Accept - Metal Heart review
| Band: | Accept |
| Album: | Metal Heart |
| Style: | Heavy metal |
| Release date: | March 12, 1985 |
| Guest review by: | Ch'ti |
01. Metal Heart
02. Midnight Mover
03. Up To The Limit
04. Wrong Is Right
05. Screaming For A Love-Bite
06. Too High To Get It Right
07. Dogs On Leads
08. Teach Us To Survive
09. Living For Tonite
10. Bound To Fail
11. Love Child [live] [Remastered Edition bonus]
12. Living for Tonite [live] [Remastered Edition bonus]
It's hard to talk about an 80s thrash album, especially from a legendary band like Accept.
For me, thrash albums from the 80s are like films from the 70s/80s; we can no longer fully understand the influence that the album had when it was released.
Already, the intro track, "Metal Heart", with solos inspired by Beethoven's "Für Elise" (I'm going to start to believe that he is the greatest influence in metal), directly highlights what sauce we will be cooked with throughout this album. The vocalist's screaming voice, typical of the 80s when Judas Priest and AC/DC ignited the concerts, is still as powerful as in the band's last two albums: a truly immortal voice.
The album allows itself to be more melodic than the previous ones, even more rock-oriented. "Screaming For A Love-Bite" is a good example; it is more "cliché", than the rest of what Metal Heart offers, but it remains one of the tracks that I appreciated the most from the whole album, which can allow itself these few liberties. The guitar is as present and powerful as the vocals; it delivers a very good performance across the album.
The second part of the album is less thrilling than the first; none of the music interested me as much as the earlier songs on the record. In terms of excitement, we can say that it is decrescendoing. It is quite representative of thrash in this period; Accept did not release an album that was particularly above the rest.
In summary, Accept released this album during its golden age, and even if thrash is not one of my favorite genres, I can only admire the talent and power that the band put into in Metal Heart. Although I find it much less effective and thrilling than its big brother Restless And Wild, this album remains very solid, and from start to finish, I enjoyed listening to it.
Guest review disclaimer:
This is a guest review, which means it does not necessarily represent the point of view of the MS Staff.
This is a guest review, which means it does not necessarily represent the point of view of the MS Staff.
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| Bad English Tage Westerlund Posts: 62018  |
It's heavy not thrash. Gosh I remember as in mid 90s I was wat hung 60,70, 80s movies as it was yesterday, as it was so close, but damn time flies, it's distant past now, like 30 years ago was my youth and so on and. Omg
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| nikarg Staff Posts: 7348  |
Thrash  Also, it's not the same vocalist on Metal Heart as in the last two Accept albums. It was UDO then, it is Mark Tornillo now.
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| Cynic Metalhead Ambrish Saxena Posts: 7562  |
Looks like reviewer is clusterfucked with thrash here, as it's pointed out. He used the correct references; he described the album fairly well, but didn't understood what comparisons he wanted to make with thrash. I might think the reviewer has considered other Accept albums as thrash albums.
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| Bad English Tage Westerlund Posts: 62018 |
Written by Cynic Metalhead on 12.08.2024 at 13:22 Might be for him its thrash 
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