Trackliste :

1 - Hour I
2 -The Game Of Life
3 - We Were Born To Fly
4 - The Future Never Dies
5 - You’re Loving Me To Death
6 - 321
7 - Love Will Keep Us Alive
8 - We Will Rise Again
9 - Your Last Song
10 -Love Is War
11 - The Cross (Feat. Billy Corgan)
12 - Humanity



Released on May 25th in Europe and in Asia, Humanity-Hour I is the last work of Scorpions, the German heavy metal band who sold more than 70 million albums worldwide and who influenced hundreds of modern hard & heavy musicians. Strongly influenced by the atmosphere of the 60s, form their official appearance in 1972, the band gave us some of the most beautiful ballads of their music genre.


Recorded mostly in Los Angeles, this last album is an amazing mixture between Scorpions’ classic hard style and modern metal elements. This change of style has been strongly criticized as the only solution for a too old band to get more young fans.

Despite these critics, however, Humanity-Hour I is a very powerful album, which seems to be destined to overcome the success of masterpieces like Crazy World, published in 1991.


First chapter of two concept albums, this album shows us, with its provocative lyrics, some reflections about the tragic destiny of our world and of our lives.

The 12 songs tracklist is a fascinating voyage between present and past: from the nu metal sonorities of Hour I, with a strong use of the electric guitar, to the sweetness of ballads like Future Never Dies. It’s just the sound of the first song that makes us understanding the change of style of the band: written with the collaboration of John 5, Marilyn Manson’s ex guitarist, it’s much more hard than usual Scorpions’ works. A good work, anyway: the change of style didn’t cause a loss of quality of the band, as many people could think.

After the strong introduction, however, we come back to the old style, something that will surely make happy all the long time fans.

The Game Of Life is a beautiful, melodic mid-tempo: it’s introduction reminds us the beginning of the masterpiece Rock You Like A Hurricane (1984).

We Were Born To Fly, another mid-tempo, seems to present a more optimistic vision than the one which appears in The Future Never Dies, a melancholy ballad where Klaus Meine’s voice reaches one of the most touchin interpretations.

Maybe separating the ballads could have been a better choice: the sequence of slow songs is a bit too long, and a mixture with harder songs could make the whole album looking more various.

Anyway, it seems that this kind of choose belongs to the same idea of the voyage between past and present.

After the several ballads, infact, we come back to the hard new style, with the pessimistic vision of love and life of the tracks You’re Loving Me To Death and 321. The last one, especially, is characterized by a strong use of guitar and by the use of a sentence we can hear in hundreds of stadiums, a sort of tribute to rock concerts and to rock music in general: “Are you ready to Rock?”

The last part of the album presents a sort of fusion between the two souls of the whole work. The songs are slower, but they are characterized by that new sound we talked about: if before we could find more different sonorities only in the hard songs, now the two styles are united in only one.

Your Last Song and Love Is War are the result of this majestic union: touching choruses, beautiful guitar solos creates some melancholy and, at the same time, powerful atmospheres, which will be in our hearts forever.

We can’t forget to mention Smashing Pumpkins’ singer and guitarist Billy Corgan, which appears in the powerful duet with Klaus Meine in The Cross, another hard style song, even if bit less good than the others.

At last, we can find Humanity, the first single extracted off the album, which could be considered as a real “Goodbye” until the next time.

So, here we are... waiting for the next chapter of the story, while the last notes of this powerful album still sounds in our minds.