“Live in Bulgaria 2020 Pandemic Survival Show” is a double CD with 24 tracks in the spirit of the good old times of Metal live albums. Some tracks are longer than the original ones and there’s room for the musicians to give their contribution. This gets clear in songs as Animal House’s “In The Darkness” and Accept’s oldtime classic “Princess of the Dawn” which received a longer chorus. It’s very hard to deny the fact that Udo’s solo career is a continuation of Accept’s. It simply took its natural course with the addition of new musicians, but the tradition and the spirit were kept intact. “Timebomb” proves it perfectly because it sounds as if it were a continuation of “Fast as Shark,” fast and ferocious and full of the finesse only he and Accept could give to a song. There are also room for a drum and bass solos, a lost tradition. The guitar duo here has the same perfect bond Herman Frank and Wolf Hoffman had in the good old times of “Fast As a Shark” and “Balls to the Wall.” Of course, as expected there are five Accept classics: “Midnight Mover” – a song that isn’t common to be performed, “Princess of the Dawn,” “Metal Heart,” “Fast as Shark,” and “Balls To The Wall.” First solo album “Animal House” received the three performances of “In The Darkness,” “Animal House,” and “They Want War.”
An interesting fact is that the album was recorded in Bulgaria, an uncanny place for live recordings. No, I don’t mean any disrespect to my Bulgarian fans, it’s just that I guess it’s the first live album of a major Metal artist that was recorded there. The concert was in the stunning Roman Amphitheatre in Plovdiv, in front of 2500 fans – in the middle of a year that is one of the quietest ever for musicians and bands, both at home and internationally due to the Covid pandemy.
U.D.O. “Live in Bulgaria 2020 Pandemic Survival Show” will be released on March 19th via AFM Records.
Track Listing:
CD1
- Tongue Reaper
- Make the Move
- Midnight Mover
- Wrong Side of Midnight
- Metal Machine
- Independence Day
- Rose in the Desert
- Vendetta
- Rising High
- Prologue: The Great Unknown
- In the Darkness
- I Give As Good As I Get
- Princess of the Dawn
CD2
- Timebomb
- Drum Solo
- Bass Solo
- Hungry and Angry
- One Heart One Soul
- Man and Machine
- Animal House
- They Want War
- Metal Heart
- Fast As a Shark
- Balls to the Wall
- Outro (Stillness Of Time)
Watch “Man and Machine” official live video here:
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