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• TOP 5 GAY METAL INS
• HOW ACCEPT FALLY BROKE OUT WH ‘METAL HEART': EXCLIVE INTERVIEWEDUARDO RIVADAVIAEDUARDO RIVADAVIAPUBLISHED: MARCH 4, 2015PORTRASHARETWEETDES MAY HAVE PASSED SCE THE MARCH 4, 1985 BUT OF METAL HEART, THE SIXTH STUD ALBUM BY THE GERMAN HEAVY METAL BAND ACCEPT. BUT THE GROUP REMAED STRONG, EVEN REVALIZED, AS THEY PROMOTED THE ALBUM BLD RAGE. WE UGHT UP WH GUARIST WOLF HOFFMANN 2015 TO TALK ABOUT THE 30TH ANNIVERSARY OF METAL HEART AND THE FUTURE OF ACCEPT.CAN YOU BELIEVE METAL HEART IS CELEBRATG S 30TH ANNIVERSARY THIS YEAR? DO THAT EVEN SEEM POSSIBLE TO YOU?NO, MAN! IT FEELS LIKE WE RERD JT A FEW YEARS AGO. I N’T BELIEVE I’M THAT OLD!WHAT DO YOU RELL ABOUT RERDG THIS ALBUM?IT WAS THE FIRST TIME WE EVER WORKED WH PRODUCER DIETER DIRKS, AND WAS OUR FIRST REAL “BIG TIME” PRODUCTN. YOU HAVE TO REMEMBER THAT THE MID-‘80S, RERD LABELS WERE WILLG TO PAY FOR LARGE, FLATED RERDG BUDGETS, AND GETTG THE RIGHT PRODUCER ON BOARD WAS SEEN AS REALLY IMPORTANT TO HELP EXPOSE A BAND TO A BROAR DIENCE WORLDWI. BEFORE METAL HEART, WH RTLS & WILD AND BALLS TO THE WALL, WE’D PRETTY MUCH HANDLED EVERYTHG OURSELV AND NEVER SPENT THAT MUCH TIME ON OUR RERDS. BUT FOR METAL HEART WE PUT WEEKS AND WEEKS TO WRG AND REWRG BEFORE SELECTG THE SONGS WE WANTED TO E.WHAT SPIRED THE METAL HEART NCEPT?I THK THE IA ME OM A MAGAZE ARTICLE OR A BOOK THAT WAS READ BY OUR MANAGER GABY HKE [A.K.A. DEAFFY], WHO IS NOW MY WIFE AND WROTE A LOT OF OUR LYRICS DURG THOSE YEARS. IF I RELL, WAS LERALLY ABOUT A MECHANIL HEART, AND HOW ONE DAY PEOPLE WOULD BE WALKG AROUND WH THE MACH SI THEIR CHTS STEAD OF HUMAN ANS. AND NOW WE KD OF HAVE THE THGS! SO GABY ME UP WH THAT IA AND HOOK, AND WE SORT OF WROTE THE SONG AROUND ."TOO HIGH TO GET IT RIGHT" HAS SOME OF THE HIGHT SCREECH EVER HEARD OM SGER UDO DIRKSCHNEIR. DID THAT RANGE E NATURALLY TO HIM?OH YEAH, UDO JT HAD AN SANELY HIGH VOICE – WAS AMAZG!LISTEN TO ACCEPT PERFORM 'TOO HIGH TO GET IT RIGHT'WERE YOU NSC OF HOW RACY ACCEPT'S LYRICS OFTEN SEEMED TO MANY AMERINS? OR WAS SEXUALY SOMETHG YOU GUYS SIMPLY DIDN'T THK ABOUT?I THK WE WANTED TO HAVE A CERTA SHOCK FACTOR, ALWAYS, AND TO TALK ABOUT SUBJECT MATTER THAT OTHER BANDS WEREN’T TALKG ABOUT, STEAD OF RECYCLG THE SAME OLD ROCK 'N' ROLL SUBJECTS. PL, BEG EUROPEAN I SUPPOSE WE WERE A LTLE MORE OPEN-MD ABOUT SEX ANYHOW, AND WH GABY WRG A LOT OF THOSE LYRICS, I’M SURE HER FEMALE PERSPECTIVE NFED SOME PEOPLE TO THKG WE WERE A GAY BAND – HA HA! AND WE DIDN’T RE. THE LAST THG WE WANTED WAS TO HAVE GENERIC LYRICS. WE WANTED TO BE A SER METAL BAND, SURE, BUT WE ALSO WANTED TO PROVOKE PEOPLE – MAKE THEM THK, ONE WAY OR ANOTHER.YOUR GUAR WORK HAS ALWAYS BEEN FILLED WH CLASSIL MIC FLUENC, BUT THEY SEEMED PECIALLY PREVALENT ON METAL HEART, PECIALLY ON THE TLE TRACK AND “BOUND TO FAIL.”YEAH, I N’T REMEMBER FOR SURE WHAT BROUGHT THIS ON, BUT I’VE ALWAYS DABBLED CLASSIL STUFF AND MAYBE JT CLICKED DURG THE RERDG OF METAL HEART. I’M PRETTY SURE DIDN’T E OM DIETER, BEE WE ALREADY HAD THOSE ELEMENTS THE MOS WE BROUGHT TO THE STUD. YOU SEE, WE HAD BEEN TOURG FOR MONTHS AND MONTHS BEHD BALLS TO