Articles by Zachary Nathanson
An Amazing Flight Through Time isn’t just a concert film. It’s a historic event, an odyssey through the surreal, the nightmarish, and the beautiful worlds Arjen Lucassen has gifted us. Holding this live recording in your hands is holding thirty years of imagination, innovation, and heart.
Listening to Principle feels like stepping straight into the mid‑to‑late ’70s, right at the height of the arena rock era.
This album demands repeat listens — not because it’s difficult, but because it’s alive, pulsing with detail, danger, and vision. What a ride it is.
Penta is not an easy listen. But Jo Berger Myhre continues to explore composition with evocative structure and fearless imagination, leaving us wondering where he—and we—will go next, and what the next chapter will bring in the years ahead.
Symphonique isn’t just a live album. It’s a full‑blown mental IMAX experience, a concert unfolding inside your skull.
This is an album built for deep listening, an odyssey of sound that will be discussed for months and years to come.
In the end, whether every experiment hits you the same way or not, the creative force Belew unleashed during his Atlantic years is undeniable.
This is Stainless’ moment. Their time. One of the best hard‑rock debuts I’ve heard this year. Give them a thunderous round of applause. They’ve delivered a monster of an album to kick off the summer with a bang.
Garone isn’t backing down without a fight. OK, But Why? is here to stay, adding new conversations, new wonders, and new exotic perspectives. And thankfully, it keeps you guessing until the very end.
Ultimately, it is fascinating to witness this band continue to grow, gaining strength and confidence with each release. They proudly carry the Canadian prog‑rock flag, waving it forward from where the greats left off.
Ultimately, Blue Morpho stands as a strong and imaginative follow‑up, offering a vivid and electrifying interpretation of modern folk‑electronic fusion.
This is one of the most explosive and enduring live blues-rock albums ever recorded — an essential addition to any rock collection.
Listening to the score of All Gates Open, you feel as if you are stepping into those artistic visual worlds in a way that sci-fi artist Jodie Day has unveiled to the world.
The Moth is not for the faint of heart, but you have to give Devin a lot of credit for bringing this story to life.
Wormhole is one of those albums that will take repeatable listens to embark on. Whether you get it or you don’t, you have to approve the daring challenge Kreng has set on this world to give us the opportunity to see what will happen next.
Evolution sparks this massive electrical energy charging at you, in a way that the group pulls in these incredible blistering, yet skull-crunching, hard rock sounds that come out of the volcanoes, ready to erupt at any second.
Iron Kingdom has really taken their stance with hard rock and heavy metal to a standstill, packed with amazement and shining glory in all of its wonder.
Unholy Drum isn’t for the faint of heart, but what a way this group has endured as a listener by taking its massive powder keg, waiting to explode at any second.
It hits you when you look back at those wonderful moments you have with your loved one or your parents to focus on the good that was always there in our childhood.






