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Former
ACCEPT members
Herman Frank and
David Reece are working together on a new project.
Frank, who is promoting his fifth solo album,
"Two For A Lie", broke the news of the collaboration in a brand new interview with
Justin Smulison of
Jace Media.
He said (as transcribed by
BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "I'm working right now — already working since a couple of months [ago] — on another project I wanna do with a singer, a well-known singer. He played in the same band as I did, but we never played [in the band] at the same time."
When
Smulison guessed that
Frank was referring to
Reece, the guitarist said: "How do you know? Good guess."
Herman went on to say that he is not involved in
Reece's ongoing collaboration with ex-
U.D.O./
SINNER guitarist
Andy Susemihl.
"[
David is] doing his
REECE album, as I know,"
Frank said. "But I'm in contact with
David. Hey, we'll see. It's like Christmas. I think we have to wait for a couple of more weeks."
Herman joined
ACCEPT in 1982 shortly before the release of the band's
"Restless And Wild" album and exited the group for the first time after the arrival of 1983's
"Balls To The Wall" LP.
When
ACCEPT reunited for festival appearances in 2005,
Herman handled second-guitar duties alongside founding axeman
Wolf Hoffmann, with
Stefan Schwarzmann sitting behind the kit.
Frank and
Schwarzmann were involved in
ACCEPT's comeback with singer
Mark Tornillo and appeared on the reunited group's first three studio albums: 2010's
"Blood Of The Nations", 2012's
"Stalingrad" and 2014's
"Blind Rage".
Two years ago,
Herman told
All That Shreds about his decision to exit
ACCEPT in December 2014: "It was just time to leave the band. Let's put it this way: I wanted to do music the way I started to. I wanted to have my own band. I wanted my own music and just wanted to just play my own leads. Not to follow somebody's guitar. I was getting too old for it. It's fine to be a backup, but after a couple of years, it's time for a different thing."
Reece was recruited for
ACCEPT's
"Eat The Heat" LP in 1989 following the departure of
Udo Dirkschneider.
Reece's higher-pitched delivery was in sharp contrast to
Dirkschneider's distinctive style, and overall, the album was a critical and commercial disappointment. Midway through the
"Eat The Heat" tour, differences between the band and
Reece had come to a head, leading to the altercation between the singer and bassist
Peter Baltes in Chicago. By the end of 1989,
ACCEPT had hung it up.
David spoke about the circumstances that led to his dispute with the bassist during an interview with
Metalliluola. He explained: "
Peter had told my girlfriend I was having an affair. And I asked him, 'Did you tell her?' And he said, 'Yes.' So I slapped him. That ended it. It was bad before that, the communication. Ticket sales weren't good. We were opening for
W.A.S.P."
He continued: "I think they really thought that getting the American [singer] in, they were gonna break the United States. But
ACCEPT aren't really huge in America, like [in Europe]. That's why they hired me — they wanted a change. And the tour was going kind of slow. We did a headline tour first in the States, [playing in the] clubs. That was good. And then we went out with
W.A.S.P. and
METAL CHURCH, and it was half[-filled] rooms. So they were feeling the stress of that, and the communication was bad. So it was building."
David went on to say that he is sorry for assaulting his former bandmate. "
Peter and I are friends now," he said, adding that "it was a bad decision" that was made while he and the rest of the group were under "a lot of stress. Being in a band, it can be a lot of drama. He had no right to tell her, and I had no right to slap him. So, I regret it."