Slyde

With their modern rock style influenced by Metal, Gothic and Folk, the band has quickly become recognized and acquired a loyal fan base.
Slyde played among other things as the opener for many acts like Arena, Dreadful Shadows, Donuts and the Farmer Boys. They have also had festival appearances at WGT Leipzig on the main-stage together with Subway To Sally, The Gathering and HIM and at the MTV-Campus-Invasion 2001 with Liquido, Slut, Paula and Die Söhne Mannheims.

At the “Unerhört” after-growth-competition for the music magazine Rock Hard, the band won through 2000 international competitors and came together with 15 other bands on a sampler released from Rock Hard. Also on the second Boardernoize-Sampler they are presented beside national and international notabilities like Tocotronic, Gluecifer or Pro Pain. With their modern rock-music, influenced by Metal, Gothic and folk, the band quickly became known and acquired a loyal fan-community.
With the EP “Take Away My Pain” Slyde was put into view and now the debut-album “Emotion Overflow” follows. Slyde now presents us with twelve powerful empathic songs, which are mixed with melancholic undertones, nevertheless they always keep their optimistic mood.

Tracklist:

1 – `74 Sunrise
2 – I Alone
3 – Emotion Overflow
4 – Ballad Of Life
5 – Take Away My Pain
6 – Wild Sensation
7 – Into The Light
8 – Mother
9 – Personal Orbit
10 – Good Day To Die
11 – The Winner
12 – Take Me Home

Reviews:

www.darkheartmagazin.get.to
Slyde- “Emotion Overflow”
Slyde is playing rock n’ roll. With their mix of pop, rock and metal they present an appealing hit that has a suspicious music mixture, similar to bands like HIM or Reamonn. Twelve songs are on the album that are generally well produced, you can listen to this album from the beginning to the end without becoming bored. “74 Sunrise” and “I Alone” are especially catchy tunes that stay stuck in your head. The albums secret is that it will leave you humming. In summary: Listen to it!”
Review By Dementi Zweigefühl

Rock Hard 07/03:
Slyde – “Emotion Overflow”
Maybe some of you will remember that the Slyde predecessor band Spark had a song on our “Unerhört!”-sampler vol. 4 in 2001? After that many things happened with the band from Paderborn / Germany: change in the staff, new band name, stylistic change, intensive touring and now a record deal. In the beginning they were domicile at the electronic gothic gate with industrial influences. But today their orientation has changed dramatically. Now the quintet are more like a cheerful variant of HIM. Would the Fins show a little bit more joy for life? like drinking beer instead of whiskey, going a little bit more into the sun and tuning the guitars higher and adding a little bit more speed. The result then could sound like Slyde. Sure, HIM was here first and made big influences to the German melancholic rocker but against this kind of inspiration and evolution there is nothing to argue about. The use of double singing with Ian and Anna is an interesting and varied component, which the young lady unfortunately got a little bit too seldom of a chance to sing. But she is convincing, similar to that of Lacuna Coil. So the troop can thrill with some floating, powerful and catchy tunes. As with the heart felt ballad “Mother” this debut seems too good to be true from such a newcomer. With a bigger label behind them and some video air-play this band could be a big commercial success.” -by Wolfram Küper – 7,5 points out of 10

Zillo:
Slyde – “Emotion Overflow”
Casual inspection of the German band Slyde labeled under the rock-banner showed that they could raise to life in the very diverse progress of the album. In opposition to many e-guitar-activists Slyde banished any kind of aggression out of their sound scapes and spray out in spite of or because of the soft melancholy introduced throughout a high spirited aura. Positive rock-music is a circumstance that is owing to who they’ve supported live. Such different bands like Paula, HIM, Subway To Sally or The Gathering a recipe that works just as well on the CD. The song-material on “Emotion Overflow” is powerfully arranged and rocks without flourish. Straight forward is what ennobled the songs into magically catchy tunes like (“Emotion Overflow”). As if intended for each other rock, metal and folk-elements melt into a homogeneous unity. Singer Ian fascinates us with his powerful intonation, which reminds me of David Bowie (“Ballad Of Life”). Dynamically supported by the intoning female singer Anna a great combination, that proves that this male female antiphony is far from “The Beauty and the Beast”-clichés, instead it works perfectly. “Emotion Overflow” – rock-music on the point. (Frank Rummeleit)

Blacklight magazine:
Slyde – Emotion Overflow
Pop and hardrock may sound like a strange mixture at first but it must not be. Slyde is an independent, but also racy of the soil band, that plays just this kind of mixture. They are playing live at WGT Leipzig and also on the MTV Campus-Invasion.
When Slyde is playing rock, it sounds a little bit like many different things. Like HIM meeting Placebo, as the Connells meet REM and Guns n’Roses meet Kenny Loggins. Emotional and melodic singing is supported by powerful hard-rock riffs and rocking lead-guitars. In some songs there is an synthesizer, that gives a dreamy and mystic undertone to the music.
Slyde sounds subliminal like one of the above bands, which I think are the real influences for them. But they are always independent enough not to sound like a poor copy of them.
The title-track “Emotion Overflow” is a real rock-hymn that can not hide it’s influences from Europa and HIM. All in all Slyde are a promising new rock-band with many influences, that are sounding very interesting and mixed up. So much success could be granted to them.