![]() ![]() The Scorps passed on this campaign as they were still busy conquering the world, but the others came out with new opuses, all of them pretty decent showings, each in their own way: Tony Iommi released the introspective non-Sabbath, but fairly compelling “Seventh Star” Judas forgot about church… sorry, freewheel burnings and jaw breakers, and settled for a cheesy radio-friendly, but impossibly catchy approach on “Turbo” Maiden took a mellower, but almost equally as effective more ambitious, progressive direction with “Somewhere in Time” and our friends here decided to play “Russian Roulette” with the audience which they had long since won for their cause, and not only in Bulgaria… The non-metal listeners felt obliged to add at least one Accept recording to their collection if they didn’t want to lose face and generate diatribes and scornful comments from the rest of the world… naturally, I got a hold of the album reviewed here mere months after the mentioned concert, and after all these years it remains one of the ten finest recordings to enter my household.ġ986 was an interesting year the big dinosaurs of heavy metal all decided to make some (slight) cosmetic alterations in order to capture the imagination of larger crowds, not only the American ones, mind you, like it was the universally accepted notion at the time. It was some time in 1986, and Accept were pretty much the most famous metal act in Bulgaria you could hear their music from literally everywhere: houses, cars, beaches, classrooms, offices, toilets… even the dogs on the streets were barking “Accept!” enthusiastically for a while, banging their heads with reckless abandon. ![]() ![]() If I ever come across a visiting Martian, or a recently unearthed Neanderthal, and they ask me, “What’s heavy metal? What does it sound like?”, this will be one of the first, if not even the very first album I will hand them…īut first things first: the “Kaizoku-Ban” concert was the first metal cassette I possessed, half an hour of the best live heavy metal ever produced. ![]()
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