Drums on the record are played by Frank Friedrich, but he chose not to pursue a professional music career and so his place was taken by Stefan Kaufmann just prior to the album's release.

[2] Bassist Peter Baltes performs lead vocals on "Seawinds" and "Sounds of War".

It was material that had gathered up over the first few months and years of our existence and it was a mixture of all kinds of stuff."

"[3] Accept would gain better production values and a more cohesive direction on future releases, but the debut was an important early step that gained them the ability to play the neighbouring countries of Belgium, the Netherlands and France for the first time.

Swedish metal band Therion covered "Seawinds" on Crowning of Atlantis (1999) All tracks are written by Accept