This was the "introduction" to the album The Source - if you play it in order you will get the full story / episode ( it is a continuing telling, inspired by Arjen's fans..). Arjen has worked with over 100 of the top singers and musicians, from all over the world, during the years - he started using Floor back in 2000 - I believe she 19 at the time, but had a voice already then, not to be overlooked (I saw her first time in 1997, and she blew me away). I was one of them who asked for this one, and I didn't warn you about Floor... The reason was to show you how the European rock/ metal scene works as a contrast to the American. In Europe there are tons of collaboration all the time, so everybody knows each other - and mostly they help each other instead of compete with each others. Therefore Ayreon / Arjen Lucassen can exist and create music like this. The guy playing Grand Piano called Joost, was also playing in Floor's 1. Band After Forever and her own second band ReVamp - he is a close friend of Floor and are also a part of her upcoming solo album, plus he plays on some of her covers she releases from time to time, on her YT Channel. I hope you like what you are discovering from Europe - the other girl Simone Simons, also a old and close friend with Floor (both dutch), is lead singer in Epica (Symphonic Metal and phenomenal voice) - and the have also co-labs with Floor, like in " Santa Terra" and others - but we will get back to that one and others later - but I will give you a little fan video from Floor's ReVamp days where Simone and Floor did Sweet Curse - sand Joost on piano in the background. th-cam.com/video/xmYzLIB6OjU/w-d-xo.html I believe you really will enjoy it - and I also believe that your introduction to Ayreon was a success = mission accomplished 😉👍🤘🤘 Greetings from Nightwish Army Denmark 🇩🇰 👍 💪 🤘 🤘
For you enjoyment here is the complete The Source album, also worth listening to various live songs from Ayreon where you might find Marko and Floor from Nightwish and also Floor's sister Irene as one of the three backing singers and duets with Floor on The Eye of Ra.
Ayreon is the (main) project of Dutch composer, producer, singer and multi-instrumentalist Arjen Anthony Lucassen. He does scifi concept albums. He has had over 80 different singers on his 9 (double)albums. Most albums are part of the bigger story called the Ayreon Universe. He has not done many live-shows but the ones he did are all killer. The 4 main shows are: 1.) Star One - live on earth (actually starone is a side project, but they did play some Ayreon songs) 2002-dvd2003 2.) The Theater Equation (a playthrough of the cd human equation, this is more a broadway-theater show) 2105-dvd2016 3.) Ayreon Universe (a best of full on prog-rock-metal show) 2017-dvd2018 4.) Ayreon - Electric castle live and other tales (a playtrough of the cd Into the electric castle, and 1 song of each side-project) 2019-dvd2020
Arjen Anthony Lucassen the Dutch progressive metal composer is the genius behind the Ayreon project. His music is kind of like rock operas. He brings together amazing vocalists and musicians for the projects. This is literally a science fiction story unfolding. Michael Mills plays the role of TH-1 the computer. Thus he sings in binary code. You need to check out some of the live performances from Ayreon. They are amazing shows full of highly talented musicians. Hope you feel better soon my friend. Get well!
I have never delved deep into the work of Ayreon, but the name came up every now and then in my sight. This line-up of musicians / vocalists is world class. I'm curious how this story evolves and hope you cover the whole 'Source' in order so we can discover this together.
Great reaction. Love it that Arjen explaines things about this song. He writes great compositions and is a good musician. And of course floor and simone my favorite singers. He always got a lot of amazing guests in his music. There are more great videos of his music on TH-cam. Thank you for this reaction.
Great reaction! And the reaction when the secret weapon of Arjen comes in.... it's Floor.... Maybe you must considder to do some more Ayreon? Specialy the Universe live versions.. "Age of shadows", "Everybody dies", "Valley of the qeeuns" or Merlins will... might be a verry nice surprise there.. love your reactions by the way🤘👍
well this is yet another of many reactions I've watched of this song. Mainly because it hasn't bored me yet, not even after seeing/ hearing this song numerous times. If you want to check out more music off this prog- master and I'm proud to say fellow dutchman, just go over to his TH-cam site "Arjen Anthony Lucassen" there you can find almost all he has done the last few decades. Pick anything you like to use for your reactions, he will not mind. If TH-cam blocks one of his songs, just send him an e-mail and I'm certain he will make the blocking go away. He is an very approachable and down to earth musical genius, who is most of al a music lover same as you and me and travels his own musical path in TH-cam. Not that I know it because I contacted him, but I've seen some interviews with him and heard other reactors say as much, they all were very positive about their contact with him. Most reactors that fall into the Ayreon rabbit hole continue the journey with the latest live videos from the same live Album he made a few years ago. I promise you you will not regret checking them out. Seeing you really also focused on the story, what I liked most about your reaction btw, I do advise sticking to One album at a time, for he has produced almost only concept albums, when after the live performances you'd like to continue and listen to the studio albums. enough said, I'll be checking in now and then hopefully seeing more Ayreon reactions. Have fun!
if it ain't dutch it ain't much... Welcome in the amazing world of Arjen A. Lucassen Aka Ayreon Universe (Ayreon, Ambeon, Star one, Guilt Machine, Gentle Storm, Stream of Passion).... Enjoy this rabbit hole….!!!!!
