ACCEPT — Metal Heart

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Album · 1985

Filed under Heavy Metal
By ACCEPT

Tracklist

1. Metal Heart (5:24)
2. Midnight Mover (3:06)
3. Up to the Limit (3:47)
4. Wrong Is Right (3:08)
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 (5:07)

Total Time: 39:59

Line-up/Musicians

- Udo Dirkschneider / vocals
- Wolf Hoffmann /guitars, electric sitar, backing vocals
- Jörg Fischer / guitars, backing vocals
- Peter Baltes / bass, keyboards, backing vocals
- Stefan Kaufmann / drums

About this release

Release date: March 4th 1985.
Label: Portrait (US) RCA (Europe)

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Warthur
Metal Heart would see Accept achieve the perfect fusion of the fast, furious, aggressive style they pioneered on Breaker and the more anthemic chant-along style they brought out on Balls To the Wall, yielding a true classic which seems less beholden to their influences like Judas Priest. If there is a distinctive, definitively "Accept" sound, it is to be found here.

Dieter Dierks deserves at least some of the credit for his production and arrangements. In the long run, it's probably best that Accept and Dierks parted ways after this - Udo Dirkschneider has said that Dierks wanted to make the band sound more like Scorpions, which I feel would have been a mistake - his assistance here is just what the band needed to produce a thumping classic, a perfect fusion of catchy accessibility on the one hand and raw, violent passion on the other.
Time Signature
Screaming for metal...

Genre: traditional heavy metal

"Metal Heart" is probably not as good nor as important as "Balls to the Wall", but it is still a great metal album, which certainly has deserved its status as a rock music classic.

The album is teeming with all those elements that make for good traditional 80s metal, such as catchy choruses, catchy and energetic guitar riffs, solos which are both chaotic and virtuosic, pumping bass patterns and a big reverb-ladden drum sounds (and, of course, everything is on the brink of being drowned in reverb, which is one of the few things I don't like about 80s metal).

In any case, fans of traditional heavy metal should love this album, and I think that fans of power metal and, perhaps, also glam metal might appreciate it since, Accept do also draw musically on those two genres to some extent.

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