#71
March 4 1985
Accept
Metal Heart
Genre: Metal
4.25
Highlights:
Metal Heart
Metal Heart
Up to the Limit
Screaming for a Love-Bite
I actually do appreciate what Accept is doing on the title track: completely appropriating and incorporating Beethoven’s “Fur Elise” into the song. Because I think, if he had existed in the 70s, Beethoven (and perhaps Tchaikovsky) would head up a metal band (the song also includes “Slavonic March” by the latter. No doubt. However, it would probably be more Yngwie Malmsteen or Steve Van than Accept. But, who knows?
It’s been a while since we had some good metal and, truth be told, I wasn’t expecting anything really extraordinary from Accept, a band that has always been middling in their offerings at best. But this is the kind of record that propels the genre instead of helping to snuff it out.
They get their AC/DC on in “Up to the Limit” and channel Motorhead on “Wrong is Right” and score more often than not. Considering how the former was putting out some real garbage at this point, it’s good to have this.
Without a doubt, Metal Heart is the high point in the Accept story.
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