Former ACCEPT Guitarist HERMAN FRANK Signs With AFM RECORDS

Former ACCEPT guitarist Herman Frank has inked a deal with AFM Records. His new solo disc will be released later this year. Also planned are reissues of Frank‘s first two solo albums, 2009’s “Loyal To None” and 2012’s “Right In The Guts”.

Without any doubt, Frank is one of the most prestigious German metal guitarists of the past 30 years. His dynamic compositions with their raging riffs, hooks and intelligent virtuoso solos have graced not only the works of the German cult band VICTORY, which he founded in the mid-Eighties, and MOON’DOC, but also as a member of the legendary ACCEPT in the early Eighties, appearing on a number of important songs on their classic “Balls To the Wall” album before returning to the band in 2005 and staying for another nine years.

Shortly before his exit from ACCEPT was made official in December 2014, Herman gave an interview to Metalholic in which he spoke about his frustrations at being unable to contribute to the band with his songwriting. He said: “[I’ve been writing] songs [for] 30 years, since I began my music career [in] a school band. And it’s a shame that I can’t show my talent [by] writing a couple of ACCEPT songs. I really would like to write some songs [for ACCEPT], but Peter [Baltes, ACCEPT bassist] and Wolf [Hoffmann, ACCEPT guitarist] decided, ‘We are ACCEPT and we wanna do it [on] our own.’ So why should I stop, ’cause I’m playing in ACCEPT, to write songs? I wrote songs for VICTORY, for HAZZARD, for MOON’DOC, for my two solo albums… for so many bands, you know. It’s normal that I don’t stop [writing songs]. PANZER and all these other bands give me a chance to just put out my music, which is in my head, you know?!”

On “Right In The Guts”, Frank was joined in the studio by Swedish singer Rick Altzi, bassist Peter Pichl, guitarist Mamalitsidis Cristos and drummer Michael Wolpers. The effort was recorded at Herman‘s own Arena 20 studio in Hanover, Germany. Frank himself acted as composer and producer and took care of the mixing and album mastering.