''Accept'' is the debut studio album released by German (then West German) heavy metal band Accept. It was recorded in 1978 and released in early 1979 on the West German label

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. Drums on the record are played by Frank Friedrich, but he chose not to pursue a professional music career and so his place was taken by Stefan Kaufmann just prior to the album's release. Bassist

Peter Baltes Peter Baltes (born 4 April 1958) is a German musician, best known as former bassist of heavy metal band Accept and as current bassist of U.D.O. Career He started out in the Solingen prog rock band Pythagoras in the 1970s but is best known ...

performs lead vocals on "Seawinds" and "Sounds of War". Guitarist Wolf Hoffmann later remembered the debut as simply a collection of songs the band had worked up over their formative years, with no real focus: "We were just playing songs that we had always played. It was material that had gathered up over the first few months and years of our existence and it was a mixture of all kinds of stuff." He also recalls it selling around 3,000 copies. Lead vocalist

Udo Dirkschneider Udo Dirkschneider (born 6 April 1952) is a German singer who first rose to fame with the Heavy metal music, heavy metal band Accept (band), Accept. After leaving the band in 1987, he formed the band U.D.O., in which he has also enjoyed commerci ...

expressed dissatisfaction with the group's first effort looking back on it: "Naturally, it was very exciting for us the first time we entered a recording studio but also disappointing at the same time." Accept would gain better production values and a more cohesive direction on future releases, but the debut was an important early step that gained them the ability to play the neighbouring countries of

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, the

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and

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for the first time. Swedish metal band Therion covered "Seawinds" on '' Crowning of Atlantis'' (1999)

Track listing

Note

* A Russian edition released by Fono Ltd. in 2017 contains a spoken commentary track by Udo Dirkschneider talking about the early years of the band.

Credits

;Band members *

– vocals * Wolf Hoffmann – lead guitar *

Jörg Fischer Jörg Fischer (born 4 July 1957) is a German guitar player, primarily known for his work with the German band Accept. He joined the band at the end of the recording sessions for their self-titled debut and played on the albums ''I'm a Rebel'' an ...

– rhythm and lead guitar *

– bass, vocals *Frank Friedrich – drums ;Production *Frank Martin – producer for Delta Studio Productions * René Tinner, Manfred Schunke – engineers, mixing *Jacques Sehy – photography *Alster-Atelier, Hamburg – cover design *The motor-saw was provided by Fichtel & Sachs *Published by Oktave, Hamburg

References

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