IRON ALLIES Feat. Former ACCEPT Members HERMAN FRANK And DAVID REECE: Debut Album To Be Released Via AFM RECORDS

IRON ALLIES, the brand new band that includes former ACCEPT members Herman Frank and David Reece, has entered Horus Sound Studio in Hannover, Germany to start recording its debut album. The LP, which is being co-produced by Arne Neurand, will probably be launched later within the 12 months by way of AFM Information.

Becoming a member of Frank and Reece in IRON ALLIES are bassist Donnie Van Stavern (RIOT) and drummer Francesco Jovino (U.D.O., PRIMAL FEAR, VOODOO CIRCLE, JORN).

Final October, Reece mentioned his collaboration with Frank in an interview with the “Heavy Steel Mayhem” radio present. He mentioned (as transcribed by Phoosi.com): “The ironic factor about Herman and I, we performed festivals many occasions and never even met one another. And right here we’re, a part of the identical band and their historical past. And we might miss one another by, like, two minutes. We at all times wished to see one another, however one thing got here up [and] we by no means actually received to satisfy. So Herman and I began speaking, and we mentioned, ‘Yeah, let’s put a band collectively. Who do you wanna get?’ Effectively, my supervisor urged Donnie from RIOT on bass, Donnie Van Stavern. And we talked to [drummer] Mike Heller from FEAR FACTORY just a few occasions, and that did not actually work out. After which I mentioned, ‘I’ve received Francesco Jovino, dude, on my [solo] album. This man is a beast.’ So then we received the band collectively. So proper now we’re sitting on about 22 songs which might be recorded.”

Concerning the musical path of IRON ALLIES, Reece mentioned: “It is received a few of these parts of previous [ACCEPT circa] ‘Stressed And Wild’. It is received Dave‘s voice — [as heard on my solo albums] ‘Cacophony [Of Souls]’ and ‘Blacklist [Utopia]’. It is ripping shit, man. I am actually enthusiastic about it.”

Based on Reece, a part of the motivation for placing IRON ALLIES collectively is the unfavourable publicity surrounding their respective departures from ACCEPT. “They badmouth him, they badmouth me, there was this back-and-forth on a regular basis, after which [Herman] mentioned, ‘You realize what? Screw it. I am gonna name David Reece,'” David defined. “And I might by no means actually talked to him. He simply got here all the way down to Italy about two weeks in the past, and we received to truly meet nose to nose. We went out to an excellent dinner, frolicked for about six hours. He was simply driving round Europe, enjoyable, ‘trigger he had simply completed one other VICTORY album and his solo album, so he wanted a break.”

David mentioned that he’s excited concerning the prospect of hitting the highway with a seasoned veteran like Herman.

“It is a band of fellows who’ve been round and carried out all of it,” he mentioned. “So we’re not gonna have that, ‘Oh, I do not wanna go there. Do we’ve to stand up so early?’ We all know what we have gotta do. We have gotta journey and we have gotta rock.”

He added: “I am hoping we are able to launch that within the early a part of ’22, ‘trigger that is actually good.”

Frank broke the information of the collaboration in a June 2021 interview with Justin Smulison of Jace Media. He mentioned: “I am working proper now — already working since a few months [ago] — on one other venture I wanna do with a singer, a widely known singer. He performed in the identical band as I did, however we by no means performed [in the band] on the similar time.” When Smulison guessed that Frank was referring to Reece, the guitarist mentioned: “How are you aware? Good guess.”

Herman joined ACCEPT in 1982 shortly earlier than the discharge of the band’s “Stressed And Wild” album and exited the group for the primary time after the arrival of 1983’s “Balls To The Wall” LP.

When ACCEPT reunited for pageant appearances in 2005, Herman dealt with second-guitar duties alongside founding axeman Wolf Hoffmann, with Stefan Schwarzmann sitting behind the equipment.

Frank and Schwarzmann have been concerned in ACCEPT‘s comeback with singer Mark Tornillo and appeared on the reunited group’s first three studio albums: 2010’s “Blood Of The Nations”, 2012’s “Stalingrad” and 2014’s “Blind Rage”.

Two years in the past, Herman advised All That Shreds about his choice to exit ACCEPT in December 2014: “It was simply time to go away the band. Let’s put it this manner: I wished to do music the best way I began to. I wished to have my very own band. I wished my very own music and simply wished to simply play my very own leads. To not comply with anyone’s guitar. I used to be getting too previous for it. It is tremendous to be a backup, however after a few years, it is time for a distinct factor.”

Reece was recruited for ACCEPT‘s “Eat The Warmth” LP in 1989 following the departure of Udo Dirkschneider. Reece‘s higher-pitched supply was in sharp distinction to Dirkschneider‘s distinctive type, and total, the album was a essential and industrial disappointment. Halfway by the “Eat The Warmth” tour, variations between the band and Reece had come to a head, resulting in the altercation between the singer and bassist Peter Baltes in Chicago. By the tip of 1989, ACCEPT had hung it up.

David spoke concerning the circumstances that led to his dispute with the bassist throughout an interview with Metalliluola. He defined: “Peter had advised my girlfriend I used to be having an affair. And I requested him, ‘Did you inform her?’ And he mentioned, ‘Sure.’ So I slapped him. That ended it. It was dangerous earlier than that, the communication. Ticket gross sales weren’t good. We have been opening for W.A.S.P.“

He continued: “I believe they actually thought that getting the American [singer] in, they have been gonna break the USA. However ACCEPT aren’t actually enormous in America, like [in Europe]. That is why they employed me — they wished a change. And the tour was going type of sluggish. We did a headline tour first within the States, [playing in the] golf equipment. That was good. After which we went out with W.A.S.P. and METAL CHURCH, and it was half[-filled] rooms. So that they have been feeling the stress of that, and the communication was dangerous. So it was constructing.”

David went on to say that he’s sorry for assaulting his former bandmate. “Peter and I are mates now,” he mentioned, including that “it was a nasty choice” that was made whereas he and the remainder of the group have been below “a whole lot of stress. Being in a band, it may be a whole lot of drama. He had no proper to inform her, and I had no proper to slap him. So, I remorse it.”