David L. Reece is an American vocalist best known for his time with Accept

Accept

Accept is a German heavy metal band from the town of Solingen, originally assembled by former vocalist Udo Dirkschneider, guitarist Wolf Hoffmann and bassist Peter Baltes. Their beginnings can be traced back to the late 1960s...

 and contribution to their 1989 album Eat the Heat

Eat the Heat

Eat the Heat is a 1989 release by German Heavy metal band Accept.It was recorded at Dierks-Studios, in Cologne, from September 1988 to January 1989...

.

Before Accept

Reece grew up in Oklahoma

Oklahoma

Oklahoma is a state located in the South Central region of the United States of America. With an estimated 3,751,351 residents as of the 2010 census and a land area of 68,667 square miles , Oklahoma is the 28th most populous and 20th-largest state...

, making his recording debut with Dare Force in 1989. He also recorded vocals for a demo for Sacred Child. He was replaced by Astrid Young

Astrid Young

Astrid Young is a Canadian singer/songwriter. She is the daughter of Scott Young and Astrid Mead. After her half-brother and fellow musician Neil Young bought Astrid her first amp in the 1970s, she began to explore her own musical talents...

 before their album recording, but the demos were included on a re-release of their debut.

With Accept

See the article about Eat the Heat

Eat the Heat

Eat the Heat is a 1989 release by German Heavy metal band Accept.It was recorded at Dierks-Studios, in Cologne, from September 1988 to January 1989...

. After many auditions, Reece was chosen to be the new Accept singer. He and the rest of the band produced a different sounding album than those of early Accept albums. The tour was cancelled and he was fired as the singer.

After Accept

After being sacked from Accept, he formed Bangalore Choir

Bangalore Choir

Bangalore Choir is an American hard rock band formed in 1991. They were formed by the former frontman of Accept, David Reece, and guitarists Curt Mitchell and John Kirk . Joining them from Hericane Alice, was bassist Ian Mayo and Jackie Ramos on drums. Their debut album was produced by Max...

 and released an album with them. The band included members of Hericane Alice

Hericane Alice

Hericane Alice was a short lived metal band that formed in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Their debut album was the self titled and very limited Hurricane Alice. Due to conflict with metal band Hurricane , they changed the spelling of their name to Hericane Alice for their second album...

 - a band for which Reece had declined to record demo vocals earlier due to his involvement with Lillian X - a partnership which never resulted in any recorded material. The following years he released two albums with Sircle of Silence with Larry Farkas from Vengeance Rising

Vengeance Rising

Vengeance Rising is an American Christian thrash metal band from Los Angeles, CA. Fronted by vocalist Roger Martinez, they originally formed as Vengeance in 1987, but changed their name in 1989 to avoid conflict with another band from the Netherlands...

, Jay Schellen

Jay Schellen

Jay Schellen is a U.S. drummer who is best known as a member of the hard-rock band Hurricane. Schellen has also worked and currently working with a number of other heavy rock and progressive rock bands, including with Asia World Trade, CIRCA:, Unruly Child and several members of Yes.-Career:in...

 from Hurricane

Hurricane (band)

Hurricane was a 1980s heavy metal / glam metal rock band originally featuring current Foreigner lead vocalist Kelly Hansen , Robert Sarzo , Tony Cavazo , and Jay Schellen...

 and Greg Chaisson

Greg Chaisson

Greg Chaisson is a bass guitarist who has been in various bands including Badlands, Surgical Steel , Legs Diamond, Blindside Blues Band, Die Happy, and Red Sea. He was also involved with the band Steeler, which was Yngwie Malmsteen's first American band and was started by Ron Keel. He currently...

, formerly of Badlands. He then released an album with American band Stream.

In 2007, Reece joined Swedish band Gypsy Rose, releasing an album with them the following year.

Reece released his first solo album on August 28, 2009. His band consists of Andy Susemihl (ex-U.D.O.

U.D.O.

U.D.O. is a German heavy metal band founded by lead singer Udo Dirkschneider in 1987.-1987–1992:After Udo Dirkschneider left Accept in 1987, a large fan community followed him to U.D.O....

), Stefan Schwarzmann

Stefan Schwarzmann

Stefan Schwarzmann is a German drummer who has recorded for Accept, U.D.O., Running Wild, X-Wild, Krokus and Helloween. Schwarzmann joined Helloween as a replacement for departing drummer Mark Cross in 2003. Although Stefan got on well with the members of the band, he had other musical preferences...

 (formerly with U.D.O., currently also with Accept) and Jochen Fünders (ex-Holy Moses

Holy Moses

Holy Moses is a German thrash metal band. They are well noted for being fronted by Sabina Classen and for being one of the very first German thrash metal bands.-Formative years: 1980-1985:...

).

Discography

• Accept: "Eat the Heat
  Eat the Heat
  Eat the Heat is a 1989 release by German Heavy metal band Accept.It was recorded at Dierks-Studios, in Cologne, from September 1988 to January 1989...
  
  " (1989)
• Bangalore Choir: "On Target" (1992)
• Sircle of Silence: "Sircle of Silence" (1993)
• Sircle of Silence: "Suicide Candyman" (1994)
• Stream: "Take it or Leave it" (1995)
• Gypsy Rose: "Another World" (2008)
• Reece: "Universal Language" (2009)
• Bangalore Choir: "Cadence" (2010)

External links

• David Reece's Homepage