Virgin Killer (Remastered 2023) Scorpions

• 1 Pictured Life (Remastered 2023) 03:22
• 2 Catch Your Train (Remastered 2023) 03:34
• 3 In Your Park (Remastered 2023) 03:43
• 4 Backstage Queen (Remastered 2023) 03:11
• 5 Virgin Killer (Remastered 2023) 03:41
• 6 Hell Cat (Remastered 2023) 02:55
• 7 Crying Days (Remastered 2023) 04:37
• 8 Polar Nights (Remastered 2023) 05:08
• 9 Yellow Raven (Remastered 2023) 05:00
• Total Runtime 35:11

Info for Virgin Killer (Remastered 2023)

"Virgin Killer" is the fourth studio album of the Scorpions, released at the end of the year 1976 and is the shortest album of the band with a length of 35 minutes. It is the second album made in collaboration with producer Dieter Dierks and was another step away from psychedelic influences and towards hard rock. The title "Virgin Killer" refers to the idea that time is the "killer" of innocence. The album landed at #32 on the Japanese album charts and was the first Scorpions album to be awarded a gold record in Japan. "Virgin Killer" has been remastered with special sensitivity from the original tapes.

"Recorded just before the band began cranking out their earliest hits on classic albums like Lovedrive and Animal Magnetism, Virgin Killer is the first of four studio releases that really defined the Scorpions and their urgent metallic sound that was to become highly influential. While there are no tracks recognizable to the casual fan like "Blackout" and "Another Piece of Meat," on Virgin Killer, serious fans of the group treasure this 1977 collection. Some all-time Scorpions standouts like "Pictured Life" and the title cut have all the necessary guitar chops and fierce falsetto melodies to get even the most jaded heavy metal old-timer teary eyed with nostalgia. Perhaps Virgin Killer isn't as focused as the brilliant Lovedrive or as tuneful as either Animal Magnetism or Blackout, but the group's trademark enthusiasm (the single element that separated and defined them, especially during the occasionally over-serious days of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal) and dexterity shines through on this near-historic heavy metal collection." (Jason Anderson, AMG)

Klaus Meine, vocals
Uli Jon Roth, lead guitars, vocals on "Hell-Cat" and "Polar Nights"
Rudolf Schenker, rhythm guitars
Francis Buchholz, bass
Rudy Lenners, drums, percussion
Additional musicians:
Achim Kirschning, synthesizer, keyboards

Recorded 1976 at Dierks Studios, Stommeln, West Germany
Produced by Dieter Dierks

Digitally remastered

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