Szilard Studios

Roads taken,
roads found,
roads that found you.

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A universe of connected stories

Szilard is a composer and world-builder whose interconnected concept albums span blues, gospel, psychedelic rock, Arabic rock, and — inside The Palace alone — at least eight or nine rock sub-genres more. Roads, crossings, preachers, juke joints, ancient voices — each record a chapter in a universe that was always too large for a single story, and too large for a single sound.

"Some go looking for the road. Some are put on it. Some wake up one morning and the road is simply there — and they understand it always was."

Hard lives. Proud lives. Tragic lives. All three simultaneously. That's always been the blues. That's always been the human story — and it's told here in more languages, traditions and sub-genres than any one road could hold.

Blues

The root of the universe. Delta grit, Chicago electricity, gospel undertow — every style chosen for the weight of its moment.

Psychedelic Rock

Where the road leaves the map. Six seekers crossing continents, the Sahara, the Himalayas — sound that moves like a wave.

Gospel

Ancient voices on ancient roads. The oldest questions. Free will, grace, the price of every choice ever made.

Arabic Rock

Four albums deep and still growing. The maqam and the oud carrying the stories of the Prophet's companions ﷺ into rock's language — the desert's own electric voice.

The Palace — Ten Crowns of Rock

Hard rock, punk, progressive, soul rock, southern rock, gospel rock, blues rock, world music and more — ten bands, ten sub-genres, one stage, one Crown. Proof that "rock" was never one thing.

Connected

Characters cross albums. Choices echo forward. Listen to one and hear the others underneath it.

Every album, a road

The Lifetime Road — album cover Album II

Blues

The Lifetime Road

A fatherless boy answers his country's call. He survives wars that cost him everything except himself. Then the road begins.

"Hard life. Proud life. Tragic life. All three simultaneously. That's always been the blues."
The Hotel — album cover Album III

Blues · Soul

The Hotel

A single day at a roadside hotel on the American highway. The Manager said quiet day. The road always has a better idea. 21 tracks. One roof. Every light on.

"Every road in the world had been pointed right here all along."
The Road of the Preacher — album cover Album IV

Gospel · Blues

The Road of the Preacher

No church. No congregation. No title anyone gave him. Just a man who shows up where people need him and says the one true thing they've been carrying alone too long.

"He'll sit down across from you. You'll know exactly where you need to go. And you'll stand up. And you'll go there."
The Oldest Road — album cover Album V

Gospel · Soul

The Oldest Road

A woman older than memory. A road she didn't choose. She names what nobody else can see, speaks what nobody else will say, and walks away before the room knows she was there.

"She walked before the world knew walking."
Origo — Origo album cover Album VI

Psychedelic Rock · World Music

Origo — Origo

Six people who found each other and thought that would be enough. A journey from Greece to the Himalayas, collecting words the road was always saying — kefi, baraka, samadhi.

"From the origo to the Origo."
Origo — AN album cover Album VI·B

Psychedelic Rock · World Music

Origo — AN

Coming down from the mountain carrying something that has no name in any language they've collected. The soul was always free. It was always there.

"La tutarjam. It cannot be translated. Khalas."
The Cross — Everywhere album cover Album VIII

Gospel · Rock

The Cross — Everywhere

A gospel choir that left the church walls not in rebellion — in faithfulness. Every stage is the search. Every night is the search.

"He didn't say stay in the building. He said make sure you are heard."
The Cross — Blessed album cover Album VIII·B

Gospel · Rock

The Cross — Blessed

Ten stories. Ten people the world overlooked. Every one of them carrying something the world called weakness — named blessed by the only voice that ever got it right.

"Not the powerful. Not the certain. The ones the light found anyway."
Al-Matar — Siraj album cover Al-Matar II

Arabic Rock · World Music

Al-Matar — Siraj

English Version · The Hijrah

The journey from Mecca to Medina. 22 tracks tracing the most important migration in Islamic history — stage by stage, companion by companion. The torch that lit a civilisation. Opens in silence. Ends in flame.

"One word on burning sand. The rain that answered it. The torch that carried it forward."
المطر — سراج album cover المطر II

روك عربي · موسيقى عالمية

المطر — سراج

النسخة العربية · الهجرة

الرحلة من مكة إلى المدينة. ٢٢ مقطوعة تتتبع أعظم هجرة في تاريخ الإسلام — مرحلة بمرحلة، صحابياً بصحابي. المشعل الذي أنار حضارة. يبدأ في صمت. وينتهي بالنار.

"كلمة واحدة على رمل محترق. المطر الذي أجابها. والمشعل الذي حملها إلى الأمام."
Al-Matar — Ahad album cover Al-Matar I

Arabic Rock · World Music

Al-Matar — Ahad

English Version

An Arabic rock band built on the stories of the companions of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ. Seventeen tracks. Khadijah, Sumayyah, Bilal, Umar, Aisha — and the one word at the centre of all of them. Ancient and urgent. Sacred without being soft. Opens in silence. Ends with rain.

"One word on burning sand. The rain that answered it."
المطر — أحد album cover المطر I

روك عربي · موسيقى عالمية

المطر — أحد

النسخة العربية

فرقة روك عربية مبنية على قصص صحابة النبي محمد ﷺ. سبع عشرة مقطوعة. خديجة، سمية، بلال، عمر، عائشة — والكلمة الواحدة في مركز كل شيء. قديم وعاجل. مقدس بلا استسلام. يبدأ في صمت وينتهي بالمطر.

"كلمة واحدة على رمل محترق. المطر الذي أجابها."
The Palace — Night One album cover Album VII

Hard Rock · Punk · Progressive · Soul Rock · Southern Rock · Blues Rock · Gospel Rock · Arabic Rock · World Music

The Palace — Kings of the Rock

Night One

The Palace of the Rock is not a venue, not a festival, not a competition in any ordinary sense — it is the only place on earth where music is judged by one standard alone: the truth of what a band carries onto the stage. Ten bands. Ten completely different worlds. One night. One stage. One judge. And things happen that nobody expected.

"One night. One stage. One judge. The Fifth Crown."
The Palace — Night Two album cover Album VII·B

Hard Rock · Punk · Progressive · Soul Rock · Southern Rock · Blues Rock · Gospel Rock · Arabic Rock · World Music

The Palace — Kings of the Rock

Night Two

Five bands returned to the Palace of the Rock. That was the plan. The Fifth Crown was always going to come down to this — five bands, three finalists, one Crown, one judge. And then the night became something else entirely. Not a disaster. Not a failure. Something rarer. The Crown was given, the stage gave back something nobody expected, and before the night was over, all ten bands were named.

"All ten bands are named before this night ends."
The Palace — All Songs album cover Album VII·C

Hard Rock · Punk · Progressive · Soul Rock · Southern Rock · Blues Rock · Gospel Rock · Arabic Rock · World Music

The Palace — Kings of the Rock: All Songs

No Broadcast

The broadcast is the event. The transitions, the commentary, the story unfolding in real time — that's Night One and Night Two. This is the music. All 28 songs from both nights in one place. No commentary between them. No broadcaster. Just the bands, in the order they played, from the first note of The Calling to the last word of Twenty Years. For those who want to listen without interruption.

"The Fifth Crown. The Palace of the Rock."
Della's album cover Album IX

Blues · Rock 'n' Roll

Della's

The Last Saturday Night

A juke joint in the rural American South. Christmas lights, a bar wiped smooth as skin, and a bandleader playing like a man finally saying what he never found words for. Forty years complete — not a closing, a graduation. Locals arrive from further than they have in years, not to mourn but to celebrate everything Della built. And a band that only stopped for coffee never quite leaves.

"Forty years had a shape, and she was going to finish it properly."
The House She Built album cover Album X

Gospel · Soul · Blues

The House She Built

A Companion to The Road of the Preacher

Mary was the stranger on that December street — the one the Preacher knelt beside when no one else would stop. Seventeen tracks follow the rest of her life: rebuilding herself brick by brick, raising a daughter who asks all the right questions, and slowly discovering she carries his gift too. Years later she finds him again and places something small and handmade into his hands. No thanks needed. None asked for.

"Not of brick, but hope and grace — turned to something warm and whole."
The Framework — Every Night, Once album cover Album XI

Progressive Rock

The Framework — Every Night, Once

Sixteen Masters, Never Quoted

Sixteen tracks. Sixteen classical composers hidden inside sixteen rock songs — never quoted, only felt. Beethoven opens the album as tension and fate, and closes it sixteen tracks later as joy and unity. Five musicians who once asked why the leaf is only green answer with the fastest, most immediate record they've ever made — the opposite temperature of everything that came before it.

"Played once, felt always — never quite the same song twice."
The Burnline — Every Window Lit album cover Album XII

Soul Rock · Detroit Motown

The Burnline — Every Window Lit

Fourteen Tracks, One Detroit Block

Before the sun's even up, a porch light starts the whole block moving. Fourteen tracks later, that same rhythm is walking downtown, dressed up and dancing. In between — the corner store, the barbershop, a coat passed down for fifteen years, and one quiet song for the day nobody wants to talk about. This is Detroit, golden era, lived one ordinary day at a time.

"This block made every good thing that I carry around."
The Palace — Christmas album cover Album XIII

Soul Rock · Mariachi · Maroon Rock · Heavy Metal · Gospel Rock · Blues

The Palace — Christmas

One Night, No Crown

The Palace opens its doors one more time before winter — not for a Crown, just for one night. Veterans of the Fifth Crown share the stage with four acts who've never played the Palace before. Motown horns, mariachi trumpet, Maroon drums, war-metal, gospel, and a blues legend who guarantees the dead will dance before he's done — all under one roof, all on the same night.

"Not for a Crown. Just for one night."
Onibi — Fires on the Mountain album cover Album XIV Releases 5 December 2026

Japanese Heavy Metal · Power Metal

Onibi — Fires on the Mountain

A Bushido Concept Album

Two armies face each other across a fogbound field, and do not move — not yet. Between the opening and closing track, sixteen songs carry the seven virtues of the samurai across a battlefield, a courtroom, a smithy, a burning village, a cockpit over the Pacific. Taiko and shakuhachi thread beneath twin gallop guitars and a voice worn down by history. Justice, courage, mercy, respect, honesty, honor, loyalty — carried further than the blade can go.

"Before the code, there is only the field."

Every road has its own moment

Finally Home single cover Single

Soul · Ballad

Finally Home

Soul Version

A lifetime of giving. A lifetime of sacrifice. Daughters raised with strength. An ocean crossed in search of something better. After everything she gave to others — fate had one final gift waiting.

"From sacrifice to love. From struggle to strength. From searching to finally found."
Wide Open single cover Single · Her Road

Blues · Soul · The Crossing

Wide Open

From The Crossing — Her Road

A woman who has everything tells you exactly how fine she is — and almost believes it.

"Everything figured out. Every answer ready. The road ahead wide open. Almost."
Burn Bright single cover Single · His Road

Blues · Rock · The Crossing

Burn Bright

From The Crossing — His Road

A man who needs nothing proves it at full volume — until the silence answers back.

"Nothing to prove. Nobody to answer to. The engine running. The silence waiting."
Framework — Blue Leaf single cover Single · The Palace

Classical Rock · The Palace

Framework — Blue Leaf

Live at The Crown

Five classically trained musicians. Every note learned exactly as written. Every tradition honoured completely. And then — a quiet question that wouldn't let them rest. What did Beethoven feel the morning he wrote that phrase?

"The composer felt this too — before the rules said only green will do."

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