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DOTAG stands for Dirkschneider and The Old Gang. Launched as a one-off charity project in 2020, DATOG continued songwriting after receiving some very positive reactions to their first single releases and EP. The one-off project has now evolved into a band set to launch its debut album, “Babylon”. The band members are renowned musicians: Udo... Continue Reading →
"Balls To The Wall" is certainly one of the iconic albums in metal history, a longplayer that contributed to the definition of heavy metal. Originally published in 1983, the album followed the release of "Restless and Wild" and helped Accept solidify their position in the heavy metal community. More than 40 years later, former Accept... Continue Reading →
Metal and rock, veterans and youngster – all meets tonight at Grosse Freiheit 36 in Hamburg. The venue at Reeperbahn hosts German metal veterans Accept, who start a two shows mini-tour and with them on board is Mike Tramp with a special White Lion set and German metal youngsters Induction. This generation-bridging line-up is supposed... Continue Reading →
Accept will play two shows in Germany - one in Hamburg and one in Cologne. Support will be Songs Of White Lion with Mike Tramp.
Elbriot, the legendary one-day festival at Grossmarkt, Hamburg is back after a pandemic-based two years pause. The 2022 edition of the festival will take place on August 20th, 2022 and first bands are announced. So far confirmed are: BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE ACCEPTFEVER 333JINJERALESTORM CALIBANKISSIN‘ DYNAMITE ...and there are more to come. More information and... Continue Reading →
Hammership, that is heavy metal on the sea. It is a five day trip that starts and ends in Athens in August 2022. While cruising through the Mediterranean Sea, a cool line-up of metal bands is ready to provide powerful riff-based sounds. Headbanging under the blue Mediterranean sky. That is how the line-up looks like... Continue Reading →
Udo Dirkschneider started his career with Accept. With his raspy voice and his outfit, the singer quickly became an iconic player in the fields of heavy metal. After having left the Solingen-based metal band, Dirkschneider could maintain the success when starting with U.D.O. an impressive solo career. During the last years the singer established with... Continue Reading →
More than 10 years ago, the author of these lines headed for Uden. The reason? The revitalized Accept had announced a club show at De Pul. At that time there was a lot of buzz because the band had reunited with the exception of Udo Dirkschneider and Stefan Kaufmann in their ' Balls to the... Continue Reading →
Accept will release their 16th studio album on January 15th, 2021 via Nuclear Blast. The title will be 'Too Mean to Die' and with 'The Undertaker' a first songs has been revealed. Here is the link to the song: https://youtu.be/DQy6npwdwsY
The line-up for Rock Hard Festival 2021 gets sharp and form. It looks pretty much the same as what was planned for 2020, with a nice addition. Progressive Metal heroes Psychotic Waltz will perform at RHF 2021, which makes things even more exciting. Here's the list of so far confirmed bands: ACCEPT BLUE ÖYSTER CULTSACRED REICHPHIL... Continue Reading →
Dirkschneider is confirmed as the special guest for Helloween's upcoming "United Alive Part II" European tour 2020. Udo Dirkschneider and his band will be performing songs solely from his era with Accept, the band he experienced his worldwide breakthrough with at the beginning of the 80s. His voice is the soul of such timeless hits... Continue Reading →
Rock Hard Festival announce today three more bands being part of the 2020 edition. Insomnium, Axxis and Sorcerer will play at the well-known festival and there are 9 more acts announced over the coming weeks. So far confirmed are: ACCEPTSACRED REICHPHIL CAMPBELL AND THE BASTARD SONS play MOTÖRHEADGRAVE DIGGERINSOMNIUMALCESTTHE NIGHT FLIGHT ORCHESTRAHEATHENATLANTEAN KODEXAXXISRAZORSORCERERNIFELHEIM Rock Hard... Continue Reading →
Today at noon first bands have been announced for the 2020 edition of Rock Hard Festival in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. Metal pioneers Accept will play at RHF as well as Thrash Metal veterans Sacred Reich and German Metal warriors Grave Digger. So far also confirmed are Alcest, Nifelheim and Razor. Rock Hard Festival 2020 will take... Continue Reading →
Easter 2019 in Germany, that's a few days off, some sunny days out with the family and a special 'Easter egg', offered by German metal institution Accept. Almost two years ago, in summer of 2017, Accept played a special show at Wacken festival. It was a set that featured next to Accept also the Czech... Continue Reading →
Today, German heavy metal powerhouse, ACCEPT, announce the addition of Martin Motnik on bass and Rebekah Rahman on violin as the band prepares to launch the Symhonic Terror Tour on April 20th in Wuppertal, Germany. Born in Ludwigshafen, Germany, Motnik has been playing music since he was seven years old and has been a member... Continue Reading →
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