Eat the Heat

Occupation

Eat the Heat is the eighth studio album by the German heavy metal band Accept. It was published in 1989 on RCA Records. Up until the release of Blood of the Nations 2010 it was Accepts only album without singer Udo Dirk Schneider.

Formation and style

Once again the album was recorded in the studios of Dieter Dierks in Stommeln, this time again with its production, in the period September 1988 to January 1989. Though with Jim Stacey, a second guitarist was committed, who also played on tour, Wolf Hoffmann took over, according to the Cover the guitars themselves musically fit to the songwriting, both new singer David Reece as well as the commercial time taste the band and thus withdrew a little way from earlier publications.

Reception

Eat the Heat made ​​it in Germany at number 15, in the U.S. at number 139 Vincent Jeffries of Allmusic.com awarded 1.5 stars out of five. He wrote to the new singer: "Filling in for a legend, Especially one as unique as Reece's predecessor, is a risky business, and the American wailer does not do much to help his cause as he never injects a personality of his own ." However, songwriting and production were criticized. Holger Stratmann wrote for Rock Hard, the quintet had " the bandwidth expanded to include more commercial rockers like Chain Reaction and Prisoner what the group really good to face" stand. Eat The Heat is " an album that must be taken seriously! " Lars Strutz of Powermetal.de wrote on the 2002 Remaster published if you approach it with an open mind would, Eat the Heat was " one of the hottest boards that have ever been ignored. If you get used to the output such as Restless and Wild and Balls to the Wall, is for an Accept, as you know, just gone. " Metal Hammer wrote, Accept succeed " on Eat the Heat something that especially the domestic competition ( with the exception of the Scorpions ) so far failed miserably " is: " to be advanced from German soil in quintessentially American rock realm and to have the new Accept- hard rockers alike well served as the Accept- old banger ".

Title list

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

CD version

Vinyl version

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