Ayreon isnt exactly a band but more of a collaborative project by Arjen Lucassen who composes rock operas so to speak and then invites top notch guests musicians ( he is multi instrumentalist himself) to record his music and rarely (due to involved people's schedules) managed also do live shows
Here is a list of the composer and singers in order of appearance: Arjen Lucassen - Composer - Dutch singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist musician and record producer best known for his long-running progressive metal/rock opera project Ayreon. James Labrie - Lead singer for Dream Theatre. Tommy Karevik - Lead singer of Kamelot and Seventh Wonder. Tommy Rodgers - Lead singer of Between the Buried and Me. Simone Simmons - Lead singer of Epica. Nils K. Rue - Lead singer of Pagan's Mind and also worked with Eidolon. Tobias Sammet - Lead singer of Edguy & Avantasia. Hansi Kürsch - Lead singer of Blind Guardian and Demons & Wizards. Mike Mills - Multi-instrumentalist, vocalist and main songwriter for Toehider. Russell Allen - Lead singer of Symphony X and Allen/Lande. Michael Eriksen - Lead singer of Circus Maximus. Floor Jansen - Lead singer of After Forever, ReVamp & now Nightwish. Next I would suggest reacting to the performances at Ayreon Universe concert, especially the following Intergalactic Space Crusaders, River of Time, Merlin's Will, Valley of the Queens, Ride the Comet, Star of Sirrah, And the Druids Turn to Stone, Age of Shadows & Everybody Dies.
You opened Pandora’s box here. The albums are great and there are two epic live concerts. Ayreon Universe live. With Floor and Marko from Nightwish and many others The electric castle live and other tales. With Simone from Epica and many others Many very well known musicians played/sang on the albums and in the live concerts. See Wikipedia for a list. The binary code says: trust th1
@@JTMMTV I should look it up if I were you. On Wikipedia is a lot of information. I think rather than call it Pandora’s box, I should have called it ‘Falling down a rabbit hole’.
I haven't seen this "reaction" but I read title... "lyrics reaction" ... to react to Ayreon, first time hearing this "band" and trying to understand the lyrics is like to start watching some tv show at season 12 ep 14 and trying to understand "why this guy shoot that guy"? :D
The eye of rah live show and the age of shadows live show featuring Floor Jansen and Marco from nightwish as guest singers and Intergalactic space crusaders live live show, awesome 😎also The Electric Castle album live shows featuring John de Lance the actor who played Q from Star Trek the next generation series, as a live narrator, awesome thanks 😎
Yup, Ayreon. Arjen has been around the scene a long time! I think I found these guys back around the time "Into the Electric Castle" came out. He always gets the best musicians to collaborate with. As a Symphony-X fan for 25 years.... always great to see/hear the legend Russel Allen. Symphony-X was my favorite band of all-time. Until..... the princesses from Japan showed up! ( Ssshhh.... don't tell Michael Romeo I said that! )
I don't think you should've done a lyric analysis on this song. Arjen is telling you what the story is about. As soon as it got explained there's no need for analysis.
Speakers are UP and video on 28" high res monitor. I could watch and listen to this all day and all night. WOW. M O R E !
I was in awe Jim. Seriously I was like, can this be an hour, I won't interrupt, please sir, more please sir! This was amazing to say the least.
@@JTMMTV AYREON - The Eye of Ra also great but one notch below this one.
" ... and all 11 main vocalists ... "
*Spends the entire song counting the vocalists*
I was looking at the lyrics or at him at that time shhhhhh don't point out such obvious things LOL
This was the "introduction" to the album The Source - if you play it in order you will get the full story / episode ( it is a continuing telling, inspired by Arjen's fans..).
Arjen has worked with over 100 of the top singers and musicians, from all over the world, during the years - he started using Floor back in 2000 - I believe she 19 at the time, but had a voice already then, not to be overlooked (I saw her first time in 1997, and she blew me away).
