Watch The Damned!

I don’t care what you think: Accept’s song “Balls To The Wall” is fucking awesome. It’s the video that nearly eliminated the song, and perhaps the band’s, credibility.
The notion that a short, fat, and ugly German leading a few additional ragtag Krauts behind him could possibly create one of the decade’s balls-out metal songs is pretty unbelievable.
But if you’re able to suppress the image of a cheap dummy riding a makeshift demolition ball into a Styrofoam wall, then you might actually hear the smart and brutal metal within.
Instead of subscribing to the formulaic metal themes, Accept decided to tackle a heady subject matter such as the oppressed rising up against the establishment
For them to actually make such an epic statement, the band had to enlist two important ingredients to make it work.
The first is the riff. Guitarist Jörg Fischer creates a memorable riff that it’s hard to remember what the solo sounds like. To remind you, it’s a brief and spastic series of quick trills and exploding rushes that is neither linear nor well thought out. Immediately before it folds on top of its own expectation, Fischer cuts the shit and begins riffing the memorable rhythm part over again.
Then, in an example of one of the best production tricks in all of metal, a chorus of Germaine bass and baritone vocals slowly rises up through the mix. It’s just a simple, repetitive “Ah ah ah,” but there’s so much reverb caked into the chanting that it sounds as massive as Hitler youth rally.
Lurking over everything else is Udo Dirkschneider, a vertically challenged, chubby dude with close-cropped blonde hair and a penchant for camouflage clothes.
Udo sounds utterly menacing, alternating between screams (“Watch the damned!”), hoarse whispers (“Make the world scared”) and primordial grunts. The way he matter-of-factly declares “Lets plug a bomb in everyone’s ass” was perfectly nihilistic and it worked nicely against a Ronald Reagan backdrop, and it works even better in the Bush II era.
It’s that video. That fucking retarded video. It completely erased every positive memory that you may have for the music and it happened to be the one format that most people remember the song from.
But give a chance to listen to it again, as loud as you can and witness how one of the most visually unappealing bands in metal made one of the most perfectly adorned song in metal.