THE WALL, AND THERE WAS SO MUCH ENERGY THE BAND, WE DIDN’T WANT TO GO HOME TO GERMANY. SO WE WOUND UP FDG A HOE VERMONT, OF ALL PLAC, AND DID ALL OF THE PRE-PRODUCTN THERE BEFORE MEETG UP WH DIETER TO RERD.ANY CURRENT PLANS VOLVG YOUR CLASSIL MIC TERTS?YEAH, I PUT OUT MY FIRST CLASSIL ALBUM SOME 15 YEARS AGO, AND I’M ACTUALLY FLYG OUT TO PRAGUE NEXT WEEK TO WORK ON THE NEXT ONE WH A SYMPHONY ORCHTRA. AND IF ALL GO WELL, THAT SHOULD E OUT LATER THIS YEAR. I N’T PROMISE WHEN I’LL FALLY FISH , BUT ’S ONLY A MATTER OF TIME NOW.LISTEN TO ACCEPT PERFORM 'BOUND TO FAIL'DO YOU SEE ANY PARALLELS BETWEEN METAL HEART AND ACCEPT’S MORE RECENT ALBUM, BLD RAGE?OH, YEAH. WE’RE STILL TRYG TO TELL GOOD STORI. STORI THAT TERT AND HOPEFULLY OTHER PEOPLE TOO. AND I THK OUR SOUND HAS BEE A TRAMARK THAT NNECTS BOTH ALBUMS, AND MOST OF THE OTHER ON WE’VE DONE.SO MANY OF THE NEW SONGS HARK BACK TO THE CLASSIC ACCEPT SOUND. “STAMPE” AND “BLOODBATH MASTERMD” HAVE THAT SIGNATURE ACCEPT SPEED METAL ATTACK, AND “FALL OF THE EMPIRE” IS ONE OF THOSE MAJTIC METAL ANTHEMS YOU GUYS ALMOST VENTED.WELL, NORMALLY, YOU PLAY TWO OR THREE NEW SONGS ON TOUR, BUT WE’VE BEEN PLAYG SIX OR SEVEN NEW SONGS FOR MUCH OF THE BLD RAGE TOUR. THAT’S QUE A LOT NSIRG OUR BACK TALOG, BUT THEY FEEL SO GREAT AND WE’VE PLAYED THEM SO MUCH, I’D SAY A LOT OF SONGS HAVE ALREADY PROVEN THEY N STAND THE TT OF TIME.HOW WOULD YOU PARE BLD RAGE WH THE OTHER ALBUMS YOU’VE RERD SCE MARK TORNILLO REPLACED UDO AS ACCEPT’S SGER?I THK BLD RAGE IS THE MOST MATURE ALBUM OUT OF THE THREE WE’VE DONE WH MARK. THE FIRST ONE, BLOOD OF THE NATNS, WAS PRETTY SPECIAL BEE WE HADN’T DONE ANY RERDS FOR SO LONG, AND THERE WAS SO MUCH ENERGY. THE SEND, STALGRAD, WAS A LTLE SHED, SO WE MA SURE TO GIVE OURSELV PLENTY OF TIME ON BLD RAGE. AND WE ULDN’T BE HAPPIER WH THE RULTS.DO YOU FEEL FANS HAVE FULLY ACCEPTED MARK, AS WELL?ABSOLUTELY. HE’S WELL TABLISHED NOW AS THE MAN ACCEPT, AND WE’VE BEEN GETTG A GREAT REACTN ALL OVER THE WORLD. AND, MAN, WE’VE DONE A LOT OF SHOWS TOGETHER TO PROVE OURSELV – NOT TO MENTN PUTTG OUR THREE ALBUMS FIVE YEARS, SO I THK WE’VE REALLY PROVEN TO THE FANS THAT WE MEAN BS.WATCH ACCEPT PERFORM 'STAMPE'COULD YOU EVER HAVE IMAGED THAT ACCEPT’S MIC AND HISTORIC ALBUMS LIKE METAL HEART WOULD ONE DAY QUALIFY AS A CLASSIC ROCK?HELL, NO! I DON’T KNOW IF WE REALLY F THAT TEGORY, THOUGH I’VE HEARD THE TERM "CLASSIC METAL" ED FOR AS WELL. FUNNY THG IS, WHEN WE STARTED, THE TERM “HEAVY METAL” WASN’T EVEN REALLY TABLISHED YET. WE JT SAW OURSELV AS A HARD ROCK BAND THE BEGNG. BUT OVER TIME WE OBVLY HELPED VELOP THAT SOUND, AND NOW OUR STYLE IS SO OLD-SCHOOL PARED TO WHAT THE KIDS ARE DOG NOWADAYS THAT MAY AS WELL BE LLED CLASSIC ROCK. AT THE END OF THE DAY, ’S JT AN HONOR FOR TO KNOW THAT FANS STILL LIKE . THEY N LL OUR MIC WHATEVER THEY LIKE!  THE TOP 50 HEAVY METAL ALBUMS
