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ACCEPT: Announce Rise Of Chaos Festivals 2018

Posted by aliblackdiamond on July 26, 2018
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The flagship of German Heavy Metal, ACCEPT, are very pleased to announce the “Rise Of Chaos Festivals 2018″ for the very first time. The events will take place in Germany. After the big success of their latest album “The Rise Of Chaos”, ACCEPT will be playing three “festivals” under the same name. As a platform for interesting, young and dynamic bands, these festivals will be established as a recurring event over the next few years, they will be presented by Continental Concerts to offer a live spectacle to all fans of Heavy Metal.

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The Heavy Metal legends have therefore invited ORDEN OGAN, REFUGE and MONUMENT for the “festival” shows 2018! While ORDAN OGAN are one of the most established bands in the German Power Metal scene, REFUGE (with the original RAGE Line-Up from 1988-1993) are known for their Ruhr-Area Thrash Metal. Fans of this Rage era should take note! Supporters of MAIDEN and PRIEST will also be pleased with the young and dynamic guys of MONUMENT. They don‘t make it a secret that they quote their heroes in their own songs, and are loudly spreading the flair of the 80s!

And yes, there still is the headliner called ACCEPT! ACCEPT is strongly marching forward and will not only perform the highlights from their latest record, but also play hits like ‘Balls To The Wall’, ‘Fast As A Shark’ and ‘Metal Heart’! So be there and “You’ll get your balls to the wall, man” – and you‘ll also be able to celebrate the “Rise Of Chaos Festivals” debut which will surely shake the ground of Germany’s concert halls!

Over the past few months, the German band has been anything but passive, instead they’ve been finalising their latest project, their upcoming live release “Symphonic Terror – Live at Wacken 2017″ which will be released on November 23rd via Nuclear Blast!

Fans can expect a unique, 2 hour ACCEPT show, shot on August 3rd, 2017 at the legendary W:O:A, where the band played the biggest and most extraordinary show of their career in front of 80.000 live fans at the festival, on top of thousands more fans watching via the live stream! The show was divided into three parts, showing the full creative power of ACCEPT: The first part hosted the premiere of new tracks ‘Die By The Sword’ and ‘Koolaid’, as well as some of their most popular songs, such as ‘Restless And Wild’ and ‘Pandemic’. The middle part hosted guitarist Wolf Hoffmann accompanied by a symphony orchestra, presenting the best-of from his recent solo album “Headbangers Symphony”, which includes metal versions of some of the world’s biggest classical compositions (e.g. from Beethoven, Mozart, Vivaldi…). And last but not least part, fans were able to bang their heads to ACCEPT anthems (also accompanied by the orchestra), such as ‘Princess Of The Dawn‘, ‘Breaker’, ‘Fast As A Shark’ and ‘Metal Heart’, as well as to new songs like ‘Stalingrad’, ‘Shadow Soldiers’ or ‘Teutonic Terror’. The finale could be nothing less than an 8 minute version of their eminent hit ‘Balls To The Wall’!

“This was a mash-up of intensity and precision,” Wolf Hoffmann says about the fusion of Heavy Metal and classical music. “The fans are extremely open-minded,” continues Wolf happy, “but I was nervous ’till the last minute before the show anyway. After all it’s still a metal festival! But I think that, after many years of ACCEPT combining both worlds, fans have started to really accept this concept.”

By the way: What started as a world premiere in Wacken and caused quite a stir worldwide (thanks to the live streams) will be continued in early 2019. This means: ACCEPT are planning to tour across Europe with an orchestra in spring 2019! “I really hope we will be able to fulfill our dream – we are working hard on it!” tells Wolf Hoffmann with eager anticipation. “What I can already say now is that there will be lots of optical and musical surprises, that fans of ACCEPT have never experienced before. We want to multiply what we have achieved in Wacken and are happy about every bit of support we get. One thing is for sure: 2019 will be exciting!”

