Germany Metal & Hard Rock Albums of the 1970s

Accept presents the raw, heated blueprint of the hard-edged heavy metal the band would later refine.

Lovedrive brings Scorpions’ cutting riffs, wistful melodic sense and dramatic vocal character into an especially focused hard-rock statement.

Taken by Force finds Scorpions pursuing both hard-rock sharpness and more dramatic melody.

Virgin Killer joins Scorpions’ hard-rock attack to Uli Jon Roth’s fluid, classically colored guitar sense.

In Trance moves Scorpions away from the longer progressive turns of its earliest work and toward tighter, sharper hard rock.

Fly to the Rainbow finds Scorpions before its later, streamlined heavy-metal identity, using Uli Jon Roth’s fluid guitar to blend psychedelic space, blues, and hard

Lonesome Crow is the Scorpions debut, far removed from the sharp melodic hard rock the band would later make its own.