Balls to the Wall is the fifth
album by
German heavy metal band
Accept. European label Lark Records released the album in December 1983, but its
US release was delayed until a month later in January 1984 as to not compete with the band's then-current album
Restless and Wild, which had arrived in the US in early 1983. It is Accept's only record to attain
Gold certification in America. The album's
title track became Accept's signature tune and remains a metal anthem and trademark in the genre.