ACCEPT Guitarist: I Wrote All The Hits UDO DIRKSCHNEIDER Still Plays With U.D.O.

Reporter Magnus Ek of Swedish web magazine CriticalMass.se recently conducted an interview with ACCEPT guitarist Wolf Hoffmann when the band played in Stockholm, Sweden.

CriticalMass.se: I think "Blood Of The Nations" feels like a natural continuation of the evolution of the ACCEPT sound. How do you plan things when you are starting work on a new album?

Wolf: First, thanks. We are touring this summer and are doing some festivals. Then after the summer tour I will start to write some new material. I am not the kind of person that is writing every day. I can't write under pressure. I have to have an open schedule, with nothing planned.

CriticalMass.se: So you are not the kind of person who will use a soundcheck to try out new ideas?

Wolf: No. First, we don't have that time. We just check that everything is alright on stage for the show. And, as I told you before, I don't write under pressure. And doing soundchecks is a limited amount of time, so no — I don't do that.

CriticalMass.se: I understand that you were very disappointed when Udo Dirkschneider wasn't interested in joining ACCEPT on a permanent basis?

Wolf: Yes!!

CriticalMass.se: How is your relationship with him?

Wolf: Non-existent. We don't talk at all. He decided not to follow the road that the rest of us did. He didn't think that we were able to write any good songs anymore. Hell, I wrote all the hits he still plays with U.D.O. He didn't write any of them, I did! He talks a lot of shit about us in interviews but we don't care. Why should we? We don't want to stoop that low, to throw shit back and forward. We have moved on and made a better album than we ever could do with Udo. And we got good reviews didn't we? "Blood Of The Nations" was voted "the best metal album of the year" last year. I think that says it all, don't you?

Read the entire interview from CriticalMass.se.