ACCEPT guitarist Wolf Hoffmann and vocalist Mark Tornillo are featured in a new interview with Mark Kadzielawa at 69 Faces Of Rock. An excerpt is available below.

Q: This time around it's the double axe attack. You've brought back Herman Frank into the lineup. That's a big change from the 90s where you were the only guitar player.

Hoffmann: "In 2005 we worked so well with Stefan (Schwarzmann) and Herman, so we knew if we wanted to do continue with Accept, we may as well use those two guys again. We tried as original as we can, and those were the members of the original line up that were available to us. Stefan (Kaufmann, the original drummer, now a guitar player in U.D.O.) obviously doesn't play drums anymore, so he was out of the picture. Jorg Fischer, our other guitar player disappeared from the face of the earth. We haven't been in touch with him for about 20 years, we don't know what he does, or if he even plays guitar anymore. And since Herman played with us in the 80s, he's as much part of the family as Jorg is. All these guys we know very well, and we've figured this is the best line up for this rebirth of the band."

Q: In the past you've mentioned you were the one who tracked most of the guitars on the old records. Did you do things differently this time?

Hoffmann: "We do have both guitar players play on the record, but I still play the majority of the material in the studio. I think the record is sounding very balanced, and a lot of it has to do with Andy Sneap. When we recorded, it was just good time, and everything fell into the right place. I've been talking about this with other people too. And sometimes it's really hard as a band to get things right. In the 90s, by the Death Row time nothing seemed to work for us. We were trying too many things, and nothing was really going quite right. The chemistry wasn't quite there anymore. Sometimes you fight it and fight it, and it still doesn't go right. Other times, like with the current project, everything just happens amazingly good. I mean, we found Mark, we got along great, we wrote a lot of songs, we got Andy to produce, got a great guy to do our video. All of these things lined up really well for us."

Q: Did you go through any difficulties trying to re-launch the band?

Hoffmann: "Not really. Logistically, Accept is just a big machine that needs to be started. And it's not as easy as you think it might be. After 15 years lot of things had happened, and the world is a different place too. You got the Internet and all. We've learned a very interesting lesson quite from the get go. When we've released those demo songs on-line initially, we got a lot of backlash, and a lot of negative publicity. That was just our naiveté to sort of put these out, because we were excited about them. We were excited about Mark, and we thought everyone would love him as much as we did, but that wasn't the case. But, all in all, we're doing really well. I think we got the whole internet presence under control, and we got pretty good publicity going on. It's a big operation, but everything is going on really well."

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Accept recently announced their European tour for 2011 and are now confirming additional shows. Due to popular demand, Accept will be coming to Scandinavia as well. Tour dates now include:

January

14 - Osnabruck, Germany - Halle Gartlage
15 - Bad Arolsen / Kassel, Germany - Outback
16 - Antwerp, Belgium - Hof ter Lo
18 - Paris, France - Elysee Montmartre
19 - Biarritz, France - L`attabal
21 - Madrid, Spain - Venue TBA
22 - Pamplona, Spain - Venue TBA
23 - Barcelona, Spain - Venue TBA
25 - Pratteln, Switzerland - Z7
27 - Milan, Italy - Magazzini
28 - Tuttlingen, Germany - Stadthalle
29 - Geiselwind, Germany - Eventcentrum Strohofer
31 - Stuttgart , Germany - LKA

February

1 - Vienna, Austria - Arena
2 - Budapest, Hungary - Diesel
4 - Katowice, Poland - Venue TBA
5 - Warsaw, Poland - Venue TBA
6 - Gdansk, Poland - Venue TBA
8 - Hamburg, Germany - Große Freiheit
9 - Cologne, Germany - Live Music Hall
10 - Munich, Germany - Tonhalle
12 - Zlin, Czech Republic - Masters of Rock Cafe
13 - Athens, Greece - Gagarin 205
15 - Gothenburg, Sweden - Trädgårn
16 - Oslo, Norway - Rockefeller
17 - Stockholm, Sweden - Arenan
19 - Helsinki, Finland - Helsinki Metal Meeting