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Wolf Hoffmann Discusses Missing Track
Wolf Hoffmann is going to see the release of his new solo album, “Headbangers Symphony,” twenty years after his first solo release, “Classical.”
Metal Shock Finland's Mohsen Fayazi recently conducted an interview with Wolf where he surprised the fans with two pieces of news. Some excerpts can be read below. When asked about the personnel who were involved, Wolf revealed a tragic surprise:
Devin Townsend played a bass track for me. Unfortunately, that track did not even make it onto the album yet because there were some legal issues. It’s a great track which broke my heart that we couldn’t make it on the album, we will release it soon. It’s Romeo and Juliet, by Prokofiev, it’s ‘Dance Of The Knights’, it’s almost one of my favourites and Devin Townsend played an amazing bass track on it.
The problem is that the author has only been dead 68 or close to 70 years, something like that, so it’s not quite over the limit of where it becomes public domain. So, instead of taking any chances, the label decided to ask for permission and the permission never came, because it was dragging on and on and on. And in the meantime they decided we have to go ahead and release the album without the track. And now of course we got the permission from the family to use it, but it’s too late now, the album’s already printed.
The song turned out really good and so it’s too bad it didn’t make it – it fit on there really well, it rounded it off even more. But hey, it is what it is and sometimes you gotta move on and suck it up, what else can you do.More...
Read the full article at Metal Shock Finland.
Wolf Hoffmann Posts Album Trailer
Accept's guitar powerhouse, Wolf Hoffmann, is set to release his second solo album entitled "Headbangers Symphony" on July 1st via Nuclear Blast.
The album is completely dedicated to the grand classic maestros and after the first single "Scherzo" was released last week (streaming here), the first album trailer has now been launched today.
Check out the new teaser clip below, in which Wolf Hoffmann presents details about the creation of the album.
Wolf Hoffmann Streaming "Scherzo"
Accept's guitar powerhouse Wolf Hoffman is set to release his second solo album entitled "Headbangers Symphony," on July 1st, 2016 through Nuclear Blast. The album is completely dedicated to the grand classic maestros.
In support of this record, the first single "Scherzo" has now been released. Listen to Wolf's interpretation of Ludwig van Beethoven's composition below. You can also grab the single digitally through Nuclear Blast here.
Wolf Hoffmann Releasing New Album
Accept’s guitar powerhouse Wolf Hoffmann is getting ready to release his 2nd solo album entitled "Headbangers Symphony."
New full-length album "Headbangers Symphony" will be released on July 1st, 2016 by Nuclear Blast. The label comments:
"Wolf Hoffmann has a passion. His life-long love and dedication to heavy metal music is documented in dozens of albums spanning four decades with his long time heavy metal band Accept. But beyond heavy metal, Wolf has an incessant craving for the classics, yes, the ones written decades and centuries ago.
"Classical music has always been an influence - albeit limited - on Accept's Teutonic approach to rock and heavy metal. However, it wasn't until 1997 during an extended hiatus from Accept, that Wolf Hoffmann finally had the chance to fully explore and fulfil this interest by recording his first astounding solo album ‘Classical’, a record filled with his rock guitar driven interpretations of some of classical music’s most loved compositions."
Hoffmann comments: "I have always incorporated classical music in my song writing with Accept, especially with ‘Metal Heart,’ but I constantly felt there was so much more that I could do and I did not want to overload Accept or force it in any way. I always knew I could make a whole record of it and that’s how the first record ‘Classical’ was born. Even today, fans tell me that they are still listening to it, that's why it is so fantastic now to do another one." More...