SCORPIONS cancel German shows due to injury of MATTHIAS JABS

German hard rock legends SCORPIONS had to cancel their previously announced tour dates in their home country due to an injury to the guitarist. Matthias Jabs. JabsThe injury requires surgery and subsequent rehabilitation.

The following concerts are affected:

September 11th – Nuremberg, Germany @ Arena Nürnberger Versicherung
September 13 – Hamburg, Germany @ Barclays Arena
September 15 – Leipzig, Germany @ Quarterback Immobilien Arena
September 18 – Cologne, Germany @ LANXESS Arena
20 September – Frankfurt, Germany @ Festhalle

The cancellation affects the SCORPIONS hard as they are in the home stretch of their “Love at first stitch” world tour. They deeply regret this decision and apologize to the more than 40,000 fans who have already bought tickets, as well as to the organizers of the event.

The band said in a statement: “We deeply regret, especially Matthias Jabsthat due to the accident of our friend and SCORPIONS Lead guitarist, the five concerts of our German tour cannot take place as planned in September and we will work closely with the tour organizer to announce new information as soon as possible. We ask all our fans, all rock believers in Germany who were looking forward to the shows with us, for their understanding.”

Ticket holders will receive further information shortly directly from their point of sale.

SCORPIONS' only permanent member was guitarist Rudolf Schenkeralthough singer Klaus Meine can be heard on all of the band’s studio albums, while Jabs has been a permanent member and bassist since 1978 Pawel Maciwoda and drummer Michael Dee have been in the band since 2003 and 2016 respectively.

SCORPIONS' latest album, “Rock believers”was released in February 2022. The LP was mainly recorded at Peppermint Park Studios in Hannover and was mixed at the legendary Hansa Studios in Berlin, Germany with engineer Michael Ilbertthe several grammy Nominations for his mix work with producer Max Martin on albums by Taylor Swift And Katy Perry.