Tag: Accept

  • AMATEUR CONCERT PHOTOGRAPHY HOUR: Dirkschneider @ Mod Club, February 28, 2018

    AMATEUR CONCERT PHOTOGRAPHY HOUR: Dirkschneider @ Mod Club, February 28, 2018

    When Udo Dirkschneider and company played a two-hour set of Accept classics here last year, it was one of my favourite shows of 2017. At the time, I said I no longer needed to catch U.D.O. or Accept in concert again…but when I saw he was bringing back his namesake band for another kick of…

  • Hellbound @ Tuska Open Air 2017 in Helsinki

    Hellbound @ Tuska Open Air 2017 in Helsinki

    Once again I find myself in Helsinki to attend the Tuska Open Air Festival, which has become a staple in my yearly concert plans. The weather called for rain, but for the most part we were lucky to dodge shit weather — mostly. One thing I love and admire about this festival is that the…

  • AMATEUR CONCERT PHOTOGRAPHY HOUR: DIRKSCHNEIDER @ Mod Club, January 10, 2017

    AMATEUR CONCERT PHOTOGRAPHY HOUR: DIRKSCHNEIDER @ Mod Club, January 10, 2017

    This shindig was billed Farewell to Accept, and it was a proper farewell tour–with a 90-minute set and a four-song encore that covered all the classics from I’m a Rebel to Russian Roulette.

  • Accept – Blind Rage

    Accept – Blind Rage

    I did not need to hear any of the advance singles to know this was going to be good.  Three albums into Accept’s latest comeback, any skepticism about Udo-soundalike Mark Tornillo on vocals has melted away.  Far from being over-the-hill dinosaurs, these guys have tapped into the sound of classic Accept, making this the Metal Heart to Blood of the Nations’ Fast…

  • Grand Magus – Triumph and Power

    Grand Magus – Triumph and Power

    When I first popped Triumph and Power, the 7th album from Swedish trio Grand Magus I was taken aback. It had been a long time since I’d listened to them and their style has changed significantly in the last decade. Back in the early ’00s all I listened to (pretty much) was considered “stoner rock/metal.”…

  • Could Udo without Accept possibly be any better than Accept without Udo? I’m about to find out…

    So when U.D.O. first announced his North American solo tour back in January, I knew I had to be there. I’ve had the opportunity to see Accept three times since their 2010 reunion, but I’ve never seen the original voice of Accept. And that’s no knock on Mark Tornillo, who has filled in admirably in…

  • Maaaan, Fu Manchu’s coming here in a couple weeks!? That’s the first I’ve heard of this…

    Overheard at the bar at the Blood Ceremony gig the other night: “Dude, you know Fu Manchu? Blah blah blah stoner rock blah blah Kyuss … They’re playing Lee’s Palace March 15th, you should check it out.”

  • 70,000 Tons of Metal 2013, Part Three

    Day three of this year’s 70,000 Tons of Metal cruise started off at Grand Turk with fun in the sun and continued into the late hours, with live sets from Metal Church, Helloween, Nile, Immolation, Doro and many, many more Live review by Adrien Begrand; Live photos by Marc Hansen, Michael Jagla, Ag Babin, and…

  • 70,000 Tons of Metal 2013, Part One

    After attending Barge to Hell in December, I had absolutely no idea that I’d be returning to Miami some five weeks later to the same port, the same ship, the same crew even, to cover the third annual 70,000 Tons of Metal. But as anyone will tell you, when you have a chance to go…

  • Doro – Raise Your Fist

    Raise Your Fist can keep a venue or party going all night. The record doesn’t show Doro in a new light, but depicts her self-respect through some seriously fetching tracks. At 48 years old, Doro is still hot in leather, strikes chords and bakes like a boss. Horns to her.