Italy's SpazioRock.it has issued a video interview with GOTTHARD guitarist Leo Leoni, in which he discusses the band's activities, while waiting to reveal the name of their new singer. Check out the chat below:

Greece's Rockpages recently spoke with Gotthard's Mark Lynn about the band's new live album, the passing of singer Steve Lee and of course the search for the new singer. Here's an excerpt:

Rockpages.gr: How do you feel, is it difficult for you when you have to listen to Steve again while making this album?

Marc Lynn: "No, the record was already done one and a half year ago… we planned it with Steve together, that we were going to work on a second de-frosted album, and a second acoustic album, to have more space to work on an electric album later on. The idea was to bring out the light album on spring this year, so when Steve went on holidays with the bike this album was already done. So, for us it wasn’t that we listened a lot to that album again, we just listened to a couple of samples and a few cuts that we needed to make because there wasn’t enough space on the record, it was one CD, so it wasn’t that hard, but I didn’t listen to the whole album by myself."

Rockpages.gr: Many people will ask whether Gotthard have found a new singer…

Marc Lynn: "Yeah, we are working on it! We had around 400 people that would want that job… Applications came from all around the world… Uruguay, Australia, England, Switzerland, from everywhere… unfortunately not from Greece! So, we listened to all the demos and everything, and there were 30 people that we liked, so we sent them a demo to sing on it, to see how their voice fits the song we have done until now. And we came up with 10 people, who we invited them for two days. One day we were in the rehearsal room, and one in the studio and all around… We learned each other, talking, what they have done, and now we sent them home and we are going to listen to the tapes again and if we have a certain feeling of somebody we’d invite him for two weeks to work with us, to write new songs that will be cut for his voice, to see how creative he is. We’ll see him over a long term, and also see what kind of guy he is, what personality he is and right now we are working on the last one to conclude this whole list of possible singers! We have our favorite one, the one we felt was right for the band, but we haven’t talked about it, but it’s certain that if not by next month, then by the end of the year we will have a new singer!"

Read the entire interview here.

Gotthard’s new album Homegrown – Alive In Lugano was released on September 30th. Homegrown – Alive In Lugano contains a live recording from July 17th, 2010 in Lugano, the band’s hometown. It is one of the last concerts with singer Steve Lee, who died on October 5th, 2010 in a road accident in Nevada.

Gotthard commented : “Everything started in Lugano and it’s exactly there where the circle of what we experienced with our friend Steve Lee, closes.”

The tracklisting is as follows:

'Unspoken Words'

'Gone Too Far'

'Top Of The World'

'Need To Believe'

'Hush'

'Unconditional Faith'

'Acoustic Medley 2010'

'Shangri La'

'I Don't Mind'

'Heaven'

'The Oscar Goes To'

'Lift U Up'

Leo vs. Steve (guitar- / -vocal solo)

'Sister Moon'

'Anytime Anywhere'

'The Train' (unreleased studio track)

Bonus DVD (Millennium Show Lugano December 1999):

'Let it Rain'

'Acoustic Medley 1999'

'One Life, One Soul'

'Hey Jimi'

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A trailer for the album can be seen below: