Predator (album)

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Predator
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Studio album by
Accept
Released15 January 1996 (1996-01-15)
Studio16th Ave. Sound Studios, Nashville, Tennessee, US, 1995
Genre Heavy metal
Length48:05
Label RCA/BMG Ariola
Producer Michael Wagener
Accept chronology
Death Row
(1994)		Predator
(1996)		 All Areas – Worldwide
(1997)
Singles from Predator
  1. "Hard Attack"
    Released: September 1996
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [1]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal 8/10 [2]
Hard Force (FRA)Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [3]
Hard n' Heavy (FRA)Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [4]

Predator is the eleventh studio album by German heavy metal band Accept, released in 1996. It was produced by Michael Wagener and recorded at 16th Ave. Sound Studios, Nashville, Tennessee. Predator was Accept's last album before their hiatus from 1997, and their last recording with singer Udo Dirkschneider.

Contents

Drums and percussion, except on "Primitive", and additional percussion on "Predator" were played by Michael Cartellone from Damn Yankees and Lynyrd Skynyrd. [5]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Hard Attack" Wolf Hoffmann, Peter Baltes, Udo Dirkschneider 4:37
2."Crossroads"Baltes, Hoffmann, Dirkschneider, Deaffy 5:12
3."Making Me Scream"Hoffmann, Baltes, Dirkschneider, Deaffy4:13
4."Diggin' in the Dirt"Hoffmann, Baltes, Dirkschneider, Deaffy4:01
5."Lay It Down"Hoffmann, Baltes, Deaffy5:01
6."It Ain't Over Yet"Hoffmann, Baltes4:15
7."Predator"Hoffmann, Dirkschneider, Deaffy3:38
8."Crucified"Hoffmann, Baltes, Dirkschneider, Deaffy3:01
9."Take Out the Crime" Stefan Kaufmann, Dirkschneider, Deaffy3:12
10."Don't Give a Damn"Hoffmann, Baltes, Dirkschneider, Deaffy2:58
11."Run Through the Night"Kaufmann, Dirkschneider, Deaffy3:21
12."Primitive"Hoffmann, Baltes4:36
Total length:48:05
Japanese bonus track
No.TitleLength
1."This One's for You (Live)"4:13
Total length:52:18

Credits

Band members
Additional musicians
Production

Charts

Chart (1996)Peak
position
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista) [6] 27
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [7] 56
Japanese Albums (Oricon) [8] 56
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan) [9] 28
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) [10] 49

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References

  1. ↑ Anderson, Jason. "Accept Predator review". AllMusic . Rovi Corporation . Retrieved 12 February 2013.
  2. ↑ Popoff, Martin (1 August 2007). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 3: The Nineties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. p. 8. ISBN   978-1-894959-62-9.
  3. ↑ "Cronique". Hard Force (in French). No. 9. January 1996. p. S3.
  4. ↑ Bourgade, Louis (February 1996). "Review of Predator". Hard n' Heavy (in French). No. 22. p. 72.
  5. ↑ "Accept - Predator". Encyclopaedia Metallum . Retrieved 17 May 2010.
  6. ↑ "Accept: Predator" (in Finnish). Musiikkituottajat – IFPI Finland. Retrieved 27 May 2023.
  7. ↑ "Offiziellecharts.de – Accept – Predator" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved 27 May 2023.
  8. ↑ アクセプト - アクセプトのアルバム売り上げランキング (in Japanese). Oricon . Retrieved 10 June 2014.
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