Metal Heart

By this time in the world of Accept, the power struggle reached it's initial stages. On one side you had guitarist Wolf Hoffman and Bassist Peter Baltes along with new Producer Dieter Dierks who were trying to push the band into a more commercial direction and on the other side Lead Singer Udo Dirkschneider and drummer Stefan Kauffman who wanted to keep things more aggressive and the returning Jorg Fisher who was now caught in the middle. Even with the battle lines drawn, the results were still one of the best Metal albums of the decade. Kicking off with the epic title track, "Metal Heart" charges out of the gate with doom-laden sitars and chugging guitars over a pounding drumbeat. Next up is the more commercial sounding "Midnight Mover" which I feel is an underrated classic with a big chorus before going back to the more aggressive "Up To The Limit" and "Wrong is Right" before coming into the lost gem of the record with "Screaming For a Love Bite". Terrible title I know but MAN what a riff and such a great big chorus. I remember picking this up for the first time at the old Backstreet Records in Indiana, PA around 2004 and cranking this as loud as I could. The second side is a bit weaker, but I'd hardly call it a drawback. The first side was just so good so what you have here leftover is still really good music, specifically the groove on "Too High To Get It Right". This reissue throws in some bonus live cuts as well which flow rather nicely with the rest of the record. Arguably the last "Great" Accept record until the arrival of Mark Tornillo in 2009, this is a MUST-OWN for all headbangers everywhere.

Of the big 3 must own Accept albums I must say that this one and Restless are neck and neck for the best. Balls is a close third but you really need all 3 and maybe a single song downloads of BULLETPROOF and SON OF A BIT*H and you'll have Accept bout covered. Accept are easier to dismiss than most with their silly lyrics that are down right hiliarious at times but doing so is at ones own loss. This band is plan and simple a pleasure to listen too and VERY high quality on the big 3 albums. I saw these dudes in concert way back in the day and it is absolutely not an arguement that UDO is one of the best lead singers metal has seen. That little camo clad troll on stage is CLASSIC in every sense of the word. You cannot define underated metal band any better than Accept. Period.

Metal Heart is one of the first Accept albums I heard. Beware, it isn't as heavy as Balls To The Wall or fast as Restless And Wild, but Metal Heart is a classic in its own right. The title track doesn't disappoint. Hoffman's solo is amazing on this one, still one of the most underrated guitarists in metal. "Midnight Mover" a shot at mainstream metal at the time. It is still a good track just doesn't pack the same punch as the previous track and the next one. "Up To The Limit" is energetic and just downright fun and catchy to listen to. The beat is great. "Wrong Is Right" catchy riff, Udo screaming! What isn't to love about this track!? "Screaming For A Love Bite" Honestly, I hate love songs, ballads, dumb chorus shouts about love and all, but I LOVE THIS TRACK! "Too High To Get It Right" A good heavy metal song. Nothing really technical or too impressive on this track. But the next track is beyond great. "Dogs On Leads" The highest moment on the album. Udo softly speaks his verses. Then BOOM!! Hoffman comes in. Kaufmann adds power with the drums! And the chorus is powerful. A great track and one of their best songs ever. "Teach Us To Survive" Reminds me of James Bond every time I hear the opening. I don't know what to make of the lyrics really. "Living For Tonight" Another shot at radio play, but honestly has some nice guitar work from Mr. Hoffman yet again. Udo's vocals sound as gritty as ever on this one. "Bound To Fail" Right from the start SOLO! A great track to close this classic heavy metal album. With Metal Heart, you might be Bound To Fail. But while you have some life left in you, Live For Tonight and crank this bad boy up!!

Monster guitar tones and excellent vocals. Metal at its finest! Recommended!

I'm a lifelong metalhead and a big fan of German metal band Accept. This album is such an incredible chunk of metal from the opening track to the final song. This album and the era from which it comes captures the band at the height of its metal power. These guys killed it in the 1980s. I'm thrilled to add it to my collection.

I think this is a better overall cd than balls to the wall. Probly the best from the udo era.

A great Metal album by a German 1980's metal band called Accept, In case your wondering, the metal genre of music is basically, vary hard rock music. Anyway this is an outstanding album by the band Accept that came out in (1985) Is is not their first album, but one of the most successful mainstream seller in the 1980's for this band. This is a great choice for 1980's metal. I highly recommend this album to any metal/(vary hard rock) fan or liker This album has metal type of music all the way through it, with few to no lighter rock moments. It also has fantastic electric guitar and bass as well as drums and great vocals that sound similar to Brian Johnson's voice from AC/DC band. This band is vary great at what they put out in their albums I would recommend all of Accept band's albums if I were you and another music collector. this album has 10 songs on it and is about 39 minutes long.

1985/Oasis Ballroom/Sacramento, CA I was thinking about all the underrated bands that have made great music throughout their career, Accept is one of those bands. 'Metal Heart' is one of those albums. Great Songs Song order is perfect Udo is Udo Metal Heart is as strong of an album Today, as it was 36 years ago

C'est l'âge d'or du metal. Alors même les vilains petits canards, ces teutons menés par un gnome au timbre abrasif par exemple, semblent tout oser, et tout réussir. Pour Accept, dont les deux précédents opus avaient fait sérieusement grimper la réputation ( Restless And Wild et Balls to the walls ), l'aeuvre est venue de récolter les lauriers de leur dur labeur avec ce qui est, sûrement, le début de la fin de leur période de gloire, Metal Heart. Evidemment, il y a l'énorme classique d'ouverture et son ambiance quasi-opératique, son solo, du six-cordiste en chef, Wolf Hoffmann, empruntant la Lettre à Elise de Beethoven, celui-là est rigoureusement inattaquable jusque dans le chant possédé d'un Udo Dirkschneider qui a, certes, beaucoup à voir avec Brian Johnson (d'AC/DC, évidemment) mais sait user de son organe éraillé dans un tout autre registre avec un vrai savoir-faire. Parce qu'Accept est un vrai groupe de heavy metal, de ceux qui frappent fort, riffent dru, balancent du solo épique à gogo, bref, remplissent précautionneusement chaque case du cahier des charges du bon metal d'alors. Mais Accept a aussi sa propre identité, son propre son avec, notamment, outre cet Udo tellement atypique dans un domaine souvent réservé aux vocalistes techniques et lyriques (sur le modèle d'un Rob Halford ou d'un Bruce Dickinson), une propension à pondre du refrain à reprendre en chaeur par des voix mâles et fières (un peu fête de la bière à Munich mais effet baeuf garanti, particulièrement en concert), un habitude qui perdurera chez pas mal de leur compatriotes dont, le plus fameux, chez Helloween . Cependant, c'est quand ils surprennent, osent s'éloigner du pré-carré qu'on leur connaît, qu'Accept nous prennent de court par leur talent, ici sur un Teach Us to Survive aux relents rockabilly aussi inattendus que satisfaisants. Le reste est d'une impeccable efficacité à défaut d'offrir quelque nouveauté que ce soit dans le répertoire de la formation, il y aurait même, ces fichus refrains encore, un petit côté radiophonique... Enfin, si la personnalité vocale du gnome précité n'était pas si peu compatible avec ce genre de choses, mais, tout de même, reconnaissons que Midnight Mover, Screaming for a Love-Bite ou Living for Tonite ne sont pas exempts de ces tentations. Ailleurs, Accept sait "envoyer du bois" comme sur les costauds et bien troussés Wrong Is Right ou Bound to Fail, mais parfois aussi s'approcher d'AC/DC sur un Too High to Get It Right où ils rockent comme si leur vie en dépendait. Hélas, ce sera le dernier coup d'éclat d'Accept dans cette formation et dans les années 80, dès le successeur d'icelui, Russian Roulette (Remaster Edition) , la mayonnaise prendra moins. Mais, présentement, tout ceci nous donne un album supra-efficace, un authentique classique aussi où les cinq teutons ne révolutionnent rien mais font avec talent, assurance et énergie. Comme c'était exactement ce qu'on attendait d'eux, on recommande ce Metal Heart justement passé à la postérité. 1. Metal Heart 5:24 2. Midnight Mover 3:06 3. Up to the Limit 3:47 4. Wrong Is Right 3:09 5. Screaming for a Love-Bite 4:05 6. Too High to Get It Right 3:47 7. Dogs on Leads 4:24 8. Teach Us to Survive 3:33 9. Living for Tonite 3:34 10. Bound to Fail 5:06 Bonus 11. Love Child (Live) 4:49 12. Living for Tonite (Live) 3:50 Udo Dirkschneider - lead vocals, harmony vocals (4, 9, 10), backing vocals (1, 8), finger snapping (8) Wolf Hoffmann - lead & rhythm guitars (all except 9), rhythm guitar (9), acoustic guitar (1, 10), backing vocals (1, 6, 7, 10), sitar (1) Jörg Fischer - rhythm guitar (all except 4, 9), lead & rhythm guitars (4, 9), 8-string bass (3), backing vocals (1, 6, 7, 10), finger snapping (8) Peter Baltes - bass, Moog Taurus (1, 5, 7, 10), 8-string bass (1, 8, 10), backing vocals (1, 6, 7, 10), harmony vocals (2, 5), acoustic bass guitar (8) Stefan Kaufmann - drums, backing vocals (1, 6, 7, 10), timpani (1, 8, 10), cymbals and gongs (1), drum effects and gang vocals (3) 4,5/5

Superbe album d'accept ,emmené par UDO son chanteur et tout le groupe au meilleur de sa forme. Envois impeccable et rapide.

