Accept 50th anniversary...Fast as a Shark (featuring guest musicians. Phil Anselmo, Kirk Hammett, Billy Sheehan, Mikkey Dee, Harmoniemusik

[harddriver]

Here's Balls to the Wall with Rob Halford, Mathias Jabs, Rex Brown, Jason Bowld

 

[motorboy1]

Not as heavy sounding as the originals, but still pretty good…

 

[Zado]

Metal nowadays sound so polished it kinda hurts

 

[thegame]

Halford does a good Udo. Wait, that didn't sound right...

 

[Geo]

Kirk Hammett is considered a musician?

Since when?

 

[jabps]

Metal nowadays sound so polished it kinda hurts

It's the guitars man. There's no...well balls.

 

[Sick Michael]

It's the guitars man. There's no...well balls.

yeah I couldnt detect many balls either. It reminds me of the "Soldano" model on the line 6 POD.

 

[Jeff Hilligan]

Yup the guitars sound plastic. Rob did a good job

 

[chris lykins]

Originals sound so much better. Also makes me appreciate what a unique and awesome voice Udo had.

 

[mctallica1]

Guitars are too polite, but I like both well enough to add to my Spotify liked list.

 

[Scot]

Benchmark guitar tone on the originals for me. Not sure about these new cuts yet but BTTW is about the fall of the Berlin Wall - correct?

 

[VonBonfire]

No Udo Dirkschneider, no deal.

 

[harddriver]

No Udo Dirkschneider, no deal.

 

[SBlue]

Sounds better, heavier and with more attitude than most everything else made within the last 20 years.
Music sucks nowadays, and music has been sucking ass for a long time now.
Metal became computer music, rock n roll became tofu compliant and music in general turned into a stage for crying babies to bitch about how "oppressed" they are.
Even Accept does not sound or write songs the way they did. Like most every other old school metal band on todays market.
So, to hear how great these two songs are, even with other musicians playing them, proves me a good point... metal was done right throughout the 70s, 80s and 90s.
Anyway, flame on. I do like these two versions. Not as much as the original, but also better than most anything else released within the last 20 years.

 

[WizardAmpIphoneClip]

Everything wrong about metal production summed up!
Click track I'm sure, computer guitar tone

Accept used to be nasty
Udo's vox kept them underground. Listen to Breaker, raw vox and tones

 

[Speeddemon]

but BTTW is about the fall of the Berlin Wall - correct?

If that was the case, they were some fine prophets, seeing that the Berlin wall fell 6 years later.

 

[JimAnsell2]

Metal nowadays sound so polished it kinda hurts

dude, i know. i never thought THAT would be the problem, but here we are.

 

[JimAnsell2]

Everything wrong about metal production summed up!
Click track I'm sure, computer guitar tone

Accept used to be nasty
Udo's vox kept them underground. Listen to Breaker, raw vox and tones

accept is one of my favorite bands of all time. Wolf Hoffman is one of my favorite guitarists and always had amazing tone, but the more i read about him the more i think hes just a fake ass old german dude "riding off into the sunset" on that nostalgia tip. He really has written the same album like 5 times in the last 20 years. The first 4 or 5 accept records are amazing though.

 

[thegame]

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Now that’s a penis tipped hat if I ever saw one

 

[Scot]

If that was the case, they were some fine prophets, seeing that the Berlin wall fell 6 years later.

Of course you're right. But that song, to my mind, was always about the movement to tear down the f'ing wall and victory was imminent.

thegame, quite succinctly, sums up the song for most peeps these days