ACCEPT: Third Official Trailer For 'Restless And Live' Blu-Ray/DVD

German/American metallers ACCEPT will release a new live set titled “Restless And Live” on January 13, 2017 via Nuclear Blast. This package will include the entire show ACCEPT played at 2015’s Bang Your Head!!! festival in Balingen, Germany on Blu-ray/DVD plus two CDs.

The third official trailer for “Restless And Live” — in which guitarist Wolf Hoffmann and producer Andy Sneap talk about choosing and editing content for the live recording and why this DVD/CD-package is both suited for die-hard fans and ACCEPT novices — is available below.

Wolf explains: “When you are playing a live show like at Bang Your Head!!!, you are concentrating solely on that show so you have a certain song selection — you know you have a festival crowd that you want to please, so you pick the tracks that work best for that event. But there are still all these other songs that we have and we thought that if we only do the festival package, they’d be left out. That’s why we decided to go through all the recordings and do a separate package of audio tracks and this includes songs that we don’t always play at festivals. That’s why we have 27 other songs on the two CDs that are totally different to the DVD material.”

“Restless And Live” track listing:

Blu-ray / DVD:

01. Stampede
02. Stalingrad
03. London Leatherboys
04. Restless And Wild
05. Dying Breed
06. Final Journey
07. Shadow Soldiers
08. Losers And Winners
09. 200 Years
10. Midnight Mover
11. No Shelter
12. Princess Of The Dawn
13. Dark Side Of My Heart
14. Pandemic
15. Fast As A Shark
16. Metal Heart
17. Teutonic Terror
18. Balls To The Wall

CD1:

01. Stampede
02. Stalingrad
03. Hellfire
04. London Leatherboys
05. Living For Tonite
06. 200 Years
07. Demon’s Night
08. Dying Breed
09. Final Journey
10. From The Ashes We Rise
11. Losers And Winners
12. No Shelter
13. Shadow Soldiers
14. Midnight Mover

CD2:

01. Starlight
02. Restless And Wild
03. Son Of A Bitch
04. Pandemic
05. Dark Side Of My Heart
06. The Curse
07. Flash Rockin’ Man
08. Bulletproof
09. Fall Of The Empire
10. Fast As A Shark
11. Metal Heart
12. Teutonic Terror
13. Balls To The Wall

To give their fans a taster of what to expect from this forthcoming live release and to make the waiting more tolerable, the live clip for “Restless And Wild” can be seen below.

Commented Hoffmann: “We didn’t know exactly what would happen back in 2010, what happens if… But this was six years ago and we’ve released three records since then. With ‘Blind Rage’, we had our first No. 1 chart record! There can be nothing nicer!”

The package’s title, chosen by the band couldn’t be more suitable: “‘Restless And Live’ simply fits what we experienced at Bang Your Head!!! and for what we stand for until today!” Wolf says. “It goes on and on and on! We’re already working on a new production. The thought of being on the road again soon gets our blood flowing: And it is possible to overcome everything that happened before.”

Asked why it’s so important for ACCEPT to still make new music after all this time, Wolf recently told Canadian rock journalist Mitch Lafon: “For us, it was very important, especially since we got [singer] Mark [Tornillo], and when we had our reunion with Mark, the new singer, we really wanted to show to the fans and to us that we still can write relevant new songs, and so that’s why we really did three albums in five or six years — really banged them out, one after the other. And those three albums are, in a lot of fans’ views, as strong as most of the stuff we’ve done in the eighties, if not stronger. So I think it’s very important for us to come up with new songs, ’cause, you know, once you stop trying, or you’re just living on the past, I think that’s no good. We’re trying to stay relevant, and the fans really appreciate that.”

Regarding what Mark Tornillo has added to ACCEPT‘s sound, Wolf said: “He very much inspired us to write songs, because all of a sudden, he can pretty much sing anything we want him to do. With Udo [Dirkschneider, former ACCEPT singer], it was much more limited, what worked and what didn’t work. And Mark, man, anything Peter [Baltes, bass] and I come up with, he can perform, and so that opened a lot of doors, musically, for us, and that inspired us totally. But, like I said before, we always try to stay close to what ACCEPT fans are wanting to hear from us, ’cause we could write a bunch of stuff that was left and right, genre-wise, but I’m not sure if fans would really appreciate it that much. And that’s also where [producer] Andy Sneap came in, especially during the ‘Blood Of The Nations’ [2010] recording. He really, sort of, forced us more to stay true to the course. ‘Cause he grew up being an ACCEPT fan and listening to the old albums, and he came in with an expectation, ‘All right, we’re gonna make a great new ACCEPT album, but it’d better sound like I want it to sound as an ACCEPT fan.'”