BlackRain found American producer Jack Douglas (Aerosmith, Cheap Trick, Alice Cooper, The New York Dolls and John Lennon) a true music "legend" who provided his great expertise in the making of "Released" and the bands previous album "It Begins". Recorded in the suburbs of both Paris and Los Angeles in the early part of 2015, "Released" is the result of many months of collaboration between BlackRain and Jack who, prior to recording, spent weeks listening and analyzing tons of demos in order to come up with the best songs and create the best arrangements, applying his magic touch to the whole process. Warren Huart, Aerosmith's sound engineer, along with Jack, mixed the tracks at the Spitfire Studio in Laurel Canyon.