Throughout a Might 19 press convention for U.D.O.‘s upcoming album, “Landing”, in Hamburg, Germany, former ACCEPT and present U.D.O. frontman Udo Dirkschneider spoke in regards to the evolution of his singing voice. He mentioned (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “For me, an important factor is that you’re open-minded with music — not [have the attitude of], ‘That is what I did for 40 years. I do not wanna change something.’ For me, [it’s important] to be actually open-minded. I at all times was open-minded. I imply, I used to be working with so many musicians. It was out of my management. We had a whole lot of adjustments. And I at all times [had the attitude of], ‘Yeah.’ I am for me, myself, to see how far I can go together with my vocals, with my voice.

“It is a completely different factor, however after I did this cowl album [2022’s ‘My Way’, released under the Udo Dirkschneider banner], I used to be making like a spectrum… For me, it was, like, ‘Yeah, I can do this,'” he defined. “It was serving to me additionally to see, ‘Oh, can I cowl this like this?’ The vary — that is additionally very fascinating — my vary acquired wider. I imply, I did not count on this. It is like an outdated wine; the style is getting a lot better.

“With my voice now, I can accomplish that many alternative stuff,” Udo added. “That is additionally a miracle for me, for myself. 20 or 25 years in the past, to sing some songs, it was, like, ‘What?’ [Laughs] However now it is easy for me to do some additionally completely different stuff. And yeah, it is good to see. Meaning, for me, I see we will do a whole lot of completely different stuff additionally sooner or later.”

“Landing” shall be launched on August 25 by way of Atomic Hearth Data. The 13-track LP was recorded at numerous places with producer Martin “Mattes” Pfeiffer and was blended at Redhead Studio (Wilhelmshaven, Germany) whereas the mastering was dealt with by Stefan Kaufmann at ROXX Studio (Solingen, Germany),The file additionally features a visitor look by violinist Stefan Pintev on the closing observe, and bass tracks have been recorded by former ACCEPT bassist Peter Baltes. Paintings was offered by Martin Häusler who was additionally accountable for capturing band pictures in assist of the brand new album marketing campaign.

In April, Baltes formally joined U.D.O. and DIRKSCHNEIDER, the 2 bands fronted by Udo Dirkschneider. The previous ACCEPT bassist had been taking part in bass for U.D.O. since final September, initially as a brief substitute for U.D.O.‘s then-bassist Tilen Hudrap who was hospitalized after the band’s present in Munich, Germany.

DIRKSCHNEIDER is the identify of Udo‘s band which performs ACCEPT materials completely.

Though Udo introduced eight years in the past that his preliminary DIRKSCHNEIDER tour would mark his remaining time performing ACCEPT songs, he has continued to play choose exhibits underneath the DIRKSCHNEIDER banner.