Disco de Accept: “Breaker”

BREAKER (1981)

Thier first two albums i thought were pretty basic sounding with no real meat to them, but their third album BREAKER had a ton of really powerful and heavy tunes. I feel that this was where the classic Accept sound really started to develope. Songs like STARLIGHT, BREAKER, RUN IF YOU CAN, MIDNIGHT HIGHWAY and DOWN AND OUT all have that classic accept "crunch" courtesty of MR Woff Hoffmann. This is really heavy music for 1981, with the exeption of Iron Maiden's KILLERS album and Venom's WELCOME TO HELL (also released in 81), there was nothing really this agressive or crunchie back then. this came out in the pre-thrash pre-death pre-black metal days when you had bands like Judas Preist,the Scorpions,Def-lepard,Riot,Ozzy Osbourne, Rainbow and Dio-Sabbath were playing polished, streamlined metal, so for it's time, this was very raw. Other songs here are the offensive "SON OF A BITCH", the rock n roller "BURNING" and the beautiful love ballad "BREAKING UP AGAIN" which is sung by Peter Baltes.Ofcourse many might find Udo's razor screeches and gutteral growls to be painful to listen to, which has always been a love/hate relationship with him for many listeners. This Hint's at Accepts rise to the metal mountain, because after this they would release "RESTLESS AND WILD", arguable the greatest metal album made, and follow that up with the classics "BALLS TO THE WALL" AND "METAL HEART". BREAKER is a great album so what else can i say? an important album from one of Germanys finest musical ensambles.

this cd blow my head , is really amaizing the voice of UDO in this and all the next albums, accept are one of the pioneers of the germany metal and if you are looking for a band with power and madness of rock'n'roll, they really are. songs like "breaker","burning"(yeah) and "son of a(you know)" were the base of the metal in the 80's decade....

BREAKER is their best along with the next one RESTLESS AND WILD, but after that Accept got a little too processed for my taste.Definaly Accepts heaviest album though.