Breaker  by Accept

Accept's singer, Udo Dirkschneider, recalls about the recording of the band’s third album that they made the decision not to let anyone other than themselves influence the musical direction of their new record after the commercial failure of I’m A Rebel. Thus, with the help of producer Dirk Steffens, they locked themselves in Delta Studio in the town of Wilster in then-West Germany during the winter of 1980, and by January 1981, Breaker was ready. It was released in the market in March 1981.

Breaker is the first album by the Germans that moves from beginning to end in the well-known heavy metal sound with which the band Accept would be established as one of the most significant in the genre in the immediate following years. Udo Dirkschneider believes that it was the first album that would start Accept's golden era in the 1980s. Several years later, the iconic Accept singer created Breaker Records, keeping the album's title in mind.

Ultimately, the commercial success that Accept’s members were expecting did not come with Breaker either, in which, however, one can find two of their classic songs, Burnin’, which was the first single of the record, and Midnight Highway.