German metal legends ACCEPT’s latest release Blood Of The Nations made a sensational chart debut at Number 4 in the official German Media Control Charts this week. Released on August 20th, Blood Of The Nations marks the band’s highest chart debut in their entire career!

This incredible success story has been in the cards for weeks! The internet has been buzzing for months about the imminent comeback of these legendary hard rock warriors: Wolf Hoffmann (guitars), Peter Baltes (bass), mark Tornillo (Vocals), Hermann Frank (Guitars) and Stefan Schwarzmann (drums). The discussions were so frequent and passionate that an ACCEPT fan single handedly brought down the social networking site Twitter after sharing his excitement about the band’s return to the metal forefront.
ACCEPT even took the live stage with complete confidence and poise. The band spent the 12 weeks from May to August 2010 performing in front of an inconceivable 450,000 fans, not only as headliners, but also at the Hard Rock Festival in Gelsenkirchen, the Master of Rock in the Czech Republic and the prestigious Sonisphere Festival in Turkey and Rumania. Finally, ACCEPT were invited to be the special guest at the AC/DC shows in Hannover and Stuttgart. “We truly fell of our chairs when we heard the news,” so states guitarist Wolf Hoffmann. “Of course everyone dreams about topping the charts, but that wasn’t our main motivation. We simply jumped into this head first with our new singer Mark. We came out scorching on the other end…. But this success is also credit to the fantastic teamwork with have with our record label Nuclear Blast and with Deville Schober from Brainstorm Music Marketing. In addition, there are many people out there who have embraced ACCEPT* and have worked hard and long with us on this new journey. Most of all, we are so grateful to all of our fans worldwide without whom this never would have happened. Thank you!”
The album Blood Of The Nations was recorded in the winter of 2009 at Backstage Studios in England and produced by famed British producer Andy Sneap (Megadeth, Exodus, Arch Enemy, Nevermore, Masterplan). The album features everything a true metal album by a big heavy metal act should: Commanding riffs, muscular guitar solos, and extraordinary melodies – all executed with the classic ACCEPT groove.

Friday was the release of the new ACCEPT album “Blood Of The Nations” in Europe and now we have the first good news to tell you. ACCEPT climbed this week #1 of the MRC and DAT20 charts! On Friday ACCEPT even reached the sensational #1 of the German Media Control trend charts.

That was one of the best starts for an ACCEPT album ever!

Germany's Music-TV-Station iMusic1 broadcasted an exclusive 1-hour-special about ACCEPT on August 21 and 22.

Watch 10 minutes of the interview and the live-performance of the ACCEPT song “Metal Heart”:

You want to buy the new album “Blood Of The Nations”:
For Germany go here
For UK go here

ACCEPT 2010 is:
Wolf Hoffmann: Guitar
Peter Baltes: Bass
Herman Frank: Guitar
Mark Tornillo: Vocals
Stefan Schwarzmann: Drums

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Following the incredible success stories and sold-out shows from Europe and the United States, Germany’s ACCEPT are proud to announce their latest news from Japan: ACCEPT have signed a new recording deal with Universal Japan. The new ACCEPT album “Blood Of The Nations” will be released by Universal in Japan on September 4th, 2010. The band’s and Universal’s promotional machines for this highly anticipated release have already shifted into high gear. The interest by the Japanese media is at an all-time high, and the first high-profile press representatives are on their way to conduct face-to-face-interviews with ACCEPT at their home in Nashville, USA next week.
As ACCEPT's guitarist Wolf Hoffmann explains: “Japan was our last missing component in the international marketplace, which we have completed now with Universal! They are the perfect partners for us over there. Japan has always been a terrific market for us. We had tremendous success there in the past, so we are very happy to come back to Japan after all these years. Rock music is still a big thing in Japan and every good rock band in the world has Japan on their wish list. We can see from our website that we have a lot of fans there. We are excited and looking forward to bring them our new album and our great live shows.”
“Blood Of The Nations”, the new, long-awaited studio album from ACCEPT, will be released on the following dates:
August 20: Europe (via Nuclear Blast)
September 4: Japan (via Universal Japan)
September 14: North America (via Nuclear Blast)

“Blood Of The Nations” was recorded at Backstage Studio in Derbyshire, England with acclaimed British producer and SABBAT guitarist Andy Sneap (MEGADETH, EXODUS, ARCH ENEMY, NEVERMORE, MASTERPLAN and many more). The 80 + min long CD marks the recording debut of the band's latest addition, vocalist MARK TORNILLO (ex-TT QUICK) and contains 12 tracks, including “The Abyss”, “Shades Of Death”, “Teutonic Terror”, “Blood Of The Nations” and “Pandemic”….

