{"id":25293,"date":"2024-09-21T22:43:48","date_gmt":"2024-09-21T22:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/?p=25293"},"modified":"2024-09-21T22:43:51","modified_gmt":"2024-09-21T22:43:51","slug":"operation-xero-hard-as-stone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2024\/09\/21\/operation-xero-hard-as-stone\/","title":{"rendered":"Operation Xero &#8211; Hard as Stone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Operation Xero&#8217;s &#8220;Hard as Stone&#8221; has a strong\u00a0basis in progressive rock, beginning with powerful drumming and floating synth pads that provide a specifically progressive tone. The guitar work is clearly influenced by Dream Theater, with sophisticated riffs and a raising, technical approach that carries the song forward. While the piece is creatively driven, including fast tempo changes and complicated arrangements, it could need a more professional mastering. The mix can be inconsistent at times, making finer elements of the instrumentation difficult to detect. At 2:03, the music takes an unexpected change, slowing down to emphasize the low end and adopting a more easygoing tempo. This transition provides a little pause before slowly going back to the original, high-energy prog vibe. Despite its production imperfections &#8220;Hard as Stone&#8221; remains a cool\u00a0composition with much of potential and originality. It draws on traditional prog inspirations while showing unique musical sound.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Hard as Stone\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zsT21QVbjEY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/VyanMusic\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/VyanMusic<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/operationxero.bandcamp.com\">https:\/\/operationxero.bandcamp.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/vyan1\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/vyan1<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Operation Xero&#8217;s &#8220;Hard as Stone&#8221; has a strong\u00a0basis in progressive rock, beginning with powerful drumming&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25294,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14,5],"tags":[4167,125],"class_list":["post-25293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pop-rock-reviews","category-reviews","tag-operation-xero","tag-prog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25295,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25293\/revisions\/25295"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}