ACCEPT – The Rise Of Chaos (2017)
Continuing the post-reunion run of albums that has firmly re-established ACCEPT as modern guardians of old-school values, new album “The Rise Of Chaos” is unlikely to attract those who remain impervious to the atavistic truth of heavy metal, but Maiden and Priest aside, it’s hard to think of another band of this vintage that hit the bull’s-eye with such consistency.
Once again produced to speaker-flattening perfection by Andy Sneap, this latest batch of Teutonic anthems is easily their strongest since 2010’s Blood Of The Nations.
Opener ‘Die By The Sword’ (not a Slayer cover, incidentally) and the pummelling ‘Hole In The Head’ set the tone, with countless thrillingly brutish riffs and moments of sublime melodic showmanship from evergreen lead guitarist Wolf Hoffmann, before the title track briskly encapsulates the whole Accept experience via five minutes of timeless and towering old-school muscle.
The rest, from the wonderfully goofy ‘Koolaid’ to epic finale, ‘Race To Extinction’, are equally exhilarating and further proof, as if it were needed, that in ACCEPT hands traditional metal is alive, kicking and as exciting as ever.
Yeah, short review, let the music do the talking.
You won’t get better true metal than this these days.
Highly Recommended
01 – Die by the Sword
02 – Hole in the Head
03 – The Rise of Chaos
04 – Koolaid
05 – No Regrets
06 – Analog Man
07 – What’s Done Is Done
08 – Worlds Colliding
09 – Carry the Weight
10 – Race to Extinction
Mark Tornillo – vocals
Wolf Hoffmann – guitar
Peter Baltes – bass
Uwe Lullis – guitar
Christopher Williams – guitar
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