Mark Tornillo

Mark Tornillo
Tornillo performing in 2015
Tornillo performing in 2015
Background information
Born (1954-06-08) June 8, 1954 (age 70)
OriginBrielle, New Jersey, U.S.
GenresHeavy metal, speed metal, thrash metal
Occupation(s)Singer, songwriter
Years active1979–present
LabelsNuclear Blast

Mark Tornillo (born June 8, 1954) is an American singer and songwriter best known for serving as the frontman of heavy metal band Accept. He joined the band officially in May 2009 as Udo Dirkschneider's replacement. He also became the main lyricist of Accept, replacing the band's long-time manager Gaby Hoffmann.

Career and style

Raised in Brielle, New Jersey, Tornillo graduated from Manasquan High School in 1972.[1] His both grandfathers were musicians and because of that he had musical training since young age, including classical piano lessons for nine years. Hearing the Beatles at the age of 7 or 8 inspired Tornillo to become a musician. Before gaining fame as a singer he also played bass in bands.[2]

Before he joined Accept, Tornillo was in the group T.T. Quick.[3] The band arose from the fertile club scene in Tornillo's native New Jersey and picked up enough of a following to successfully tour across the state as well as play in New York. His vocals appeared on multiple releases by the band in the 1980s and 1990s. Although T.T. Quick folded around the turn of the millennium, it eventually reunited in May 2013 at a Rock N' Roll Heaven and the Old Bridge Metal Militia's concert serving as a charity fundraiser, helping the victims of Superstorm Sandy.[4]

Despite the fact that Tornillo replaced him, vocalist Dirkschneider has praised the other singer, stating that even if Tornillo "has problems" with "the old songs" he "has a good voice" and a method of "singing different".[5] In a review for Blind Rage, music critic Gregory Heaney remarked that "with Tornillo on vocals, Accept still sound the way you remember them sounding when they were at the height of their power". He concluded that "even the lapsed, Balls to the Wall-era metalheads out there will feel as though they're picking up with the band right where they left off."[6]

Tornillo talked about how he came to join the band, saying it was "just a freak thing". He also said that he was a fan of Accept prior to joining, "I was a fan back in the '80s, in the early days. TT Quick covered Accept songs before we had a record deal. I actually turned a lot of people on to Accept. We would cover 'Son Of A Bitch' and 'Flash Rockin' Man'. People would say, 'What is that?' 'That's original stuff that we wrote.' 'No! [Laughs] That's a German band called Accept.' But yes, I was a fan by all means. Still am." He then said that he was nervous as being Udo Dirkschneider's replacement, "I was extremely nervous, especially due to the Internet because the Internet, you know what everyone's thinking right away. It's not like the '80s or the old days where you never got to hear what the audience thought. You just read the magazines and so did they and that was it. Now, with the Internet it was quite obvious that people were not happy with this decision, so I was, like ,'Uh...okay! Here we go. It's on.' That's why we decided right off the bat that we would go in and record, try and make the best possible album we could make, which was 'Blood Of The Nations'. Instead of just going out and resting on the laurels and playing their old material, we had to be a viable, new band. And we tried our damnest to be and I think it's working. 'Blood Of The Nations' surprised a lot of people and I felt a whole lot better after that came out, for certain. But yeah, it was trying, let's put it that way."[7]

Tornillo has appeared on six studio albums with the band to date: Blood of the Nations (2010), Stalingrad (2012), Blind Rage (2014), The Rise of Chaos (2017), Too Mean to Die (2021) and Humanoid (2024). He also appeared on the live album Restless and Live (2017).

After joining with Accept, Tornillo has since made a guest appearance on the release White Devil Armory,[8] the seventeenth studio album by the metal group Overkill, released on July 21, 2014.[9] Tornillo is the singer in a cover band Gotham with Paul Crook (ex-Meat Loaf) who play artists like Marilyn Manson, Rob Zombie and Korn and also make classic rock/industrial mash-ups. [10]

See also

References

  1. ^ Aberback, Brian. "Brielle Native And Former Brick-Based 'Metaler' Leads Band's Revival; Mark Tornillo, a Manasquan High School alumnus, was working as a union electrician when a friend asked him in 2009 to join a jam session with the heavy metal band Accept", Manasquan Patch, April 13, 2012. Accessed January 22, 2019. "Tornillo, a member of the Manasquan High School class of 1972, was working as a union electrician when a friend asked him in 2009 to join a jam session with Accept guitarist Wolf Hoffmann, bassist Peter Baltes and Baltes' son at a recording studio in Long Branch."
  2. ^ "The Jersey Sound: Mark Tornillo interview (video)". YouTube.com. November 5, 2021.
  3. ^ Carlson, Taylor T. (2014). STEELcyclopedia - The Titans of Hard Rock. ROCKcyclopedia. p. 13. ISBN 9781304800763.
  4. ^ "Video: MARK TORNILLO's Pre-ACCEPT Band TT QUICK Reunites For 'Rock N' Roll Heaven' Concert". BLABBERMOUTH.NET. May 23, 2013.
  5. ^ "UDO DIRKSCHNEIDER: 'I Never Left ACCEPT - They Fired Me'". BLABBERMOUTH.NET. March 6, 2017.
  6. ^ "Blind Rage - Accept | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic.
  7. ^ "MARK TORNILLO Says He Was 'Extremely Nervous' Replacing UDO DIRKSCHNEIDER In ACCEPT". Blabbermouth.net. Retrieved September 9, 2017.
  8. ^ "Mark Tornillo | Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved October 23, 2011.
  9. ^ "White Devil Armory - Overkill | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic.
  10. ^ "ACCEPT's MARK TORNILLO: How I Got Involved With GOTHAM Covers Band". BLABBERMOUTH.NET. March 13, 2022.

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