ACCEPT have been confirmed to HEADLINE the prestigious SONISPHERE
Festivals on day one in Bucharest and Istanbul, Turkey. The SONISPHERE Festival is a series of summer music concerts that take place across Europe in the summer of 2010. The SONISPHERE 2010 tour is the biggest yet with 11 locations between 16 June and 8 August. The locations this year are confirmed for Poland, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Turkey, Spain, United Kingdom, Sweden and Finland. Headliners on days two and three are Metallica and Rammstein. Additional acts appearing at SONISPHERE along ACCEPT include Megadeth, Slayer, Anthrax, Manowar, Paradise Lost and Alice in Chains.
The ACCEPT Summer 2010 Festival Shows are on the following dates:
JUNE 25th – ROMANIA, Bucharest – SONISPHERE Festival – HEADLINER SHOW
JUNE 26th – TURKEY, Istanbul – SONISPHERE Festival – HEADLINER SHOW
JULY 10th – SWEDEN, SUNDSVALL – GATUFEST – HEADLINER SHOW
JULY 18th – CZECH REPUBLIC – MASTERS OF ROCK Festival
JULY 25th – BULGARIA, KAVARNA ROCK Festival – HEADLINER SHOW
After a 15 year long hibernation, Germany’s hard rock legend ACCEPT decided to come back last year and succeeded to created instant, worldwide excitement in a few weeks – starting with a sold out show in New York, presented by EDDIE TRUNK on May 8th, 2010! Here is just a short list of the headlines this reunion has caused so far: “ACCEPT kills Twitter”, “ACCEPT to support AC/DC stadium shows”, “ACCEPT`s video Teutonic Terror worldwide on no.1 on the MySPACE Video Charts”, “ACCEPT’s warm-up tour through 10 countries has been quoted as one of the best performance in 2010 and the best performances of all times of the band ACCEPT!“
“Blood Of The Nations”, the new, long-awaited studio album from ACCEPT, will be released via Nuclear Blast Records on the following dates:
August 20: Europe
September 14: North America
“Blood Of The Nations” was recorded at Backstage Studio in Derbyshire, England with acclaimed British producer and SABBAT guitarist Andy Sneap (MEGADETH, EXODUS, ARCH ENEMY, NEVERMORE, MASTERPLANand many more) ). The nearly 80 + min long CD marks the recording debut of the band’s latest addition, vocalist MARK TORNILLO (ex-TT QUICK) and contains 12 tracks, including “The Abyss”, “Shades Of Death”, “Teutonic Terror”, “Blood Of The Nations” and “Pandemic”….
ACCEPT 2010 is:
Wolf Hoffmann: Guitar
Peter Baltes: Bass
Mark Tornillo: Vocals
Herman Frank: Guitar
Stefan Schwarzmann: Drums