Zachary Nathanson

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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

Jerome Froese – Sunsets in Stereo

That’s how incredible Jerome really is. He wants to prove himself that he’s more than just a member of Tangerine Dream.

Grice – Filter

It is challenging, yes, but it’s given an astonishing point of wonder and unexpected sceneries that’ll keep you going back more and more to see and hear of what you’ve been missing.

Aziola Cry – Dysphoria Ritual

These compositions within the six tracks that is on here, blend in their maturity and distinctive voices throughout their arrangements.

Poly-Math – Something Deeply Hidden

Something Deeply Hidden is Poly-Math’s weirdest and strangest album the band have unleashed for 2026.

Jacob Roberge – The Passing

The Passing is quite the emotional ride with unbelievable results and wonderous sense of arrangements Jacob has brought to the fold.

Angine de Poitrine – Vol. II

The second volume gets even wacky, dadaist, crazy, insane, and brilliant in a way those two guys can show how much wonderful music can come out of the Great White North.

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.

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