"Metal Heart" degli Accept, rilasciato nel 1985, è un album che ha definito una generazione di metal tedesco, mostrando una band al picco della sua creatività e della sua maestria tecnica. Con una miscela di melodie accattivanti, riff taglienti e l'indimenticabile voce di Udo Dirkschneider, questo album è un pilastro nella discografia degli Accept e nel panorama heavy metal in generale. Senza esagerare, uno dei più belli e brillanti album di heavy metal tedesco di sempre (insieme ad altri degli Accept). La magia di "Metal Heart" è ulteriormente amplificata dalla maestria dei chitarristi Wolf Hoffmann e Jörg Fischer. La loro abilità nel creare riff memorabili e assoli di chitarra incandescenti e ricchi di lirismo è evidente in tutto l'album, fornendo una colonna sonora potente per la voce distintiva di Udo. L'interplay tra Hoffmann e Fischer è eccellente, con una combinazione di ritmiche serrate e assoli melodici che mostrano una comprensione profonda della dinamica musicale. La sezione ritmica, composta da Peter Baltes al basso e Stefan Kaufmann alla batteria, è il motore che alimenta l'energia di "Metal Heart". Baltes e Kaufmann creano una fondamenta ritmica solida e pulsante che permette alle chitarre e alla voce di brillare. La loro performance è precisa, puntuale e potente, fornendo il giusto equilibrio tra aggressività e groove che è fondamentale per il suono degli Accept. Il disco si apre con la spettacolare title track Metal Heart, tripudio metallico trionfale che si eleva grazie al maestoso coro e all'assolo strabiliante di Wolff Hoffman. Un inno metallico indimenticabile. Midnight Mover è un brano energico con un ritmo contagioso. La chitarra guida la canzone con riff accattivanti e un assolo fulminante. Up to the Limit mostra la grinta e l'energia grezza degli Accept, con un ritmo frenetico e un coro che invita al pugno alzato. Wrong Is Right è un altro brano veloce e aggressivo, con il riff principale che cattura l'attenzione e una performance vocale intensa da parte di Udo. Screaming for a Love-Bite apre il cielo con la sua potenza melodica e mostra la versatilità della band, con un coro orecchiabile e una struttura musicale solidissima. Performance musicale potente e riflessiva è invece Too High to Get It Right. Le influenze hard rock e gli assolo fulminanti proseguono con Dogs on Leads e Living for Tonite. La velocità di esecuzione e le eccellenti dinamiche chitarristiche della band attraversano Teach Us to Survive e chiudono con Bound to Fail. La produzione di "Metal Heart" è cristallina, frizzante, con un suono che mantiene la sua freschezza e potenza anche dopo tanti anni dalla sua uscita. L'artwork dell'album, con il suo cuore metallico stilizzato, è iconico e rappresenta perfettamente l'essenza del combo tedesco. In conclusione, "Metal Heart" è un album che ogni appassionato di heavy metal dovrebbe possedere nella sua collezione. Con una serie di brani che sono diventati classici del genere e una performance che mostra una band al suo apice, "Metal Heart" degli Accept è una testimonianza della loro posizione come una delle band heavy metal più influenti del loro tempo.

Este cd de los alemanes es el remasterizado, por lo que viene con temas en directo añadidos al cd original. Para mi, superior al Ball To The Walls (y mira que la canción en sí es de las mejores). Recomiendo altamente este cd (y el grupo en sí) para quien quiera conocer el verdadero heavy metal teutón de los ochenta. Siempre me fascinaron los grandes coros que poseían y las guitarras marca de la casa.

"Metal Heart", ich hatte es bisher nur als Vinyl, aber für den angebotenen Preis 3 CD's für 15,--€ hab ichs mal mitbestellt. Diese Scheibe ist zusammen mit der "Restless and Wild" mein "All Time Favourite" von Accept. Metal Heart kommt nicht mit soviel brachialer Gewalt daher, wie die Restless, dafür sind die Songs ausgefeilter, und künstlerisch auf höherem Niveau. Der absolute Höhepunkt ist allerdings schon mit der ersten Nummer, "Metal Heart" dem Titelsong erreicht... sowohl bei Accept als auch bei U.D.O. auf jedem Konzert in der Setlist! Die weiteren absoluten Bringer auf dieser CD sind "Up To The Limit", "Screaming For A Love Bite", Dogs On Leads" und "Living For Tonite" die allesamt als Klassiker der Bandgeschichte gesehen werden dürfen. Auch "Bound to Fall" würde ich diese Kategorie stellen, allerdings ist dieses Stück nicht so bekannt wie der Rest und daher obwohl sehr geil nicht als Klassiker zu sehen. "Midnight Mover", "Wrong is Right", "To High To Get It Right" und "Teach Us To Survive" fallen im Vergleich zu den erstgenannten Tracks ein wenig ab, sind aber immer noch hochklassige Stücke. Die beiden Live Bonus Tracks "Love Child" und "Living For Tonight" Aufnahmen die, während einer Japan Tour, in Nagoya entstanden, sind eine nette Zugabe. Diese Platte/CD sollte in keiner Sammlung fehlen. Sie ist ein Meilenstein der 80er. Wer Accept nicht kennt, für den ist diese Scheibe, zusammen mit der Restless and Wild, das "Beginners-Set".