ACCEPT live:

26.07.  H         Székesfehérvár – Fezen Festival
28.07.  A         Vienna – Stadthalle (w/ JUDAS PRIEST, BATTLE BEAST)

28.09.  USA     Agoura Hills, CA – The Canyon
29.09.  USA     Pasadena, CA – The Rose
30.09.  USA     Santa Clarita, CA – The Canyon

06.10.  MEX    Monterrey – Tecate México Metal Fest
10.10.  BR       Belém – Botequim
12.10.  BR       Fortaleza – Complexo Armazém (w/ KORZUS, MATANZA)
14.10.  BR       São Paulo – Carioca Club
16.10.  BR       Belo Horizonte – MG
01.11.  D         Köln – Live Music Hall
02.11.  D         Weissenhäuser Strand / Ostsee – Metal Hammer Paradise
03.11.  D         Wiesbaden – Schlachthof
04.11.  D         Obertraubling – Eventhall Airport

Order their latest album “The Rise Of Chaos” now here: http://nblast.de/AcceptRiseOfChaosNB
Order “The Rise Of Chaos” digitally: http://nblast.de/AcceptDigital

More info:
www.acceptworldwide.com
www.facebook.com/accepttheband
www.nuclearblast.de/accept

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ACCEPT Announce New Live Release “Symphonic Terror – Live at Wacken 2017”

Posted by tarjavirmakari on June 24, 2018
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German heavy metal legends ACCEPT are experiencing more success than ever, and have hit their stride creatively! In the 10th year since the band’s reunion, the quintet can look back on four top 10 albums in Germany, including an unbelievable #1 with »Blind Rage« (2014) and a brilliant #3 with their latest album »The Rise Of Chaos« (2017).

Six months after the success that was »The Rise Of Chaos« world tour, ACCEPT will start their festival season on the 22th of June at Rockfels Open Air, and will play headline shows at legendary Bang Your Head!!! in Balingen as well as at Rock am Stück festival and at Rock am Härtsfeldsee. They will finish the tour leg on July 28th as special guests to the legendary JUDAS PRIEST in Vienna.

Over the past few months, the German band has been anything but passive, instead they‘ve been finalising their latest project, their upcoming live release »Symphonic Terror – Live at Wacken 2017«, which will be released on November 23rd via Nuclear Blast!

Fans can expect a unique, 2 hour ACCEPT show, shot on August 3rd, 2017 at the legendary W:O:A, where the band played the biggest and most extraordinary show of their career in front of 80.000 live fans at the festival, on top of thousands more fans watching via the live stream! The show was divided into three parts, showing the full creative power of ACCEPT: The first part hosted the premiere of new tracks ‘Die By The Sword’ and ‘Koolaid’, as well as some of their most popular songs, such as ‘Restless And Wild’ and ‘Pandemic’. The middle part hosted guitarist Wolf Hoffmann accompanied by a symphony orchestra, presenting the best-of from his recent solo album »Headbangers Symphony«, which includes metal versions of some of the world‘s biggest classical compositions (e.g. from Beethoven, Mozart, Vivaldi,…). And in the last but not least part, fans were able to bang their heads to ACCEPT anthems (also accompanied by the orchestra), such as ‘Princess Of The Dawn’, ‘Breaker’, ‘Fast As A Shark’ and ‘Metal Heart’, as well as to new songs like ‘Stalingrad’, ‘Shadow Soldiers’ or ‘Teutonic Terror’. The finale could be nothing less than an 8 minute version of their eminent hit ‘Balls To The Wall’!

“This was a mash-up of intensity and precision,” Wolf Hoffmann says about the fusion of Heavy Metal and classical music. “The fans are extremely open-minded,” continues Wolf happy, “but I was nervous ’till the last minute before the show anyway. After all it’s still a metal festival! But I think that, after many years of ACCEPT combining both worlds, fans have started to really accept this concept.”

By the way: What started as a world premiere in Wacken and caused quite a stir worldwide (thanks to the live streams) will be continued in early 2019. This means: ACCEPT are planning to tour across Europe with an orchestra in spring 2019! “I really hope we will be able to fulfill our dream – we are working hard on it!” tells Wolf Hoffmann with eager anticipation. “What I can already say now is that there will be lots of optical and musical surprises, that fans of ACCEPT have never experienced before. We want to multiply what we have achieved in Wacken and are happy about every bit of support we get. One thing is for sure: 2019 will be exciting!”

Order their latest album »The Rise Of Chaos« now here: http://nblast.de/AcceptRiseOfChaosNB
Order »The Rise Of Chaos« digitally: http://nblast.de/AcceptDigital

More on »The Rise Of Chaos«:
‘The Rise Of Chaos’ OFFICIAL VIDEO: https://youtu.be/tFqFYHFNeCc
‘Koolaid’ OFFICIAL LYRIC VIDEO: https://youtu.be/5XqlQWaqFKY
‘Die By The Sword’ OFFICIAL LIVE CLIP: https://youtu.be/kla3W1_8SyI

Interview With MARK TORNILLO: “We’re a different band at this point”

