Aric picked up Accept’s follow up to Balls To The Wall. It was called Metal Heart and it picked up where Balls To The Wall left off. The opening track appealed to my love for classical music. Here in the intro of Metal Heart was the fusion of classical and metal. How cool was that. I just wish it would have lasted longer. It seems funny now to hear the first line of the lyrics, “It Is 1999 the human race has to face it.” I’m sure that they felt that 1999 was way off in the future. I think it is odd that 1999 is almost exactly the halfway point between now and when Metal Heart was released. Throw in a little Beethoven on the guitar solo and it really works.
I love the German industrial sound of Accept. I can’t tell you for certain if that was what they were going for or if that is just a product of my own preconceived notions of German Heavy Metal. There is a kind of machine like aspect to the music and the gothic chorus gives it that operatic aura. The vocals are gutteral and full of that German phlegm.
One thing that I have disovered during My Musical Evolution project is that The Metal Years were in fact much shorter than I had remembered. Well may it is just a trick of perception. I’m cruising through as lifetime of music in one year so it all goes pretty fast. I guess that what I’m really trying to say is that when I consider the metal records of the era, I can see where I really played the crap out of the early ones and the follow ups, even though they were released a short time later, got much less attention. Take Accept for example, I was intimately familiar with every track. Metal Heart came out just a couple years later and I tell by listening to it now that I didn’t listen to this one as much. Most of the songs don’t sound familiar at all. I like what I’m hearing, it just seems that for most of this album, I don’t recognize it. Is that due to my drifting away from Metal or the advent of the Mix Tape?
Metal Heart
Midnight Mover
Wrong Is Right
Too High To Get It Right