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{{Infobox album | name = Rabbit Don't Come Easy | type = studio | artist = [[Helloween]] | cover = Rabbit Don't Come Easy cover.jpg | alt = | released = 12 May 2003 | recorded = 2002 | venue = | studio = Mi Sueno Recording Studios, [[Tenerife]], Spain | genre = [[Power metal]] | length = 61:00 | label = [[Nuclear Blast]] | producer = [[Charlie Bauerfeind]] | prev_title = [[The Dark Ride]] | prev_year = 2000 | next_title = [[Keeper of the Seven Keys: The Legacy]] | next_year = 2005 | misc = {{Singles | name = Rabbit Don't Come Easy | type = studio | single1 = [[Just a Little Sign]] | single1date = 7 April 2003 }} }} {{Album ratings | rev1 = [[AllMusic]] | rev1Score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r639948|accessdate=2011-06-22}}</ref> | rev2 = Sputnikmusic | rev2Score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sputnikmusic.com/album.php?albumid=13295 |title=Helloween - Rabbit Don't Come Easy |publisher=Sputnikmusic |date= |accessdate=2011-06-22}}</ref> | noprose = yes }} '''''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 (musician)|Mark Cross]] was hired for the position before recording, but only managed to complete two tracks ("Don't Stop Being Crazy" and "Listen to the Flies") before being forced to leave due to illness.<ref name=MRmarkus>{{cite web|last1=Syrjala|first1=Marko|title=Helloween – bassist Markus Grosskopf|url=http://www.metal-rules.com/metalnews/2011/01/11/helloween-bassist-markus-grosskopf/|website=[[Metal Rules]]|accessdate=31 May 2015|date=11 January 2011}}</ref> [[Mikkey Dee]] of [[Motörhead]] played on the rest of the songs on a session basis. The Japanese version contains a cover of [[Accept (band)|Accept]]'s "[[Fast as a Shark]]", with the band's new drummer, [[Stefan Schwarzmann]]. Commenting on Dee's performance, bassist Markus Grosskopf said:<ref name=MRmarkus/> {{cquote|"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. Pulling this rabbit [the album] out of this hat [in reference to recent line up changes] wasn't that easy this time. That gave us the idea of just calling the album ''Rabbit Don't Come Easy''. [Laughs] It's not to be taken too seriously. We were joking that statement around, and then I suggested we actually call the album that".<ref name="metalstorm.ee">[http://www.metalstorm.ee/pub/interview.php?interview_id=7 Helloween interview (10/2003) - Metal Storm<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> About the recording of the album, singer Andi Deris said in 2003 that producer Charlie Bauerfeind "shows on this new record that he is the biggest fan of our genre of music because he knows how to separate the frequencies and knows where the power has to be. You have to imagine that this type of music is so packed with frequencies that it is nearly impossible to mix because it is so overloaded and you have to single out all of the instruments so you can hear them all".<ref>[http://blabbermouth.net/news/helloween-singer-speaks-out-on-rabbit-don-t-come-easy BLABBERMOUTH.NET - HELLOWEEN Singer Speaks Out On 'Rabbit Don't Come Easy'<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606234057/http://blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=10142 |date=2011-06-06 }}</ref> After the controversial release of ''[[The Dark Ride]]'', according to Grosskopf, "The record company also wanted us to show that we are back. This song "[[Just a Little Sign]]" represents the more typical side of Helloween, and that's what we wanted to make clear. You can't really represent a whole album with one track, but this shows exactly where the album actually goes. It's more of that 'happy happy Helloween' direction. It shows that this album is not a sequel to 'The Dark Ride'".<ref name="metalstorm.ee"/>
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