C/D: Accept

New Accept album, Blind Rage is out 8/19. I'd say the last two are decent, but it's hard to compete with Udo era, even the 90s albums.

The band actually existed in the form of Band X since 1968! Anyone hear anything from that era?

The new album's a blast, I'd say it's the strongest of the three. "Stampede" is a bit rote, but the rest of the thing is the kind of cantankerous heavy metal you expect from them. This reunion has worked out better than anyone could have imagined.

Listening to Restless & Wild and reading that a version of the band had been going since the late 60s. I have a real hard time imagining Udo singing Beatles and Stones covers, but he had to just that, right? I'd love to see some pictures.

I don't doubt it, as even Ronnie Dio himself was around playing music forever before hitting it big in the hard rock game.

i don't doubt it and was gonna quote RJD as th obvious exemplar but as much as that's entirely possible

RESTLESS AND WILD

there's an invention

Classic.

who the fuck was Robert A Smith-Diesel and why did he write so many lyrics on Restless and Wild

I guess he was a Ray Haligan, Jr type songwriter except for Accept he did lyrics instead of music?

I saw some youtube video about Accepts history and I think they mentioned that it was a pseudonym for Wolf Hoffman's then girlfriend.

doing a trad heavy metal run now and man, the ratchet up in intensity between verse and pre-chorus for the title track to "Balls to the Wall" is a helluvan escalation. goes from a run of the mill mid-album sounding track to an outright anthem in no time.

One of the band's girlfriends/wives did write lyrics for them, but this Smith-Diesel seems to be a real person with multiple songwriting credits for numerous acts on Discogs?

Wolf's g/f was Deaffy

Mr Smith-Diesel:

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