Face the Heat

Face the Heat
Studio album by
Scorpions
Released21 September 1993
StudioLittle Mountain Sound Studios, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Genre
Length52:04
LabelMercury
Producer
Scorpions chronology
Crazy World
(1990) 		Face the Heat
(1993) 		Pure Instinct
(1996)
Singles from Face The Heat
  1. "Alien Nation"
    Released: 1993
  2. "Woman"
    Released: 1993
  3. "Under the Same Sun"
    Released: November 1993
  4. "No Pain No Gain"
    Released: 1994
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal4/10[2]
Metal Hammer (GER)6/7[3]
Rock Hard8.0/10[4]

Face the Heat is the twelfth studio album released by the German hard rock band Scorpions in 1993.

It was produced by the band and the late Bruce Fairbairn and released on the Mercury label. This album marked their status as a sort of political band with the song "Alien Nation", which was about the re-unification of Germany.[citation needed] This album had a contemporary touch to it, as the band were then going with the current trends, before later returning to their original style in Unbreakable in 2004. This is the last album to feature drummer Herman Rarebell, and the first with Ralph Rieckermann on bass guitar replacing Francis Buchholz.

"Under the Same Sun" was played during the ending credits of the 1994 film On Deadly Ground.

"Alien Nation" was covered by the Italian heavy metal band Mastercastle, recorded by Pier Gonella at MusicArt Studios and released as Japanese bonus track of their album The Phoenix.

"Lonely Nights" was later included in the 2017 compilation album Born to Touch Your Feelings: Best of Rock Ballads.

  1. ^ Weber, Barry. "Scorpions Face the Heat review". AllMusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 25 November 2012.
  2. ^ Popoff, Martin (1 August 2007). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 3: The Nineties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. p. 387. ISBN 978-1-894959-62-9.
  3. ^ Scöwe, Andreas (October 1993). "Scorpions – Face the Heat". Metal Hammer (in German). Retrieved 20 June 2017.
  4. ^ Kupfer, Thomas (1993). "Review Album: Scorpions - Face the Heat". Rock Hard (in German). No. 77. Retrieved 20 June 2017.