Metal Heart

Occupation

• Udo Dirk Schneider - vocals
• Wolf Hoffmann - guitar, backing vocals, sitar
• Jörg Fischer - guitar, backing vocals
• Peter Baltes - bass guitar, backing vocals
• Stefan Kaufmann - drums

Metal Heart is the sixth studio album by the German heavy metal band Accept. It was published in May 1985 by Polydor. It is considered as the predecessor as "classics" in the catalog of the band.

Formation and style

Metal Heart was the first Accept album, which was produced by Dieter Dierks himself, even though the band had already recorded previously in his studios in Stommeln. It contains more classic songs such as the title track or Living for Tonite. The band refined developed on Balls to the Wall style and added later described as typical elements Accept details such as male choirs or trips to the classical music added. With Teach Us to Survive the band ventured also an excursion into jazzy realms. For the band, it was also about to be successful in the U.S. market, but this was only a very limited extent.

Reception

The album reached number 13 in Germany, the U.S. space Eduardo Rivadavia 94 of Allmusic.com awarded 4.5 out of five stars and called the album " a winning set". Alex wrote Straka of Powermetal.de, the album was " a very strong output, perhaps the strongest Accept- recorded music at all. "

Title list

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