Predator (album)

Predator
Studio album by Accept
Released	1996
Recorded	16th Ave. Sound Studios, Nashville, TN, USA
Genre	Heavy metal
Length	48:14
Label	RCA
Producer	Michael Wagener
Accept chronology
Death Row (1994) Predator (1996) All Areas – Worldwide (1997)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]

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

Drums and percussion except on "Primitive" and additional percussion on "Predator" were by Michael Cartellone from Damn Yankees and Lynyrd Skynyrd.^[2]

Track listing

Music and Words by Accept and Deaffy

1. "Hard Attack" (Hoffmann/Baltes/Dirkschneider)– 4:46
2. "Crossroads" (Baltes/Hoffmann/Dirkschneider/Deaffy)– 5:13
3. "Making Me Scream" (Hoffmann/Baltes/Dirkschneider/Deaffy)– 4:14
4. "Diggin' in the Dirt" (Hoffmann/Baltes/Dirkschneider/Deaffy)– 4:01
5. "Lay It Down" (Hoffmann/Baltes/Deaffy)– 5:02
6. "It Ain't Over Yet" (Hoffmann/Baltes)– 4:17
7. "Predator" (Hoffmann/Dirkschneider/Deaffy)– 3:37
8. "Crucified" (Hoffmann/Baltes/Dirkschneider/Deaffy)– 3:01
9. "Take Out the Crime" (Kaufmann/Dirkschneider/Deaffy)– 3:12
10. "Don't Give a Damn" (Hoffmann/Baltes/Dirkschneider/Deaffy)– 2:58
11. "Run through the Night" (Kaufmann/Dirkschneider/Deaffy)– 3:19
12. "Primitive" (Hoffmann/Baltes)– 4:38

Credits

• Udo Dirkschneider: Vocals
• Wolf Hoffmann: Guitar
• Peter Baltes: Bass, Lead Vocals on "Lay It Down" "It Ain't Over Yet" and "Primitive"
• Michael Cartellone: Drums Except "Primitive"

Additional Percussion on "Predator" by Kalei Lam

Produced, Recorded and Mixed by Michael Wagener for Double Trouble PROD.INC

Recorded at 16TH AVE. Sound Studios. Nashville, TN * Assistant engineer Jeff Gudenrath

Mixed at Scream Studios, Studio City, CA * Assistant engineer Doug Trantow

Mastered by Stephen Marcussen at Precision Mastering, LA

Cover art created and provided by Wolf Hoffmann * Art Direction * Bill Barnes * Design by Swatson, Barnes & Co.

References

1. ^ Allmusic review
2. ^ "Accept - Predator". Encyclopaedia Metallum. http://www.metal-archives.com/release.php?id=4252. Retrieved 2010-05-17. 

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