{"id":3553,"date":"2017-01-07T13:06:06","date_gmt":"2017-01-07T13:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.progradar.org\/?p=3553"},"modified":"2017-01-07T13:06:06","modified_gmt":"2017-01-07T13:06:06","slug":"canadian-melodic-technical-proggers-slyde-return-with-their-new-ep-back-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/progradar.co.uk\/index.php\/2017\/01\/07\/canadian-melodic-technical-proggers-slyde-return-with-their-new-ep-back-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Melodic Technical Proggers Slyde Return With Their New EP &#8216;Back Again&#8217;!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/progradar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Back-Again-Front-Cover-copy-Lo.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3555\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/progradar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Back-Again-Front-Cover-copy-Lo.jpg?resize=300%2C292&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/progradar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Back-Again-Front-Cover-copy-Lo.jpg?resize=300%2C292&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/progradar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Back-Again-Front-Cover-copy-Lo.jpg?resize=768%2C748&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/progradar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Back-Again-Front-Cover-copy-Lo.jpg?w=789&amp;ssl=1 789w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After a 2-year hiatus, Canadian melodic technical proggers <strong>Slyde<\/strong> return with their new EP <em>&#8216;Back Again&#8217;<\/em> (February 17). Four tracks of virtuosic contrapuntal songwriting exploring the relationship between environmentalism and sci-fi, <em>&#8216;Back Again&#8217;<\/em> is a fantastically entertaining listen. For fans of <strong>Haken<\/strong>, <strong>Coheed<\/strong> <strong>and Cambria<\/strong>, <strong>Rush<\/strong>, <strong>Dream Theater<\/strong>, etc, <strong>Slyde<\/strong>&#8216;s music is driven by the clean vocals of frontman <strong>Nathan Da Silva<\/strong> and the powering keyboards of <strong>Sarah Westbrook<\/strong>; a beguiling fourpiece with an impressive return to form.<\/p>\n<p>Before their hiatus, <strong>Slyde<\/strong> played over 150 shows on the Eastern Canadian circuit, including shows with <strong>Protest the Hero<\/strong> and at Canadian Music Week (2013), IndieWeek (2011-2013), and Wacken Metal Battle (2013).<\/p>\n<p>The First single from the EP is available to purchase now at bandcamp:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/slyde.bandcamp.com\/\">Buy &#8216;Back Again&#8217; from Slyde&#8217;s bandcamp page<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Check out a live performance of the single below:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vOwGa2L9bSA?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a 2-year hiatus, Canadian melodic technical proggers Slyde return with their new EP &#8216;Back Again&#8217; (February 17). Four tracks of virtuosic contrapuntal songwriting exploring the relationship between environmentalism and sci-fi, &#8216;Back Again&#8217; is a fantastically entertaining listen. For fans of Haken, Coheed and Cambria, Rush, Dream Theater, etc, Slyde&#8216;s music is driven by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3554,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,7],"tags":[1694,1695,1696,1693],"class_list":["post-3553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-album-releases","category-news","tag-back-again","tag-nathan-da-silva","tag-sarah-westbrook","tag-slyde"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phnn7q-Vj","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/progradar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/002-Lo.jpg?fit=1024%2C685&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/progradar.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/progradar.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/progradar.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/progradar.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/progradar.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/progradar.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3556,"href":"https:\/\/progradar.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3553\/revisions\/3556"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/progradar.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/progradar.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/progradar.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/progradar.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}