Accept guitarist Wolf Hoffmann is featured in a new interview with Niclas Müller-Hansen at Rocksverige.se. He discusses the making of the band's new album, Blind Rage, tour plans, and working once again with producer Andy Sneap. An excerpt is available below:

Q: There´s a lot of bands releasing old rare live recordings these days on CD and DVD. Has there ever been plans on doing something like that with Accept? A cool DVD?

Wolf: "Well, first of all it would be a matter of having enough stuff and I doubt we have enough stuff. Those things were notoriously wicked expensive and nobody at the time, wanted to invest that money without immediately releasing it. We don´t have a huge archive with this great footage. I wish we did, but we don´t. Then it would obviously be a hell of a thing to work out with previous labels, which would be a logistical nightmare I´d rather not have to face. Also other people involved, who I don´t want to mention. But the honest naked truth is that I don´t think there is enough stuff. It´s a shame. We have one live album from the '80s and there were two Japanese shows that we filmed and that was all there was. Nobody ever thought about filming a bunch of shows. It was always put off and put off and like 'We can always do it next year.' Even live audio recordings were wicked expensive. A 24 track machine on the road with just the tape cost alone and the people you needed… the Japanese were always really good and organized, not surprisingly, and they knew these sort of things and they did it without anybody taking much notice. Everything was done before you got there and it was all ready to roll. They sort of did it and nobody paid much attention to it. Everywhere else where we tried to film, it was always a big deal and it was distracting and expensive, so it didn´t happen that often."

Go to this location for the complete interview.

Accept are storming back with their new album, Blind Rage, due out on August 15th via Nuclear Blast. The group's new video, for the single "Stampede", can be seen below. The single will be out on July 11th, digitally and on a limited vinyl edition.

Blind Rage, just like its two predecessors has been produced, mixed and mastered by Andy Sneap (Megadeth, Nevermore, Exodus)

Blind Rage standard version tracklisting:

"Stampede"
"Dying Breed"
"Dark Side Of My Heart"
"Fall Of The Empire"
"Trail Of Tears"
"Wanna Be Free"
"200 Years"
"Bloodbath Mastermind"
"From The Ashes We Rise"
"The Curse"
"Final Journey"

There will also be a limited edition digipak including either bonus DVD, or BlueRay disc. It features a complete ACCEPT live show, recorded in Chile 2013 during the Stalingrad tour.

The tracklist is:

"Intro"
"Hung, Drawn & Quartered"
"Hellfire"
"Restless & Wild"
"Losers & Winners"
"Stalingrad"
"Breaker"
"Bucket Full Of Hate"
"Monsterman"
"Shadow Soldier"
"Amamos La Vida"

Guitar Solo Wolf"

"Neon Nights"
"Bulletproof"
"Aiming High"
"Princess Of The Dawn"
"Up To The Limit"
"No Shelter"
"Pandemic"
"Fast As A Shark"
"Metal Heart"
"Teutonic Terror"
"Balls To The Wall"

Celebrating the release of Blind Rage in North America, Accept has added three US shows to their tour schedule. They will play West Coast dates in Solana Beach and Las Vegas, and an East Coast show in New York on September 11th, 13th and 15th respectively.

This follows the announcement that Accept will play at the prestigious Saban Theatre (formerly Wilshire Beverly Hills Theater) in Beverly Hills, CA on September 12th. Raven will also be on the bill.

Accept's complete tour schedule is as follows:

September

11 - Belly Up Tavern - Solana Beach, CA
12 - Saban Theatre - Beverly Hills, CA
13 - Vamp'd - Las Vegas, NV
15 - Gramercy Theater - New York City, NY
19 - Amager Bio - Copenhagen, Denmark
20 - Garden - Linkoeping, Sweden
21 - Traedgarn - Gothenburg, Sweden
24 - Rytmikotjaamo - Seinäjoki, Finland
26 - Torunda - Tornio, Finland
27 - Pakkahuone - Tampere, Finland
28 - Helsinki - The Circus, Finland
30 - Bebaser Medic - Stockholm, Sweden

October

1 - Rockefeller - Oslo, Norway
3 - Karlstad - Nöjesfabriken, Norway
4 - Docks - Hamburg, Germany
5 - Hyde Park - Osnabrück, Germany
7 - Trix - Antwerp, Belgium
8 - Bataclan - Paris, France
10 - Totem - Pamplona, Spain
11 - Riviera - Madrid, Spain
12 - Razzmatazz 1 - Barcelona, Spain
14 - Bikini - Toulouse, France
16 - La Laiterie - Strasbourg, France
17 - Live Club - Mailand, Italy
18 - Tonhalle - München, Germany
20 - Langen / Frankfurt, Neue - Stadthalle, Germany
21 - Huxleys - Berlin, Germany
22 - Live Music Hall - Köln, Germany
24 - Stadtgarten - Erfurt, Germany
25 - Euronics - Zlin, Czech Republic
26 - Petöfi Hall - Budapest, Hungary
28 - Z 7 - Pratteln, Switzerland
29 - Filharmonie - Filderstadt, Germany

November

14 – Sydney, Australia – Factory Theatre
15 – Melbourne, Australia – Corner Hotel
16 – Brisbane, Australia – The HiFi