Posted by aliblackdiamond on February 16, 2018
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Interview By Alison Booth

Metal giants ACCEPT have been pounding the ear drums of metalheads around Europe on “The Rise Of Chaos” tour since early January. Metal Shock Finland’s Alison Booth had a chat with vocalist Mark Tornillo when ACCEPT were in Paris, for her Blackdiamond’s Metal Mayhem radio show, (which can be heard here) just before the band’s explosive and packed out show in London. Many topics were covered including the fans, Mark‘s love of vinyl and his thoughts on joining such an iconic metal band – you can read a few excerpts below and listen to the full interview on the audio player:

On playing the UK Mark stated:

“I wish we were dong more shows. At the end of the day, it’s not really up to us – it’s up to the promoters and powers that be and we’ll have to see what happens. But at least we’ve got one.”

When asked if there could be a more widespread UK tour, Mark answered:

“I hope so, I wouldn’t doubt it. I mean things really seem to be progressing, so we’re gonna be doing a lot of festivals this summer too. Hopefully we’ll be there for one of those, well you never know.”

Talking about ACCEPT fans:

“Makes me feel great, it makes me feel great that they accepted me into the Accept family, no pun intended! It’s been wow man, going on ten years for me now which is just insane. We just had an incredible run through Spain, three shows in Spain and they were just ridiculous – off the hook, you can’t even imagine! The fans are what make it happen definitely.”

Mark Tornillo
London 2018
Photo By John Lambton

One of the newest songs ‘Analog Man’, from “The Rise Of Chaos” is about Mark, so of course I asked him about it:

“I’m just one of those people who has issues with computers and all of that nonsense. I’m not totally crippled but just not computer savvy, put it that way. I get what I have to get done and that’s about it. But in the end it just annoys me, you know when things don’t work and things I can’t figure out. And I just get annoyed and I also look at them and I go look, see me – analog, analog man! You can have your digital work, analog man!’ And they just wrote the damn song!”

Moving on to vinyl, Mark expressed:

“I had a lot of vinyl at one time. I still have some of it, but over the years from moving, you know, living with different people and stuff, I guess a lot of it just went different places, but I still have a lot of my favourite records. AC/DC – I have the entire box set, I think the latest one in that was The Razors Edge maybe. I got them all on vinyl, I’m an AC/DC nut.”

Discussing when he joined ACCEPT, Mark revealed:

“It was frightening. When we first announced what was going to happen, there was really not many people on board with it. Online there was a lot of naysayers, a lot of badmouthing, it was very disheartening. We all sat down and said, ‘look, we have to make an amazing record or else we’re gonna die here’ and that’s what we did. We spent a lot of time writing Blood Of The Nations and a lot of time recording it and I think in retrospect, it paid off. If that album wasn’t what it was, we wouldn’t be here.”

On people who still don’t ‘accept’ today’s ACCEPT:

“Everybody is entitled to their opinion – I’m a purist too with certain things, I get it. But I think we’ve moved on, we’re a different band at this point. We still pay tribute to the old Accept by playing the old songs, I mean we have the two people that wrote most of the songs, we have to. That’s always gonna be part of Accept’s history, we can’t change it. All we can change is the future.

I wish them all well, I wish Udo well and his band you know. No hard feelings on my part, that’s for sure.”

Discussing the future for ACCEPT, Mark said:

“That’s a good question – it’s still up in the air what’s gonna happen the rest of the year after the festivals. We may continue touring all year, I really don’t know. After that, it remains to be seen, maybe do another record, I don’t know. We’re too old to take five years off (laughs). At some point we’re gonna have to call it quits or just go right back to the studio. It is what it is, or just continue touring.

We do as much as we can, but you can’t oversaturate either. You just have to pray for new markets too and thank God for South America – that’s become a great market for us, actually we’re gonna go back in May. Australia seems to be picking up for us, we just have to be consistent. It’s just like the old days, you have to tour consistently and hit those places and keep pounding ’em, that’s how you pick up fans.”

Check out the picture gallery from the London show on 8th February. All photos by John Lambton.

 

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For the rest of the tour dates, visit the official ACCEPT website at this location.

Interview With Peter Baltes: “Finland is a true, true metal country.”

Posted by Stargazer on February 12, 2018
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Interview by Mohsen “Stargazer” Fayazi

He is an amazing bass player who has always dedicated his skills and talent for the benefit of the band. There is no doubt about his role in making the legendary ACCEPT successful. Peter Baltes was born on 4 April 1958 in Solingen, Germany. He started his music career when he was young and although he claims that he is not Billy Sheehan he was voted as the number one bass player in Burrn Magazine reader’s poll of 1985.

