Accept guitarist Wolf Hoffmann said in September that every original member had been invited onto Teutonic Titans 1976 to 2026 and that none of them wanted anything to do with it. Udo Dirkschneider has now told Jimmy Kay of The Metal Voice that the invitation never reached him.
His words were that Hoffmann never asked him personally or by management, and that he thinks Peter Baltes and Stefan Kaufmann were the ones approached, and that they said no. He was also asked whether he had been invited to guest at one of the anniversary concerts. Nothing with me, he answered. Definitely not.
What he objects to is not the omission. It is the version of it that went out in interviews and on social media while he was not there to answer. It does not matter if I say yes or no, he said, but do not tell something like this.
The album came out on 4 September through Napalm Records, with fifty guests across nineteen re recorded songs and Mark Tornillo singing most of them. The anniversary tour has already put David Reece back on an Accept stage after thirty seven years, so the door is not shut on everyone.
Dirkschneider sang on every Accept record from 1979 to 1987 and runs U.D.O. now.