German rock legends Scorpions are back after a long hiatus with their new studio album 'Return To Forever!'

Approaching their 50th anniversary, The Scorpions entered the studio with Mikael Nord Andersson and Martin Hansen (who produced 2010's 'Sting In The Tail') and according to guitarist Matthias Jabs, what started as a simple project turned into a new album.

"Actually, 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," Jabs says. "There had been quite a few over the years, ideas that were really good, but in the end didn't make the cut back then due to the limited space on vinyl and later on CD."

Jabs continues, "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. 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."