Rounding off a special anniversary year for the band (35 years since foundation of the group as well as launching the debut album ‚Animal House‘) and its fearless leader & voice Udo Dirkschneider (who turned 70 this April), today, iconic heavy metal act U.D.O. is celebrating the release of their ‘Best Of’ compilation, entitled The Legacy, via AFM Records!

The Legacy proves that U.D.O. produced classics throughout their entire career. Their longevity and quality of output is almost unmatched within the heavy music scene. With such an impressive back catalogue gathered within the past three and a half decades, it’s simply an impossible task to compile a double CD of material and satisfy everyone, but, The Legacy is by far the most extensive retrospective the band has ever released. Featuring 33 tracks overall and including songs from all U.D.O. studio albums, the compilation also includes 4 rare bonus songs which a lot of U.D.O.‘s loyal followers will hear for the first time.

Watch a brand new visualizer video for “Holy”, originally released in 1999 on U.D.O.‘s seventh studio album, here:

The Legacy is out now on AFM Records and available at THIS LOCATION!

Tracklisting

CD 1:

1. Fear Detector
2. Metal Never Dies
3. Wilder Life (rare bonus track)
4. Pandemonium
5. One Heart One Soul
6. Make The Move
7. What A Hell Of A Night (rare bonus track)
8. Pain
9. Decadent
10. Falling Angels (rare bonus track)
11. Metal Machine
12. Steelhammer
13. Dust And Rust (rare bonus track)
14. I Give As Good As I Get
15. Rock’n’Roll Soldiers
16. Dominator

CD 2:

1. Mastercutor
2. Vendetta
3. 24/7
4. Blind Eyes
5. Man And Machine
6. Like A Lion
7. Shout It Out
8. Holy
9. Freelance Man
10. Independence Day
11. Metal Eater
12. Future Land
13. Blitz Of Lightning
14. We’re History
15. Break The Rules
16. Go Back To Hell
17. They Want War

Rounding off a special anniversary year for the band (35 years since foundation of the group as well as launching the debut album ‚Animal House‘) and its fearless leader & voice Udo Dirkschneider (who turned 70 this April), November 18th 2022 will see iconic heavy metal act U.D.O. release a career-spanning ‘best of’ compilation, entitled The Legacy, via AFM Records.

The Legacy proves that U.D.O. produced classics throughout their entire career. Their longevity and quality of output is almost unmatched within the heavy music scene. With such an impressive back catalogue gathered within the past three and a half decades, it’s simply an impossible task to compile a double CD of material and satisfy everyone, but, The Legacy is by far the most extensive retrospective the band has ever released. Featuring 33 tracks overall and including songs from all U.D.O. studio albums, the compilation also includes 4 rare bonus songs which a lot of U.D.O.‘s loyal followers will hear for the first time.

Today, U.D.O. has shared one of the upcoming bonus tracks, “Wilder Life”. Only released on the Japanese edition of his latest album, “Game Over”, fans all over the world can now listen to the song right here:

The Legacy is available for pre-order here: https://shop.afm-records.de/u.d.o./

Tracklisting

CD 1:

1. Fear Detector
2. Metal Never Dies
3. Wilder Life (rare bonus track)
4. Pandemonium
5. One Heart One Soul
6. Make The Move
7. What A Hell Of A Night (rare bonus track)
8. Pain
9. Decadent
10. Falling Angels (rare bonus track)
11. Metal Machine
12. Steelhammer
13. Dust And Rust (rare bonus track)
14. I Give As Good As I Get
15. Rock’n’Roll Soldiers
16. Dominator

CD 2:

1. Mastercutor
2. Vendetta
3. 24/7
4. Blind Eyes
5. Man And Machine
6. Like A Lion
7. Shout It Out
8. Holy
9. Freelance Man
10. Independence Day
11. Metal Eater
12. Future Land
13. Blitz Of Lightning
14. We’re History
15. Break The Rules
16. Go Back To Hell
17. They Want War

The time has finally come: The band around rock icon Udo Dirkschneider is finally returning on stage.

After a forced break of over a year, U.D.O. announcing long-awaited “Europe Tour 2022”. Kick off will be on March 7th, 2022 in Paris. The band will travel through Europe with stops in Spain, Czech Republic, Balkans countries, Scandinavia and Germany – to close the tour on May 10, 2022 in Pratteln, Switzerland.And you may be curious. U.D.O. have used their time off to  create their  newest fireworks:Their new album “Game Over”, which has been just released in October, offers a lotcrashing riffs, precise grooving basses and an impulsive heaviness. Songs like “Metal Never Dies”, “Kids And Guns” or “Prophecy” are precise, punchy, catchy and powerful and make the album a straight rock ´n roll “output. And it’s quality has been already proofed by a couple of chart entries so far: #7 in Sweden, #14 in Germany, #16 in Switzerland and #39 in Austria are speaking tell its own tale. 