ACCEPT 2010 is:
Wolf Hoffmann: Guitar
Peter Baltes: Bass
Mark Tornillo: Vocals
Herman Frank: Guitar
Stefan Schwarzmann: Drums

After traveling over 60.000 miles and visiting 16 countries and performing in front of 450.000 people in 80 days, the unstoppable ACCEPT virus has spreading all over the planet. To top it off, the band conducted more than 150 interviews and uncountable meet & greets to get up and personal with their fans. Now ACCEPT is ready to conquer the next continent!
ACCEPT have just been confirmed to appear at this year`s LOUDPARK in JAPAN at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama City, Tokyo.

Loudpark is the biggest heavy metal festival in Japan. Situated just north of Tokyo, the Saitama Super Arena holds over 40.000 rock fans. ACCEPT will perform on Saturday,October 16th. Other acts appearing at the Loudpark Festival include Ozzy Osbourne, Korn, Motörhead, Stone Sour.

We all know Jules Verne`s book „Traveling around the world in 80 days“.

As Jules Vernes traveling report has fascinate people around the world in 1872, so ACCEPT are doing in 2010. The German rockers have impressed the hardrock fans around the globe during their world warm up tour and the festivals in the first half year of 2010. A thriller story. ACCEPT travelled for their teaser campaign for the new album „Blood Of The Nations“ more than 60.000 miles and have visited 16 countries and the band performed in front of more than 450.000 people in the last 80 days. On top of this amazing action, the band did more than 150 interviews and meet & greets. This facts are really impressive and shows us ACCEPT`s direction. The ACCEPT virus get distributed all over the planet relentless. ACCEPT is back and it is the topic people are speaking about, from Tokio to Los Angeles , from Helsinki to Lisboa, from Moskau to London.

This stations of a new success-story just began. On August the 20th ACCEPT will release the brand new album „Blood Of The Nations“ in Europe, the US Release is on the 14th of September.

Just check the pic from ACCEPT headliner show at the SONISPHERE FESTIVAL in ISTANBUL

ACCEPT have been confirmed to HEADLINE the prestigious SONISPHERE

Festivals on day one in Bucharest and Istanbul, Turkey. The SONISPHERE Festival is a series of summer music concerts that take place across Europe in the summer of 2010. The SONISPHERE 2010 tour is the biggest yet with 11 locations between 16 June and 8 August. The locations this year are confirmed for Poland, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Turkey, Spain, United Kingdom, Sweden and Finland. Headliners on days two and three are Metallica and Rammstein. Additional acts appearing at SONISPHERE along ACCEPT include Megadeth, Slayer, Anthrax, Manowar, Paradise Lost and Alice in Chains.

The ACCEPT Summer 2010 Festival Shows are on the following dates:
JUNE 25th – ROMANIA, Bucharest – SONISPHERE Festival – HEADLINER SHOW
JUNE 26th – TURKEY, Istanbul – SONISPHERE Festival – HEADLINER SHOW
JULY 10th – SWEDEN, SUNDSVALL – GATUFEST – HEADLINER SHOW
JULY 18th – CZECH REPUBLIC – MASTERS OF ROCK Festival
JULY 25th – BULGARIA, KAVARNA ROCK Festival – HEADLINER SHOW

After a 15 year long hibernation, Germany’s hard rock legend ACCEPT decided to come back last year and succeeded to created instant, worldwide excitement in a few weeks – starting with a sold out show in New York, presented by EDDIE TRUNK on May 8th, 2010! Here is just a short list of the headlines this reunion has caused so far: “ACCEPT kills Twitter”, “ACCEPT to support AC/DC stadium shows”, “ACCEPT`s video Teutonic Terror worldwide on no.1 on the MySPACE Video Charts”, “ACCEPT’s warm-up tour through 10 countries has been quoted as one of the best performance in 2010 and the best performances of all times of the band ACCEPT!“

“Blood Of The Nations”, the new, long-awaited studio album from ACCEPT, will be released via Nuclear Blast Records on the following dates:

August 20: Europe
September 14: North America

“Blood Of The Nations” was recorded at Backstage Studio in Derbyshire, England with acclaimed British producer and SABBAT guitarist Andy Sneap (MEGADETH, EXODUS, ARCH ENEMY, NEVERMORE, MASTERPLANand many more) ). The nearly 80 + min long CD marks the recording debut of the band's latest addition, vocalist MARK TORNILLO (ex-TT QUICK) and contains 12 tracks, including “The Abyss”, “Shades Of Death”, “Teutonic Terror”, “Blood Of The Nations” and “Pandemic”….