I was one of them who asked for this one, and I didn't warn you about Floor... The reason was to show you how the European rock/ metal scene works as a contrast to the American. In Europe there are tons of collaboration all the time, so everybody knows each other - and mostly they help each other instead of compete with each others. Therefore Ayreon / Arjen Lucassen can exist and create music like this.
The guy playing Grand Piano called Joost, was also playing in Floor's 1. Band After Forever and her own second band ReVamp - he is a close friend of Floor and are also a part of her upcoming solo album, plus he plays on some of her covers she releases from time to time, on her YT Channel.
I hope you like what you are discovering from Europe - the other girl Simone Simons, also a old and close friend with Floor (both dutch), is lead singer in Epica (Symphonic Metal and phenomenal voice) - and the have also co-labs with Floor, like in " Santa Terra" and others - but we will get back to that one and others later - but I will give you a little fan video from Floor's ReVamp days where Simone and Floor did Sweet Curse - sand Joost on piano in the background.
th-cam.com/video/xmYzLIB6OjU/w-d-xo.html
I believe you really will enjoy it - and I also believe that your introduction to Ayreon was a success = mission accomplished 😉👍🤘🤘
Greetings from Nightwish Army Denmark 🇩🇰 👍 💪 🤘 🤘
Great stuff fella! Kudos for knowing the mighty Hansi (most reactors miss that) and also for your reaction to the Floorbomb!! 😉
Genius Arjen Lucassen as projectleader of Ayreon and a lot of wellknown vocalists want to work with him.
For you enjoyment here is the complete The Source album, also worth listening to various live songs from Ayreon where you might find Marko and Floor from Nightwish and also Floor's sister Irene as one of the three backing singers and duets with Floor on The Eye of Ra.
Ayreon is the (main) project of Dutch composer, producer, singer and multi-instrumentalist Arjen Anthony Lucassen. He does scifi concept albums. He has had over 80 different singers on his 9 (double)albums. Most albums are part of the bigger story called the Ayreon Universe.
He has not done many live-shows but the ones he did are all killer. The 4 main shows are: 1.) Star One - live on earth (actually starone is a side project, but they did play some Ayreon songs) 2002-dvd2003
2.) The Theater Equation (a playthrough of the cd human equation, this is more a broadway-theater show) 2105-dvd2016
3.) Ayreon Universe (a best of full on prog-rock-metal show) 2017-dvd2018
4.) Ayreon - Electric castle live and other tales (a playtrough of the cd Into the electric castle, and 1 song of each side-project) 2019-dvd2020
Arjen Anthony Lucassen the Dutch progressive metal composer is the genius behind the Ayreon project. His music is kind of like rock operas. He brings together amazing vocalists and musicians for the projects. This is literally a science fiction story unfolding. Michael Mills plays the role of TH-1 the computer. Thus he sings in binary code. You need to check out some of the live performances from Ayreon. They are amazing shows full of highly talented musicians. Hope you feel better soon my friend. Get well!
The Source is an incredible album, easily my favourite Ayreon album
I have never delved deep into the work of Ayreon, but the name came up every now and then in my sight.
This line-up of musicians / vocalists is world class. I'm curious how this story evolves and hope you cover the whole 'Source' in order so we can discover this together.
There are a number of live performances of Ayreon songs on YT...they are all AWESOME...of course.
Great reaction. Love it that Arjen explaines things about this song. He writes great compositions and is a good musician. And of course floor and simone my favorite singers. He always got a lot of amazing guests in his music. There are more great videos of his music on TH-cam. Thank you for this reaction.
Great reaction!
And the reaction when the secret weapon of Arjen comes in.... it's Floor....
Maybe you must considder to do some more Ayreon? Specialy the Universe live versions..
"Age of shadows", "Everybody dies", "Valley of the qeeuns" or Merlins will... might be a verry nice surprise there.. love your reactions by the way🤘👍
Floor wasn't fair. I was already liking it but dang it lol
Next: Everybody Dies Live!
well this is yet another of many reactions I've watched of this song. Mainly because it hasn't bored me yet, not even after seeing/ hearing this song numerous times. If you want to check out more music off this prog- master and I'm proud to say fellow dutchman, just go over to his TH-cam site "Arjen Anthony Lucassen" there you can find almost all he has done the last few decades. Pick anything you like to use for your reactions, he will not mind. If TH-cam blocks one of his songs, just send him an e-mail and I'm certain he will make the blocking go away. He is an very approachable and down to earth musical genius, who is most of al a music lover same as you and me and travels his own musical path in TH-cam. Not that I know it because I contacted him, but I've seen some interviews with him and heard other reactors say as much, they all were very positive about their contact with him. Most reactors that fall into the Ayreon rabbit hole continue the journey with the latest live videos from the same live Album he made a few years ago. I promise you you will not regret checking them out. Seeing you really also focused on the story, what I liked most about your reaction btw, I do advise sticking to One album at a time, for he has produced almost only concept albums, when after the live performances you'd like to continue and listen to the studio albums. enough said, I'll be checking in now and then hopefully seeing more Ayreon reactions. Have fun!