Combine this masterpiece of metal with the long desire to get back on stage and you get a breathtaking, energetic spectacle. To become a part of this fest of music get your tickets HERE: https://www.udo-online.com/tourdates.html

If you cannot wait that long, no worries! U.D.O. will also be at the “Metal Hammer Paradise” at Weissenhäuser Strand, November 13th. In addition to U.D.O., other cult bands such as BRAINSTORM, IRON SAVIOR and SAXON will entertain the metal fans in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. You can order tickets HERE.

Europe Tour 2022: 

07.03.22 – F-Paris, Le Petite Bain
08.03.22 – F-Strassburg, La Laiterie
10.03.22 – ES-Barcelona, Salamandra
11.03.22 – ES-Madrid, Kapital
12.03.22 – ES-Pamploma, Totem
17.03.22 – CZ-Plzen, Kd Serikovka
18.03.22 -CZ-Zlin, Master Of Rock Cafe
19.03.22 – CZ-Ostrava, Garage
20.03.22 – SK-Bratislava, Majestic Music Club
22.03.22 – SK-Zvolen, Dk Zsr
23.03.22 – HU-Budapest, Barba Negra
24.03.22 – ROM-Cluj, Form Space
25.03.22 – ROM-Bucharest, Quantic Club
26.03.22 – ROM-Sofia, Hristo Botev Hall
31.03.22 – ITA-Bergamo, TBA
01.04.22 – ITA-San Dona Di Piave, Revolver
03.04.22 – BEL-Antwerpen, Zappa
05.04.22 – DK-Copenhagen, Amager Bio
06.04.22 – DE-Hamburg, Grünspan
08.04.22 – NOR-Trondheim, Byscenen
09.04.22 – NOR-Odal, Milepelen
10.04.22 – NOR-Stavanger, Folken
12.04.21 – SWE – Gothenburg, Trägarn
13.04.22 – SWE-Helsinborg, The Tivoli
15.04.22 – FI-Tampere, Klubi
16.04.22 – FI-Jyväskyla, Lutakko
17.04.22 – FI-Helsinki, Vanha Yo-Talo
19.04.22 – EST-Tallinn, Rock Cafe
20.04.22 – LET-Riga, Godvil
21.04.22 – LIT-Vilnius, TBA
23.04.22 – DE-Vacha, Vachawerk
25.04.22 – DE-Berlin, Huxleys Neue Welt
26.04.22 – DE-Köln, Essigfabrik
27.04.22 – DE-München, Backstage
28.04.22 – DE-Regensburg, Eventhall Airport
29.04.22 – DE-Memmingen, Kaminwerk
30.04.22 – DE-Leipzig, Hellraiser
02.05.22 – DE-Saarbrücken, Garage
03.05.22 – DE-Nürnberg, Hirsch
05.05.22 – DE-Langen, Neue Stadthalle
06.05.22 – DE-Cosefeld, Fabrik
07.05.22 – DE-Halten, Hell Over Halen
08.05.22 – DE-Stuttgart, LKA
10.05.22 – CH-Pratteln, Z7

“Game Over!” – it says in U.D.O.’s new album, releasing October 22nd.

The title of the bands new studio album, around rock icon Udo Dirkschneider (original voice of the cult band Accept,) has become a statement that has a lot to talk about. A topic of conversation that will probably also be provided by the new single “Prophecy”, including the video that has now been released.

U.D.O. looking deep into the abyss of humanity. How far can a wish go? And can you really wish for anything? We live in a world in which you can do almost anything for money. But where is the limit to what can be bought with money?
The video for the song speaks a clear language. It was filmed in an SM club near Karlsruhe and is visually devoted to the question of whether important limits are sometimes overlooked in our (affluent) world – out of greed, out of selfishness, out of the belief that nothing is impossible.

Dirkschneider stands for clear, straightforward statement. “If humans don’t rethink some things, it could have drastic consequences,” he says. The whole album “Game Over” is  the realistic, sober observation of an artist who has seen the world more intensely than hardly anyone else. Born in Solingen, he has been on tour around the world for over four decades. He traveled to Russia at the time of the Iron Curtain, gave concerts at an altitude of over 4000 meters in Peru and experienced the planet and its inhabitants many times more privately than anyone would do as a normal traveler.

Humanity with its often (self-) destructive nature preoccupies him.
However, “Prophecy” is not only a promising harbinger of the new album in terms of text and content: the song also makes it clear musically where the journey is going this time. Crashing riffs, precise grooving basses and a driving heaviness dominate the songs. Anyone who likes unpolished, straightforward heavy rock will immediately feel at home here.

Pre-order “Game Over” now HERE!