SCORPIONS' Greek Fan Club have announced a listening session for the band's new Sting In The Tail album, on Saturday, March 13th, at Hard Rock Cafe in Athens, Greece (18 Filellinon Street - Syntagma). More

Sting In The Tail will be available in Greece exclusively with the Real News newspaper on Sunday, March 14th, one week before the worldwide release date.

More info at this location.

Scorpions have confirmed their first Canadian live date on the Get Your Sting And Blackout Farewell Tour - Sunday, June 27th at the Molson Canadian Amphitheatre. More North American dates are expected to be announced soon. Check out the band's current itinerary below.

The Scorpions final studio album, Sting In The Tail, will be released in Europe on March 19th, in North America on March 23rd and in Japan at the end of March. Audio samples from the entire album can be heard at this location.

The first single from Sting In The Tail is available from Amazon - click the link below to purchase 'Raised On Rock':

Sting In The Tail tracklist is as follows:

'Raised On Rock'

'Sting In The Tail'

'Slave Me'

'The Good Die Young'

'No Limit'

'Rock Zone'

'Lorelei'

'Turn You On'

'Let's Rock'

'SLY'

'Spirit Of Rock'

'The Best Is Yet To Come'

Sting In The Tail 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).

A Sting In The Tail EPK (electronic press kit) has been released and can be viewed below:

Get Your Sting And Blackout Farewell Tour 2010 dates:

March

15 - Prague, Czech Republic - O2 arena
18 - Moscow, Russia - Ice Palace

April

10 - Mons, Belgium - Lotto Mons Expo
20 - Minsk, Belarus - tba

May

7 - Leipzig, Germany - Arena
8 - Munich, Germany - Olympiahalle
12 - Frankfurt, Germany - Festhalle
14 - Stuttgart, Germany - Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle
15 - Prague, Czech Republic - tba
19 - Paris, France - L' Olympia
21 - Liévin, France - Stade Couvert Régional
22 - Straßburg, France - Zénith
29 - Berlin, Germany - O2 World
30 - Zwickau, Germany - Stadthalle

June

1 - Hannover, Germany - TUI Arena
5 - Ioannia, Greece - Zosimadon National Stadium
7 - Thessaloniki, Greece - tba
9 - Patras, Greece - Pampeloponissiako Stadium
12 - Recklinghausen, Germany - Stadtgarten am Festspielhaus
19 - Columbia, MD - Merryweather Post Pavilion
27 - Toronto, ON - Molson Canadian Amphitheatre

September

7 - México, D. F. (Mexico City), México - Palacio De Los Deportes
14 - Santiago de Chile, Chile - Movistar Arena