The Accept frontman turned U.D.O. leader kept the heavy riffs coming for decades.
For the full picture, listen to 'Balls to the Wall' and then something like 'Bad Luck.' The voice is the through line, but the energy shifts.
That voice is unmistakable. You hear it on Accept's 'Balls to the Wall,' a track that became a metal standard in 1983, and then again years later on U.D.O. songs like 'Warrior.' It's a particular rasp that ties together two distinct chapters of loud, German-made heavy metal.
He formed Accept in 1976 and left in the mid-1980s after their international breakthrough. Starting his own band U.D.O. in 1987, he's released material consistently since, from the debut 'Animal House' onward with players like guitarist Andrey Smirnov.
Keep it compact: a lyric you come back to, a live memory, or the part of the catalog you would point someone toward first.
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