Everone's talking about Floor and of course I love my daily floorgasm, but I think another great female voice, who has done a whole album with Arjen and is on every show must be mentioned and this is Anneke van Giersbergen. When you see how much fun she has on stage and the voice of an angel. I would propose "Strange machines" live Pinkpop festival, or any other song of The Gathering or I-AH with Devin Townsend.
In this song were (I think): Lead singers: Michael Mills (Toehieder) Tommy Karrevik (Kamelot) Hansi Kursch (Blind Gaurdian) Maggy Luyten (Nightmare) Floor Jansen (Nightwish, Revamp, After Forever) Backing vocals: Irene Jansen (Floor's sister) Lisette van den Berg (Scarlet Stories) Marcela Bovio (MaYaN, Stream of Passion) Instrumentalists: Ed Warby, drums Johan van Stratum (Stream of Passion), bass Joost van den Broek (After Forever (Floor's first band)), keys Marcel Coenen, lead guitar Ferry Duissens, guitar
It's like Tank was invited to a party... and he doesnt know much people... maybe a couple by name... and then, he finds a friend and light up... is that Hansi ? ahaaha... we all feel the same about Ayreon... gotta have internet to google every single singer and discover new worlds
Arjen played on Castle Hall, Amazing Flight, and The Eye of Ra from this show. Damian Wilson did an amazing job on And The Druids Turn To Stone... Tommy Karevik was outstanding on Into The Black Hole... Intergalactic Space Crusaders is a great rocking number too. It was a truly amazing show. You won't regret that purchase. :-)
Ayreon Universe is indeed an amazing concert. Of all your suggestions, which I agree with totally by the way, I think Intergalactic Space Crusaders is the most up Tank's alley.
HEY TANK, THAT'S FLOOR AND ARJEN HAS STAGEFRIGHT AND IRENE IS FLOOR'S SISTER AND ASKNDJFSFSKFN *spamspamspamspam* In seriousness, great reaction, as always.
Yeah, right. Go ahead, make fun of people who try their best to provide some background information to the reactor. Most people only know how to complain when a reactor watches the wrong video...
No worries about not knowing all the players and singers but that's how I started too, Ayreon is one giant hub of artists to discover, that's how I found out about Floor, Irene, and Magali Luyten (Raspy singer) back in 2004-2007
yes, "the source" is the best ayreon album i would say, i love the sound and lyrics of it. tayscott has a full lyric video on the album which makes it very easy to follow the story of the album and also know who sings what
Awesome reaction Tank. I did the same thing and immediately bought the Blu-ray after seeing this song myself. Age of Shadows is a must reaction, it has a very fun cast of singers and is of course a great song as well.
Still the best live concert I've been too, so glad my friends dragged me along for this. And the crowd was just soooo into it, there were people flying in from all across the world to be there!
I agree, this performance was amazing, maybe even better than the studio versions. So much energy from all the performers. I think it was even better than ITEC Live, mostly because I did not really like Marcel Singor's improvisations.
Before I forget, the 3 angels are very accomplished singers. All of them are worth investing time into listening to on their own. They might not take the front in this collaboration but that is more of an attribute to their professionalism and devotion to the art.
If you want to see Arjen himself on stage, check out "Ayreon - Amazing Flight (Electric Castle Live And Other Tales)" from the most recent live show. He performs his role of Hippie from the Electric Castle album in its entirety.
Second that. Another great one featuring the master himself is ‘Castle Hall’ from the same concert. And to answer the question: Arjen likes to create the music, but he does not want to to perform on stage. Although he seems to enjoy it, he has great fear before going on stage. Unfortunately on the album Into the Electric Castle he plays the role of the hippie, so in the other concert (Electric Castle Live And Other Tales) he has to do a few songs!
I envy everybody who was at this show. It must have been an amazing experience. There are so many great songs on the Ayreon Universe DVD. One of my favourites is "Magnetism" with Tommy, Anneke and also Marco from Nightwish.
Sorry, can't resist. Yes the shows where amazing both this one and Electric castle. Though to me the absolute coolest thing is how all the artist are just having a lot of fun on stage with eachother. It's so cool to watch and be a tiny part of while there. Apart from the concerts at 013 I know that at least 1 time they also performed at Graspop Metal Meeting in Belgium. Half a year after the Universe concerts. And while fact-checking myself I just found out that they will be again at GMM next year (If we can have festivals again by then)
It was a true privilege to see that concert live! Luckily Arjen is a Dutch citizen and so am I, so I was very fortunate to buy tickets real quick. You won’t regret to buy this DVD at all, enjoy the world of Ayreon Universe live‼️
More fun facts: - Joost and Marcel Coenen were both in prog metal band Sun Caged before Joost joined After Forever. - Johan van Stratum and Marcela Bovio were both in Stream Of Passion, a symphonic metal band originally formed around Marcela and Arjen to continue their successful collaboration after Ayreon’s The Human Equation. - Marcel, Joost, Ed, Floor & Irene were also part of the Star One - Live On Earth tour in 2002. Arjen performed the entire show. Star One is a sci-fi themed project of Arjen, with songs based on films like Star Gate, Star Wars, Dune etc. This show was also recorded and released. It also was my first taste of Arjen’s music, though I unfortunately didn’t get to see them live back then. I still listen to these recordings regularly (and I prefer the live versions).
Thank you for more Ayreon! I've been listening to his music for years and the guests have been a gateway to other bands. This entire live show is amazing, some personal favorites are Dawn of a Million Souls, Age of Shadows, Eye of Ra (Star One), Looser, and Computer Eyes. (Personally I like the album version of Looser better, and Computer eyes is longer on the album.) Looser would be a good live/album comparison song, BIG difference in the ending singing style. If you want to see a BIG video wall check out Within Temptation Live Black Symphony, look for the 1080p version. Recommendations: The Howling, or Stand My Ground. Personally I like their older albums Enter and Mother Earth better than the new stuff. (Arjen did a solo on the Mother Earth album). And to add my other recommendation, Riverside - Wasteland Live. Great progressive metal with lots of gear shots.
Definitely a great recommendation since they were backed by a full symphonic orchestra and choir. I myself would recommend "The promise" that makes full use of the orchestra and lets not forget the angelic voice of Sharon den Adel. One of the members of the holy trinity of Dutch metal goddesses. th-cam.com/video/39k1IQoeLAU/w-d-xo.html
Ohhhhh tank, you may not even realize how you react whenever you see the valkyrie goddess floor jansen. You gush like the rest of us. Love it....addicted to floorgasms.
More Fun Facts just to show how connected this segment of the European metal scene is: 1) Floor Jansen and Joost van den Broek were together in After Forever (Floor's first band); Joost contributed to Floor's second band ReVamp; AND is currently working with her on SUPER-SECRET solo material for Floor :D th-cam.com/video/T68mp-Fn9Rk/w-d-xo.html 2) Tommy Karevik was just getting settled in with Kamelot as they were supporting Nightwish on the North American leg of the Imaginarium Tour when the Denver Debacle happened: www.blabbermouth.net/news/nightwish-in-denver-a-night-without-anette-olzon/ One week later Floor was brought in to finish the rest of the Imaginarium Tour with Nightwish. 3) Marcela Bovio (Stream of Passion, MaYaN) is singing "backup" with Floor's sister Irene and has worked with Kamelot and Floor has sung in concert with MaYan. 4) Floor is tall (6'0" or 6'1" depending on who you read) but Arjen is taller (6'8"); he has been bringing Floor into Ayreon/Star One projects since 2000. 5) Non-Ayreon connected factoid: After Forever toured (as support) with Nightwish back in 2002; Tuomas and Marko hint at that when in interviews they note that after Tarja's dismissal they had toyed with bringing Floor on then, but didn't want to break up After Forever to do it.
Tommy is also in a band called Seventh Wonder. If you want a long song: (30mins) The Great Escape. And for a tear jerking album: Mercy Falls (concept album).
@@BryonAutry Me too. Do you think @Tankthetech would do the full album? Because once you start the intro you can't stop. At least that's how I look at it.
@@senditkevin I mean, obviously no one should put words in his mouth, but so far full album reactions haven't been a thing on his channel so I am not assuming that is something he may do, but I could be wrong. Of course since the album tells a continuous story it would be the ideal listening method, but "The Source" does the same thing and he has heard 2 songs separate from the album so far, and the songs can definitely stand on their own as well. I think the most likely scenario is maybe listening to a few of the most popular songs sometime in the future (maybe) and then eventually (maybe) listening to the full album on his own if he likes the songs enough. It seems rough, being a reactor and having to hold yourself back from listening to things so that you can hold them for future videos, I certainly don't have the strength to do that, myself.
@@senditkevin Well, another reason it's not likely he may do it is gear is his thing, so he'd most likely prefer to watch official live videos. Thankfully Seventh Wonder have a live DVD "Welcome To Atlanta (Live 2014)" where they play Mercy Falls in it's entirety. Idk, I would certainly suggest asking him in the suggestion section on Discord, and see what he thinks.
So I will say. This was an amazing reaction video. But I'll be back with a more detailed comment when my jaw gets picked up off the Floor. Because holy hell, Ayreon is amazing.
The Eye of Ra is pretty fun to watch, as the last song of the show, everyone comes to the stage, and the scale of the project becomes really obvious. And I'm completely offended that you didn't identify each of the keyboards!
Hey Tank, big thanks from the Netherlands for highlighting Ayreon here. My suggestion for your next Ayreon reaction would be the song The Eye of Ra which is also featured on the Universe DVD. You'll get to see each and every musician who appeared during that performance.
Just want to mention: I just love how you have Valhalla running as background music. And also, Hansi should be easily recognizable from afar. He has this very specific body posture that makes me wonder if he never has neck pains. Thank you for this reaction too, Arjen is so extremely shy, when he held a speach at this show, you could literally see him sweat buckets. Didn't stop him from even singing live there. My personal request for another song of Ayreon would be: "The Eye Of Ra" from this same show. It's epic in a special way. It's really such a pitty that Simone (from Epica) couldn't make it, that would have really made it like a family gathering backstage. She too, has been with Ayreon for a long time, including the freshly released new Ayreon album, as the Angel of Death.
The lead guitarist (long hair) Marcel Coenen plays in metal band Godscum, the other guitarist Ferry Duijssens plays in symphonic band VuuR (with Anneke van Giersbergen) , back vocalist and sister of Floor Jansen, Irene Jansen plays in Star One (another band/project of Lucassen).
That was a fun Song and really interesting stage show. I really enjoyed your facts and breakdowns of what was going on with the stage show because it just made it more interesting. Great reaction, have a good one Tank!
From this concert, songs that are often reacted to are (spoilers ahead) Merlin's Will, Valley of the Queens, Star of Sirrah, Eye of Ra (Floor factor) Intergalactic Space Crusaders (fun factor) One song I like that is rarely reacted to is Loser (Michael Mills and background choir factor!)
Irene and Floor look so freaking similar...I actually thought it was Floor at first and wondered why she'd be singing backup. Apparently, she has some pipes, too. Runs in the family (as does the height)!
This is the melt pot of almost every of my favorite singers of the last Ayreon video. Just everyone in those projects has so much skill and.. Yeah no words to describe them.
You need to check out Avatar, they are a very original band with every single song of them sounding completely different. Also their live shows are among the best ever, it's a very captivating band. A good song to start with would be "Bloody Angel, live at Polandrock 2019"
yeah man, dooo it!!!! Avatar - The eagle has landed, In Napalm, Tower (!!) .... all the songs are soooo fckn crazy and insane, .... just sayin: DO IT!! ;) \m/
Nice react man, thanks! My thought would be - get the setlist, decide if you'll do any other react vids from it, and then just spend quality time watching the rest of this fabulous show. From the prologue to the bows I've been happily shocked how well Arjen's genius translated to live performance. Truly enjoyable art. So do yourself the favor and enjoy it!
Wow, great reaction to this production. I've seen this video (Ayreon's, not yours 😉) about 20 times now, and it's amazing. I'll be buying this DVD as well, for sure. As far as singers go, you did very good. Missing only one, with such a lineup, kudos. I was afraid you wouldn't mention the background singers, but you shouted them out in the outro which was cool. Mike's clothing was probably this elaborate, because he plays TH1, the AI that destroyed the planet as told in The Day the World Breaks Down. Also a decent try on the LUL pronounciation, but not quite there yet. Maybe us Dutchies can teach you some proper Dutch swearing in discord 😁. I am looking forward to your Toehider reaction (also new to me) and would suggest you react to Phantom Divine by Kamelot from the I am the Empire show, live at the 013.
Ayreon: Universe an OUTSTANDING dvd, kind of a Arjen Lucassen greatest hits. He also recently put out a similar dvd performance of his early album "The Electric Castle" with John de Lancie (Q from STTNG) as the live narrator. Also fabulous, with just as awesome a cast.
Slight correction: The computer overtaking Alpha is called "The Frame". Also it doesn't want to destroy the planet, it just calculated that to save the planet it must eradicate humankind. Kinda like Thanos, only with more consequence. TH-1 is the roboter staying at the side of the Alphans and leaving the planet with them.
Oh man, I'm soooooo glad you're doing Toehider next week! Mike really deserves way more attention, he's a huge talent and Toehider songs are nothing less than amazing! They're also pretty different from each other, make sure to check out more than just one song: you're in for such a treat! Big hugs from Italy, keep rockin'!
That whole album is so good. "Sea of Machines" and "Run! Apocalypse Run!" are such bangers. When you got the inclination, I recommend Æther Realm - Slave to the Riff or The Sun, The Moon, The Star
Any performance with this Universe show is fire, but I have a soft spot for Intergalactic Space Crusaders with the raspy voice of Maggy Luyten. Here is a list of the singers in order of appearance: Arjen Lucassen - The composer. Dutch singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist musician and record producer best known for his long-running progressive metal/rock opera project Ayreon. Mike Mills - Multi-instrumentalist, vocalist and main songwriter for Toehider. Tommy Karevik - Lead singer of Kamelot. Hansi Kürsch - Lead singer of Blind Guardian. Maggy Luyten - One of Belgium's leading female rock singers. Floor Jansen - Lead singer of After Forever, ReVamp & now Nightwish. The backups singer from left to right: Irene Jansen - Younger sister of Floor, usually sings backup vocals for Ayreon shows. Lisette Van den Berg - Dutch vocalist mostly known for her work with Scarlet Stories. Marcella Bovio - Mexican singer, violinist, songwriter, and vocal teacher, who is currently a member of the Dutch symphonic death metal band MaYaN.
Watching or listening to Ayreon can be seriously damaging to the bank account. My youngest son heard one song, and now has itemised lists of vinyl, CD and blu-ray of the entire catalogue, to request for Christmas, from each family member. I'm pretty sure he has some merch on the list too. And I think Nuclear Blast are going to do well out of him as well. I daren't ask what the eldest son has already, or how much he's spent that he can't afford to. I introduced him to Nightwish. I daren't play him any Ayreon, but I suspect I won't be able to stop him once son 3 has his purchases arriving, and I may be too late anyway thanks to Spotify. I guess I did something right. I'm not sure my wife agrees.
Getting PUMPED for Toehider! I don't know how I stumbled across Mike 10 years ago considering we're on opposite sides of the world, but SO MANY Toehider songs are linked to such nostalgia for me.
This was incredible to see live! Fun fact: The moving lights on the sides were/are called Wilma and Betty :') Also, Marko was also present during this show 💜
I'd get married to this dvd if possible, seriously, it's the best! And of course I'd sell my soul for an Ayreon's concert. :( Thanks for this one! Please keep them coming and help us with Chase, he needs this!
Actually you can do every song from this show, since they are all great! It's a best of, remember ;) And Arjen gives a speech during the show, which is on youtube, where he explains some stuff about the screen and the production. Fun info. He did sing some songs during this show, like Amazing flight in space. Next stop: Age of Shadows or Eyes of Ra? So after Nightwish wednesday, now you know it's time to do a Ayreon Friday :P Because after this show, there are more live shows: The Theatre Equation and Into the Electric Castle and other stories.
so this is 2017. Nightwish is on hiatus, having wrapped the "Vehicle of Spirit" tour in 2016, and before the "Decades" tour in 2018. does Floor take some time off to relax? nope. she had a baby, recorded her parts for Ayreon, then performed with them live on stage. think she also recorded and released her solo album as well during this period. 2019, world shattering performance on Beste Zangers, recorded new Nightwish album, and, solo tour throughout Europe until Covid shut down the world. she is living embodiment of "ride it till the wheels fall off." if you're looking for something new to react to, Floor released a video for her song, "While Love Died", from her hard rock album she cowrote with the guitarist from Pagan's Mind, whose name i'm not even going to attempt.
Not to mention they hauled that video wall to the marquee at Graspop in 2018 for a festival gig 😂 but yes, I'd love to see the reaction to Castle Hall or Amazing Flight
Yes...Ayreon again. I have both live concerts on blu-ray and they are epic. Ayreon Universe live The electric castle live and other tales Just choose songs and react to them. Everything you ever want to know about bands, musicians, albums, songs, instruments etc, you can find on Wikipedia. Joost is pronounced correctly. Lul is Dutch slang for dick. Irene Jansen, Floor’s sister is in the background vocals on the left. Arjen has stage fright but comes later in the concert. Lisette van de Berg has her own band Scarlet Stories. I can recommend that band. Marcella Bovio was the singer of Stream of Passion which I also recommend. Joost van den Broek and Irene Jansen performed in an earlier band called Star One, with composer Arjen Anthonie Lucassen. Maybe these songs for future reactions. Cosmic Fusion, or the song Ashes with Simone Simons (Epica) Twisted Coil, or the song The druids turned to stone with Damien Wilson. Merlin’s will with Floor. Etc
Whe i was 14 a friend of mine introduced me to Ayreon. He also was and still is a musician. I love the album "into the electric castle" It's like when i was a kid and i listned to childre stories on cd's, but with an adult theme and great music. "The castle hall" from this album is one of my favorite songs ever
The background singers are Marcela Bovio, Lisette van de Berg and Floor's sister Irene. Arjen appears near the end of the concert for 3 songs and a 12 minute speech which is awesome
There is besides this Ayreon Universe another live show, also recorded on blue -ray/ dvd, it's the live performance of Ayreon's iconic album Into the Electric Castle in 2019. That show is called Into the Electric Castle and other Tales..Again a formidable cast at this show too. Check it out! 🤟
I came back to watch this again. I have never checked out Toehider but finally got around to it and listened to a few of their songs so am throwing out a suggestion for the recent upload of How do Ghosts Work live
Ayreon is one of those super-groups that I wish everyone could experience in person - I was lucky to be able to go to the third show they played in 2017 (the first two shows sold out in minutes, so they added a third one on Sunday that wasn't filmed. It was great when Arjen came out in the end to thank everyone and could be as uncensored as he wanted :P ). Also if you liked the Ayreon Angels, I recommend checking out Marcela Bovio's current project "Dark Horse White Horse" .
Thanks for another great Ayreon reaction! For more epic Michael Mills performances please check out Ayreon - Day sixteen: Loser, live version from the same show
Yay! I love this song and this show is just outstanding! I am very envious of the people who were able to see them live, honestly! And you did a very good job of remembering the guest vocalists, hehehe!
A large part of the song "The Two Gates" from the Ayreon Universe DVD is Irene Jansen (Floors little sister) introducing the Band. Everybody who wants to know how to pronounce the names of the bandmembers should watch the video. The top comment below the video is: "came for 'The Two Gates', stayed for Irene introducing the band". Irene did a great job. (Introduction starts around 3min 45 sec of the video) th-cam.com/video/tHhAIdZ1LVE/w-d-xo.html
I just discovered ayreon to. The dvd off ayreon universe arrived yesterday and i saw both dvd's already!!! The concert off 2,5 hours is just great!!! Also the extra's, especcially the behind the scenes explain a lot. I also will start the journey off ayreon.😁
Holy Sh*t. Tank, I just listened to Epica (ft. Floor Jansen) doing SANCTA TERRA live. O M G. I feel like Kylie Minogue 'cause I can't get it out of my head. This is incredible.
Great Reaction Tank. If I can request a Toehider song, look at the play through version of The Giants who walked with men. And from Ayreon please do Intergalactic Space Crusaders!
I discovered Ayreon in 2004 when Arjen released his album “the Human Equation”, a main character on that album is: “Passion ”sang by Irene Jansen, yes Floor sister. But the number that stayed with me the most on the Human Equation is day sixteen LOSER. On keyboards (Hammond) Ken Hensley (Uriah Heep) and Devin Townsend (pain of Salvation) as the character “Rage”. At Ayreon Universe live that number Loser is awesome performed by Joost van den Broek on keyboards and the amazing Mike Mills as Rage. I am very curious about your comments on this insanely beautiful song, keep up the good work, greetings from the Netherlands 🇳🇱 Ps there were more musicians on stage: Maaike Peterse: cello Ben Mathot: violin Jeroen Goosssens: all wind instruments Rob Snijders: percussion Pieter Vink: bass
Tommy Karevik, singer of Seventh Wonder and Kamelot. In my opinion Seventh Wonder is a better band than Kamelot, check "Mercy Falls" album by them, is a masterpiece.
I don't know if you found this out yourself or if someone previously told you, but fun fact: Joost Van Der Broek and Floor Jansen are actually old bandmates. He played keyboards in her first major band After Forever for the last few years of its existence. Also Mark Jansen from Epica (guitars and harsh vocals) was in After Forever but left a couple years before Joost joined the band.
Hey, Tank, so have you bought the Ayreon Universe DVD? I recently got into Ayreon VERY MUCH, bought this thing, and we watched it with my colleagues. WHAT A SHOW, MAN!!! The amount of talent on that stage!!! And watching the behind the scenes after - they felt like a family?? You could feel it from their performance! It added something more to their effort! And Arjen - not only he is a great musician and composer, but he is such also a nice guy! No wonder everybody wants to work with him! For me, this is a discovery of a decade. Loving this so much!
One of our community members, Jacq, was kind enough to send it to me and I've watched it so many times. Let my dad borrow it so he can see it too, and I don't know if I'll ever get it back. Haha
@@TankTheTech Pity you didn´t record yourself listening - I would love to see you when all the people came up on the stage for the last chorus of the last song. I had goosebumbs even in places I didn´t expect to have. :) I don´t think I have seen a more grandiose ending of a show ever with all those stars singing their hearts out.
Arjen joins the other players and singers in a couple of songs at the end of this concert. He plays a more prominent role as an actual character in their latest DVD "Electric Castle Live and Other Tales" which as the title suggests, they play the entire "Into the Electric Castle" album (which is one of Ayreon's finest) and a couple of songs from other Arjen's projects...If you want to see Arjen live, check out "Garden of Emotions" or "Amazing Flight" from the Electric Castle DVD
You might already know this, but there is a second Live Ayreon Blu-Ray which is Electric Castle Live and Other Tales, it came out a year later and it is a performance of the entire 1998 album of Into the Electric Castle. Arjen appears a lot in that one, since he is one of the major characters in the story. I recommend checking it out.
This was an amazing concert ! Just a small note; there was an earlier concert (The Theater equation) a couple of years earlier which followed the album of Ayreon, named: The human equation. Keep up the cool vids, best reaction video's out there imho.
this is so much...that was why Arjen thought it couldn't be done. If you get the DVD there is great behind the scenes for this concert where they discuss everything about the show and the performers. The screen and robotic lights were additions when they realised the ticket sales were going gangbusters and they could afford a bit more bling! :D Arjen has stagefright but does perform on a couple of songs. He plays a more significant part in the live Electric Castle show where he is able to be the hippy he is!
Check out valley of the queen's from the same show. Two of my all time female vocalists together Floor and Anneke in the same song always blows me away. It's not a metal song but all 3 vocalists sound super tight.
Thanks! More Ayreon please. Ayreon Day twelve Trauma Studioversion. One of the best Ayreon tracks. Important that it's the albumversion since Mikael Åkerfeldt from Opeth wasn't in the liveversion of the song.
Great video. Love Ayreon. Loved your reaction video for Yours is an Empty Hope. Was excited to see your reaction when I saw that's what you were reviewing. For next Nightwish Wednesday, if you want to go back to Tarja era and get a real Marko kick, should react to Planet Hell. Keep up the good work.
It truly is impossible to hate this song, it's amazing. It's one of my all times favorites from Ayreon. I was going to type what almost everyone already wrote xD so I'll comment on something very small: YOU PUT VALHALLA AT THE END!!! I couldn't concentrate xDDD it was either hear you or sing xDDD
Sometimes, working to get everyone together within my own band can be challenging. Can you imagine trying to work with all of those Rockstars' schedules to be able to put on this show? AMAZING!!!
If you revisit Ayreon again: Two Gates (Electric Castle and Other Tales concert) or The Castle Hall (this same show or Electric Castle and Other Tales concert) are amazing!!!! In the Castle Hall version of this show you can see Arjen playing
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Eye of Ra will blow your mind. Floor singing more with her sister and then a huge ensemble at the end. Just do it already.😁
Yes, please, I agree. It's an orgasmic experience to see that many great singers without the egotism of most modern day singers
Absolute Magic in that performance! :-)
I just love it when they sing together. Irene has such a powerful voice, it's really a pitty there isn't much activity from her as a vocalist.
@@olgahein4384 I adore Irene :D
And Arjen does his cameo!
Everone's talking about Floor and of course I love my daily floorgasm, but I think another great female voice, who has done a whole album with Arjen and is on every show must be mentioned and this is Anneke van Giersbergen. When you see how much fun she has on stage and the voice of an angel. I would propose "Strange machines" live Pinkpop festival, or any other song of The Gathering or I-AH with Devin Townsend.
I don't think I've even heard Anneke sing yet!
TankTheTech I second Strange Machines!
Anneke has been an idol for young Floor by the way.
Oh yes and for sure "Valley of the queens" or "Comatose" in duet with Jorn Lande.
Garden of Emotions
And don't forget that the backing vocalists are all lead singers also.
In this song were (I think):
Lead singers:
Michael Mills (Toehieder)
Tommy Karrevik (Kamelot)
Hansi Kursch (Blind Gaurdian)
Maggy Luyten (Nightmare)
Floor Jansen (Nightwish, Revamp, After Forever)
Backing vocals:
Irene Jansen (Floor's sister)
Lisette van den Berg (Scarlet Stories)
Marcela Bovio (MaYaN, Stream of Passion)
Instrumentalists:
Ed Warby, drums
Johan van Stratum (Stream of Passion), bass
Joost van den Broek (After Forever (Floor's first band)), keys
Marcel Coenen, lead guitar
Ferry Duissens, guitar
Marcel Coenen is a beast of a guitarist. I have his albums with Lemur Voice, and Sun Caged.
Great. