Hypertrace

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Hypertrace
Studio album by Scanner
Released	1988
Genre	Power Metal
Label	Noise Records

Hypertrace is a science fiction story-telling album by the German speed metal band Scanner. It was released by Noise Records in 1988.

For Hypertrace, Scanner's lineup consisted of:

• Michael Knoblich (M.A.J.O.R.) - vocal
• Tom S. Sopha - guitar
• Axel Julius (A.J.) - guitar
• Martin Bork - bass guitar
• Wolfgang Kolorz - drums

[edit] Track listing

1. "Warp 7"
2. "Terrion"
3. "Locked Out"
4. "Across the Universe"
5. "R.M.U."
6. "Grapes of Fear"
7. "Retaliation Positive"
8. "Killing Fields"
9. "Wizard Force" (CD-bonus)
10. "Galactos" (bonus)

Track #9 "Wizard Force" was not available on the original release, but was issued when the album was re-released. The song *should* be inserted as track #4, for continuity's sake. Track #10, "Galactos" is only available on the Japanese re-release.

[edit] Story

During World War II the military ordered the formation of a commando troop out of seven convicts.

With scientific help these seven were trained to a super combat unit by genetic manipulation.

They went berzerk, and the mutants directed all their strength and superiority against their commanders. The ("Grapes of Fear") had to be annihilated, so they were shot into space, and their rockets exploded, except one, who was ("Locked Out"), was found by aliens ("Wizard Force"), and they taught him to bring peace to the world ("Retaliation Positive").

v • d • e Scanner Efthimios Ioannidis  · Axel A.J. Julius  · Torben Böhm  · Franz Eichberger  · Johannes Brunn Studio Albums: Hypertrace  · Terminal Earth  · Mental Reservation  · Ball of the Damned  · Scantropolis Demos: Conception of a Cure