{"id":24821,"date":"2016-01-05T00:00:48","date_gmt":"2016-01-05T00:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=24821"},"modified":"2016-01-05T23:41:27","modified_gmt":"2016-01-05T23:41:27","slug":"news-michael-schenker-release-spirit-on-a-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/news-michael-schenker-release-spirit-on-a-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"MICHAEL SCHENKER\u2019s TEMPLE OF ROCK To Release Double A-Side Single \u2018Rock City\u2019 \/ \u2018Good Times\u2019 (January 5th, 2016) | News @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

MICHAEL SCHENKER\u2019s TEMPLE OF ROCK To Release Double A-Side Single \u2018Rock City\u2019 \/ \u2018Good Times\u2019<\/strong><\/span>
\nJanuary 5th, 2016<\/strong><\/span>
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\nGerman hard rock guitarist Michael Schenker\u2019s Temple Of Rock band release double A-side single \u2018Rock City\u2019 \/ \u2018Good Times\u2019 on January 11th, 2016, the pair of tracks having been taken from studio full-length album Spirit On A Mission<\/em>. <\/p>\n

Michael Schenker\u2019s Temple Of Rock issued studio full-length album Spirit On A Mission<\/em> on March 23rd, 2015 through in-akustic.<\/p>\n

The outing was cut at Kidroom Studios in M\u00fcnster, Germany, the same studio where 2013 effort Bridge The Gap<\/em> was recorded. Production was handled by Michael Voss and Schenker, with Voss additionally engineering. Schenker began to author material for the platter following a March 2014 tour of Japan, entering the recording studio in June of that year to lay down song arrangements. Recording concluded in November. During recording sessions, several guitars as well as original recordings were stolen from the studio.<\/p>\n

Spirit On A Mission<\/em>\u2019s title was inspired by Schenker being asked how he wished to be remembered, to which he replied: \u201cAs a spirit on a mission, spreading the joy of music from a place of pure self-expression.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The track listing is as follows;<\/p>\n

01. \u2018Live And Let Live\u2019
\n02. \u2018Communion\u2019 *
\n03. \u2018Vigilante Man\u2019
\n04. \u2018Rock City\u2019
\n05. \u2018Saviour Machine\u2019 *
\n06. \u2018Something Of The Night\u2019
\n07. \u2018All Our Yesterdays\u2019
\n08. \u2018Bulletproof\u2019 *
\n09. \u2018Let The Devil Scream\u2019 *
\n10. \u2018Good Times\u2019
\n11. \u2018Restless Heart\u2019
\n12. \u2018Wicked\u2019 *
\n13. \u2018Searching For Freedom\u2019 (instrumental) (bonus track on deluxe edition and vinyl edition)<\/p>\n

All of Spirit On A Mission<\/em>\u2019s tracks were musically written by Schenker with lyrics being penned by vocalist Doogie White, those highlighted in asterisks being exceptions. Those respective contributions were written by Schenker, White, and guitarist \/ keyboardist Wayne Findlay.<\/p>\n

Music videos were filmed for the tracks \u2018Vigilante Man\u2019, \u2018Live And Let Live\u2019 and \u2018Communion\u2019.<\/p>\n

Previous album Bridge The Gap<\/em> was released in December 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MICHAEL SCHENKER\u2019s TEMPLE OF ROCK To Release Double A-Side Single \u2018Rock City\u2019 \/ \u2018Good Times\u2019 January 5th, 2016 German hard rock guitarist Michael Schenker\u2019s Temple Of Rock band release double A-side single \u2018Rock City\u2019 \/ \u2018Good Times\u2019 on January 11th, 2016, the pair of tracks having been taken from studio full-length album Spirit On A […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1713],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-michael-schenker-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24821"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38886,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24821\/revisions\/38886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}