ACCEPT are heading towards the end of ‘The Rise of Chaos’ European tour and very soon they are going to bring their music to the land of metal, Finland. Peter shares his thoughts on playing there:
“Number one is the dedication of the fans, I mean Finland is a true, true metal country. It has true metal fans and it shows every time we play, we can feel this is like something special, this is something beyond you know. It’s just, you can feel it on stage and when you talk to the fans and people.
And everybody seems to know metal – even people in the hotel, people on the street. Metal is like a high standard in Finland, which is great.”
Whenever they were active, ACCEPT have always been on a high. Great quality of music and production on their albums, along with energetic and perfect performances on stage have always been true facts about them. But what makes ACCEPT work so well?
“I think there’s a couple of factors. One of them is the songwriting part, Wolf and I have been writing these songs for so many years and we have our little quirky ways how we do it, but what comes out in the end is somehow what defines Accept, from the songwriting part.
Also, our dedication to our craft and our work ethic – we really do strive for excellence. When we play on stage we want things perfect. And at the same time trying to achieve the human aspect – that we have fun and play, that it’s not so organised. So that’s difficult for us to do, but for some reason we’re doing this very very well.”
Not many bass players dare to play a solo on stage, but Peter Baltes has done, which has always received positive feed back from the crowd.
“Well we used to do a few bass solos a couple of tours back. It’s not really about the spotlight, it’s a variety for the fans. If you’re in the audience and you see a show, in the old days there used to be a guitar solo and a drum solo. A bass solo was a little unique, but it was something cool we could offer. We decided now it would be much cooler to have some sort of battle going on instead of play a bass solo – have a little guitar bass battle with Wolf going on, which I win every night (laughs), I’m just kidding.
I’m no Billy Sheehan, I’m not very technical. But most things I play come right outta my stomach, my gut and I’m always concerned about the rhythm of things. I see the faces of the people when I play and that’s pretty cool. Most of all, it’s just I prefer playing within the band.”
Those fans who followed the band from the beginning know that Peter also did some lead vocals on tracks such as ‘Primitive’ and ‘The King” and a few more. But would it be possible that he do it again in the future?
“Probably could in the future, but never had the opportunity at this point because Mark has such a great range and has a really nice clean voice. Which back in the day was the reason I started singing a couple of ballads because we wrote some and you know, I guess almost the band pointed at me and said ‘you try it’ because they knew I was singing a little bit, ’cause back then it made sense, it was kinda cool.
We have Mark now and he’s such an excellent singer, but who knows in the future? Maybe we do something together, I’m not opposed to it, no.”
You can listen to the whole of this interview on the Audio Player below and if you would like to win a pair of tickets for the ACCEPT shows in Finland, Peter said a secret code, fill the form with that code and you’ll have a chance to be one of our lucky winners.

 

 

ACCEPT: “Stalingrad” Certified Gold In Russia

Posted by aliblackdiamond on January 30, 2018
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Nuclear Blast have announced that ACCEPT‘s album “Stalingrad”, which was released in 2012, has been certified Gold! The title track was dedicated to one of the most crucial battles of both WWII and the Great Patriotic War.

Wolf Hoffmann (ACCEPT) comments: “RUSSIA! THANK YOU! SOYUZ! THANK YOU! Our first Gold album for »Stalingrad« in our NEW ACCEPT ERA! We are thrilled and can‘t wait to see you again!”

Tine Stumpp (Head of Licensing, Nuclear Blast) comments: “We‘re really proud of the first gold award for our license territory RUSSIA! It‘s a huge success, it‘s also the first award for a license country in Nuclear Blast history. Many thanks to our incredible band ACCEPT, who have performed fantastically and made it possible – as well as our partner SOYUZ MUSIC! We‘re happy to have such a wonderful partner in Russia and great bands like ACCEPT.”

Alexey Alyaev (General Director, Soyuz Music) comments: “I’m absolutely happy that heavy metal heroes ACCEPT received GOLD for »Stalingrad« in Russia! I’m a metal fan since my school years in the mid 80’s and ACCEPT had always been in the top league in Soviet Union & Russia. I would like to say a big THANK YOU to ACCEPT, for all the music you gave us! Rock on!”

