Accept

Years active: 1968 - today
Foundation: Solingen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germania
Members: Mark Tornillo, Wolf Hoffmann, Herman Frank, Peter Baltes, Stefan Schwarzmann
Genre: Metal

Biography: Accept are a German heavy metal band from the town of Solingen, originally assembled in the early 1970s by Udo Dirkschneider. They played an important role in the development of speed metal and Teutonic thrash metal, being part of the German heavy/speed/power metal scene to emerge in the early to mid 1980s. The band's 1983 album, Balls to the Wall, subsequently became their most successful... [read more]