• HOW ACCEPT FALLY BROKE OUT WH ‘METAL HEART': EXCLIVE INTERVIEWEDUARDO RIVADAVIAEDUARDO RIVADAVIAPUBLISHED: MARCH 4, 2015PORTRASHARETWEETDES MAY HAVE PASSED SCE THE MARCH 4, 1985 BUT OF METAL HEART, THE SIXTH STUD ALBUM BY THE GERMAN HEAVY METAL BAND ACCEPT. BUT THE GROUP REMAED STRONG, EVEN REVALIZED, AS THEY PROMOTED THE ALBUM BLD RAGE. WE UGHT UP WH GUARIST WOLF HOFFMANN 2015 TO TALK ABOUT THE 30TH ANNIVERSARY OF METAL HEART AND THE FUTURE OF ACCEPT.CAN YOU BELIEVE METAL HEART IS CELEBRATG S 30TH ANNIVERSARY THIS YEAR? DO THAT EVEN SEEM POSSIBLE TO YOU?NO, MAN! IT FEELS LIKE WE RERD JT A FEW YEARS AGO. I N’T BELIEVE I’M THAT OLD!WHAT DO YOU RELL ABOUT RERDG THIS ALBUM?IT WAS THE FIRST TIME WE EVER WORKED WH PRODUCER DIETER DIRKS, AND WAS OUR FIRST REAL “BIG TIME” PRODUCTN. YOU HAVE TO REMEMBER THAT THE MID-‘80S, RERD LABELS WERE WILLG TO PAY FOR LARGE, FLATED RERDG BUDGETS, AND GETTG THE RIGHT PRODUCER ON BOARD WAS SEEN AS REALLY IMPORTANT TO HELP EXPOSE A BAND TO A BROAR DIENCE WORLDWI. BEFORE METAL HEART, WH RTLS & WILD AND BALLS TO THE WALL, WE’D PRETTY MUCH HANDLED EVERYTHG OURSELV AND NEVER SPENT THAT MUCH TIME ON OUR RERDS. BUT FOR METAL HEART WE PUT WEEKS AND WEEKS TO WRG AND REWRG BEFORE SELECTG THE SONGS WE WANTED TO E.WHAT SPIRED THE METAL HEART NCEPT?I THK THE IA ME OM A MAGAZE ARTICLE OR A BOOK THAT WAS READ BY OUR MANAGER GABY HKE [A.K.A. DEAFFY], WHO IS NOW MY WIFE AND WROTE A LOT OF OUR LYRICS DURG THOSE YEARS. IF I RELL, WAS LERALLY ABOUT A MECHANIL HEART, AND HOW ONE DAY PEOPLE WOULD BE WALKG AROUND WH THE MACH SI THEIR CHTS STEAD OF HUMAN ANS. AND NOW WE KD OF HAVE THE THGS! SO GABY ME UP WH THAT IA AND HOOK, AND WE SORT OF WROTE THE SONG AROUND ."TOO HIGH TO GET IT RIGHT" HAS SOME OF THE HIGHT SCREECH EVER HEARD OM SGER UDO DIRKSCHNEIR. DID THAT RANGE E NATURALLY TO HIM?OH YEAH, UDO JT HAD AN SANELY HIGH VOICE – WAS AMAZG!LISTEN TO ACCEPT PERFORM 'TOO HIGH TO GET IT RIGHT'WERE YOU NSC OF HOW RACY ACCEPT'S LYRICS OFTEN SEEMED TO MANY AMERINS? OR WAS SEXUALY SOMETHG YOU GUYS SIMPLY DIDN'T THK ABOUT?I THK WE WANTED TO HAVE A CERTA SHOCK FACTOR, ALWAYS, AND TO TALK ABOUT SUBJECT MATTER THAT OTHER BANDS WEREN’T TALKG ABOUT, STEAD OF RECYCLG THE SAME OLD ROCK 'N' ROLL SUBJECTS. PL, BEG EUROPEAN I SUPPOSE WE WERE A LTLE MORE OPEN-MD ABOUT SEX ANYHOW, AND WH GABY WRG A LOT OF THOSE LYRICS, I’M SURE HER FEMALE PERSPECTIVE NFED SOME PEOPLE TO THKG WE WERE A GAY BAND – HA HA! AND WE DIDN’T RE. THE LAST THG WE WANTED WAS TO HAVE GENERIC LYRICS. WE WANTED TO BE A SER METAL BAND, SURE, BUT WE ALSO WANTED TO PROVOKE PEOPLE – MAKE THEM THK, ONE WAY OR ANOTHER.YOUR GUAR WORK HAS ALWAYS BEEN FILLED WH CLASSIL MIC FLUENC, BUT THEY SEEMED PECIALLY PREVALENT ON METAL HEART, PECIALLY ON THE TLE TRACK AND “BOUND TO FAIL.”YEAH, I N’T REMEMBER FOR SURE WHAT BROUGHT THIS ON, BUT I’VE ALWAYS DABBLED CLASSIL STUFF AND MAYBE JT CLICKED DURG THE RERDG OF METAL HEART. I’M PRETTY SURE DIDN’T E OM DIETER, BEE WE ALREADY HAD THOSE ELEMENTS THE MOS WE BROUGHT TO THE STUD. YOU SEE, WE HAD BEEN TOURG FOR MONTHS AND MONTHS BEHD BALLS TO THE WALL, AND THERE WAS SO MUCH ENERGY THE BAND, WE DIDN’T WANT TO GO HOME TO GERMANY. SO WE WOUND UP FDG A HOE VERMONT, OF ALL PLAC, AND DID ALL OF THE PRE-PRODUCTN THERE BEFORE MEETG UP WH DIETER TO RERD.ANY CURRENT PLANS VOLVG YOUR CLASSIL MIC TERTS?YEAH, I PUT OUT MY FIRST CLASSIL ALBUM SOME 15 YEARS AGO, AND I’M ACTUALLY FLYG OUT TO PRAGUE NEXT WEEK TO WORK ON THE