Key facts
- Origin
- Solingen , West Germany
- Genres
- Heavy metal
- Works
- Discography
- Years active
- 1976–1989 1992–1997 2005 2009–present
- Labels
- Nuclear Blast Portrait / Epic RCA PolyGram Passport Napalm
- Spinoffs
- U.D.O.
- Spinoff of
- Band X
- Members
- Wolf Hoffmann Mark Tornillo Christopher Williams Martin Motnik Philip Shouse
- Past members
- Peter Baltes Udo Dirkschneider Frank Friedrich Gerhard Wahl Jörg Fischer Stefan Kaufmann Herman Frank Michael White Rob Armitage David Reece Jim Stacey Stefan Schwarzmann Uwe Lulis
- Website
- acceptworldwide .com
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.acceptworldwide.com
- Image
- Accept - Elbriot 2022 52.jpg
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- inception
- 1968-01-01
- start of work period
- 1976-00-00
- name
- Accept
- social media followers
- 217000
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Accept is a German heavy metal band from Solingen, formed in 1976 with their first consistent lineup featuring lead singer Udo Dirkschneider, lead guitarist Wolf Hoffmann, bassist Peter Baltes, rhythm guitarist Jörg Fischer and drummer Stefan Kaufmann. Their current lineup consists of Hoffmann, vocalist Mark Tornillo, guitarist Philip Shouse, drummer Christopher Williams and bassist Martin Motnik. Accept has undergone numerous lineup changes, with Hoffmann being the only constant member. As of 2024, the band has released seventeen studio albums, five live albums and nine compilation albums.
Accept played an important role in the development of speed and thrash metal, and they were part of the German heavy metal scene, which had emerged by the early to mid-1980s. Accept achieved its first commercial success with their fifth studio album Balls to the Wall (1983), which is the band's only album to be certified gold in the United States and Canada, and spawned their well-known hit "Balls to the Wall".