'The Rise of Chaos' is the 15th studio album by German heavy metal band Accept, originally released in 2017. The album was honored with a 2017 Metal Storm Award for Best Heavy Metal/Melodic Album. It was also nominated for a German Metal Hammer Award for Best Album in 2018. Guitarist Wolf Hoffmann comments on the album title, 'The Rise of Chaos is something I have been thinking about often. It describes a condition which is slowly spreading around the world. With the stage setup on our latest European tour, we wanted to portray rather dystopian and destroyed scenery. If you now take a look at our new cover, it's the same imagery. This time however you can also spot the invisible destruction that we feel more and more in these times, as well as the visible destruction.'