Zachary Nathanson

twitterwebsite

I’m a freelance writer/blogger that started doing reviews nine years ago. I’m a fan of Hard Rock, Progressive Rock, Heavy Metal, and Jazz Rock. Also a musician for 20 years. Music has been my friend since listening to the Beatles when I was a little boy. It wasn’t until I discovered Pink Floyd 20 years ago and it changed my life. Geek also, but the Progressive genre has still kept me going from day one. And there’s no stop sign for me. I also have a blog site in which I also do reviews since 2008 entitled, Music from the Other Side of the Room.

Articles by Zachary Nathanson

Green Carnation – A Dark Poem, Part II: Sanguis

Sanguis is harder, edgier, powerful, and it still manages to see what the band will do next for the third and final chapter in the Dark Poem saga that waits for us.

Julianna Barwick & Mary Lattimore – Tragic Magic

You feel as if you’re watching the duo, pouring their heart and soul into the album and bringing all of these wonders to life to make sure they’ve got it all down to a T.

New Miserable Experience – Gild The Lily

The melodies and darkness on Gild The Lily, is quite a moment of realisation and not a single bad track the band put forth for 2026.

Dewa Budjana & Czech Symphony Orchestra – Praguenayama

Dewa is bound and ready to show how much he’s come a long way for 46 years. There’s not a single bad track on Praguenayama.

Bill Nelson’s Orchestra Futura – Live at Nelsonica & Clothworkers Hall

A combination of these three musicians, prove to me they can take their levelling approach with mind-blowing beauty and spectacular walks of life.

PAKT – Live Montreal / Toronto 2025

There’s so much chemistry the quartet have with each other on this live recording for those two evening shows PAKT have brought forth in the Great White North.

Necrofier – Transcend into Oblivion

What can I say? Transcend into Oblivion is the album that you need in your metal collection straightaway.

Einar Solberg – Vox Occulta

Listening to Solberg’s second album, you feel as if you are entering the room of an unknown world, revealing the power and having this cinematic movie inside your head, in what the Leprous front man has envisioned inside his head.

Major Parkinson – Valesa – Chapter II: Viva the Apocalypse!

It’s insane, in your face, and perhaps one of the maddest prog albums Major Parkinson has unleashed this year to let their listeners know, they might have more tricks up their sleeves in the years to come.

Echoes of the Past: Clearlight – Symphonies: The Collected Recordings

You feel as if you are a part of this incredible journey Verdeaux is taking the listener on its voyage throughout these five albums from the classical concerto-like pianos, into the synths and mellotron in all of its spiritual guidance.

Janel Leppin & The Ensemble Volcanic Ash – Slowly Melting / Pluto In Aquarius

A construction of wonder, surrealism, unexpected twists, and a magnitude that’s deserves massive sparks of pure electrifying jolts you really need to get your blood pumping.

Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell – The Trouble With The Shovell

Put it on now, crank up the volume, and make sure you keep on headbanging until the crack of dawn, because it only gets louder and nastier than ever!

Richard Barbieri – Hauntings

Barbieri never stops to amaze his listeners with its views on the parallel universes left on his new album with intensity, spectral, and phantasmal perspective in the world that is waiting for us.

Mark Wingfield – Elemental

Without using any gimmicks and overdubs, Wingfield has proven to show he’s going as far beyond the stratosphere, visioning what the outdoor world is like by setting it to music.

Fabio Anile – Minutiae

With the classical, minimal, and experimentation’s flowing on Minutiae, Anile has completed his mission to a vast success. And we got to experience the journey in all of its tremendous glory.

Ruby The Hatchet – Valley of the Snake: Live to Tape at Retro City

There’s no denying that Ruby the Hatchet have kept the metallic genre alive with their own flavour of psychedelic doom.

Burned As Witches – Burned As Witches

Rick is pouring his heart and soul into tending the light at the end of the tunnel with fierce research, mind-boggling wonders, and the adventure that is waiting for you.

Echoes of the Past: Rainbow – The Temple of the King: 1975-1976

The Temple of the King isn’t just an incredible box set, it’s a journey to the myths and wonders of how this band were revolutionary, amazing, and having the balls to bring their story-telling arrangements to fans in its true metallic foundation.

Soft Machine – Thirteen

Adventurous, monumental, and awe-inspiring, Soft Machine’s Thirteen album offers the latest chapter in the band’s continuation of keeping the Moon in June growing and the Hope for Happiness, burn brighter than ever.

Dwiki Dharmawan – Anagnorisis

Anagnorisis pulsates the passion and love Dwiki has honoured the city of Greece in all of its nature that comes with a coup de maître he has given to his listeners.

Markus Reuter and Stefano Castagna – Sky on the Ground

It has proven to be a free sentiment to be serving in a shape of form as they continue to progress more in the territories they face.

Pin It on Pinterest