Talking with Metal Journal, Accept guitarist, Wolf Hoffmann, discussed the band’s 50th-anniversary tour in late 2025 and left the door open for Udo and Peter Baltes to play with the band again.
When was asked about the decision to announce that they will embark on a 50th-anniversary tour in late 2025 when they still have plenty of touring to do this year in support of their latest album, “Humanoid”, he said: “Things like that take time. People have asked me for the last two years: ‘Are you gonna do an anniversary thing?’ Everybody wants to know. So I finally said, ‘Okay, we’re gonna do it.’ And it’s gonna be massive, man. It’s gonna be a huge surprise with all the guests that we’re gonna have. And I think it’s gonna be completely different from anything we’ve ever done before. So I think it’s gonna blow people away. But that doesn’t take away from this tour that we have coming up, because, first of all, it’s gonna be another year or more before we even go on this next tour. So if you like the new album, ‘Humanoid’, and if you love Accept, you’ve gotta see this tour, no matter what. It’s gonna be definitely a highlight anyhow.”
On the topic of whether there was any talk about possibly announcing a farewell tour to coincide with Accept’s 50th anniversary, Wolf said: “We’ve been doing it for a long, long time. And I honestly don’t know how long I can do this. I mean, nobody knows what the future will bring, and it has crossed our mind, absolutely. So, it might be that we go off with a highlight like this and then just really say, ‘Okay, this was it.’ I don’t know yet, to be honest.”
Finally, regarding whether Udo Dirkschneider and Peter Baltes will be invited to take part in the 50th-anniversary tour, perhaps just in the form of a guest appearance at select shows, Wolf said: “Yeah, of course, of course. That doesn’t mean they’re gonna [show up]. We have to wait and see. Of course, everybody [is invited]. The door is always open for anybody to join us on this, because it’s gonna be a retrospective of all the 50 years of Accept, and whoever wants to participate is more than welcome. Yes, sure.”
