in a warm glow. The shining of a soul.”

In contrast to that song, here’s the music video for the album’s title track:

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A news release adds that Scorpions will play at the Planet Hollywood Resorts & Casino in Las Vegas as part of their residency in March and April, followed by a world tour scheduled to kick off with a number of shows in Germany in June 2022. Visit the band’s website for more details.

Some official words about the Rock Believer album:

Legendary rockers Scorpions return with their new album, Rock Believer, which was created in the studio during the lockdown in their home base Hannover. “The album was written and recorded in the style of the classic Scorpions DNA with core Schenker/Meine compositions. We really went back to the essence of what defined us in the first place,” says front-man Klaus Meine. He goes on to explain how the new songs came to have such incredible, fresh energy and fervor: “We recorded the album as a band, live, in one room, like we did back in the Eighties. We can’t wait to get started and finally play for our fans again.” The sound of the new album has massive energy, delivers a real adrenaline rush and shows uncompromising quality.

The record consists of awesome tracks, each one of them a lyrical short story, minimal poems in prose, presented in a lavish sonic guise, featuring the Scorpions’ characteristic trademarks from the early 1980s, yet produced from a 2020s perspective. The wealth of inspiration from their longstanding career is an overflowing treasure chest that forges an arc between yesterday and tomorrow. Rock Believer is perhaps the group’s most characteristic album to date – a recording by a band at the pinnacle of their musical art.