In Trance by Scorpions

In Trance, the Scorpions' third album, came out on RCA in 1975 with Dieter Dierks producing, and it's where the Hanover band stopped drifting and started punching. The sprawling progressive suites in the mould of "Lonesome Crow" and "Fly to the Rainbow" are gone; in their place come short, tight hard rock songs, the blueprint for the worldwide success still to come.

Klaus Meine sings, Rudolf Schenker and Uli Jon Roth handle the guitars, with Roth's leads wailing and swooping over the top, Francis Buchholz holds down the bass, and Rudy Lenners, making the first of his two studio albums with the band, is on drums. It was also the first Scorpions record to carry the band's now-famous logo, and the first to wrap itself in the kind of sleeve that stirred up controversy.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.