Metal Legends Accept reunite without Udo Dirkschneider!

[Ragehead91]

Guitarist Wolf Hoffmann and bassist Peter Baltes have recruited Mark Tornillo, former lead singer of the New York/New Jersey metal band TT QUICK, to front the new version of ACCEPT. Tour dates are currently being booked and a new studio album is on the way.

ACCEPT 2009 is:

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

Two audio samples featuring the new ACCEPT lineup are currently available for streaming/download on the band's web site (taken from a jam session recorded on April 26, 2009 at Shorefire Recording studios in Long Branch, New Jersey):
"Balls to the Wall": http://acceptworldwide.com/balls.html
"Flash Rocking Man": http://acceptworldwide.com/flashrockingman.html

Worst Metal news of the year. I know those guys are real talents, but there was a reason why Accept didn't work when they kicked Udo for the first time.

[icecab21]

i just want to hear the fur elise solo, for me that's pretty much my favorite thing they have done.

[Mormegil]

Oh you sonofa... At first I read it "Metal Legends Accept reunite WITH Udo Dirkschneider"

Usually I'm open minded when it comes to bands changing their lead singers, but Udo's fugly voice was such a big part of what made Accept for me.

[hiro23]

I'm going to give it a chance, one thing I have learned over the years is that even if a big time singer is replaced that doesn't neccasarly mean that the band is going to suck.

I'd rather wait to hear the new material before I make a judgement on it.

[Ragehead91]

Sorry, but the singer sucks. He sounds like he comes straight from a cover band. At least get someone unique and not a Udo rip-off.+

[icecab21]

people have been singing like that way before udo.

[NordicStorm]

Funny that they got Schwarzmann, UDO's old drummer (Stefan Kaufmann, the drummer from the classic line-up, switched to guitar after a back injury and has been in Dirkschneider's band for more than a decade). Sounds like a cash grab to me, but if they produce something good, I'll check it out...

[hiro23]

The same thing was said about Tim owens when he joined Judas Priest, they said "he just sounds like a rob halford clone" but I personally liked the Tim owens priest albums.

So before I "join the crowd" I'm going to check out the new material and see if I like it.

[Ragehead91]

The same thing was said about Tim owens when he joined Judas Priest, they said "he just sounds like a rob halford clone" but I personally liked the Tim owens priest albums.

So before I "join the crowd" I'm going to check out the new material and see if I like it.

I think the same too. Until this day I think getting Tim Owens was one of the best moves that Judas Priest ever did and I still think that the reunion with Halford was rather dull. But with this guy...Tim Owens sounded like a worthy successor but this guy...

[icecab21]

He is not any worse technically than Udo

[hiro23]

I just wanted to make the point that I'd rather wait to see what the new material sounds like before I start making pre-judgements.