NEXT ONE WH A SYMPHONY ORCHTRA. AND IF ALL GO WELL, THAT SHOULD E OUT LATER THIS YEAR. I N’T PROMISE WHEN I’LL FALLY FISH , BUT ’S ONLY A MATTER OF TIME NOW.LISTEN TO ACCEPT PERFORM 'BOUND TO FAIL'DO YOU SEE ANY PARALLELS BETWEEN METAL HEART AND ACCEPT’S MORE RECENT ALBUM, BLD RAGE?OH, YEAH. WE’RE STILL TRYG TO TELL GOOD STORI. STORI THAT TERT AND HOPEFULLY OTHER PEOPLE TOO. AND I THK OUR SOUND HAS BEE A TRAMARK THAT NNECTS BOTH ALBUMS, AND MOST OF THE OTHER ON WE’VE DONE.SO MANY OF THE NEW SONGS HARK BACK TO THE CLASSIC ACCEPT SOUND. “STAMPE” AND “BLOODBATH MASTERMD” HAVE THAT SIGNATURE ACCEPT SPEED METAL ATTACK, AND “FALL OF THE EMPIRE” IS ONE OF THOSE MAJTIC METAL ANTHEMS YOU GUYS ALMOST VENTED.WELL, NORMALLY, YOU PLAY TWO OR THREE NEW SONGS ON TOUR, BUT WE’VE BEEN PLAYG SIX OR SEVEN NEW SONGS FOR MUCH OF THE BLD RAGE TOUR. THAT’S QUE A LOT NSIRG OUR BACK TALOG, BUT THEY FEEL SO GREAT AND WE’VE PLAYED THEM SO MUCH, I’D SAY A LOT OF SONGS HAVE ALREADY PROVEN THEY N STAND THE TT OF TIME.HOW WOULD YOU PARE BLD RAGE WH THE OTHER ALBUMS YOU’VE RERD SCE MARK TORNILLO REPLACED UDO AS ACCEPT’S SGER?I THK BLD RAGE IS THE MOST MATURE ALBUM OUT OF THE THREE WE’VE DONE WH MARK. THE FIRST ONE, BLOOD OF THE NATNS, WAS PRETTY SPECIAL BEE WE HADN’T DONE ANY RERDS FOR SO LONG, AND THERE WAS SO MUCH ENERGY. THE SEND, STALGRAD, WAS A LTLE SHED, SO WE MA SURE TO GIVE OURSELV PLENTY OF TIME ON BLD RAGE. AND WE ULDN’T BE HAPPIER WH THE RULTS.DO YOU FEEL FANS HAVE FULLY ACCEPTED MARK, AS WELL?ABSOLUTELY. HE’S WELL TABLISHED NOW AS THE MAN ACCEPT, AND WE’VE BEEN GETTG A GREAT REACTN ALL OVER THE WORLD. AND, MAN, WE’VE DONE A LOT OF SHOWS TOGETHER TO PROVE OURSELV – NOT TO MENTN PUTTG OUR THREE ALBUMS FIVE YEARS, SO I THK WE’VE REALLY PROVEN TO THE FANS THAT WE MEAN BS.WATCH ACCEPT PERFORM 'STAMPE'COULD YOU EVER HAVE IMAGED THAT ACCEPT’S MIC AND HISTORIC ALBUMS LIKE METAL HEART WOULD ONE DAY QUALIFY AS A CLASSIC ROCK?HELL, NO! I DON’T KNOW IF WE REALLY F THAT TEGORY, THOUGH I’VE HEARD THE TERM "CLASSIC METAL" ED FOR AS WELL. FUNNY THG IS, WHEN WE STARTED, THE TERM “HEAVY METAL” WASN’T EVEN REALLY TABLISHED YET. WE JT SAW OURSELV AS A HARD ROCK BAND THE BEGNG. BUT OVER TIME WE OBVLY HELPED VELOP THAT SOUND, AND NOW OUR STYLE IS SO OLD-SCHOOL PARED TO WHAT THE KIDS ARE DOG NOWADAYS THAT MAY AS WELL BE LLED CLASSIC ROCK. AT THE END OF THE DAY, ’S JT AN HONOR FOR TO KNOW THAT FANS STILL LIKE . THEY N LL OUR MIC WHATEVER THEY LIKE!  THE TOP 50 HEAVY METAL ALBUMS
• GAY METAL MIC

TOP 5 GAY METAL INS

Sce the human sexualy analysis generally ns along the l of “that band is fuck’ gay, ” ’s no surprise that metal micians who self-intify as gay are difficult to e by. So difficult to e by, fact, that our list isn’t so much the Top Five Gay Metal Ins as The Five Gay Metal Ins. Why Gay Is Metal: Pnick has sce spl om Christiany, and now choos to intify as “agnostic.

” Maybe he jumped ship bee beg gay isn’t Christian; maybe he did bee Christian isn’t metal.

But if gay isn’t Christian, and Christian isn’t metal, isn’t gay kda metal? ”Why Metal Is Gay: Shamay’s mic is so aggrsive, has at tim rced male metal fans to whg over sexism.

