Accept - Blood Of The Nations (2010)

Whilst Morbid Angel may have sold their fans short (no, I'm still not over that chuck of disappointment!!), Accept come rushing headlong from the metal vacuum and hit you in the face like a truck. Some may say that such metal lacks any type of originality, but hey, Accept aren't alterno-metal, they are a face-ripping metal act, and they stick with that intention, and kudos to them for it. 'Blood...' is a quality heavy metal album of high craftsmanship and cold steel that not even Megadeth could stick with during the late '90s. The title cut is a marching anthem, Accept are at the front, in the trenches of blood and dirt, with gritted teeth, 'Rolling Thunder' seethes with angst, a horseman of war leading the troops into battle on a Motorhead buzz. Impossible to discredit such a force, and as 'Shades of Death' cracks the clouds and spears the ground with lightning, one realises as to how such original warlords can never be mastered by hew pretenders. New thrash and metal will always be a good thing, but there's no beating the original gods of war and thunder, and Accept are among those, gargantuan titans still capable of crushing all opponent's whilst glancing back proudly at their immense back catalogue of burning fury.'The Abyss' and 'Beat The Bastards' simply confirm that metal is a fortress beyond destruction.

8/10