Singer/songwriter (and Lionize vocalist/guitarist) Nate Bergman is set to release a new album, Metaphysical Change, on May 20 via Velocity Records (pre-order). It was produced by Vance Powell (Jack White, Chris Stapleton, etc), and it features contributions from Thursday drummer Tucker Rule, Coheed & Cambria guitarist Travis Stever, My Chemical Romance guitarist Frank Iero, former Opeth member Per Wiberg, acclaimed bassist Karina Rykman, and more. We're premiering the album's first two singles: the tender folk/country song "Losers Game" and the hard-rocking "Just Like Dylan Said." The latter comes with a live session video featuring Nate and a band made up of Tucker Rule, Travis Stever, Karina Rykman, and backing vocalists Rona Rawls and Deborah Bond. Here's what Nate says about both songs:
"Losers Game" is the score to a movie I made up in my head about unrequited love. Remembering someone you were in love with as a distant and painful memory. It’s a song about loss and hopelessness - and being reminded of these feelings everywhere you go. Sometimes when you look backwards in time it’s the only way to really understand what you felt at the time.
"Just Like Dylan Said" tries to convey the cyclical nature of the American Socio-Economic and political landscape and exactly what it was like to come home from Europe to a spring and summer that were so volatile. So many things exploded all at once between elections, covid, BLM protests, economic shutdowns, Police brutality - everything just came to a boiling point. I was walking around the protests in DC and realized it was what I had seen on TV and in movies from the ’60s.