Balls to the Wall

This song "remains a metal anthem and trademark in the genre"

Q: Speaking of "Balls To The Wall", that album was, and still is, a milestone in Heavy Metal period, and I think it will probably always stand out as one of the greatest albums ever made by ACCEPT, and ever to be released in the history of Heavy Metal. I know that a lot of the lyrics dealt with love, sexuality, politics, etc., but can you describe the album's theme and let's say, what the title track meant to the band?

Wolf Hoffmann: Well, you'd really have to ask Gaby because she wrote it, but I kind of know, of course. We've always been interested in politics and in human rights and things like that, so a lot of the lyrics that we had in those days, and to the end actually, were dealing with human rights, for instance, and that's really what "Balls To The Wall" is all about. "One day the tortured will stand up" and kick some ass! [Metal Eater, ACCEPT]

Mock German Metal at your Peril!

They can:

They whistled* in the:

They had their:

and they have an Industrial understanding of Metal: 

Germans understand the true value of the Mystical Lines of Power. They may have some very dodgy pop music (and the British cannot throw any stones) but by the power of metal, pop music can be unified to become something greater. Hau weg den Scheiss (hic!)

The Schmolli One



and the Morgoth



Today I celebrate German Metal with 16 posts for the 16 constituent states and a hat tip to a time when German Metal was a powerhouse around the world. Especially if you were behind the Iron Curtain.

Tag der Deutschen Einheit