Metal Heart

Artist: Accept
Label: Sony
Category: Music

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Media: Audio Cassette

UPC: 074643997447
EAN: 0074643997447
ASIN: B00000EH4S

Release Date: 1990-10-17

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Tracks:

Metal Heart
Midnight Mover
Up to the Limit
Wrong Is Right
Screaming for a Love-Bite
Too High to Get It Right
Dogs on Leads
Teach Us to Survive
Living for Tonite
Bound to Fail

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Balls to the Wall
Restless and Wild
Russian Roulette
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Holy Diver

Customer Reviews:

A good solid hard rock album.......2007-01-18

If you liked Balls to the Wall, you'll like this one too. Not as commercially accepted but just as much hard rocking.

Good old fashioned smash mouth metal!!.......2006-09-29

Accept totally rocks with aggressive sounding tunes and a massive wall of thick guitar tone. Udo is a unique vocalist to say the least, but it all comes together here perfectly. The twin guitar attack is to die for and the pounding rhythm section is full at right on the money. Gene Simmons from Kiss thought these guys kicked some serious butt back then and he wasn't wrong! Yes this is 80's metal at it's gnarly best!!

This release along with Balls To The Wall are their best cd's.

Lifeless piece of steel!.......2005-04-15

After listening to this album for so long i finally got a chance to review this wicked work of metal goodness.

Metal Heart was Accept's 6th album and probably the slickest effort they ever released.For the first time Accept were getting a taste of superstardom that another german band,The Scorpions, had already been enjoying for a number of years now. Metal Heart saw Accept as headliners for the first time ever and were now argueably the best metal band in the 85-86 time period.You can talk all you want about Iron Maiden,Judas Preist,Dio-whatever about being the top metal acts of the 80's, but to me these guys were by-far the greatest heavy metal group of the 1980's.I seriously doubt that any band at the time had the virtous skills that these krauts possesed, Wolf Hoffman could of made Murray and Smith (of Maiden) sound poor.Stephan Kauffmann was the fastest metal drumer prior to Dave Lombardo of Slayer. And of course Udo's singing was something i have always loved.

Metal Heart is a fine choice if you are gonna start with on of Accept's albums.It is a commercial one for sure but i feel it is probably the best album they ever made. The title track alone is worth the price of this album,the song Metal Heart has a riff that chuggs along like a panzer.There is also the inexcapable dance metal of MidNightMover.It is important to know that this came out in the prime of the MTV hair metal age, so the move towards commercial metal was to be expected but this was still heavier then anything else being released at the time by those pathetic american pop metal groups.

MetalHeart 10/10, the opening track is one of the heaviest songs they ever wrote,very classicaly influenced and prophetic lyrics about mankinds future.

MidNightMover 10/10, the grooviest track on the album. It was a hit single and it got a video that made you puke from being dizzy.

Up to the Limit 10/7, an average song by Accept standards that is still pretty good.

Wrong is Right 10/11, WOW! this is the fastest song on the album! Udo's bloodcurdling scream kicks it off and it is the closest song to being almost thrash in structer.

Screaming for a Love-bite, 10/9 a infectious song with weird lyrics.

Too High to Get it Right, 10/6 This sounds just a little too much like AC/DC for my taste.

Dogs on Leads, 10/8 a very good song with a slow moody build up that turns into a flat out anthemic rocker.

Teach us to Survive 10/8 not a bad song at all, has some interesting toe tapping beats and the bass gets funky at times.

Livin for Tonight 10/10 Awesome song, it sounds like the Scorpions Big City Nights. It is a strait out @ss kicker with some raspy vocals courtesy of the Tank.

Bound to Fail 10/10 the last song on the album goes out with a bang. From the killer street gang chants in the background to Hoffmanns amazing solo, this is one of the stongest songs on here and a perfect way to close a perfect album.

Accept doesn't get much credit and that is a shame, not many people know about them. It's been twenty years almost since this was released, so why not go pick it up and discover a true metal classic? Accept have also recenty reunited, so that should be a very welcomed reunion indeed. In this age of Linkin park, Slipknot, Jessica Simpson, Black Eyed Peas, Ipods and countless other trendy crap that pollutes the braindead masses, i think this world needs an Accept reunion and tour.

We are glad to have The Tank and his soilders back once again to crush the opposition.

Peace out.

"It's black & blue and it happened to you".......2005-04-15

Accept was the German Judas Priest in the 1980s. They offered the blistering duo guitar assault of Wolf Hoffman and Hermann Frank and the high, raw vocals of Udo Dirkschneider. They released two amazing metal masterpieces before their sixth album Metal Heart (Restless and Wild and Balls to the Wall). Metal Heart came out in 1985 the year after their most famous album Balls to the Wall. To capitalize on their enhanced fame, producer Dieter Dirks (of Scorpions fame) was enlisted to give Metal Heart a more commercial sound and extra sense of melody. More change took place when Jorg Fischer replaced Frank on guitar. Accept's music began to move away from the dark intensity of their previous two records. Though the potential was there for this album to mark a giant fall from the metal mountain top, it ended up being another solid album that offers some amazing tracks.

The title track is solid and was inspired by Tschaikowski and Beethoven (so says the album cover). It sounds a little dated with the "It is 1999..." opening verse but it is one of Accept's better tracks. "Midnight Mover" moves towards the more pop metal sound. I love this track! It is catchy as heck! It is my favorite track on side one. "Up to the Limit" is solid guitar metal. It stands out to me because the guitarists moved in sequence during the verses in the live show I saw on video. It made the song, which I considered average, cooler. "Wrong is Right" flies! It is an adrenaline pumper. "Screaming for a Love Bite" is another thing all together. It has comical lyrics about a vicious hickey on the neck. It is also very pop metal but not the good kind like "Midnight Mover." It seems more of a novelty to me, so I don't take it all that seriously, though I like the guitar in it.

Side two, at first, seems rather dull. I like the opening track "Too High to Get It Right" although it doesn't blow me away. The next two songs don't stand out. "Teach Us to Survive" is a little interesting in that it has a James Bond film sound. "Dogs on Leads" has the customary raw lyrics, but musically is unmemorable. Luckily, Metal Heart ends on two high notes. "Living for Tonite" flat out rocks! It is my favorite on the album. It is got an incredible beat. "Bound to Fail" is a killer track! Awesome number to go out on! They are why I give this album a solid 4-star grade. Well over half these songs are quality (7 out of 10). Two of the lesser tracks are not so much bad as they are unremarkable. "Screaming..." is more silly than terrible. Metal Heart was Accept's last exceptional release. Their next album, Russian Roulette, was not be quite up to snuff and Udo would leave the band after that to start his own project U.D.O. only to return in the early 1990s when alternative music ruled. Recommended for those like me who liked it better in the 1980s when metal ruled.

For metalhearts like myself.......2005-01-23

Ehy you brother metalheart! You that grew up in the eighties. I know you already know this masterpiece and I don't want to teach you nothing ! I know you know how great this album is, no matter what you could think of Udo's voice. I just want to say to you brother to brother that rediscover this album is a pure JOY !!! ... This album defines heavy metal. Not trash, not speed, not hard, not glamour, nothing else. Just pure classic metal the way it was intended to be. Heavy metal. How sweet it is for an old metalheart like me rediscover this album and playing it at the highest volume possible?! Fantastic!! It refreshes you, it sets you fee, it makes you scream !! A perfect medicine to shake a little bit these years we are living now full of bull...t. Once you were a metalheart you'll be one forever even if you like me have grown up a lot and now you listen to VERY different music .. but.. Metal Heart !!!

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