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HERMAN RAREBELL – Nip In The Bud [40th Anniversary Remaster] (2021) *0dayrox Exclusive*

Former Scorpions drummer HERMAN RAREBELL has released his 1981 album ”Nip In The Bud”, completely remastered and available digitally for the first time. Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of its initial release, it is rather amazing at just how clear, clean and fresh ”Nip In The Bud” sounds today and those involved in the remastering have done a brilliant job as this really does feel like a record that has only just been recorded and released, and musically, feels relevant today.
If you haven’t heard the album before then I am sure that you will not be surprised by the fact that it is most definitely Scorpions influenced and, in truth, how could it not be? However, Rarebell also has a huge admiration for the blues based rock of Led Zeppelin and he has incorporated much of the sound of this inspirational band into the album so you get a classic hard rock album here.
Rarebell performed the material as a three-piece with singer and bassist Pedro Schemm aka George Phillips and guitarist David Cooper and together they make a tight and compact unit with nice solos too, but the three of them most certainly have a huge power output when combined. Cooper contributes some terrific guitar and Schemm brings the material to life with his very Robert Plant delivery…

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HERMAN RAREBELL & The Hurricane Orchestra – Scorpion’s Songs Symphonic (2022)

From 1977 to 1996 he was the drummer for 19 years, during the golden age of the Scorpions. 100 million Scorpions albums sold and now, at the age of 70, HERMAN RAREBELL is at it again: together with The Hurricane Orchestra and his band is on tour in Europe performing Scorpions songs with a mix of rock instruments and real orchestra arrangements.
In between the concerts, Rarebell and his new training have locked in the studio. They’re releasing “Scorpion’s Songs Symphonic“, an album of 15 Scorpions (17 in the digital version), re-arranged with symphony sauce. So the rock base of the tracks is added to the “Hurricane Orchestra” interventions, founded specifically for this project.
These are studio recordings with a hard rock sound – with lead vocals by powerhouse Andrew Gräser and Herman & his band – with added orchestra instrumentation. Production is very good, with all the guitars, bass, drums and vocals really well mixed with strings, oboe, flute, etc…

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HERMAN RAREBELL & Friends – Acoustic Fever (2013)

* German HERMAN RAREBELL hit the drums in Scorpions during the band’s most commercially successful era, and since he left the band in 1996 founded a music label, set up a recording studio and has been releasing sporadic solo albums.Now ‘Herman-Ze-German’ released yesterday “Acoustic Fever” under the moniker HERMAN RAREBELL & FRIENDS, containing all-acoustic versions of 12 Scorpions songs Herman...

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HERMAN ZE GERMAN And Friends (2012)

* German drummer Herman ‘Ze German’ Rarebell is best known for his tenure with the Scorpions during their most popular era – from 1977 to 1995 – playing on theband’s more influential albums.He was an important composer in the history of the group, co-writing such classic songs as ‘Rock You Like a Hurricane,’ ‘Make It Real,’ ‘Dynamite,’ ‘Blackout,’ ‘Arizona,’ ‘Bad...