HADES vocalist Alan Tecchio recently interviewed ACCEPT singer Mark Tornillo for Steppin' Out magazine. The following is an excerpt:

Q: At this point, how long have you been the singer for Accept?

A: "I guess it’s been since May of last year."

Q: If I had told you back in April of 2009 that you would soon be the singer of Accept, what would you have said?

A: "I would have laughed. I never would have believed it. It’s very strange now looking back after all the things we’ve already done... Peter [Baltes, Accept’s bass player] and I were on Eddie Trunk’s show the other night and we were talking about everything we’ve done this

past year. With all the things we’ve done in one year, it’s just incredible. I mean, I was sitting home just minding my own business, ya know?" (laughs)

Q: For those who did not catch your appearance with Wolf Hoffmann on Eddie Trunk’s That Metal Show on VH1 (see below), it’s very interesting to know that back in your days singing with TT QUICK you were very instrumental in turning on N.Y. area crowds to Accept’s music before they had established themselves. I think it’s so cool to see things come full circle with you now fronting the very band you helped gain local notoriety all those years ago.

A: "Yeah, well I remember the first time I heard Accept. I was really into AC/DC and always liked those kinds of vocals. When I heard them I was just like, 'Wow! What is this?!' Obviously it was in a different vein than AC/DC ‘cause it was straight European metal, but we started covering their stuff straight away. People would come up to us and be like, 'What was that song you just played?' And we were doing stuff like 'Son Of A Bitch' and stuff like that. So, yeah, we actually turned a lot of people onto Accept."

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