Accept: Balls To The Wall (2001 remastered edition)

TOO MANY SLAVES 

IN THIS WORLD

DIE BY TORTURE

AND PAIN

 Balls to the Wall 

is the fifth

 studio album

 by German 

Heavy Metal band

 Accept 

European label

 Lark Records 

released the album

 in December 1983, 

with its release

 in the United States 

delayed a month

 to not compete 

with the band's

 then-current album 

Restless and Wild. 

It is Accept's 

only record

 to attain

 Gold certification

 in the US. 

The album's title track 

became Accept's 

signature song

 and remains a

 metal anthem 

and

 trademark

 in the genre.

Album Information

A controversy followed

 the American release, 

due to the record's title

 and front cover

 seen as homoerotic, 

and the lyrics to 

"London Leatherboys"

 and 

"Love Child" 

were interpreted to 

concern homosexuals. 

Guitarist 

Wolf Hoffmann 

was dismissive

 of the controversy, 

saying years later that

 "You Americans are 

so uptight about this.

 In Europe

 it was never a big deal...

we just wanted to be

 controversial 

and different 

and touch on

 these touchy subjects,

 because it gave us

 good press

 and it 

worked fabulously, 

you know". 

Drummer 

Stefan Kaufmann

 explained that many 

of the themes 

on the album 

were about oppressed

 minorities in general.

 "London Leatherboys" 

was really about bikers,

 for example: 

"They're normal people,

 they just look different 

and they

behave different.

But they're

 normal people, 

another minority. 

And

 'Love Child' 

was about gays, 

true, 

but it's basically 

about people who

 are suppressed."

 Concerning the

 homosexuality

 issues themselves,

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