In a brand new interview with Carlos Guimarães of Portugal’s Caminhos Metálicos, ACCEPT guitarist Wolf Hoffmann was requested if he it is troublesome adapting to all of the social media platforms and technological developments which have modified the way in which artists create and promote their music. He responded (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “Yeah, it’s troublesome. But it surely’s the identical in on a regular basis life too, is not it? I imply, we used to get mail and common postcards and issues, and now it is all on this factor [shows his smartphone] and it is all digital and you’ve got to enroll in an app and you need to get a verification code and all that shit all day lengthy. So it isn’t simply within the music enterprise; it is all over the place. And I feel we kind of reside within the occasions which might be — it is virtually like a revolution. It is virtually just like the technical revolution that occurred 100 years in the past, and now within the digital kind of transformation the place every little thing turns into digital.
“Simply the opposite day I needed to go to a live performance, and I used to be placed on a visitor listing,” he continued. “And I needed to get this e-mail — there was a hyperlink — and I needed to obtain an app and register and [get] a code, and I used to be worn out after 20 minutes. It was a quite simple factor, however nothing is as easy anymore because it was… However sure issues get simpler; different stuff will get tougher. I bear in mind the nice previous days after we had to make use of roadmaps and avenue metropolis maps and attempt to discover our method by…
“I assume we’re proper in the midst of all of it,” Hoffmann added. “And, in fact, as a musician, you need to continuously adapt to all of the social media and TikTok and this and that, and typically it is a bit a lot for me, however I’ve no selection. I imply, no one has a selection, actually. It is, like, keep on it, no less than to a level, or to fall away. And I do not suppose we will afford to fall away. ‘Trigger some musicians say, ‘Ah, it is all bullshit. I do not wanna cope with it.’ However increasingly understand you may’t do this. If you happen to wanna keep related, if you happen to wanna keep within the enterprise, you need to keep present with what is going on on.”
A month in the past, Hoffmann instructed Mark Strigl that longtime ACCEPT producer Andy Sneap will not be concerned with the band’s upcoming Fiftieth-anniversary album, Wolf stated: “He won’t be on this one, as a result of he requested for a yr off from us. I requested him, I begged him to supply his album, however then we discovered buddy of his. His identify is Zeuss [Chris Harris]. He is producing it.”
Hoffmann continued: “[Andy is] sort of a part of the household now, however he is been touring a lot with [JUDAS] PRIEST [as that band’s touring guitarist], and he is been working a lot within the studio final yr. I feel he did SAXON, he did PRIEST, he additionally did DREAM THEATER — he is carried out a bunch of stuff. So after I stated, ‘Hey, can we work this yr once more?’ He stated, ‘Man, can I please have a yr off?’, which is comprehensible.”
Relating to ACCEPT‘s upcoming Fiftieth-anniversary tour, which is predicted to launch on the finish of the yr, Wolf stated: “It is gonna be a retrospective of the entire 50-year profession and, in fact, it is gonna characteristic plenty of the essential stuff from the ’80s and a few deeper cuts. And we’re gonna carry out with visitor singers and visitor gamers, and it is gonna be tremendous thrilling, like a once-in-a-lifetime factor. You solely have one shot at a 50-year anniversary… I do not suppose we’ll get an opportunity for an additional one.”
Sneap produced ACCEPT‘s final six studio albums: “Blood Of The Nations” (2010),“Stalingrad” (2012),“Blind Rage” (2014),“The Rise Of Chaos” (2017),“Too Imply To Die” (2021) and “Humanoid” (2024).
Zeuss has beforehand labored with ROB ZOMBIE, HATEBREED, QUEENSRŸCHE, SHADOWS FALL, DEMON HUNTER, OVERKILL and REVOCATION, amongst many others.
Over the previous 5 many years, ACCEPT has bought thousands and thousands of albums and impressed numerous musicians. Their energetic reside performances and iconic albums reminiscent of “Balls To The Wall”, “Stressed And Wild” and “Steel Coronary heart” have left a long-lasting mark on the heavy steel style. Hoffmann‘s guitar type and musical imaginative and prescient have made the band one of the revered on the heavy steel scene.
After a hiatus within the band’s profession, Wolf was launched to New Jersey singer Mark Tornillo in 2009. The chemistry and match between them was so outstanding, ACCEPT reformed and virtually instantly rose to international success with chart-topping albums. ACCEPT continues to be celebrated for every of their new data with Mark, who’s now the longest-reigning frontman of ACCEPT, inserting the Hoffmann–Tornillo partnership firmly within the Steel Corridor Of Fame.
For many years, ACCEPT has been acknowledged as a assure of top quality and every of their albums has reached the highest of the charts, delivering vitality, melodies, killer riffs and an impressively highly effective stage presence for 50 years.
Tornillo joined ACCEPT in 2009 because the alternative for Dirkschneider, who was the band’s authentic lead singer. Mark could be heard on ACCEPT‘s final six studio albums.
