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Metal Heart would see Accept achieve the perfect fusion of the fast, furious, aggressive style they pioneered on Breaker and the more anthemic chant-along style they brought out on Balls To the Wall, yielding a true classic which seems less beholden to their influences like Judas Priest. If there is a distinctive, definitively 'Accept' sound, it is to be found here." ( Metal Music Archives) Gary Claydon: I've always thought that if ever a German version of This Is Spinal Tap were made they wouldn't have to look any further than Accept for inspiration for the titular band. It's all there really, the album covers, the song titles, the lyrics (Exhibit A: " Son of a bitch, Kiss my ass"). There’s the songs, of course, but it was more than that," Saboton's Joakim Brodén told us. "The vocals were different,Wolf Hoffmann’s guitar was different. And you can see that these guys, along with Judas Priest, were shaping what heavy metal is today. They represent the essence of this music.” The small rift sac can hold 46 of each rift collection item and crux, the medium can hold 422, and the large can hold 6102. And it is a heavy metal album. No one is going to get Metal Heart confused with Judas Priest's Turbo or Whitesnake's 1987 album. There are no guitar synths, keyboards, or power ballads. Udo's bark hasn't softened and the band still has plenty of bite.
Mark Alaimo: This is Accept's attempt to breakout into the US market. So they brought in producer Dieter Dierks. It was the right move. Unlike regular magical powers, these ones don't scale with the number of accessories, and require at least 5 rift accessories to activate. The voice of Udo is another acquired taste, but I arrived to it after enjoying equally brilliant vocalists like Mille Petrozza, Rolf Kasparek and Chris Boltendahl. It was never going to stop me enjoying the music!Downhill from here on in really, until their more recent renaissance, and now we have both UDO and Accept. Win for us in my book. I love this and will score it highly! Closer Bound to Fail is the weakest song on the second half with another faux classical intro and a weak attempt to create an anthemic sound which just comes across as ponderous. I loved Accept from the first up until this release. Russian Roulette seemed to fade a bit, but I was surprised to find on fresh listening that I still love this. Got the vinyl when it came out and still sounds pretty darn good to me. Is it big dumb fun which will probably make King Crimson aficionados tut patronisingly? Well, yeah, sort of the point isn't it?
Popoff, Martin. "Accept - Balls to the Wall". Martin Popoff.com. Archived from the original on 6 May 2006 . Retrieved 30 January 2013. Up To The Limit is probably the best of them. Wrong Is Right is probably the worst but it’s a tough contest between it and Screaming For A Love Bite which has a hair metal vibe to sit alongside the atrocious lyrics. Rivadavia, Eduardo. "Accept Metal Heart review". AllMusic. Rovi Corporation . Retrieved 31 January 2013.
You’ve got to admit it’s a lot of fun and even after all this time I found myself singing along to Too High To Get It Right and Screaming For A Love Bite in the car, much to other drivers' amusement. This is Accept looking to branch out and looking for new fans. Not being as intense, yeah it's much more commercial that their previous albums, but once you put the needle down on this one, you just want listen to it at a very high volume all the way through. Worry about the tinnitus at a later time. The rest of side one is slightly better but never gets out of second gear. The riffs are stale, the singing is a cross between 80s Rob Halford and Brian Johnson and the solos don’t catch the attention. With its faux classical intro, generic riffs and cliched dystopian sci-fi lyrics about metal hearts, Accept set their stall out with an entirely safe ‘Metal of the Road’ album from a competent Headbangers Ball filler band.
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