Greece-based Rockpages.gr recently caught up with ACCEPT bassist and founding member Peter Baltes in Athens. An excerpt from the interview is available below:

Q: Did you expect that the new album (Blood Of The Nation) would be such a smashing success and the tour would be sold-out almost in every place that you are playing?

Baltes: "No, of course we didn’t know what to expect. We’ve been away for such a long time and we had a new singer…we didn’t know how the fans will react to it. After the first show, everywhere we go the reaction is spectacular! Especially, here in Europe everybody’s going crazy. So, we didn’t expect it but at the same time we are very humble and grateful."

Q: Was it important for the band to have a fan of Accept as a producer? Andy Sneap has done a tremendous work…

Baltes: "It’s so different to all the other producers (that we have worked with). Usually one producer tends to work with many bands and see each group, each album as work and he doesn’t get attached with the band or the songs. Andy is one of the biggest Accept fans. Everything he did, (it) came from the heart and he looked everything through the eyes and the ears of a fan. So, when we started writing music for the new album, he was very passionate when he listened to a great track. You know, he made us listen to the old Accept songs and to tell you the truth, he was a big influence on us."

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On May 8th of last year the reunited Accept hit the stage for the first time at the Gramercy Theater in New York. With the new album still 4 months away, and their future uncertain, Accept took the stage, and the Teutonic Terror was launched. A worldwide pandemic of metal took on the world. From New York to Russia, Finland, Germany, England, Spain, Brazil, Hungary, France, Japan, and everywhere in between the band launched a vicious assault on the world... and that was BEFORE their new album, Blood Of The Nations, was even released. But what would happen when it was released...

In September 2010 Blood of the Nations hit stores, and exploded.

Blood of the Nations is the metal and hard rock album of the year 2010, and the music media around the world is all in absolute agreement. On the web and around the world, Blood Of The Nations received more than 30 "Album Of The Year" awards, it smashed chart records for past Accept albums and removed any doubt... the Teutonic Terror was back.

To celebrate this amazing year, Accept has put together a video of their track 'Teutonic Terror' from over 100 fan-shot clips.

Wolf Hoffmann states: "It's amazing now everyone has a camera and can videotape the shows. Back in the day it was a big issue with people bootlegging concerts, now, everyone does it. 5 mins after the show's over it's on YouTube so we thought this would be a fun way to embrace it rather than to fight against it. Back in '85 we did a live album in Japan which was called Kaizoku-Ban, which roughly translates to Bootleg, so I guess this is our 2011 answer to that. t's been a amazing ride, and it's far from over."

Check out the video below: