Examiner.com's Justin Tedaldi has issued an interview conducted with Rudolf Schenker of SCORPIONS, in which he discusses the band's 3D concert film, their farewell tour and the enduring popularity of metal in Germany. An excerpt follows:

Q: When and where is the tour expected to end?

A: "I’ll tell you one thing: We know a lot of things about where we play in 2012. The only thing that we don’t know yet - we have a few options which I can’t tell you yet - but the options are looking like it will be the end of 2012 or January 2013. Where it will be, it will be announced in, I guess, one month."

Q: Are you going to return to the United States for one more jaunt?

A: "From our record company and also from our agency, the people badly want us back. The response of ours in 2012, I was surprised to listen to the news and read in the magazines how the American critics were talking about the Scorpions this time, it was unbelievable. They’re writing something like, 'Why are the Scorpions still looking so great and our bands are looking terrible? Maybe they’ve taken too many drugs', and all these kinds of things. I was laughing on the floor.

But anyway, they convinced us to go back to the United States and Canada. On the other hand, they didn’t have to convince us so much; we always like to play America. And if you look back at our career, you can see that it’s the home country, the homeland of rock and roll. It’s really feeling like you are the cowboy going on the road, fantastic! In the tour bus, cruising the country and really enjoying the great scenery and the great atmosphere playing in the United States."

Read the full interview at this location.

Scorpions appeared on the long-running German late-night television comedy talk show TV Total performing two songs; their classic 'Rock You Like A Hurricane' and their cover of the GLORIA JONES/SOFT CELL classic 'Tainted Love'.

Check out the videos at the following links:

'Tainted Love'

'Rock You Like A Hurricane'

According to new report from Gary Graff at Billboard.com, Rudolf Schenker says we will not have heard the last of the Scorpions even after the German headbangers finally complete their farewell tour later this year or in early 2013.

"We have a library in our warehouse where we have a lot of old songs, especially from the days where you had only the possibility of putting eight or nine songs on vinyl," the guitarist tells Billboard.com. "We always recorded 13 or 14 songs, so (the rest) are hanging out somewhere in our warehouse. We also have 800, 900 hours of film material from different festivals, from places like (Moscow's) Red Square, the Amazon, the pyramids, going through Russia in 2002...

"Of course we want to give this material to the fans. It would be terrible for this material to be hanging in our warehouse and not get out. So when we are finished (touring), we'll take our time and give people some special stuff."

Read more at Billboard.com.