In June 2007 Galahad released 'Empires Never Last', their first album to be recorded with Karl Groom at Thin Ice Studios. The album showed a much heavier, more muscular sound than on previous releases but also a sound that was pristine and modern, yet full of energy and spirit, indeed a sign of albums to come. Fast forward to Spring 2014 and Galahad HQ has all but run out of copies of 'Empires' and thus the band decided, in a moment of madness, that instead of just going for a standard re-pressing, why not revisit the album and see if it could be improved, tweaked etc. to sound better than ever before, particularly as the production and recording bar had been raised so much higher on subsequent albums 'Battle Scars' and 'Beyond the Realms of Euphoria'.