SCORPIONS Postpone 2026 Las Vegas Residency 'Due To Unforeseen Circumstances'

SCORPIONS have postponed their 2026 residency at PH Live at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Live Nation announced the postponement in a social media post on Wednesday (September 2),citing "unforeseen circumstances" as the reason for moving the shows to September 2027.

"SCORPIONS regret to announce that, due to unforeseen circumstances, their upcoming September shows in Las Vegas will need to be postponed," Live Nation's post reads.

"The band is extremely disappointed but looks forward to returning to Las Vegas in September 2027. SCORPIONS are also currently planning a number of European shows for 2027, continuing their hugely successful 'Coming Home - 60 Years Of Scorpions' tour, with details to be announced soon."

The rescheduled dates for SCORPIONS' 2027 residency are September 9, 11, 14, 16, 18, 21, 23, and 25.

Promoted by Live Nation and Caesars Entertainment, "Scorpions - Coming Home To Las Vegas" was originally set to take place from Thursday, September 17 through Saturday, October 3, 2026, and was once again supposed to feature special guest BUCKCHERRY.

When it happens, SCORPIONS' new residency will follow the band's three previous sold-out runs at the venue: "Scorpions - Sin City Nights" in 2022, "Love At First Sting Las Vegas" in 2024, and "Scorpions - Coming Home To Las Vegas 60th Anniversary Las Vegas Residency" in 2025.

This past April, SCORPIONS vocalist Klaus Meine told Rolling Stone India that he and his bandmates were very much on "this upbeat feeling" as they continued touring around the world. "We still enjoy what we're doing," he said. "We're still very passionate about things and very excited to go on this road ahead," the 78-year-old said. Acknowledging that the road ahead is "much shorter than the years behind us," he added that SCORPIONS were "very grateful" to still be around. "We're still standing," he said. "God knows how long we can do this. We're getting older every year, but when we see the fans in front of the stage, we get so much energy and power back from our fans that we're still young at heart."

In May 2025, SCORPIONS canceled some of their 60th-anniversary concerts in South America dates due to a respiratory infection suffered by Meine.

The SCORPIONS launched their 60th-anniversary tour in March 2025 in Mexico, Brazil and Chile. The trek was originally supposed to kick off in February 2025 with a Las Vegas residency at PH Live at Planet Hollywood. However, these dates were postponed due to drummer Mikkey Dee's recovery process following a diagnosis of sepsis.

SCORPIONS' only continuous member has been guitarist Rudolf Schenker, although Meine has appeared on all of the band's studio albums, while guitarist Matthias Jabs has been a consistent member since 1978, and bassist Paweł Mąciwoda and drummer Mikkey Dee have been in the band since 2003 and 2016, respectively.

SCORPIONS' latest album, "Rock Believer", was released in February 2022. The album was recorded primarily at Peppermint Park Studios in Hannover, Germany and was mixed at the legendary Hansa Studios in Berlin, Germany with engineer Michael Ilbert, who has earned multiple Grammy nominations for his mix work with producer Max Martin on albums by Taylor Swift and Katy Perry.