Russian Roulette (Accept album)

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

Russian Roulette is the seventh studio album by the German heavy metal band Accept. It was released in March 1986 Portrait Records. There was some critics as the last " classic " album of the band, while others have already noted the looming breakup of the band.

Formation and style

Russian Roulette was taken as its predecessor in the studios of Dieter Dierks in Stommeln, however, the band produced themselves this time the plate was Remixed by Michael Wagener. During the recordings, it already came to creative differences in the band. Wolf Hoffmann wanted to pursue the chosen course, singer Udo Dirk Schneider, however, are based on the rougher sound of earlier albums.

Reception

The album reached number 5 in Germany - to the Blood of the Nations highest chart entry of the band - in the U.S. space 114 Eduardo Rivadavia of Allmusic.com awarded 2.5 stars out of five. He wrote that the album see "the once- unstoppable quintet physically exhausted and creatively tapped out, and the inevitable result was a disappointing and unfocused album ". Alex Straka of Powermetal.de called the album " the last bona fide classic from Accept ", the " mass adorable material at the start" have. Unlike Metal Heart was the album " failed extremely bleak and offered just at Russian Roulette and Heaven Is Hell a page from Accept that there were so not to marvel at. Finster and atmospheric incredibly dense, these metal monsters rolling across the battlefield. "

Title list

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

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