HOW ACCEPT FALLY BROKE OUT WH ‘METAL HEART': EXCLIVE INTERVIEWEDUARDO RIVADAVIAEDUARDO RIVADAVIAPUBLISHED: MARCH 4, 2015PORTRASHARETWEETDES MAY HAVE PASSED SCE THE MARCH 4, 1985 BUT OF METAL HEART, THE SIXTH STUD ALBUM BY THE GERMAN HEAVY METAL BAND ACCEPT. BUT THE GROUP REMAED STRONG, EVEN REVALIZED, AS THEY PROMOTED THE ALBUM BLD RAGE. WE UGHT UP WH GUARIST WOLF HOFFMANN 2015 TO TALK ABOUT THE 30TH ANNIVERSARY OF METAL HEART AND THE FUTURE OF ACCEPT.CAN YOU BELIEVE METAL HEART IS CELEBRATG S 30TH ANNIVERSARY THIS YEAR? DO THAT EVEN SEEM POSSIBLE TO YOU?NO, MAN! IT FEELS LIKE WE RERD JT A FEW YEARS AGO. I N’T BELIEVE I’M THAT OLD!WHAT DO YOU RELL ABOUT RERDG THIS ALBUM?IT WAS THE FIRST TIME WE EVER WORKED WH PRODUCER DIETER DIRKS, AND WAS OUR FIRST REAL “BIG TIME” PRODUCTN. YOU HAVE TO REMEMBER THAT THE MID-‘80S, RERD LABELS WERE WILLG TO PAY FOR LARGE, FLATED RERDG BUDGETS, AND GETTG THE RIGHT PRODUCER ON BOARD WAS SEEN AS REALLY IMPORTANT TO HELP EXPOSE A BAND TO A BROAR DIENCE WORLDWI. BEFORE METAL HEART, WH RTLS & WILD AND BALLS TO THE WALL, WE’D PRETTY MUCH HANDLED EVERYTHG OURSELV AND NEVER SPENT THAT MUCH TIME ON OUR RERDS. BUT FOR METAL HEART WE PUT WEEKS AND WEEKS TO WRG AND REWRG BEFORE SELECTG THE SONGS WE WANTED TO E.WHAT SPIRED THE METAL HEART NCEPT?I THK THE IA ME OM A MAGAZE ARTICLE OR A BOOK THAT WAS READ BY OUR MANAGER GABY HKE [A.K.A. DEAFFY], WHO IS NOW MY WIFE AND WROTE A LOT OF OUR LYRICS DURG THOSE YEARS. IF I RELL, WAS LERALLY ABOUT A MECHANIL HEART, AND HOW ONE DAY PEOPLE WOULD BE WALKG AROUND WH THE MACH SI THEIR CHTS STEAD OF HUMAN ANS. AND NOW WE KD OF HAVE THE THGS! SO GABY ME UP WH THAT IA AND HOOK, AND WE SORT OF WROTE THE SONG AROUND ."TOO HIGH TO GET IT RIGHT" HAS SOME OF THE HIGHT SCREECH EVER HEARD OM SGER UDO DIRKSCHNEIR. DID THAT RANGE E NATURALLY TO HIM?OH YEAH, UDO JT HAD AN SANELY HIGH VOICE – WAS AMAZG!LISTEN TO ACCEPT PERFORM 'TOO HIGH TO GET IT RIGHT'WERE YOU NSC OF HOW RACY ACCEPT'S LYRICS OFTEN SEEMED TO MANY AMERINS? OR WAS SEXUALY SOMETHG YOU GUYS SIMPLY DIDN'T THK ABOUT?I THK WE WANTED TO HAVE A CERTA SHOCK FACTOR, ALWAYS, AND TO TALK ABOUT SUBJECT MATTER THAT OTHER BANDS WEREN’T TALKG ABOUT, STEAD OF RECYCLG THE SAME OLD ROCK 'N' ROLL SUBJECTS. PL, BEG EUROPEAN I SUPPOSE WE WERE A LTLE MORE OPEN-MD ABOUT SEX ANYHOW, AND WH GABY WRG A LOT OF THOSE LYRICS, I’M SURE HER FEMALE PERSPECTIVE NFED SOME PEOPLE TO THKG WE WERE A GAY BAND – HA HA! AND WE DIDN’T RE. THE LAST THG WE WANTED WAS TO HAVE GENERIC LYRICS. WE WANTED TO BE A SER METAL BAND, SURE, BUT WE ALSO WANTED TO PROVOKE PEOPLE – MAKE THEM THK, ONE WAY OR ANOTHER.YOUR GUAR WORK HAS ALWAYS BEEN FILLED WH CLASSIL MIC FLUENC, BUT THEY SEEMED PECIALLY PREVALENT ON METAL HEART, PECIALLY ON THE TLE TRACK AND “BOUND TO FAIL.”YEAH, I N’T REMEMBER FOR SURE WHAT BROUGHT THIS ON, BUT I’VE ALWAYS DABBLED CLASSIL STUFF AND MAYBE JT CLICKED DURG THE RERDG OF METAL HEART. I’M PRETTY SURE DIDN’T E OM DIETER, BEE WE ALREADY HAD THOSE ELEMENTS THE MOS WE BROUGHT TO THE STUD. YOU SEE, WE HAD BEEN TOURG FOR MONTHS AND MONTHS BEHD BALLS TO THE WALL, AND THERE WAS SO MUCH ENERGY THE BAND, WE DIDN’T WANT TO GO HOME TO GERMANY. SO WE WOUND UP FDG A HOE VERMONT, OF ALL PLAC, AND DID ALL OF THE PRE-PRODUCTN THERE BEFORE MEETG UP WH DIETER TO RERD.ANY CURRENT PLANS