Greece's Rockpages caught up with Warrel Dane (SANCTUARY, NEVERMORE) in the wake of Sanctuary's upcoming show in Athens, Greece. In the following excerpt, Dane talks about Sanctuary's new album:

Q: When you guys did these records it seemed that it was a different world. Now, you are going to release a new album. How is this going to sound comparing to you two previous albums?

A: "Well, what I can say is that the new material that we are working on sounds like a natural progression from Into The Mirror Black. In that way anyway, and I think that if we would have done a third record back then it would have sounded like this one. We are pretty happy about the direction that we are going. It’s like going through your closet at home and finding an old pair of shoes that were very comfortable, that you forgot, and they are still there, and you put them on and you are like, 'Ohh, it feels great, I am comfortable with that again'. So, we are getting used to that whole thing, and we are not going to put any limits on what we are going to do in the songwriting process. So, the songs are coming along so good, they really sound like Sanctuary 2011, and I didn’t really think that… that it would work so well, but now that we are getting into it it’s really coming along so good!"

Q: Do you find it difficult to get back to you Sanctuary singing style?

A: "Yes! Hahaha! Actually that wasn’t the easiest thing in the world! I had to take some more voice training to adapt to it. The kind of singing that I did on those Sanctuary records is very difficult, and you know Nevermore vocals are difficult in another way. To sing high pitch like that all the time you have to be consistent, you have to do it all the time, you have to retain the ability to do it, and I found out really quick! Hahaha! When I started singing the old songs I was like, 'hey, this is hard!' But, after I took those lessons it got easier, it gets better all the time, the more that I deal with this stuff."

Q: Are you going to play new songs on your upcoming shows?

A: "That’s our plan, to play at least one, maybe two new songs!"

Read the full interview at this location.