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The band is currently on an extensive European tour – 28 shows in 14 countries – in support of their highly-acclaimed album “The Rise Of Chaos” (all dates can be found below). And to celebrate their huge success of “Stalingrad” in Russia, the band will also play five shows in Russia and Ukraine in February:

21.02.              UA       Kiev – Palace of Sports
23.02.              RUS     St. Petersburg – Aurora Concert Hall
24.02.              RUS     Moscow – Glavclub
26.02.              RUS     Yekaterinburg – Tele-Club
27.02.              RUS     Samara – Klub Zvezda

ACCEPT is a pillar of German–American heavy metal that has won the hearts of their Russian fans. The band have greatly influenced European heavy metal, and with their albums: “Restless And Wild” (1982), “Balls To The Wall” (1983) and “Metal Heart” (1985) inspired a whole generation of young metal artists.

In the 80’s, ACCEPT became the choice metal band for the Soviet people. Back then heavy metal was banned in the USSR and it took fans great courage to wear merchandise bearing band‘s names, fans could have paid a huge price for it. A person in heavy metal clothing could be picked up by the police “for the improper attire” or fall victim of suburban louts, similar to British skinheads, called “Lubera” as they were residents of a Moscow region town Lubertsy. The authorities turned a blind eye to the clashes between metal heads and “Lubera” which in most cases turned into real fights resulting in casualties. As fans could often not afford to buy original vinyl records, posters and other merchandise, they sometimes created their own DIY stuff. The name ACCEPT was amongst the most popular with Soviet rock fans. All the bags, badges, hand-made labels, t-shirts and jackets had the name plastered on.

Today, 30 years later, those Soviet metal fans, though matured, are still loyal to the icons of their youth. They attend music events, buy CD’s and educate their kids as to the ’right music‘. It was those veterans and the youths raised that way that earned “Stalingrad” its “gold”. Each new album and each new concert tour is enthusiastically welcomed by the fans! Special disk awards have been presented to the members of ACCEPT, their team, managers and official representatives of Nuclear Blast.

ACCEPT live:

“The Rise Of Chaos” – World Tour 2018
German shows presented by:
Rock Hard, Rocks, Rock It!, musix, Start, piranha, metal.de & Wacken Radio
w/ NIGHT DEMON
30.01.              F          Saint-Étienne – Le FIL
01.02.              F          Paris – Elysée Montmartre
02.02.              D         Saarbrücken – Garage
03.02.              CH       Lausanne – Les Docks
04.02.              D         Frankfurt – Batschkapp
06.02.              NL        Eindhoven – Effenaar
07.02.              B          Antwerp – Trix
08.02.              UK       London – Koko
09.02.              D         Oberhausen – Turbinenhalle
11.02.              DK       Copenhagen – Vega
12.02.              N         Oslo – Rockefeller
14.02.              S          Gothenburg – Trädgår‘n
15.02.              S          Stockholm – Cruise
17.02.              FIN      Turku – Logomo
18.02.              FIN      Helsinki – The Circus

More ACCEPT dates:
05.05.              BR       Fortaleza – Festival Ponto.CE
02.06.              CZ        Pilsen – Metalfest Open Air
21./22.06.        D         St. Goarshausen – RockFels
22./24.06.        F          Clisson – Hellfest
23.06.              B          Dessel – Graspop Metal Meeting
30.06.              D         Dischingen – Rock am Härtsfeldsee
06.07.              N         Kvinesdal – Norway Rock Festival
12. – 14.07.      D         Balingen – Bang Your Head!!!
21.07.              D         Fritzlar – Rock am Stück
22. – 28.07.      SLO      Tolmin – Metaldays
02./03.11.        D         Weissenhäuser Strand / Ostsee – Metal Hammer Paradise

More info:
www.acceptworldwide.com
www.facebook.com/accepttheband
www.nuclearblast.de/accept

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Former ACCEPT Frontman David Reece Talks New SAINTED SINNERS Album & Attending ACCEPT Show In Italy

Posted by tarjavirmakari on January 22, 2018
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Jimmy Kay from Canada’s THE METAL VOICE recently spoke to former front man of ACCEPT, David Reece current Singer of SAINTED SINNERS.

Reece spoke about the new SAINTED SINNERS album called BACK WITH A VENGENCE going through each track in detail on what to expect.

Watch the interview at this location.

Reece also told The Metal Voice that he was going to see Accept play live. Reece said, “I’m going to see Accept play live on Tuesday January 23 in Milan, Italy, they put me on the guest list , I guess the bread has been broken , the water is under the bridge, I am very grateful for that. Their publicist said do you want to go? I said yeah I would be honoured. I am very happy about it I haven’t seen the band in years”