ACCEPT guitarist Wolf Hoffmann is featured in a new interview with Ruben Mosqueda at Oregon Music News. An excerpt is available below:

Q: Going into the writing of Stalingrad at what point did it sink in that you created a monster with Blood of the Nations? The bar was raised with that album as you know.

Hoffmann: "Yeah we did raise the bar, didn’t we? After winning awards and getting all the great reviews — I don’t know. We just went into writing mode and tried like hell to make the best album that we could. We certainly didn’t try to change anything, that’s for sure. We used the same people, we used the same ingredients. I don’t want to say that we used the ‘same formula.’ We used the same producer, the same songwriters, Peter (Baltes) and I used the same procedure when we wrote a song and we it turned inside and out and upside down until we knew it was as good as it could be."

Q: With many fantastic songs in the back catalog that you include in the set, it must be getting increasingly difficult to narrow down the set list to a reasonable number. I was very pleased that you did play a lot of the Blood of the Nations album, not a lot of bands with careers as lengthy as Accept do that, mainly because their albums are crap.

Hoffmann: "In that respect we are different from the other bands because our comeback album actually worked! (laughs) It was very well received — we showed everyone that this isn’t a cover band — we started something new and fresh here."

Q: What’s an album in Accept’s back catalog that you think is underrated and why?

Hoffmann: "(pause) Man, that’s a tough question to answer. I would almost like to leave that to the fans. I’ll have to be honest with you, I don’t like rating my own stuff. The most dreaded question is being asked to comment on each album, because there’s good and bad in each of them. I will say that the stuff we did in the ’90s is not our strongest stuff. I think everybody would agree on that. If you listen to an album like Predator, it has some good moments on there but we just didn’t know where we were going."

Go to this location for the complete interview.

Accept and KREATOR’s North American Teutonic Terror Attack tour stopped off at the Best Buy Theatre in New York, NY on September 7th. Rockstarpix.com’s Dalila Kriheli has released photos from the night of Accept. Check them out at this location.

Photos of Kreator will be released soon.

Accept’s Setlist from the evening was as follows:

‘Hung, Drawn And Quartered’

‘Hellfire’

‘Restless And Wild’

‘Losers And Winners’

‘Stalingrad’

‘Shadow Soldiers’

‘Pandemic’

‘Breaker’

‘Bucket Full Of Hate’

‘Princess Of The Dawn’

‘Up To The Limit’

‘Teutonic Terror’

‘Metal Heart’

‘Fast As A Shark’

Encore:

‘Balls To The Wall’

A short video of Accept from the night can be seen below:

Remaining tour dates are as follows:

September

21 - Rickshaw Theater – Vancouver, B.C.
22 - Showbox at the Market – Seattle, WA
23 - Roseland Theater – Portland, OR
25 - The Grand Ballroom – San Francisco, CA
26 - The Avalon – Hollywood, CA
27 - The Grove – Anaheim, CA
28 - Marquee Theatre – Tempe, AZ
30 - Emo’s East – Austin, TX

October

1 - Trees – Dallas, TX
2 - House Of Blues – New Orleans, LA
4 - Tremont Music Hall – Charlotte, NC