In a recent interview with The Metal Voice from Canada, Mark Tornillo discussed the difficulties of touring North America for a band like ACCEPT, particularly in recent years.
“It’s always been difficult to tour North America,” he said. “It’s mostly promoters and the fact that we need to play at least a big enough room where we’re gonna make some money. But it’s gotta have the turnout to do it. But we’re gonna make it happen this year no matter what. I know that. We’ve all decided that if we have to take a cut, we’ll take a cut. But we’ve gotta play — we’ve gotta play for the fans.”
“We have no trouble selling tickets in South America,” Tornillo continued. “[We have] no trouble selling tickets in Europe, or else. I think it’s just that the United States is just not metal territory anymore. I don’t know why.”
“I would love nothing better than to tour the U.S. every year. But we’ll see how it plays out.”
ACCEPT will release their new album, entitled Humanoid, on April 26, 2024. The upcoming masterpiece was once again produced, recorded, mixed and mastered by critically acclaimed heavy metal producer Andy Sneap.
Formed in 1976, ACCEPT was one of the first big German metal bands alongside Scorpions, influencing a generation of bands and gaining international recognition by charting at #1 and selling gold. ACCEPT has remained at the top, storming the charts with their previous album, Too Mean To Die (2022), peaking at #2 on the Official German Album Charts, and boasting over a million monthly Spotify listeners.
