Greek-based Rockpages web magazine sat down with OUTLOUD singer Chandler Mogel (TALON) and drummer Mark Cross (FIREWIND, HELLOWEEN, KINGDOM COME) and talked about the band's debut and the upcoming tour in Greece. Here's an excerpt:

Rockpages.gr: When you listen to the album it sounds it sounds diverse. There is a lot more than just melodic hard rock in there.

Chandler: "Right! It’s interesting because it’s not too eclectic but it’s all over the map as far as rock is concerned. We kind of cover all the main styles, but keeping the main bond, keeping the Outloud sound, AOR melodic hard rock, more traditional hard rock, some power metal, heavy metal, and some soulful balladry as well, which I think it’s really cool! It keeps the listener interested throughout the whole record as I see it."

Rockpages.gr: Would you say that every member’s influences get together to become Outloud?

Chandler: "I would say so, definitely. In more ways than one I guess. Everybody brings their influences to the table doing their thing."

Mark: "You can easily see, and easily hear on the album that, as you said before, it’s like influenced by all of us. It wasn’t like this album was produced by somebody, or whatever. We did it ourselves. It was very spontaneous, and we kept this spontaneous moments on the recording as well, because that’s what we actually wanted. We wanted to do it the old ways, to keep it really live, to be able to play it live as well, and make it sound like the album. Tony Hansen came into the game, who mixed, and mastered it. I think he was the right choice, because he is one of the old school guys. He approached the material exactly like someone should have approached it. If we’d do it with a young producer from nowadays, it would have sound totally different. He would have used different sounds, and not really the right levels to it. You can hear the analogue thing; you can really hear a live band, a real band playing. It’s like real music, it’s not over-produced, or whatever. We kept the sources as is from the original recording. That is the energy that Outloud has on the album, and that is the energy that Outloud will present live."

Read the full interview at this location.