PopMatters.com has issued a new feature including and interview with ACCEPT's Wolf Hoffman. The following is an excerpt from the article, written by Adrien Begrand:

By 1986’s disappointing Russian Routlette, however, the chemistry in the band was eroding, and after a hiatus during which Dirkschneider enjoyed modest success with his solo project U.D.O. (sporting an album that was ironically written for him by his Accept bandmates), the rest of the band decided to continue moving forward with a new singer, a flamboyant American screamer named David Reece. The end result was a complete flop. Eat The Heat (1988) was an attempt at reinvention that missed the mark completely, while Reece’s live interpretations of past Accept classics just didn’t go over well at all with longtime fans.

“We were looking for a new sound and a new direction,” admits guitarist Wolf Hoffman, calling from his home near Nashville, reminiscing about his band’s disastrous turn 22 years ago. “We had changed lead singers, there was other people involved, the producer, we were all together fishing for something where to take Accept next. It was a big experiment that failed miserably. One of the reasons is of course was we never really got the right chemistry in the band with David Reece. Hard to handle. I wouldn’t really say there’s any big lesson to be learned from it, other than we now know exactly what Accept stands for and what our core audience wants, so there’s really no need to change it.”

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Accept will close out the three day Helsinki Metal Meeting, February 17th - 19th, 2011. The annual confab brings together industry professionals from around the globe, as well as native and international acts at the Cable Factory, in downtown Helsinki. More bands will be announced shortly. You can find information about the past years at Fme.fi.

New Accept singer Mark Tornillo had somewhat of homecoming recently when the band performed at the Starland Ballroom, in Sayreville, NJ, a virtual stone's throw away from the clubs (now mostly defunct) on which Tornillo and his former band TT QUICK cut their teeth, back in the '80s.

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