ACCEPT 2010 is:
Wolf Hoffmann: Guitar
Peter Baltes: Bass
Mark Tornillo: Vocals
Herman Frank: Guitar
Stefan Schwarzmann: Drums

We are proud to announce our new album “BLOOD OF THE NATIONS”.

Release Europe: 20th of August 2010
Release US: 14th of September 2010

Date: May 26, 2010
CLASSIC ROCK Magazin UK

Then And Now

Once again the Islington O2 Academy witnessed a truly historic moment. Back in early March it was Kiss, but tonight it was the triumphant return of the seminal German hard rockers.

I arrived at the venue early, as the band were doing an exclusive listening session for their forthcoming album Blood Of The Nations (due out on August 20, via Nuclear Blast) We were treated to eight of the 14 tracks. The album has been produced by Andy Sneap of Sabbat fame. And I must say here and now it’s an absolute barnstormer of an album. Along with Armored Saint’s La Raza, it’s the best metal album I’ve heard this year. The production is phenomenal; Sneap has done a grand job and seems to have injected a new lease of life into Accept.

New singer Mark Tornillo (formerly with power metallers T.T. Quick) commands from the off. The opening cut Beat The Bastards almost blew the speakers, as Tornillo snarled: ”Burn the bridges down!” My personal favourite was Shades Of Death – seven minutes and 33 seconds of pure bliss. A beautifully crafted metal song, with clever hooks and tasty solos from Hoffmann and Frank. I could go on, but there is a show to review.

Accept went on stage at 8:45pm and played for an intense and staggering two hours and 10 minutes. This was a new-look Accept. The aformentioned Tornillo now on vocals, Stefan Schwarzman (formerly with Helloween) on drums, and the rest of the band were as before at the Hammy Odeon in 1984. Opening up with Metal Heart, Tornillo easily filled the shoes of Udo Dirkschneider, in fact he reminded me of Brian ‘Beano’ Johnson with his gruff delivery. It really was a trip down memory lane as the devotedly partisan crowd lapped up all the old favourites such as Midnight Mover, Living For Tonight, Restless And Wild, Son Of A Bitch, Losers And Winners and London Leatherboys.

Two new numbers were also in there, namely The Abyss and Teutonic Terror, and both went down very well. But it was the oldies the metalheads craved and Accept duly delivered with rousing versions of Fast As A Shark, Up To The Limit, I’m A Rebel and Princess Of The Dawn. Encore? Of course, and it was a nice touch to see Andy Sneap guesting on guitar for the chant-a-long classic Balls To The Wall.

I actually preferred this show to the Hammersmith gig.

Accept were on fire, and with a strong comeback album should be making a lot of noise in the months to come. And when they come back perhaps could include Thunder And Lightning and Screaming For A Love Bite in their already impressive repertoire. When Blood Of Nations is released in September, buy it. You won’t be disappointed.

Suffice to say that, all in all, tonight was very Accept-like!

ACCEPT Shows back on schedule after Paris how had to be postponed due to severe illness. They caught a virus and band and crew hat to stop working for 24 hours. After recovery – AC/DC show with 70 000 went well for singer Mark Tornillo, because the program could be shortened to one hour.

We apologize to our fans in France and … WE WILL BE BACK!!!

Band and crew suffer from a severe cold, heavy cough, high fever already for a few days. We caught it already in Russia and with the help of doctors and several hospital visits on the way, we were able to get through the shows until yesterday (the Rock Hard Festival with 7.500 metal maniacs celebrating Mark & ACCEPT and a very enthusiastic crowd in Uden…). A few of us have a throat infection on top of this (Mark severe, Peter and me in an early stage, we had a hospital visit in the Netherlands this morning). We are under medical attention and hope to recover asap. We will certainly try to play all remaining shows. Paris is postponed and will be included in the Fall run. Tx from the band for all the support so far, everything exceeded our expectations and the warm welcome for Mark was exceptional!

