Blood of the Nations 2010

"Accept without Udo Dirkschneider? Does that really work? Well, it worked okay on "Eat The Heat" from 1989 which had American singer Dave Reece on vocals. Dave Reece was a fine singer, but his voice was perhaps a bit too typical for heavy metal singers at the time. New frontman Tornillo's voice is more in the same screechy department as that of Udo Dirkschneider or Brian Johnson of AC/DC without sounding exactly like those two famous "schreechers".

This certainly retains the "Acceptness" that was perhaps lacking on "Eat The Heat" - Tornillo also has a very powerful voice that allows him to really scream his head off, which suits the music very well (this is heavy metal after all; belting is more than welcome).

Musically, "Blood of Nations" contains solic good old fashioned heavy metal tunes, although some of them, like "Beat The Bastards" and "Locked And Loaded" are almost on the verge of being power metal tracks (then again, a lot of power metal is really just souped up traditional metal). There is some really wicked riffage on this album, and stand out tracks to me are "Teutonic Terror" (effing great title - I'll use it as a band name for one of my projects!), "The Abyss", "Blood of Nations", and "Rollin' Thunder".

Actually, this is traditional metal as Accept do best, and, provided that you can accept Accept without Udo Dirkschneider, this should be a hit with fans of the band, and fans of traditional metal in general will probably also love it.

(review originally posted on metalmusicarchives.com)"