{"id":4170,"date":"2012-05-08T09:39:17","date_gmt":"2012-05-08T15:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=4170"},"modified":"2012-05-08T09:39:17","modified_gmt":"2012-05-08T15:39:17","slug":"accept-stalingrad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2012\/05\/08\/accept-stalingrad\/","title":{"rendered":"ACCEPT &#8211; Stalingrad"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span id=\"internal-source-marker_0.2691076681949198\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4171\" href=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/2012\/05\/08\/accept-stalingrad\/accept\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4171\" title=\"accept\" src=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/accept-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mark Tornillo, vocals. No Udo, no Accept. <!--more-->He tries and he comes close. It\u2019s almost like he was cultured in a teutonic A&amp;R lab specifically for the task. They come out of the gate here charging hard and, as you would expect from such a high profile act with the label to match, they have the production values to back them up. But by the second <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=i-QQYxryAqM\" target=\"_blank\">(title) song<\/a>, it starts to give way. There is no <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LjvrLbmmi40\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cLondon Leatherboys\u201d<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PfUCkMyV56M\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cLovechild\u201d<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kENHiBhQEXY\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cFight It Back\u201d<\/a> on this, though the construct comes to the fore occasionally. Overall, not a total disappointment if you\u2019ve spent the last 28 years pining for something that wants to be <em>Balls To The Wall<\/em>, and for some reason you can\u2019t just spin that record instead. The tracks here immediately sent me scurrying to hear the familiar hits that I know and love instead of the perfectly assembled facsimile that these guys are working right now. Dad metal on Nuclear Blast. Do yourself a total favour and start with Russian Roulette or BTTW and then come back here if you have to. Udo or gtfo! (Nuclear Blast USA, <a href=\"http:\/\/nuclearblastusa.com\" target=\"_blank\">nuclearblastusa.com<\/a>) <strong>Brad Skibinsky <\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Tornillo, vocals. No Udo, no Accept.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[447,607],"class_list":["post-4170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-iconoclast","tag-metal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}