In a latest interview with Metallic Talks, ACCEPT guitarist Wolf Hoffmann spoke about the truth that the band will have a good time 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 shall be launched early 2026. Wolf mentioned (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “Yeah, it is a humorous factor. I joined this band after 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 way in which that we achieved the inconceivable,” 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 have now sold-out exhibits all over the place. So, I imply, we’re actually, actually lucky, and I am totally 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 We’re gonna launch a brand new album with — we’re gonna re-record a few of the outdated classics and a few of the deeper-cut songs from again then with visitor folks, visitor singers, visitor guitar gamers, and we’re gonna convey this out on the street in ’26. So we’re engaged on that for the subsequent yr or so.
“This can be 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 will get one other one. With all optimism, I do not suppose I will be round 50 years from now, or the followers shall be, so we would as properly 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 advised The Adamantium Podcast about ACCEPT‘s upcoming Fiftieth-anniversary album and tour: “Effectively, I can not let you know 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 deal with that. However I can let you know it is gonna be an enormous factor as a result of turning 50 is a giant deal.”
Wolf continued: “We’ve got at all times shied away from all these, I might name them little anniversaries, as a result of, actually, we may have accomplished 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 a good time. I imply, when you’ve got 15 albums or 16 or 17, one thing at all times occurred 20, 30, 40 years in the past. It is at all times a spherical variety of years. So we may have accomplished that for a very long time. There’s individuals who do it on a regular basis. We at all times mentioned, ‘Nah, we might a lot moderately function 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 in addition, fairly actually, we’re getting up there in age a little bit 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 is likely to be our final tour. You by no means actually know. Any individual may get sick.
“50 is a giant deal, and we’re gonna actually have a good time it correctly,” Hoffmann added. “It is gonna be a very totally different present with a whole lot of surprises. That is all I do know. So we have got a yr of planning on doing after which executing and stuff.”
Final summer time, 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 yr 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 desires 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 visitors that we’re gonna have. And I believe it is gonna be fully totally different from something we have ever accomplished earlier than. So I believe it is gonna blow folks away. However that does not take away from this tour that we have now developing, as a result of, initially, it is gonna be one other yr or extra earlier than we even go on this subsequent tour. So if you happen to like the brand new album, ‘Humanoid’, and if you happen to 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 saying 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 actually do not know the way lengthy I can do that. I imply, no person is aware of what the longer term will convey, and it has crossed our thoughts, completely. So, it is likely to 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) shall be invited to participate within the Fiftieth-anniversary tour, maybe simply within the type of a visitor look at choose exhibits, Wolf mentioned: “Yeah, after all, after all. That does not imply they’re gonna [show up]. We’ve got to attend and see. In fact, all people [is invited]. The door is at all times 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 desires 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 attempt. Everyone desires to know this stuff.”
Wolf additionally talked about ACCEPT‘s plan to launch a particular album in early 2026 that can cowl the band’s complete musical historical past. The anniversary LP will include a fastidiously curated choice of the most effective ACCEPT songs from the final 5 a long time, re-recorded — partly with well-known shock musical visitors and colleagues — in addition to with some uncommon tracks that haven’t been performed so usually earlier than. He mentioned: “I can not let you know something but, as a result of it is method too early. I can simply let you know it is gonna be an enormous factor. And I do not actually wanna get into it but as a result of I am not likely right here to speak specifics about it. It is nonetheless within the planning phases. It is gonna be wonderful. I believe it is gonna be some actually massive 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 have now chosen a whole lot of it. Not all of it, however we have now chosen quite a bit.”
Over the previous 5 a long time, ACCEPT has offered hundreds of thousands of albums and impressed numerous musicians. Their energetic stay performances and iconic albums reminiscent of “Balls To The Wall”, “Stressed And Wild” and “Metallic Coronary heart” have left a long-lasting mark on the heavy metallic style. Hoffmann‘s guitar fashion and musical imaginative and prescient have made the band probably the most 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 exceptional, ACCEPT reformed and nearly 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 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 vitality, 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 unique lead singer. Mark will 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”.
