“It’s gonna be a huge thing because turning 50 is a big deal” – Wolf Hoffmann shares some updates on Accept’s upcoming tour

Accept guitarist Wolf Hoffmann discussed the band’s upcoming 50th anniversary celebration in 2025–2026 in a recent interview with The Adamantium Podcast. At the end of 2025, Accept will celebrate the band’s golden birthday with a very special anniversary tour in order to commemorate this enormous milestone. Early in 2026, an anniversary album will be made available.

Well, I can’t tell you too much yet, because it’s too early and right now we’re featuring this tour, so let’s focus on that. But I can tell you it’s gonna be a huge thing because turning 50 is a big deal. We have always shied away from all these, I would call them little anniversaries, because, really, we could have done a 20 years of this album, 20 years of that album, 30 years. Every year is something to celebrate. I mean, when you have 15 albums or 16 or 17, something always happened 20, 30, 40 years ago. It’s always a round number of years. So we could have done that for a long time. There’s people who do it all the time. We always said, ‘Nah, we’d much rather feature the current album and then make a new one after that and stay current.’ But, man, with 50, that’s where I gotta say this is the one — this is the big one. There won’t be another one… And also, quite honestly, we’re getting up there in age a little bit, and I’m not quite ready to retire, but you never really know. Honestly, at some point, we could all say this might be our last tour. You never really know. Somebody might get sick. 50 is a big deal, and we’re gonna really celebrate it properly. It’s gonna be a completely different show with a lot of surprises. That’s all I know. So we’ve got a year of planning to do and then executing and stuff.