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

Brown Acid: The Twenty-First Trip

The Brown Acid series shows other compilations how its done, done, done!

Echoes of the Past: King Crimson – Red (50th Anniversary Edition)

If you are very new to the world of Crimson’s music, then Red is the introduction to get you on this magic carpet ride that Robert himself has endured listeners, the roller-coaster ride they’ll never forget.

Cathedral – Society’s Pact with Satan

It’s the way that both prog metal and prog rock add in massive amounts of ice cream with a delicious taste of a doom sundae, waiting to be delivered to you.

Ring Van Möbius – Firebrand

While it is sad to see them go, we will always remember the wonder, the excitement, and the beauty that this band have endured with the music.

Gazpacho – Magic 8-Ball

Each of the pieces that is on their latest album, details the tragedy, the downfall, and the moments where it comes out of the blue unexpectedly and not knowing the consequences that come with it.

Black Sabbitch – Unrest in the West

This isn’t just a live album; this is an event. It sounds more powerful, more incredible, and even more joyful for Black Sabbitch to place an Unwest in the West.

Jon Durant, Colin Edwin, Chris Maitland – The Baldock Transmission

The best way to listen to The Baldock Transmission is by putting on your headphones and turn off your mind, relax, you might jump at certain moments, but perhaps there is more to where that comes from.

Echoes of the Past: White Willow – Terminal Twilight

True to its power, form, and incredible music that’s weighed upon their sound, White Willow have reached a homecoming with their reissue catalog from Karisma.

The Utopia Strong – Doperider

You feel as if you’re inside this surreal western, revealing the past and the present unfolding in front of your very eyes with electronic and ambient arrangements.

Echoes of the Past | Led Zeppelin – Physical Graffiti / Live EP

Physical Graffiti is the album that refuses to die.

The Who – Who Are You (Super Deluxe Edition)

The light of the guitars and pen still marches on in this incredible box set. And no matter what, we took the tubes back out of town, back to the rollin’ pin, by adding in a massive streak of rin tin tin.

Bioscope – Gentō

Listening to Gentō, you get a sense of being in the eye of the krautrock genre that Steve and Thorsten endure and fall into the world of unbelievable results on the five compositions, tackling themes about man’s fascination with the moving image.

DEVO

The Smart Patrol’s legacy will live on and inspire the next generation of musicians to hopefully follow in their footsteps. Say it once, “ARE WE NOT MEN? WE ARE DEVO!” Perfect, now we’re rolling.

Peter Chilvers – Dust 4

You know that this will be a mournful time of looking at the destruction and the abandoned buildings will make you go inside and think of a place that once was, has now been stuck in the past.

Deep Purple – Made in Japan (Steven Wilson Remix)

Listening to Wilson’s remix, you feel goosebumps crawling underneath your entire body.

Rivers of Nihil – Rivers of Nihil

I have to say their fifth album is like a volcanic explosion, waiting to hit at the right time, at the right place to make your eardrums bleed like a motherfucker!

Tangerine Dream – From Virgin to Quantum Years: Coventry Cathedral 22

Their music and legacy lives on to continue to inspire the next generation by keeping their spirits alive.

Arjen Anthony Lucassen – Songs No One Will Hear

This it the album that’ll make you want to go back and revisit again and again, repeatedly to see what pieces of the puzzle the master himself has left behind.

aeseaes – Opia

You can tell the duo have channeled their inner sense of finding your own true self and being truthful and honest with the music they’ve unfolded for 2025 so far.

Scardust – Souls

Scardust is quite a revelation when it comes symphonic and classical music, mixed in with powerful riffs, metallic forces, and elements of Edenbridge, Within Temptation, and Nightwish. You can’t go wrong with that.

Doomsday – Never Known Peace

Fast, mind-blowing sounds, and maximum mosh pits throw in into the mix, Doomsday’s Never Known Peace should be played really, really, really fucking loud!

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