Ambeon – Fate of a dreamer

Released in 2000 by Transmission Hellion (Brazil) Vocalist Astrid van der Veen Instrumentalists Arjen Lucassen John McManus Pat McManus Stephen van Haestregt Walter Latupeirissa Track List 1. Estranged 2. Ashes (full track) 3. High 4. Cold Metal 5. Fate 6. Sick Ceremony 7. Lost Message 8. Surreal 9. Sweet Little Brother 10. Dreamer Cold Metal [...]

Anthony – Pools of sorrow, waves of joy (1994)

Vocalists Arjen Lucassen Debby Schreuder Mirjam van Doorn Instrumentalists Arjen Lucassen Cleem Determeijer Peter Vink Release info Released in 1994 by Ray’s Music B.V. Unfortunately this album went of out print a few years ago. It is now a collector’s item. You may be able to find copies on the internet through the auction sites [...]

Ayreon – 01011001

With his Ayreon project, legendary multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer and vocalist Arjen Anthony Lucassen single-handedly revived the rock opera genre in the 1990s. Since then, Ayreon has achieved worldwide critical acclaim and success with albums charting in various countries. The seventh Ayreon output, 01011001, finds Lucassen both exploring new musical frontiers and revisiting his roots. The [...]

Ayreon – Actual Fantasy

Originally released in 1996 on the Transmission label, Actual Fantasy is the second album in Arjen’s Ayreon project. Instead of having a continuous story with a beginning and an end, the the individual songs are based on fantasy and sci-fi movies, or on stories Arjen wrote himself. The first ten thousand copies of Actual Fantasy [...]

Ayreon – Ayreonauts Only

Arjen explains: “When I was in Los Angeles Lana Lane was kind enough to sing guide vocals for (amongst other songs) ‘Into the Black Hole’. I sent this version to Bruce Dickinson and he really liked the song and Lana’s vocals. But Bruce was extremely busy recording with Maiden…

Ayreon – Flight of the Migrator

Universal Migrator Part II: Flight of the Migrator is Arjen’s fifth Ayreon release. At the time of the original release of the albums comprising the Universal Migrator (2000), Arjen had enough songs for a double CD. But at the time he was under the impression that his fan base was divided into two different camps [...]

Ayreon – Into the Electric Castle

The third Ayreon release is a 100+ minute double CD and like ‘The Final Experiment’ it tells a story. Eight stereotypical characters from different eras in time suddenly find themselves in another dimension as subjects of an experiment conducted by an alien race. The characters on ‘Into the Electric Castle’ (1998) are blown out of [...]

Ayreon – The Dream Sequencer

At the time of the original release of the albums comprising the Universal Migrator (2000), Arjen had enough songs for a double CD. But at the time he was under the impression that his fan base was divided into two different camps — prog and metal — and that there was little genre crossover between [...]

Ayreon – The Final Experiment

The Story Prologue In the year 2084 scientists have found a way to send messages back into time using time telepathy. With the earth nearly destroyed by many different causes, they have one hope for the experiment: warn the past of the future to avert the fate of earth. Act I The receiver of the [...]

Ayreon – The Human Equation

Ayreon – The Universal Migrator (parts 1 and 2)

The Universal Migrator parts I and II is the 2-CD re-release of what were originally released as two single albums: The Dream Sequencer and Flight of the Migrator. The Dream Sequencer On Universal Migrator part I: The Dream Sequencer Arjen picks up the story of The Final Experiment and the year 2084. Over a hundred [...]

Ayreon – Timeline

TIMELINE follows the thirteen-year evolution of the Ayreon sound from the 1995 debut The Final Experiment to the release of 01011001 in 2008. Its 3 CDs contain 32 essential Ayreon tracks plus one brand new song recorded especially for this release — almost 4 hours of music! The DVD features nearly two hours of selected [...]

Guilt Machine – On this Perfect Day

Release dates Germany, Austria, Switzerland: 28 August 2009 Europe: 31 August 2009 North America: 29 September 2009 Released by Mascot Records Editions Limited Edition 32-page Digibook (CD + DVD) Special Edition Digipack 24-page booklet (CD + DVD) Regular Edition Jewel case 24-page booklet (CD only) Track List CD – all editions 1. Twisted Coil (11:43) [...]

New project – Arjen Lucassen solo album

Since finishing the latest Star One album last year (2010), Arjen has been hard at work on his next release: a solo album! It’s been something he’s wanted to do for a long time: I’ve been wanting to record a solo album with just me singing for about 10 years now. But I always seem [...]

Star One – Live on Earth

Released in 2003 by InsideOut Music. The Limited Edition contains 2 audio CDs plus a DVD with video of the Star One concert filmed on 5 October 2002 at Lucky & Co (Rijssen, NL). The concert is a mixture of songs from the first Star One album, Space Metal and songs from the Ayreon discography. [...]

Star One – Space Metal

Space Metal is the debut album from Arjen’s “Star One” project. It was released by Inside Out in 2002. It is available in two editions: a limited edition with with 2 CDs and an elaborate digibook package, and a standard jewel-case edition with just the first CD. All of the songs are based on different [...]

Star One – Victims of the Modern Age

The second Star One album “Victims of the Modern Age,” the follow-up to the Star One debut album, “Space Metal” (2002). For “Victims of the Modern Age” he reunited the stellar cast of lead vocalists from the Space Metal: Russell Allen (Symphony X), Damian Wilson (Headspace, Threshold), Floor Jansen (ReVamp, ex-After Forever), and Dan Swanö [...]

Strange Hobby – Strange Hobby

What do you mean, ‘Strange Hobby’? Is it strange for a musician to record the music that once influenced his music and that still has a place in his heart? Still, Arjen Lucassen named his side project ‘Strange Hobby’ and to make it even more strange; the booklet didn’t say who was responsible for the disc…

Stream of Passion – Embrace the Storm

Embrace the Storm is the debut album from Arjen’s project “Stream of Passion.” Released in 2005. Tracklist Embrace the Storm (Special Edition) Audio CD 1. Spellbound 2. Passion 3. Deceiver 4. I’ll Keep On Dreaming 5. Haunted 6. Wherever You Are 7. Open Your Eyes 8. Embrace the Storm 9. Breathing Again 10. Out in [...]

Stream of Passion – Live in the Real World

Recorded on the band’s first tour in 2006, Live in the Real World features highlights from the band’s debut album Embrace the Storm as well as several favorites from the Ayreon catalog…

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