After playing the final show in Munich in December,band planned to take a break and go on vacation. Before they retire, they wanted to release a bonus track album from leftovers from seventies and eighties just for the fans. Inthe Scorpions announced their farewell tour. Later, band paused the project because they didn't have enough time to finished it due the rigorous touring schedule. The band recorded those songs in a modern way, but they managed to keep the feel, basic ideas, songwriting style and the arrangements as much as possible from the period when those songs were written. They were adding new parts to the existing songs, especially the new set of lyrics in almost every song. Those unfinished songs were recorded only as a simple demoswithout a click track. These songs mainly had draft lyrics and there were also a couple of jams. They found many songs that were unreleased and some of the songs that they hadn't finished composing. In the band members started searching unreleased songs in their archives. One was to release a film made from over hours of footage from concerts different festivalsconcert on Moscow's Red Squareconcerts in Amazon rainforestin front of Pyramids and Russian tour in and the other one was to release bonus track an album from unreleased songs, mainly from the period when their albums were released on vinyl which had possibility to fit only eight or nine songs. It was released in Europe on 20 February In latethe band started throwing ideas for further side projects. Return to Forever is the eighteenth studio album by German rock band Scorpions.