The German edition of Metal Hammer had the exclusive chance to visit the SCORPIONS in the studio and hear some of the new songs to be featured on the band's new Sting In The Tail album.

An article is now online, featuring a general impression of the new material and a brief description of these new songs: ‘Raised On Rock’, ‘Sting In The Tail’, ‘Slave Me’, ‘The Good Die Young’, ‘Rock Zone’ and ‘Sly’.

The feature can be found here (in German language only).

Scorpions will release their final studio album, Sting In The Tail, in North America on March 23 via Universal Music Enterprises. The CD was recorded at a studio in Hannover, Germany with Swedish producers Mikael "Nord" Andersson and Martin Hansen (the team behind THE RASMUS' Dead Letters CD).

Sting In The Tail tracklist (with times) is as follows:

'Raised On Rock' 3:57
'Sting In The Tail' 3:12
'Slave Me' 2:44
'The Good Die Young' 5:14
'No Limit' 3:24
'Rock Zone' 3:17
'Lorelei' 4:31
'Turn You On' 4:25
'Let's Rock' 3:21
'SLY' 5:15
'Spirit Of Rock' 3:43
'The Best Is Yet To Come' 4:34

The first single from the album will be 'The Good Die Young' - a duet with former NIGHTWISH singer Tarja Turunen - check out an audio sample below: