Rabbit Don't Come Easy (Special Edition)

Rabbit Don't Come Easy is the tenth studio album by German power metal band Helloween, released in 2003. It is the first Helloween album to feature Sascha Gerstner on guitars, who replaced Roland Grapow. No drummer is listed in the band line-up for this album. Mark Cross was hired for the position before recording, but only managed to complete two tracks before being forced to leave due to illness. Mikkey Dee of Motörhead played on the rest of the songs on a session basis. The Japanese version contains a cover of Accept's "Fast as a Shark", with the band's new drummer, Stefan Schwarzmann. Commenting on Dee's performance, bassist Markus Grosskopf said: "We really challenged him. Last time he played stuff something like that was when he played in King Diamond in the 80's and this type of double bass playing with that kind of stuff we're doing is not just like very easy to play and he had to recall all this stuff. But then he was, once he tried a little then he was back on the track really fast." About the album title, bassist Markus Grosskopf explained in 2003 that "It's based on that English saying, pulling a rabbit out of the hat. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit_...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)