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Humanoid is the seventeenth studio album by German Heavy Metal band Accept. It’s the band’s sixth album featuring vocalist Mark Tornillo. The familiar sound is there, the male choir background vocals and the classical touch in the compositions. It’s hard to top their previous album though. I thought Too Mean to Die was their best album ever so I guess I was bound to be disappointed. But it’s a good production featuring three guitars. I...
Accept is a band that has experienced a remarkable resurgence in recent years. Both Stalingrad and Blood of the Nations felt incredibly fresh, considering they came from a supposedly washed-up band like Accept. With Blind Rage, they reach new heights. I’m not sure if I can claim it’s the best ever so far from Accept, but it’s definitely very close! Mark Tornillo has integrated so seamlessly into the band that you would never have guessed...
Too mean to Die might not have the coolest cover art ever but it might very well be the best album ever from the German rockers! Nowadays there’s really only one original member in the band since Peter Baltes stepped down the Bass duties a couple of years ago. I couldn’t tell anyway, it’s as good, melodic, aggressive, and energetic as ever. They have also added another guitar. So, just like Iron Maiden, they now...
I think that more people than med was surprised when Accept released a new album – Blood of the Nations 2010. By then they had been kinda silent for 14 years. At least they hadn’t released anything during that time. I also think that we were a lot of people being surprised how good that comeback album was. We wanted more! At least I did! And 2012 we got more. That was the year Stalingrad...
If you’ve hear the last few albums from Accept then The Rise of Chaos won’t come as a surprise to you. You will recognize the sound and I think it’ll be highly unlikely that you’ll dislike the album. Since Accept “re-formed” or what you should call it in 2010 and the Blood of the Nations album, they have always done very nice work. The guitars have been as groovy as ever and the background vocals...
There are some epithets that have stayed with Accept for (almost) all years of the band’s active history. At least that was the case when I first wrote this text some years ago. Back then Blood of the Nations was new and it was almost unimaginable that anyone could take over the charismatic vocal duties from Udo Dirkschneider. But that was then. Today Mark Tornillo is the obvious singer of the band and I wouldn’t...
