News Latest News from Ultimate-Guitar.Com. en-US Copyright 1998-2026 Ultimate-Guitar.Com. All rights reserved. https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/modules/rss/news.xml.php?artist=2027 Thu, 16 Oct 2025 20:06:55 -0400 Thu, 03 Aug 2017 21:00:14 -0400 60 Ultimate-Guitar.Com https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/static/_img/logo_trans.png https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/modules/rss/news.xml.php?artist=2027 144 44 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/wolf-hoffmann-recalls-how-accept-created-thrash-metal-with-one-song-we-didnt-really-want-to-start-a-whole-genre https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/wolf-hoffmann-recalls-how-accept-created-thrash-metal-with-one-song-we-didnt-really-want-to-start-a-whole-genre Music News: "We didn't want to take it to more extremes. But it's a huge honour to find out later that it influenced so many people."]]> Thu, 16 Oct 2025 20:06:55 -0400 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/metal_isnt_big_in_the_us_accept_frontman_says_record_companies_dont_promote_it_properly.html https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/metal_isnt_big_in_the_us_accept_frontman_says_record_companies_dont_promote_it_properly.html Music News: "It's kind of not the main attraction here."]]> Thu, 26 Sep 2024 18:52:16 -0400 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/accept_resume_work_on_new_album.html https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/accept_resume_work_on_new_album.html Music News: No info on when it will come out tho. ]]> Sun, 13 Aug 2023 18:08:25 -0400 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/accept_begin_demoing_new_material_for_17th_studio_album.html https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/accept_begin_demoing_new_material_for_17th_studio_album.html Music News: "We're currently recording demo versions of the songs we have written so far."]]> Fri, 30 Jun 2023 22:50:08 -0400 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/ex-accept_bassist_opens_up_on_why_he_left_the_band_too_many_things_were_just_bad.html https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/ex-accept_bassist_opens_up_on_why_he_left_the_band_too_many_things_were_just_bad.html Music News: "The problem was always between Wolf and his wife and Udo."]]> Mon, 26 Jun 2023 15:12:41 -0400 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/ex-accept_bassist_confirms_hes_played_on_mick_mars_upcoming_solo_album_opens_up_on_his_split_from_the_band.html https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/ex-accept_bassist_confirms_hes_played_on_mick_mars_upcoming_solo_album_opens_up_on_his_split_from_the_band.html Music News: "I got to record a lot of different albums."]]> Thu, 15 Jun 2023 21:49:38 -0400 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/accepts_wolf_hoffmann_updates_on_status_of_bands_next_album_says_more_than_half_is_written.html https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/accepts_wolf_hoffmann_updates_on_status_of_bands_next_album_says_more_than_half_is_written.html Music News: "I'm sitting here every day working on songs."]]> Fri, 09 Jun 2023 00:00:03 -0400 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/accept_release_samson_and_delilah_video_featuring_ava-rebekah_rahman_on_violin.html https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/accept_release_samson_and_delilah_video_featuring_ava-rebekah_rahman_on_violin.html Music News: "For a few shows, violinist Ava-Rebekah Rahman joined us to perform a never heard version of 'Samson And Delilah' to a mesmerized audience!"]]> Wed, 31 May 2023 21:43:14 -0400 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/accepts_wolf_hoffman_speaks_up_on_band_still_playing_old_songs_in_original_key_praises_singer_mark_tornillo.html https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/accepts_wolf_hoffman_speaks_up_on_band_still_playing_old_songs_in_original_key_praises_singer_mark_tornillo.html Music News: "Because a key is a key, and as soon as you drop the key, it changes the mood of the song."]]> Sun, 23 Apr 2023 23:08:30 -0400 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/ex-accept_bassist_officially_joins_udo_dirkschneiders_two_bands_udo_and_dirkschneider.html https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/ex-accept_bassist_officially_joins_udo_dirkschneiders_two_bands_udo_and_dirkschneider.html Music News: "I have a very long friendship with Peter Baltes which has never been shadowed by the disagreements with Accept over the past few years."]]> Sat, 15 Apr 2023 16:01:22 -0400 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/udo_dirkschneider_says_his_band_udo_is_more_accept_than_accept_is_at_the_moment.html https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/udo_dirkschneider_says_his_band_udo_is_more_accept_than_accept_is_at_the_moment.html Music News: "I don't wanna say anything wrong..."]]> Mon, 03 Apr 2023 16:38:22 -0400 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/accepts_wolf_hoffmann_relaunches_wolf_guitar_lair_youtube_channel.html https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/accepts_wolf_hoffmann_relaunches_wolf_guitar_lair_youtube_channel.html Music News: Time for some old-school music lessons. ]]> Thu, 30 Mar 2023 21:23:06 -0400 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/wolf_hoffman_talks_next_accept_album_reveals_hes_working_on_his_first_solo_album_since_2016.html https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/wolf_hoffman_talks_next_accept_album_reveals_hes_working_on_his_first_solo_album_since_2016.html Music News: "This whole pandemic time was not my most creative time."]]> Mon, 18 Jul 2022 17:29:58 -0400 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/accept_announce_fall_us_tour_with_narcotic_wasteland.html https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/accept_announce_fall_us_tour_with_narcotic_wasteland.html Music News: "After two difficult years, I am very much looking forward to returning to the USA and playing in front of our American friends again."]]> Tue, 14 Jun 2022 00:06:34 -0400 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/accept_guitarist_speaks_on_strange_way_scorpions_behaved_when_it_comes_to_his_band_they_never_acknowledged_us.html https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/accept_guitarist_speaks_on_strange_way_scorpions_behaved_when_it_comes_to_his_band_they_never_acknowledged_us.html Music News: "We always felt it a little odd that they almost were a little afraid of our competition," Wolf Hoffmann commented.]]