In a latest interview with Metallic Talks, ACCEPT guitarist Wolf Hoffmann spoke about the truth that the band will have fun its Fiftieth anniversary in 2025-2026. To mark this mammoth milestone, ACCEPT will ring within the band’s golden birthday with a really distinctive anniversary tour on the finish of 2025. An anniversary album will likely be launched early 2026. Wolf mentioned (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “Yeah, it is a humorous factor. I joined this band once I was 16 and simply by no means left. And right here I’m all these all these years later, approaching a Fiftieth anniversary, which is loopy. However yeah, it is positively one thing that we’re very pleased with. And never each band is fortunate sufficient to be round for this lengthy and to nonetheless be within the enterprise and to nonetheless be touring to nonetheless have followers.
“I believe ACCEPT, we’re very lucky in the best way that we achieved the unattainable,” he continued. “We had a change of lead singers 15 years in the past with Mark Tornillo, and issues are higher than they’ve ever been for us. I imply, the previous couple of albums have been phenomenal, the touring goes nice, we’ve sold-out reveals in every single place. So, I imply, we’re actually, actually lucky, and I am absolutely conscious of that. And yeah, to mark the event, we’re gonna have a particular tour. We’re gonna launch a brand new album with — we’re gonna re-record among the outdated classics and among the deeper-cut songs from again then with visitor individuals, visitor singers, visitor guitar gamers, and we’re gonna carry this out on the highway in ’26. So we’re engaged on that for the subsequent 12 months or so.
“It is a milestone that must be celebrated correctly, and what higher [way to do it]?” Hoffmann added. “I imply, we solely have one likelihood for a Fiftieth anniversary. I do not suppose I am going to get one other one. With all optimism, I do not suppose I will be round 50 years from now, or the followers will likely be, so we would as nicely have this chance and make use of it. And it is gonna be improbable. I do know it. We’re gonna play some songs we have by no means performed earlier than, and it is gonna be nice.”
Final November, Wolf instructed The Adamantium Podcast about ACCEPT‘s upcoming Fiftieth-anniversary album and tour: “Effectively, I can not inform you an excessive amount of but, as a result of it is too early and proper now we’re that includes this tour [promoting ACCEPT‘s latest album, ‘Humanoid’], so let’s give attention to that. However I can inform you it is gonna be an enormous factor as a result of turning 50 is a giant deal.”
Wolf continued: “We have now all the time shied away from all these, I might name them little anniversaries, as a result of, actually, we may have performed a [celebration of] 20 years of this album, 20 years of that album, 30 years [of some other album]. Yearly is one thing to have fun. I imply, when you’ve got 15 albums or 16 or 17, one thing all the time occurred 20, 30, 40 years in the past. It is all the time a spherical variety of years. So we may have performed that for a very long time. There’s individuals who do it on a regular basis. We all the time mentioned, ‘Nah, we might a lot relatively characteristic the present album after which make a brand new one after that and keep present.’ However, man, with 50, that is the place I gotta say that is the one — that is the large one. There will not be one other one… And likewise, fairly truthfully, we’re getting up there in age slightly bit, and I am not fairly able to retire, however you by no means actually know. Actually, in some unspecified time in the future, we may all say this could be our final tour. You by no means actually know. Anyone would possibly get sick.
“50 is a giant deal, and we’re gonna actually have fun it correctly,” Hoffmann added. “It is gonna be a very totally different present with numerous surprises. That is all I do know. So we have got a 12 months of planning on doing after which executing and stuff.”
