Too Mean to Die

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Too Mean to Die
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Studio album by
Accept
Released29 January 2021 [1]
Recorded2020
Genre Heavy metal
Length52:11
Label Nuclear Blast
Producer Andy Sneap [2]
Accept chronology
The Rise of Chaos
(2017)		Too Mean to Die
(2021)		 Humanoid
(2024)
Singles from Too Mean to Die
  1. "The Undertaker"
    Released: 2 October 2020 [3] [4]
  2. "Too Mean to Die"
    Released: 6 November 2020
  3. "Zombie Apocalypse"
    Released: 15 January 2021

Too Mean to Die is the sixteenth studio album by German heavy metal band Accept, released on 29 January 2021. [1] [5] It is the first Accept album to feature Martin Motnik, who replaced original bassist Peter Baltes in 2019, and the only one to feature rhythm guitarist Philip Shouse, who joined the band that same year; [1] as such, Too Mean to Die would be their only album to be recorded as a six-piece band as opposed to a five-piece. As the band had signed to Napalm Records in February 2022, this is their last album to be released on Nuclear Blast. [6]

Contents

Track listing

No.TitleMusicLength
1."Zombie Apocalypse" Wolf Hoffmann, Mark Tornillo5:35
2."Too Mean to Die"Hoffmann, Tornillo, Deaffy 4:21
3."Overnight Sensation"Hoffmann, Tornillo, Deaffy4:24
4."No Ones Master"Martin Motnik, Hoffmann, Tornillo4:10
5."The Undertaker"Hoffmann, Tornillo5:37
6."Sucks to Be You"Motnik, Hoffmann, Tornillo4:05
7."Symphony of Pain"Hoffmann, Tornillo, Deaffy4:39
8."The Best Is Yet to Come"Hoffmann, Tornillo, Motnik, Deaffy4:47
9."How Do We Sleep"Hoffmann, Tornillo, Motnik, Deaffy5:41
10."Not My Problem"Hoffmann, Motnik, Tornillo, Deaffy4:21
11."Samson and Delilah" Camille Saint-Saëns, Antonín Dvořák, Arr. Hoffmann4:31
Total length:52:11

Personnel

Charts

Chart performance for Too Mean to Die
Chart (2021)Peak
position
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria) [7] 9
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [8] 92
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia) [9] 39
Czech Albums (ČNS IFPI) [10] 38
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista) [11] 4
French Albums (SNEP) [12] 88
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [13] 2
Hungarian Albums (MAHASZ) [14] 11
Polish Albums (ZPAV) [15] 10
Scottish Albums (OCC) [16] 14
Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE) [17] 33
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan) [18] 7
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) [19] 4
UK Independent Albums (OCC) [20] 7
UK Rock & Metal Albums (OCC) [21] 3

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