German heavy metal legend Udo Dirkschneider is back with another album with his band U.D.O. It's their fifteenth studio album - this is a man who doesn't take things easy, as he's released an album pretty much every two years for the last couple of decades, as well as several live albums. He's still gotGerman heavy metal legend Udo Dirkschneider is back with another album with his band U.D.O. It's their fifteenth studio album – this is a man who doesn't take things easy, as he's released an album pretty much every two years for the last couple of decades, as well as several live albums. He's still got that instantly recognisable voice that has served him well since Accept were first unleashed upon the world. Listening to the album it's clear that Udo has strong feelings about the gap between rich and poor, how people in power act, and social justice in general. "Decadent behaviour by privileged society exists in the whole world in completely different shades," says Udo. "Decadence is almost like a universal language. What bothers me the most is the egocentrism that goes along with that. People who have everything seem not to really care about the world around them anymore; it's like they use their own privileged status as an absolution for that. Also they do not seem to see that there's a correlation between their own luxury and the poverty of others." "If all of us would live a little bit more consciously and think about who has [...]
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