ACCEPT — Russian Roulette (review)

ACCEPT — Russian Roulette album cover Album · 1986 · Heavy Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
4/5 ·
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German roulette...

Genre: traditional heavy metal

Do you want ten reasons to love German traditional 80s heavy metal?

Okay, here they are: 1) "T.V. War", 2) "Monsterman", 3) "Russian Roulette", 4) "It's Hard to Find a Way", 5) "Aiming High", 6) "Heaven Is Hell", 7) "Another Second to Be", 8) "Walking in the Shadow", 9) "Man Enough to Cry", 10) "Stand Tight".

There you go - ten reasons to love German traditional 80s metal, and on one album. "Russian Roulette" offers nothing but pure, reverb-ladden, unadulterated traditional heavy metal of the 1980s. All the wonderful klichés are in place, including catchy melodic choruses, guitar acrobatics, powerful and solid drums.

And, of course, Udo Dirkschneider's unique voice adds to, if not constitutes, Accept's distinct sound, while, as is typical of Accept, the lyrical content turns things as we think we know them upside down and challenge our stagnated and conservative worldview as in "Heaven is Hell" and "Man Enough to Cry".

I'd recommend this album to fans of traditional heavy metal, and I think that fans of power metal, hard rock, and perhaps also glam metal might like it too.
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