Accept - Metal Heart

Metal Heart is a 1985 release by German heavy metal band Accept. Although the group had recorded before at Dierks-Studios, this was the first album produced by Dieter Dierks himself. This album was a cautious attempt to crack the lucrative American market with more accessible songcraft and emphasis on hooks and melodies. Although critically panned at the time, today Metal Heart is often considered by fans as one of the band's best records.

It contains several of their classic songs such as "Metal Heart" and "Living for Tonite". The band also makes a detour into jazz territory with the unusual song "Teach Us to Survive".

Wolf Hoffmann explained the concept behind the album: "We had read an article that someone was working on an artificial heart and that one day everybody is going to have a computerized heart. It talked, in general terms, about how more and more of humanity gets sucked out of the daily life and more and more replaced by machine. It's not a new thing now, but then it was new. Humans versus machine, was the general vibe of the record." The original cover concept was for a hologram metal heart image, until budget considerations resulted in a traditional cover. But fittingly for the futuristic theme of the album, Metal Heart was the first Accept album to be recorded digitally. (this said, it´s funny that the original CD says: Digitally Mastered Analog Recording....)

Tracklisting
1. Metal Heart 5:25
2. Midnight Mover 3:06
3. Up To The Limit 3:47
4. Wrong Is Right 3:09
5. Screaming For A Love-Bite 4:05
6. Too High To Get It Right 3:47
7. Dogs On Leads 4:24
8. Teach Us To Survive 3:33
9. Living For Tonite 3:33
10. Bound To Fail 5:06

Band:
Udo Dirkschneider: Vocals
Wolf Hoffmann: Guitars, electric Sitar, backing vocals
Jörg Fischer: Guitars, backing vocals
Peter Baltes: Bass Guitar, keyboards, backing vocals
Stefan Kaufmann: Drums