It’s not too very often that the names of the people involved alone are enough to document the great importance of a new project. DATOG, short for Dirkschneider & The Old Gang, consists of Accept / U.D.O. / Dirkschneider frontman Udo Dirkschneider and his longtime companions Peter Baltes (bass; ex-…
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U.D.O. release their new single and lyric video for ‘Make The Move’
U.D.O. release their new single and lyric video for ‘Make The Move’. New album ‘Steelfactory’ is out 31st August on AFM Records. You can check out the new video here: After more than 40 years in the business and with a renowned breakthrough in the early 80’s with ACCEPT behind…
Dirkschneider with support act Raven on Back To The Roots pt 2 Europe – 2017 Amager Bio Copenhagen, Denmark
Dirkschneider Back To The Roots pt 2 – Europe – 2017 Raven – special guest Amager Bio Copenhagen Denmark 28/11 – 2017 Live review and pictures by: Anders Sandvall
Tuska Open Air Metal Festival 2017 – 20th Anniversary – Suvilahti – Helsinki – Finland
The Tuska Open Air Festival is definitely a real metal institution among metal festivals in Europe. The mighty Tuska festival has reached one hell of a milestone in the long, yet metallic mayhem history. Tuska celebrated its 20th anniversary this year which is pretty damn good for a festival like this.…
DIRKSCHNEIDER & ANVIL : Live at Tavastia, Helsinki, FINLAND
DIRKSCHNEIDER with support band ANVIL The 1st of March 2016 Tavastia, Helsinki, Finland REVIEW AND PICTURES BY ARTO LEHTINEN AND MARKO SYRJALA “Balls To The Wall”, “Metal Heart” and a great number of other Accept classic ones have been the most important part of Udo Dirkschneider’s career, life and DNA…
Wacken Open Air 2015
Wacken being sold out is a kind of mystery, for sure. The event is somehow sold out every year, but this year’s sell out wasn’t a surprise as Savatage with Trans Siberian Orchestra and Judas Priest were headliners. Thousands and thousands of metal fans from every corner of the world…
ACCEPT – Guitarist Wolf Hoffmann discusses new album BLIND RAGE
INTERVIEW AND LIVE PICTURES BY MARKO SYRJALA German metal legends Accept are no strangers in Metal-Rules.com. We’ve always been extremely supportive of the band, and we’ve had numerous articles and interviews released during the past years and here’s another one for you to read. The band released their latest opus…
U.D.O. Live at Club Nosturi, Helsinki
October 5’TH 2013 REVIEW AND PHOTOS BY MARKO SYRJALA German metal band U.D.O., led by former Accept vocalist Udo Dirkschneider, have been regular visitors in Finland during the past years. The band released its 14th studio album, STEELHAMMER, last May. It also introduced U.D.O.’s renewed line-up, including Udo, longtime members:…
U.D.O. Rev-Raptor European Tour 2011 with support at Kulturbolaget Malmoe, Sweden
U.D.O. – Rev-Raptor European Tour 2011 Sister Sin – special guest Sevenfield – support act Kulturbolaget, Malmoe, Sweden 5/10 – 2011 Review and live pictures by: Anders Sandvall
ACCEPT – Peter Baltes discusses the new line-up, and the state of Accept
INTERVIEW BY ARTO LEHTINEN AND MARKO SYRJÄLÄ The legendary German metallers Accept have returned with the outstanding BLOOD OF NATIONS album. The record presented the new vocalist: Mark Tornillo, the former T.T. Quick frontman. BLOOD OF THE NATIONS offers pure classic heavy metal from beginning to end, and it has…
ACCEPT – Wolf Hoffman and Mark Tornillo discuss new album “Blood of the Nations”, new lineup and the future.
ACCEPT INTERVIEW BY MARKO SYRJÄLÄ AND ARTO LEHTINEN Transcription by M H aka Psychophobe LIVE PICTURES BY MARKO SYRJÄLÄ Accept, the legendary heavy metal band out of Germany conquered the metal world back in the ’80s with thunderous classic albums such as RESTLESS AND WILD, BALLS TO THE WALL, BREAKER,…