Balls to the Wall

Occupation

• Udo Dirk Schneider - vocals
• Herman Frank - guitar, backing vocals
• Wolf Hoffmann - guitar, backing vocals
• Peter Baltes - bass guitar, backing vocals
• Stefan Kaufmann - drums

Balls to the Wall is the fifth album by German heavy metal band Accept. The label Lark Records released the album in December 1983. It is the best-known and best-selling Accept album, it sold two million albums worldwide and in America and Canada there has ever been a gold award for it.

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The cover of the album, showing the part of a male lower body with short leather pants, brought in connection with the piece London Leatherboys the musicians a rumor to be gay.

Reception

The album reached number 50 in Germany, the U.S. space 74 The critic Martin Popoff declared Balls to the Wall as one of the greatest heavy metal albums of the 1980s. He praised the smooth production, the guitar riffs and strong melodies. The magazine Rock Hard put the album on the 114th place his selected by the editors list of the 500 best rock and metal albums. Marcus Schleutermann described the title track as the best song Accept " at all ". London Leather Boys also had " a blast of similar quality ." In the former book was the editor of the magazine, Holger Stratmann, the ballad Winter Dreams criticized - it could also run with Dieter Thomas Heck in the ZDF hit parade. Nevertheless, he had then awarded 8.5 out of ten.

Title list

All songs were written by Accept and Deaffy (aka Gaby Hoffman ).

Published in 2001, re-mastered version of Sony additionally contains live versions of Head over Heels and Love Child; which published in 2002, also re-mastered version of BMG live versions of Head over heels and up to the Limit.