VOLVG YOUR CLASSIL MIC TERTS?YEAH, I PUT OUT MY FIRST CLASSIL ALBUM SOME 15 YEARS AGO, AND I’M ACTUALLY FLYG OUT TO PRAGUE NEXT WEEK TO WORK ON THE NEXT ONE WH A SYMPHONY ORCHTRA. AND IF ALL GO WELL, THAT SHOULD E OUT LATER THIS YEAR. I N’T PROMISE WHEN I’LL FALLY FISH , BUT ’S ONLY A MATTER OF TIME NOW.LISTEN TO ACCEPT PERFORM 'BOUND TO FAIL'DO YOU SEE ANY PARALLELS BETWEEN METAL HEART AND ACCEPT’S MORE RECENT ALBUM, BLD RAGE?OH, YEAH. WE’RE STILL TRYG TO TELL GOOD STORI. STORI THAT TERT AND HOPEFULLY OTHER PEOPLE TOO. AND I THK OUR SOUND HAS BEE A TRAMARK THAT NNECTS BOTH ALBUMS, AND MOST OF THE OTHER ON WE’VE DONE.SO MANY OF THE NEW SONGS HARK BACK TO THE CLASSIC ACCEPT SOUND. “STAMPE” AND “BLOODBATH MASTERMD” HAVE THAT SIGNATURE ACCEPT SPEED METAL ATTACK, AND “FALL OF THE EMPIRE” IS ONE OF THOSE MAJTIC METAL ANTHEMS YOU GUYS ALMOST VENTED.WELL, NORMALLY, YOU PLAY TWO OR THREE NEW SONGS ON TOUR, BUT WE’VE BEEN PLAYG SIX OR SEVEN NEW SONGS FOR MUCH OF THE BLD RAGE TOUR. THAT’S QUE A LOT NSIRG OUR BACK TALOG, BUT THEY FEEL SO GREAT AND WE’VE PLAYED THEM SO MUCH, I’D SAY A LOT OF SONGS HAVE ALREADY PROVEN THEY N STAND THE TT OF TIME.HOW WOULD YOU PARE BLD RAGE WH THE OTHER ALBUMS YOU’VE RERD SCE MARK TORNILLO REPLACED UDO AS ACCEPT’S SGER?I THK BLD RAGE IS THE MOST MATURE ALBUM OUT OF THE THREE WE’VE DONE WH MARK. THE FIRST ONE, BLOOD OF THE NATNS, WAS PRETTY SPECIAL BEE WE HADN’T DONE ANY RERDS FOR SO LONG, AND THERE WAS SO MUCH ENERGY. THE SEND, STALGRAD, WAS A LTLE SHED, SO WE MA SURE TO GIVE OURSELV PLENTY OF TIME ON BLD RAGE. AND WE ULDN’T BE HAPPIER WH THE RULTS.DO YOU FEEL FANS HAVE FULLY ACCEPTED MARK, AS WELL?ABSOLUTELY. HE’S WELL TABLISHED NOW AS THE MAN ACCEPT, AND WE’VE BEEN GETTG A GREAT REACTN ALL OVER THE WORLD. AND, MAN, WE’VE DONE A LOT OF SHOWS TOGETHER TO PROVE OURSELV – NOT TO MENTN PUTTG OUR THREE ALBUMS FIVE YEARS, SO I THK WE’VE REALLY PROVEN TO THE FANS THAT WE MEAN BS.WATCH ACCEPT PERFORM 'STAMPE'COULD YOU EVER HAVE IMAGED THAT ACCEPT’S MIC AND HISTORIC ALBUMS LIKE METAL HEART WOULD ONE DAY QUALIFY AS A CLASSIC ROCK?HELL, NO! I DON’T KNOW IF WE REALLY F THAT TEGORY, THOUGH I’VE HEARD THE TERM "CLASSIC METAL" ED FOR AS WELL. FUNNY THG IS, WHEN WE STARTED, THE TERM “HEAVY METAL” WASN’T EVEN REALLY TABLISHED YET. WE JT SAW OURSELV AS A HARD ROCK BAND THE BEGNG. BUT OVER TIME WE OBVLY HELPED VELOP THAT SOUND, AND NOW OUR STYLE IS SO OLD-SCHOOL PARED TO WHAT THE KIDS ARE DOG NOWADAYS THAT MAY AS WELL BE LLED CLASSIC ROCK. AT THE END OF THE DAY, ’S JT AN HONOR FOR TO KNOW THAT FANS STILL LIKE . THEY N LL OUR MIC WHATEVER THEY LIKE!  THE TOP 50 HEAVY METAL ALBUMS

His name is Roddy Bottum, and you’ve got to rpect He Came Out: Bottum me out Metal Is Gay: Bottum wrote”Be Aggrsive”, a song about performg oral sex on a man. How He Came Out: In a1998 terview wh Gay Is Metal: “There are still stereotyp that all gay men are effemate and weak and queeny, ” Halford has said.

” Gaahl matas that the blood-drag was performed He Came Out: Gaahl nfirmed his homosexualy metal magaze Rock Hard‘s November 2008 issue, after some tractors threatened to offer “rmatn” that would make Gaahl appear a “whole new light. Why Gay Is Metal: Gaahl is “strongly opposed to Christiany, ” and purports to follow a personal philosophy he terms “Gaahlism.