> Tue, 26 Jan 2021 09:01:07 -0500 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/accept_guitarist_reflects_on_dark_time_in_bands_history_explains_bizarre_aspect_of_controversial_album.html https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/accept_guitarist_reflects_on_dark_time_in_bands_history_explains_bizarre_aspect_of_controversial_album.html Music News: "I don't even like to think about it so much," Wolf Hoffmann said.]]> Mon, 11 Jan 2021 18:48:00 -0500 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/accept_guitarist_recalls_how_sebastian_bach_behaved_during_collab_he_yells_at_you_the_whole_time.html https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/accept_guitarist_recalls_how_sebastian_bach_behaved_during_collab_he_yells_at_you_the_whole_time.html Music News: "He's a crazy ***," Wolf Hoffmann said about the Skid Row singer.]]> Wed, 09 Dec 2020 08:57:11 -0500 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/community_feed/accept_to_release_new_album_in_january_release_music_video_for_lead_single_the_undertaker.html https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/community_feed/accept_to_release_new_album_in_january_release_music_video_for_lead_single_the_undertaker.html Community Feed: ]]> Mon, 05 Oct 2020 09:55:42 -0400 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/community_feed/david_reece_what_it_was_like_replacing_udo_dirkschneider_in_accept.html https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/community_feed/david_reece_what_it_was_like_replacing_udo_dirkschneider_in_accept.html Community Feed: ]]> Sat, 21 Mar 2020 13:16:19 -0400 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/community_feed/accept_now_have_a_third_guitarist_his_name_is_philip_shouse.html https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/community_feed/accept_now_have_a_third_guitarist_his_name_is_philip_shouse.html Community Feed: German/American metallers Accept are getting ready for two upcoming North American dates this week on November 8 at the Arcada Theater in St. Charles, Illionis and November 10 at the Foamhenge festival in Houston, Texas.]]> Tue, 05 Nov 2019 10:49:11 -0500 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/wolf_hoffmann_reveals_his_favorite_album_from_the_new_accept_era.html https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/wolf_hoffmann_reveals_his_favorite_album_from_the_new_accept_era.html Music News: "People were just gossiping like crazy. But then when the album came out, all that went away," the guitarist says.]]> Tue, 25 Dec 2018 19:44:14 -0500 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/community_feed/accept_part_ways_with_founding_bassist_peter_baltes.html https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/community_feed/accept_part_ways_with_founding_bassist_peter_baltes.html Community Feed: Blabbermouth.net reports that Accept's founding bassist Peter Baltes has announced his exit from the band.]]> Wed, 28 Nov 2018 10:32:19 -0500 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/community_feed/accepts_wolf_hoffmann_andy_sneap_is_the_number_one_metal_producer.html https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/community_feed/accepts_wolf_hoffmann_andy_sneap_is_the_number_one_metal_producer.html Community Feed: Katie Wilson of WSOU 89.5 recently conducted an interview with Accept guitarist Wolf Hoffmann.]]> Mon, 15 Oct 2018 08:25:30 -0400 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/community_feed/accept_why_we_dont_do_full-blown_us_tours_anymore.html https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/community_feed/accept_why_we_dont_do_full-blown_us_tours_anymore.html Community Feed: Accept guitarist Wolf Hoffmann spoke to KNAC.COM about the band's reluctance to stage full-blown tours of the U.S. due to worsening market conditions in the country.]]> Tue, 09 Oct 2018 09:37:01 -0400 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/community_feed/accept_begin_writing_next_album.html https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/community_feed/accept_begin_writing_next_album.html Community Feed: Accept guitarist Wolf Hoffmann has confirmed to The Foundry in a new interview that the band has commenced the songwriting process for the follow-up to 2017's "The Rise Of Chaos".]]> Wed, 26 Sep 2018 09:08:18 -0400 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/community_feed/wolf_hoffman_i_have_lots_of_thoughts_about_udo_dirkschneider_playing_only_accept_songs_on_tour.html https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/community_feed/wolf_hoffman_i_have_lots_of_thoughts_about_udo_dirkschneider_playing_only_accept_songs_on_tour.html Community Feed: Acceptguitarist Wolf Hoffmann says that he has "lots of thoughts" about Udo Dirkschneider's decision to embark on one final tour during which the singer is performing nothing but Accept songs.]]> Sat, 22 Sep 2018 19:07:16 -0400 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/community_feed/accept_announce_rise_of_chaos_festivals_2018.html https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/community_feed/accept_announce_rise_of_chaos_festivals_2018.html Community Feed: The flagship of German Heavy Metal, ACCEPT, are very pleased to announce the „Rise Of Chaos Festivals 2018“ for the very first time. The events will take place in Germany.]]> Sun, 29 Jul 2018 12:39:23 -0400 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/accept_releasing_new_material_is_very_important_we_refuse_to_become_a_nostalgia_act.html https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/accept_releasing_new_material_is_very_important_we_refuse_to_become_a_nostalgia_act.html Music News: Guitarist Wolf Hoffmann adds there's a low probability the band will ever perform classic albums in full.]]> Sat, 02 Dec 2017 20:08:01 -0500 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/accept_the_main_goal_we_set_when_reuniting_in_2009.html https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/accept_the_main_goal_we_set_when_reuniting_in_2009.html Music News: "We want to make albums that are relevant."]]> Tue, 10 Oct 2017 13:15:39 -0400 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/community_feed/wolf_hoffman_of_accept_why_i_hate_being_asked_about_the_80s.html https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/community_feed/wolf_hoffman_of_accept_why_i_hate_being_asked_about_the_80s.html Community Feed: Not a nostalgic kind of guy...]]> Thu, 03 Aug 2017 21:00:14 -0400