ACCEPT are planning another studio album, and Wolf Hoffmann says it will not be a long wait.
Speaking to Loud & Clear With Belgian Jasper, the guitarist said the band intend to return to "the studio to make a new studio album next year or whenever possible. We will be. I don't wanna promise anything on a timeline, but it's gonna happen sooner than later. It has to, because the show must go on. And as long as we still enjoy what we're doing and we're still healthy, it's gonna happen."
It would follow "Humanoid", released in April 2024 on Napalm Records and again produced, recorded, mixed and mastered by Andy Sneap.
The remark lands days before a very different kind of release. "Teutonic Titans 1976–2026", ACCEPT's fiftieth-anniversary album, arrives on September 4 via Napalm — nineteen reworked versions of the band's best-known songs with a staggering fifty guests across them. It moves chronologically through the early catalogue, from "I'm A Rebel" in 1980 to "Eat The Heat" in 1989, anchored by Mark Tornillo's voice and Hoffmann's riffs, with no two tracks carrying the same combination of players.
Tobias Forge of GHOST takes "Save Us" from "I'm A Rebel", with Ray Luzier on drums. Philip Anselmo, Kirk Hammett and Mikkey Dee tear through "Fast As A Shark". "Balls To The Wall" goes to Rob Halford alongside Matthias Jabs of SCORPIONS, while "Love Child" is handed to Billy Corgan and David Ellefson. K.K. Downing, Bobby "Blitz" Ellsworth, Hansi Kürsch, Chris Jericho, Ralf Scheepers, Billy Sheehan, Ola Englund and Jeff Loomis all appear. "Hellhammer", from "Eat The Heat", is played by the current lineup with Jason McMaster of DANGEROUS TOYS singing.
The band Hoffmann is talking about taking back into the studio is himself, Tornillo, guitarist Philip Shouse, bassist Martin Motnik and drummer Christopher Williams.
Fifty years on from the band's formation, Hoffmann remains the architect of the sound — the guitar style and the long view that turned "Balls To The Wall", "Restless And Wild" and "Metal Heart" into fixed points of German heavy metal, and sold millions of records doing it. The current era began in 2009, when Hoffmann was introduced to a New Jersey singer named Mark Tornillo after a hiatus. Tornillo replaced original frontman Udo Dirkschneider, has sung on the last six ACCEPT albums, and is now the longest-serving vocalist the band have had.