HOW ACCEPT FALLY BROKE OUT WH ‘METAL HEART': EXCLIVE INTERVIEWEDUARDO RIVADAVIAEDUARDO RIVADAVIAPUBLISHED: MARCH 4, 2015PORTRASHARETWEETDES MAY HAVE PASSED SCE THE MARCH 4, 1985 BUT OF METAL HEART, THE SIXTH STUD ALBUM BY THE GERMAN HEAVY METAL BAND ACCEPT. BUT THE GROUP REMAED STRONG, EVEN REVALIZED, AS THEY PROMOTED THE ALBUM BLD RAGE. WE UGHT UP WH GUARIST WOLF HOFFMANN 2015 TO TALK ABOUT THE 30TH ANNIVERSARY OF METAL HEART AND THE FUTURE OF ACCEPT.CAN YOU BELIEVE METAL HEART IS CELEBRATG S 30TH ANNIVERSARY THIS YEAR? DO THAT EVEN SEEM POSSIBLE TO YOU?NO, MAN! IT FEELS LIKE WE RERD JT A FEW YEARS AGO. I N’T BELIEVE I’M THAT OLD!WHAT DO YOU RELL ABOUT RERDG THIS ALBUM?IT WAS THE FIRST TIME WE EVER WORKED WH PRODUCER DIETER DIRKS, AND WAS OUR FIRST REAL “BIG TIME” PRODUCTN. YOU HAVE TO REMEMBER THAT THE MID-‘80S, RERD LABELS WERE WILLG TO PAY FOR LARGE, FLATED RERDG BUDGETS, AND GETTG THE RIGHT PRODUCER ON BOARD WAS SEEN AS REALLY IMPORTANT TO HELP EXPOSE A BAND TO A BROAR DIENCE WORLDWI. BEFORE METAL HEART, WH RTLS & WILD AND BALLS TO THE WALL, WE’D PRETTY MUCH HANDLED EVERYTHG OURSELV AND NEVER SPENT THAT MUCH TIME ON OUR RERDS. BUT FOR METAL HEART WE PUT WEEKS AND WEEKS TO WRG AND REWRG BEFORE SELECTG THE SONGS WE WANTED TO E.WHAT SPIRED THE METAL HEART NCEPT?I THK THE IA ME OM A MAGAZE ARTICLE OR A BOOK THAT WAS READ BY OUR MANAGER GABY HKE [A.K.A. DEAFFY], WHO IS NOW MY WIFE AND WROTE A LOT OF OUR LYRICS DURG THOSE YEARS. IF I RELL, WAS LERALLY ABOUT A MECHANIL HEART, AND HOW ONE DAY PEOPLE WOULD BE WALKG AROUND WH THE MACH SI THEIR CHTS STEAD OF HUMAN ANS. AND NOW WE KD OF HAVE THE THGS! SO GABY ME UP WH THAT IA AND HOOK, AND WE SORT OF WROTE THE SONG AROUND ."TOO HIGH TO GET IT RIGHT" HAS SOME OF THE HIGHT SCREECH EVER HEARD OM SGER UDO DIRKSCHNEIR. DID THAT RANGE E NATURALLY TO HIM?OH YEAH, UDO JT HAD AN SANELY HIGH VOICE – WAS AMAZG!LISTEN TO ACCEPT PERFORM 'TOO HIGH TO GET IT RIGHT'WERE YOU NSC OF HOW RACY ACCEPT'S LYRICS OFTEN SEEMED TO MANY AMERINS? OR WAS SEXUALY SOMETHG YOU GUYS SIMPLY DIDN'T THK ABOUT?I THK WE WANTED TO HAVE A CERTA SHOCK FACTOR, ALWAYS, AND TO TALK ABOUT SUBJECT MATTER THAT OTHER BANDS WEREN’T TALKG ABOUT, STEAD OF RECYCLG THE SAME OLD ROCK 'N' ROLL SUBJECTS. PL, BEG EUROPEAN I SUPPOSE WE WERE A LTLE MORE OPEN-MD ABOUT SEX ANYHOW, AND WH GABY WRG A LOT OF THOSE LYRICS, I’M SURE HER FEMALE PERSPECTIVE NFED SOME PEOPLE TO THKG WE WERE A GAY BAND – HA HA! AND WE DIDN’T RE. THE LAST THG WE WANTED WAS TO HAVE GENERIC LYRICS. WE WANTED TO BE A SER METAL BAND, SURE, BUT WE ALSO WANTED TO PROVOKE PEOPLE – MAKE THEM THK, ONE WAY OR ANOTHER.YOUR GUAR WORK HAS ALWAYS BEEN FILLED WH CLASSIL MIC FLUENC, BUT THEY SEEMED PECIALLY PREVALENT ON METAL HEART, PECIALLY ON THE TLE TRACK AND “BOUND TO FAIL.”YEAH, I N’T REMEMBER FOR SURE WHAT BROUGHT THIS ON, BUT I’VE ALWAYS DABBLED CLASSIL STUFF AND MAYBE JT CLICKED DURG THE RERDG OF METAL HEART. I’M PRETTY SURE DIDN’T E OM DIETER, BEE WE ALREADY HAD THOSE ELEMENTS THE MOS WE BROUGHT TO THE STUD. YOU SEE, WE HAD BEEN TOURG FOR MONTHS AND MONTHS BEHD BALLS TO THE WALL, AND THERE WAS SO MUCH ENERGY THE BAND, WE DIDN’T WANT TO GO HOME TO GERMANY. SO WE WOUND UP FDG A HOE VERMONT, OF ALL PLAC, AND DID ALL OF THE PRE-PRODUCTN THERE BEFORE MEETG UP WH DIETER TO RERD.ANY CURRENT PLANS VOLVG YOUR CLASSIL MIC TERTS?YEAH, I PUT OUT MY FIRST CLASSIL ALBUM SOME 15 YEARS AGO, AND I’M ACTUALLY FLYG OUT TO PRAGUE NEXT WEEK TO WORK ON THE NEXT ONE WH A SYMPHONY ORCHTRA. AND IF ALL GO WELL, THAT