Final summer season, Wolf was requested by Metallic Journal why he and his bandmates determined to announce that they’ll embark on a Fiftieth-anniversary tour in late 2025 after they nonetheless had loads of touring to do final 12 months in assist of their newest album, “Humanoid”. He mentioned: “Issues like that take time. Folks have requested me for the final two years: ‘Are you gonna do an anniversary factor?’ Everyone needs to know. So I lastly mentioned, ‘Okay, we’re gonna do it.’ And it is gonna be huge, man. It is gonna be an enormous shock with all of the company that we’re gonna have. And I believe it is gonna be utterly totally different from something we have ever performed earlier than. So I believe it is gonna blow individuals away. However that does not take away from this tour that we’ve arising, as a result of, to start with, it is gonna be one other 12 months or extra earlier than we even go on this subsequent tour. So for those who like the brand new album, ‘Humanoid’, and for those who love ACCEPT, you have gotta see this tour, it doesn’t matter what. It is gonna be positively a spotlight anyhow.”
On the subject of whether or not there was any discuss presumably asserting a farewell tour to coincide with ACCEPT‘s Fiftieth anniversary, Wolf mentioned: “We have been doing it for a protracted, very long time. And I truthfully do not understand how lengthy I can do that. I imply, no one is aware of what the long run will carry, and it has crossed our thoughts, completely. So, it could be that we go off with a spotlight like this after which simply actually say, ‘Okay, this was it.’ I do not know but, to be trustworthy.”
Relating to whether or not former ACCEPT members Udo Dirkschneider (vocals) and Peter Baltes (bass) will likely be invited to participate within the Fiftieth-anniversary tour, maybe simply within the type of a visitor look at choose reveals, Wolf mentioned: “Yeah, after all, after all. That does not imply they’re gonna [show up]. We have now to attend and see. In fact, everyone [is invited]. The door is all the time open for anyone to affix us on this, as a result of it is gonna be a retrospective of all of the 50 years of ACCEPT, and whoever needs to take part is greater than welcome. Sure, positive.”
Requested if he’ll name Udo and Peter on to ask them to take part within the tour or if he’ll wait for his or her name, a visibly irritated Wolf mentioned: “Are you able to shut up already? You are not gonna get me to speak about it. I am sorry, man. I do know it is a good strive. Everyone needs to know these items.”
Wolf additionally talked about ACCEPT‘s plan to launch a particular album in early 2026 that may cowl the band’s complete musical historical past. The anniversary LP will comprise a rigorously curated number of the very best ACCEPT songs from the final 5 a long time, re-recorded — partly with well-known shock musical company and colleagues — in addition to with some uncommon tracks that haven’t been performed so usually earlier than. He mentioned: “I can not inform you something but, as a result of it is means too early. I can simply inform you it is gonna be an enormous factor. And I do not actually wanna get into it but as a result of I am probably not right here to speak specifics about it. It is nonetheless within the planning phases. It is gonna be superb. I believe it is gonna be some actually large names which are gonna be taking part in that. And you will have to attend. Sorry. It is simply too early.”
As for whether or not ACCEPT has already “chosen” the visitor musicians who will seem on the album, Wolf mentioned: “Sure, we’ve chosen numerous it. Not all of it, however we’ve chosen rather a lot.”
Over the previous 5 a long time, ACCEPT has bought tens of millions of albums and impressed numerous musicians. Their energetic dwell performances and iconic albums akin to “Balls To The Wall”, “Stressed And Wild” and “Metallic Coronary heart” have left an enduring mark on the heavy metallic style. Hoffmann‘s guitar model and musical imaginative and prescient have made the band one of the revered on the heavy metallic 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 nearly instantly rose to international success with chart-topping albums. ACCEPT continues to be celebrated for every of their new information with Mark, who’s now the longest-reigning frontman of ACCEPT, putting the Hoffmann–Tornillo partnership firmly within the Metallic Corridor Of Fame.
For many years, ACCEPT has been acknowledged as a assure of top of the range and every of their albums has reached the highest of the charts, delivering power, melodies, killer riffs and an impressively highly effective stage presence for 50 years.
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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, “Blood Of The Nations” (2010),“Stalingrad” (2012),“Blind Rage” (2014),“The Rise Of Chaos” (2017),2021’s “Too Imply To Die” and 2024’s “Humanoid”.
