Ghost frontman Tobias Forge, Anthrax bassist Frank Bello and Korn drummer Ray Luzier have contributed to a re-recorded version of German heavy metal band Accept’s 1980 deep cut Save Us.
The re-imagining, which you can hear below, also features Accept themselves and is taken from an upcoming tribute album marking 50 years since the Solingen band formed. The 19-song set, Teutonic Titans 1976–2026, comes out on September 4 via Napalm.
Accept guitarist Wolf Hoffman says in a statement that Forge “was not really on my radar” until he met him at a show in Stockholm. The singer told him that Save Us was his favourite Accept song, and that he once wanted Ghost to cover it, but plans were scrapped.
“Save Us? I don’t even remember that song,” Hoffman jokes. “Nobody has even mentioned that song! I had to go back and listen to it. After I saw a Ghost show it all made sense to me. It really fits his style and I could really imagine him doing that song really well. He’s right, it’s a fun song!”
Teutonic Titans 1976–2026 was announced in April and features guest spots from 50 rock and heavy metal musicians. Metallica lead guitarist Kirk Hammett and ex-Motörhead drummer Mikkey Dee play on Fast As A Shark, Judas Priest vocalist Rob Halford sings Balls To The Wall and The Smashing Pumpkins’ Billy Corgan appears on Love Child.
Ex-Judas Priest guitarist K.K. Downing, Overkill singer Bobby Blitz, Fozzy frontman Chris Jericho and many others are set to appear on as-yet-undisclosed tracks.
Accept are also celebrating their 50th anniversary on the road. The band are currently making their way across mainland Europe and will perform at Helsinki Metal Fest on Friday, August 7. They’ll play two headline UK dates and a set at Stonedead festival in Newark later this month, before returning to the mainland for a headline tour from November to December.
Although Ghost are best known for such successful hard rock originals as the multi-Platinum-selling Mary On A Cross and the Grammy Award-winning Cirice, they’re a prolific cover act. They’ve released three EPs mostly or entirely composed of covers, the latest being 2023’s Phantomime. In 2021, they contributed a take on Metallica’s Enter Sandman to the US heavy metal giants’ tribute album The Metallica Blacklist.
Ghost are currently on hiatus following the completion of their globe-trotting Skeletour earlier this year, but are the subject of a new documentary/concert film, 2 Big To Rig, which hits cinema and IMAX screens worldwide from August 26. The film follows 2024’s Rite Here Rite Now and offers a rare look at the real-life workings of the band, who wear masks onstage and are made up of anonymous members apart from Forge.
Meanwhile, Bello’s band Anthrax are gearing up to release their 12th album Cursum Perficio on September 18. It will mark their first studio release in 10 years. Luzier’s Korn will tour Europe and the UK in October and November.
