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DIRKSCHNEIDER — the band fronted by former ACCEPT singer Udo Dirkschneider — made its live debut with new guitarist Bill Hudson Sunday
June 4 at the Rock Hard Festival in Gelsenkirchen
Fan-filmed video footage of the concert can be seen below
Hudson was in the middle of a European tour with I AM MORBID — the new band featuring former MORBID ANGEL members David Vincent (vocals
bass) and Tim Yeung (drums) — and was forced to miss a couple of shows with that group in order to make the DIRKSCHNEIDER gig at Rock Hard
Hudson will rejoin his I AM MORBID bandmates on stage on June 5 in Mörlenbach
Hudson hooked up with DIRKSCHNEIDER and U.D.O
as the replacement for the recently departed Finnish guitarist Kasperi Heikkinen
and DIRKSCHNEIDER said in a statement: "Bill fits in
perfectly with us and builds a fantastic guitar team together with Andrey Smirnov
He is very experienced and has shared the stage with several known bands
JON OLIVA'S PAIN and TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA for the last few years
It's not really necessary to talk about his skills; simply check it out on our next tour and you will see what we're talking about
we have received many suggestions and applications from great guitar players from all over the planet
we started getting hints from different and unrelated people in the business pointing straight into the same direction
telling us to check out this Brazilian/American guy
he convinced everybody from the get-go and it was very clear that this guy had all the requirements to become the new band member."
has commenced work on the follow-up to 2015's "Decadent" album for a tentative late 2017 release
and DIRKSCHNEIDER in February for personal reasons
Udo spent the last year touring under the DIRKSCHNEIDER banner
performing classic ACCEPT songs for the last time
"Decadent" was released in Europe in January 2015 via AFM
The disc was recorded in Udo's current home
and also at Redhead Audio Productions in Wilhelmshaven
lineup includes Udo's 23-year-old son Sven Dirkschneider
who joined the group as the replacement for drummer Francesco Jovino
DIRKSCHNEIDER released a live album called "Live - Back To The Roots" in October via AFM Records
was made available as two-CD digipak and gatefold three-vinyl in four different colors (black