It is with great sadness that we join with the rest of the Metal world in mourning the passing of friend Ronnie James Dio. He was a true gentleman, a voice of metal, and a good friend. We toured with him and adored him. He was one of the finest human beings, always a kind word, always thoughtful to all of those around him. He humbled us with his presence and he will be the brightest star in rock'n 'roll heaven!

Ronnie, you will be missed.

Here are the official Video Charts from MySpace.com from may 18th.

MYSPACE Video Charts
All Genres #1: Denmark, Finland, Canada, Norway, Russia, Spain
#2: Belgium, Germany, Italy, Austria, Switzerland
#3: Brazil, France, Ireland, Netherlands
#4: Worldwide, Australia
#5: UK
#6: Japan, Mexico, Poland

MYSPACE Video Charts
Genre – Metal
#1: Worldwide, Australia, Denmark, Germany, Finland, UK, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Canada, Norway, Austria, Poland, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, Spain, Turkey, USA
#2: Belgium, Brazil, France, India, Mexico, New Zealand, Netherlands, Portugal
#3: South Korea

Bryan Reesman: After interviewing him 10 years ago over the phone,
I finally met guitarist Wolf Hoffmann in person.

For the whole text check:

ACCEPT headliner show in Switzerland!

After last weeks confirmation of ACCEPT playing with AC/DC in Hannover (Germany), we are proud to announce another AC/DC show!

ACCEPT will hit the stage with AC/DC at their show in Stuttgart (Germany). Additionally their will be a ACCEPT Headliner-Show in Pratteln (Switzerland)

As their was no Swiss-Show of ACCEPT on the European tour schedule until yet, the band decided to use the day before the AC/DC show in Stuttgart to perform for their fans in the Club Z 7 in Pratteln on june 12th.

Had the incredible experience of hosting the first show ever with the new lineup of Accept this past Saturday at the Gramercy Theater in NYC. As you guys know, I have been all over the relaunch of this band with new singer Mark Tornillo since it was announced. Have had them on the radio and TV shows and premiered 2 new songs from the upcoming Blood Of The Nations due out in September.

The recorded music sounded great but the question that needed to be answered was how are they live now, and the answer is 100% AMAZING! I know it's early in the year, but this is by far the best metal show of 2010 so far (Slash in L A gets best hard rock show so far this year). The place was sold out, incredible vibe in the room. Before the show I saw the guys in their dressing room and they seemed relaxed, but this was so important to tell the world what Accept can do now, with this lineup and with Mark singing, and my God did they deliver! Myself, Don & Jim took the stage for a brief intro, then the opening of Metal Heart blasted over the PA. From there it was right into Midnight Mover and over two hours of brilliant metal and a set list you could not believe. Princess of The Dawn, Flashrockin Man, Restless & Wild, Turn Me On, Neon Nights, Losers & Winners, Son Of A Bitch and encores Fast As A Shark and Balls To The Wall just a few of the many highlights.

The crowd was insane, sweat burning my eyes, my ears ringing, neck sore from headbanging, everything you want in a metal show and then some. But let's be honest, the real question in all is “can this new singer deliver”? That is the true X factor in all this. After all, we all know Udo did not want to do Accept, but we also know he was a major part of their sound and on stage attack and what he did on the albums is timeless and crucial to Accept's sound. I have known Mark Tornillo for many years, saw him sing with TT Quick and more for decades, but he has taken it to all whole new level with the long overdue shot at a major band. To say he nailed it would be the understatement of the year. It exceeded anything I could have expected by a mile. Every classic song Mark nailed and then some. Incredible power and captiured every signature squeel and scream from the Udo stuff. I was floored! He also fronted the band in such a cool way. Fun but all business. He has now far surpassed even those early clips the band posted online when he first joined. I did not meet one person after that was not just blown away. And here is the best part; this is not just nostalgia. The two new songs The Abyss and Teutonic Terror that were played went down a storn. Most reunion projects new music sucks, this was as good as any of the old stuff.

This is not an Accept reunion, it is a full relaunch and rebirth and it's as good as anything they have ever done. I can not wait for the world to see what I did Saturday, it was metal and it was amazing. Welcome back Accept and lets hope this lasts for a long time because it is special. Photos and more coming soon to this site. The band are now off to Europe, they will open some shows for AC/DC, then get ready for the release of the CD. Can not wait, my ears are still ringing!

by EDDIE TRUNK