Tommy Hansen was the Danish studio craftsman who gave European hard rock and metal a muscular shine without sanding off the danger. I remember Tommy Hansen as one of those behind-the-desk men whose fingerprints were all over the sound of European metal. He started young with The Old Man & The Sea in 1967 and later played in Iron Duke in the mid-1970s, before turning Jailhouse Studio into a serious workshop for loud music. From 1983 to 1984 he worked with Pretty Maids on the early EP and "Red, Hot and Heavy"; with Helloween he turns up across 1987-1988 and again 1993-1998 on "Keeper of the Seven Keys" Parts I and II, "Chameleon", "Master of the Rings", "The Time of the Oath" and "Better Than Raw". He later shaped records by Iron Fire in 2000-2001 and 2006, Wuthering Heights in 2002, HateSphere in 2005, and Jorn in 2008-2010. That was no accident. That was authority.