“Metal is not as big here as in the rest of the world”

in march Accept singer Mark Tornillo shared his belief that “the USA is no longer a metal territory”.

“It’s always been difficult to tour in North America. It’s mostly the promoters and the fact that we have to play at least a big enough room where we’ll make some money. But to do that, you have to participate. But we It will happen this year, no matter what, we all decided that if we have to stop, but we have to play for the fans.

“We have no problem selling tickets in South America. There is no problem selling tickets in Europe, otherwise. I think it’s just that the United States isn’t a metal place anymore. I don’t know why,” he said at the time.

Naturally, that statement caused a backlash screw clarified his statement on the Rockin’ Metal Revival podcast (transcribed by Blabbermouth).

“Indeed [metal is] not as big here as in the rest of the world. Europe, it’s still huge. South America, that’s huge. Japan, that’s huge. And that’s kind of the main attraction here. it just isn’t. And I think it has more to do with the record companies not promoting it properly. Nothing against us, I mean I love working with Napalm now. They do a really great job for us, but they don’t promote metal among the major, big labels. They don’t… But they don’t propagate well enough. And I think if they did, kids would get into it. They are more interested in selling Taylor Swift and hip-hop. So it is what it is. But heavy metal will always be there. it’s not going anywhere. It’s just underground again.”

“Well CC: [Downing‘s new band KK’S PRIEST] and we both played Wacken [Open Air festival in Wacken, Germany in front of] with 80 thousand people SCORPIONS. And now we will play small theaters and big clubs [together in America]. So this is what it is.”