HYPNOTICA - Limited edition re-issue digipak with 3 bonus tracks!
Featuring:
Neil Murray (Whitesnake, Black Sabbath, Gary Moore...)
Mark Boals (Yngwie Malmsteen, Ring of Fire...)
Lance King (Balance of Power, Mattsson...)
Anders Johansson (Hammerfall, Yngwie Malmsteen)
Don Airey (Black Sabbath, Deep Purple)
With Rolf Munkes and Gerald Kloos (Condition Red)

Straightly after the release of the highly acclaimed 2001 debut album "Hypnotica" by EMPIRE who are centred around guitarist, producer & song-writer Rolf Munkes (ex-VANIZE), Rolf straightly began to work on songs for the follow-up album - again with the help of drummer and co-producer Gerald Kloos.

Because of the great drum work of Anders Johansson (HAMMERFALL) on selected tracks on "No More Obscurity" (the guitarist's solo-effort under the ROLF MUNKES banner) and EMPIRE´s "Hypnotica" it became obvious to invite him again to collaborate on "Hypnotica's" successor entitled "Trading Souls" on two tracks.

For "Trading Souls", Munkes made a well defined d