Attention Deficit Delirium's Bryan Reesmen has issued an interview with ACCEPT guitarist Wolf Hoffmann. The following is an excerpt:

Q: The last time that Accept recorded music was in the mid-Nineties. What brought about the fire in your belly this time? Why return now?

A: "We met Mark. With Udo we probably would not have made a new album because I don’t think we could have pulled it off, and there probably would not have been much of a need for it. We could’ve just played shows. Once we stumbled onto Mark and met him, and decided to give it a go, it was a natural decision to write new songs and come out with a new product."

Q: You hired another singer, David Reece, back in the late Eighties when Udo departed the first time to go on a solo career. That was a controversial move back then and not very successful. How are things different this time?

A: Twenty years are different. That was 20 years ago, and nothing is the same. I don’t know why everybody keeps bringing up the David Reece thing, because the only similarity is that we tried a new singer, but it didn’t work [then]. Everything was different back then. It was a totally different point in our lives and our career, and all we’re trying to do right now is go back out as Accept as everybody knows it. The fact that we met Mark really opened up that whole chapter for us because he’s got the type of voice that’s perfect for the back catalog. He’s a great guy and has great chemistry in the band. It was just too good to be true to not do it. And the fact that Udo had no interest in ever working with us again, it was doing this now with somebody new — and there couldn’t be a better person than Mark — or stay home and do nothing. We’re musicians, so we’re really longing to go out and play live and do what we want to do."

Read the full interview here.