After the rehearsals, they started to arrange and record in different studios in the Los Angeles area. During the first couple of weeks, the band was working together in a rehearsal space, every day for eight hours. In order to make those songs fit the concept of the album, songwriting teams had to rewrite the lyrics and the choruses on those songs. Among those songs are "The Game of Life" and "You're Lovin' Me to Death". In the end of the second songwriting process, band had around 20 songs and many of those songs had a tone "too dark" from the lyrical standpoint, so band choose to eliminate many of the "darker" songs from the album and put in more optimistic songs. The band arrived there with 30 songs already written and soon after they began a second songwriting process. In October 2006, Scorpions band members went to Los Angeles to start recording the new material and during the next month and a half they worked on recording the basic tracks for the album. James Michael worked on the production of guitars, drums and bass. Scorpions had been working intensively on the songs during the concerts in 2006 and invited several producers to come over to Germany for an interview (one of them was Roy Thomas Baker), but band members weren't really pleased with what producers had to offer, so in the end band decided to choose Desmond Child and James Michael as the producers of the new album. If we only did it to make the fans happy – that's one thing – but you also have to make yourself happy." When we do an album these days it has to be something special. We wanted to make sure that this album was going to be a masterpiece. Schenker said: "We knew we wanted to make a special record. After the planned collaboration with Dierks did not happen, Scorpions had in mind to produce album by themselves at Rudolf Schenker's Scorpio Sound Studio, but were afraid that their efforts might not be good enough. Originally, the band had in mind to choose Dieter Dierks as album producer, but it did not work out because of a disagreement on the contract. Also one more thing, it's going to be a great album and not an album with one or two great songs". I guess you can say that the new Scorpions album is going to sound fresh and rocking. It will have superb power ballads and hard-rocking songs playable on commercial radio. Describing the upcoming album, Schenker said: "For now, I can only tell you that it's going to pick up where Unbreakable left off.
In an interview for the Malay Mail in May 2006, Schenker confirmed that the band was working on a new album which would have been hopefully released in late 2006 or early 2007.
The opening track "Hour I" has been used as the intro of the NHL's Minnesota Wild from 2007 to 2015.Īfter Scorpions had finished the UK tour as special guest for Judas Priest, Rudolf Schenker revealed that band had started working on a live video album which would later become Unbreakable World Tour 2004: One Night in Vienna and also revealed that the band was planning to start working on a new album in late 2005. However, if one looks closely, their more familiar logo can be seen on the back of the neck of the gynoid. This marks only the third time in the band's career (and the first time in 33 years) the less familiar font has been used. The song " Humanity" was performed for the first time by Scorpions on 24 March 2007 in Brussels, Belgium and released as the first single from the album.Īlso of note is the band's logo on the album's cover: the text font is similar to their first two albums, as opposed to the band's more famous logo. The album was produced by James Michael and Desmond Child, who also provide backing vocals. This apocalyptic nightmare serves as a warning shot to all humanity, whose only hope of survival is to reclaim our humanity. Humanity: Hour 1 is a concept album based on a loose storyline by Desmond Child and futurist Liam Carl, which predicts a world torn apart by a civil war between humans and robots. Humanity: Hour I is the sixteenth studio album by German hard rock band Scorpions, which was released in Europe on and in the United States and Canada on 28 August 2007.
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