SHOULD E OUT LATER THIS YEAR. I N’T PROMISE WHEN I’LL FALLY FISH , BUT ’S ONLY A MATTER OF TIME NOW.LISTEN TO ACCEPT PERFORM 'BOUND TO FAIL'DO YOU SEE ANY PARALLELS BETWEEN METAL HEART AND ACCEPT’S MORE RECENT ALBUM, BLD RAGE?OH, YEAH. WE’RE STILL TRYG TO TELL GOOD STORI. STORI THAT TERT AND HOPEFULLY OTHER PEOPLE TOO. AND I THK OUR SOUND HAS BEE A TRAMARK THAT NNECTS BOTH ALBUMS, AND MOST OF THE OTHER ON WE’VE DONE.SO MANY OF THE NEW SONGS HARK BACK TO THE CLASSIC ACCEPT SOUND. “STAMPE” AND “BLOODBATH MASTERMD” HAVE THAT SIGNATURE ACCEPT SPEED METAL ATTACK, AND “FALL OF THE EMPIRE” IS ONE OF THOSE MAJTIC METAL ANTHEMS YOU GUYS ALMOST VENTED.WELL, NORMALLY, YOU PLAY TWO OR THREE NEW SONGS ON TOUR, BUT WE’VE BEEN PLAYG SIX OR SEVEN NEW SONGS FOR MUCH OF THE BLD RAGE TOUR. THAT’S QUE A LOT NSIRG OUR BACK TALOG, BUT THEY FEEL SO GREAT AND WE’VE PLAYED THEM SO MUCH, I’D SAY A LOT OF SONGS HAVE ALREADY PROVEN THEY N STAND THE TT OF TIME.HOW WOULD YOU PARE BLD RAGE WH THE OTHER ALBUMS YOU’VE RERD SCE MARK TORNILLO REPLACED UDO AS ACCEPT’S SGER?I THK BLD RAGE IS THE MOST MATURE ALBUM OUT OF THE THREE WE’VE DONE WH MARK. THE FIRST ONE, BLOOD OF THE NATNS, WAS PRETTY SPECIAL BEE WE HADN’T DONE ANY RERDS FOR SO LONG, AND THERE WAS SO MUCH ENERGY. THE SEND, STALGRAD, WAS A LTLE SHED, SO WE MA SURE TO GIVE OURSELV PLENTY OF TIME ON BLD RAGE. AND WE ULDN’T BE HAPPIER WH THE RULTS.DO YOU FEEL FANS HAVE FULLY ACCEPTED MARK, AS WELL?ABSOLUTELY. HE’S WELL TABLISHED NOW AS THE MAN ACCEPT, AND WE’VE BEEN GETTG A GREAT REACTN ALL OVER THE WORLD. AND, MAN, WE’VE DONE A LOT OF SHOWS TOGETHER TO PROVE OURSELV – NOT TO MENTN PUTTG OUR THREE ALBUMS FIVE YEARS, SO I THK WE’VE REALLY PROVEN TO THE FANS THAT WE MEAN BS.WATCH ACCEPT PERFORM 'STAMPE'COULD YOU EVER HAVE IMAGED THAT ACCEPT’S MIC AND HISTORIC ALBUMS LIKE METAL HEART WOULD ONE DAY QUALIFY AS A CLASSIC ROCK?HELL, NO! I DON’T KNOW IF WE REALLY F THAT TEGORY, THOUGH I’VE HEARD THE TERM "CLASSIC METAL" ED FOR AS WELL. FUNNY THG IS, WHEN WE STARTED, THE TERM “HEAVY METAL” WASN’T EVEN REALLY TABLISHED YET. WE JT SAW OURSELV AS A HARD ROCK BAND THE BEGNG. BUT OVER TIME WE OBVLY HELPED VELOP THAT SOUND, AND NOW OUR STYLE IS SO OLD-SCHOOL PARED TO WHAT THE KIDS ARE DOG NOWADAYS THAT MAY AS WELL BE LLED CLASSIC ROCK. AT THE END OF THE DAY, ’S JT AN HONOR FOR TO KNOW THAT FANS STILL LIKE . THEY N LL OUR MIC WHATEVER THEY LIKE!  THE TOP 50 HEAVY METAL ALBUMS

” Aga: there’s nothg Christiany hat more than gay. Udo: A lot of people say that was a gay song, but was not a gay song.

Nothg to do wh anythg gay. When we did the Balls to the Wall album, bee of the ver, all the people lled then a "gay metal band. This sgle was very ntroversial and the name of the song had the band tled as gay metal but was later that was found out that lyrilly the song was about how the opprsed will one day rise agast the opprsors.

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Pl, beg European I suppose we were a ltle more open-md about sex anyhow, and wh Gaby wrg a lot of those lyrics, I’m sure her female perspective nfed some people to thkg we were a gay band – ha ha! "A lot of people say that was a gay song, " lead sger Udo Dirkschneir told . "But was not a gay song.

"The Amerin album ver, which showed cross-sectn of a leather clad-biker wearg what looks like S&M gear and holdg a ball of some sort, was the impet for the gay mors. When we did the Balls to the Wall album, bee of the ver, all the people lled then a 'gay metal band, ' Udo said.