ACCEPT guitarist Wolf Hoffmann is featured in a new interview with KNAC.com. An excerpt is available below.

KNAC.com: Obviously some of your longtime, hardcore fans are still very into in the band?

Hoffmann: "I wasn't quite ready personally for how seriously people were going to take it. This whole Accept thing means so much and so many things to so many people, it's amazing how passionate they feel about it. When you read those things online some times, my gosh they kind of fight over this thing as if it was life or death (laughs). 'Which record was the best? No, you're an idiot, it was this one.'"

KNAC.com: Did you hear a lot of stuff like "Who is this Mark guy? How dare they carry on without Udo?”

Hoffmann: "Oh yeah, there was a bunch of that. I would say 99 percent of what we heard early on was 'This is never going to work.' Everybody said 'It didn't work before. They tried it with another singer one other time and it failed miserably.' And I was telling myself, just because someone's been married before doesn't mean they shouldn't try again. Maybe the match wasn't right the first time around, but to draw the conclusion that "It's never gonna work' is a bit far fetched. But I guess all these naysayers have fallen by the wayside, and a lot of these people have even apologized to us. Publicly, some journalists have made statements on their websites, 'I was so wrong and please forgive me.' I guess the proof is in the pudding in the end, when the record is good, it's good."

Go to this location for the complete interview.

As previously reported, Accept will be co-headlining their upcoming tour with KING'S X. Confirmed tour dates are:

September

23 - The Chance - Poughkeepsie, NY
24 - Ram's Head Live - Baltimore, MD
25 - The Starland Ballroom – Sayreville, NJ
26 - Vintage Vinyl - Fords, NJ (In-store signing session)
27 - B. B. King's – New York, NY
29 - Showcase Live - Foxboro, MA

October

1 - The Silo – Reading, PA
2 - The Emerald Theatre – Mt. Clemens, MI
8 - The Agora Ballroom – Cleveland, OH
9 - The Arcada Theatre - St. Charles, IL
12 - House Of Blues – Dallas, TX
13 - House Of Blues - Houston TX

Additional dates for October and November will be announced soon.

Blood Of The Nations was recorded at Backstage Studio in England with famed producer Andy Sneap and will be released in North America on September 14th. Exclusive pre-sale bundles can be purchased at the Nuclear Blast Web Store.

Accept’s 2010 line-up includes Wolf Hoffmann on guitar, Peter Baltes on bass, Stefan Schwarzmann on drums, Herman Frank on guitar and Mark Tornillo on vocals.

Below you can view footage of Wolf Hoffman and Mark Tornillo on VH1’s That Metal Show, the video for Teutonic Terror – directed and produced by Dave Blass for Grid 41, and the 2-minute behind-the-scenes video.