That is Arjen Lucassen, the all leader of the band :D
if it ain't dutch it ain't much... Welcome in the amazing world of Arjen A. Lucassen Aka Ayreon Universe (Ayreon, Ambeon, Star one, Guilt Machine, Gentle Storm, Stream of Passion).... Enjoy this rabbit hole….!!!!!
Love this group great reaction my friend keep it up
Not many choose or can react to this one like you did. Refreshing, excellent and honest again. Cheers.
Ayreon isnt exactly a band but more of a collaborative project by Arjen Lucassen who composes rock operas so to speak and then invites top notch guests musicians ( he is multi instrumentalist himself) to record his music and rarely (due to involved people's schedules) managed also do live shows
Here is a list of the composer and singers in order of appearance:
Arjen Lucassen - Composer - Dutch singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist musician and record producer best known for his long-running progressive metal/rock opera project Ayreon.
James Labrie - Lead singer for Dream Theatre.
Tommy Karevik - Lead singer of Kamelot and Seventh Wonder.
Tommy Rodgers - Lead singer of Between the Buried and Me.
Simone Simmons - Lead singer of Epica.
Nils K. Rue - Lead singer of Pagan's Mind and also worked with Eidolon.
Tobias Sammet - Lead singer of Edguy & Avantasia.
Hansi Kürsch - Lead singer of Blind Guardian and Demons & Wizards.
Mike Mills - Multi-instrumentalist, vocalist and main songwriter for Toehider.
Russell Allen - Lead singer of Symphony X and Allen/Lande.
Michael Eriksen - Lead singer of Circus Maximus.
Floor Jansen - Lead singer of After Forever, ReVamp & now Nightwish.
Next I would suggest reacting to the performances at Ayreon Universe concert, especially the following Intergalactic Space Crusaders, River of Time, Merlin's Will, Valley of the Queens, Ride the Comet, Star of Sirrah, And the Druids Turn to Stone, Age of Shadows & Everybody Dies.
You opened Pandora’s box here.
The albums are great and there are two epic live concerts.
Ayreon Universe live. With Floor and Marko from Nightwish and many others
The electric castle live and other tales. With Simone from Epica and many others
Many very well known musicians played/sang on the albums and in the live concerts. See Wikipedia for a list.
The binary code says: trust th1
I aint scared of no box!!!!! Who is this pandora person? Should I worry? jk I welcome it!
@@JTMMTV I should look it up if I were you. On Wikipedia is a lot of information.
I think rather than call it Pandora’s box, I should have called it ‘Falling down a rabbit hole’.
I love this, every time someone reacts to it, i am on it, lol pity its not longer..
Things are moving up....you even have a soundguy now 😜
You might be introduced to him tomorrow lol ;)
Ayreon is great, Arjen Anthony Lucassen is a Dutch treasure...
I haven't seen this "reaction" but I read title... "lyrics reaction" ... to react to Ayreon, first time hearing this "band" and trying to understand the lyrics is like to start watching some tv show at season 12 ep 14 and trying to understand "why this guy shoot that guy"? :D
Ayreon is awesome 😎
Cool Reaction.
The eye of rah live show and the age of shadows live show featuring Floor Jansen and Marco from nightwish as guest singers and Intergalactic space crusaders live live show, awesome 😎also The Electric Castle album live shows featuring John de Lance the actor who played Q from Star Trek the next generation series, as a live narrator, awesome thanks 😎
Mike Mills has a range from F# 1 to C6
Yup, Ayreon. Arjen has been around the scene a long time! I think I found these guys back around the time "Into the Electric Castle" came out. He always gets the best musicians to collaborate with. As a Symphony-X fan for 25 years.... always great to see/hear the legend Russel Allen. Symphony-X was my favorite band of all-time. Until..... the princesses from Japan showed up! ( Ssshhh.... don't tell Michael Romeo I said that! )
BTW... I was the 100th "like" on that thumbs-up button! Hehehe!
Thank you my friend!
It is customary not to warn first listeners about who the final singer is in order to see their reactions. :)
I don't think you should've done a lyric analysis on this song. Arjen is telling you what the story is about. As soon as it got explained there's no need for analysis.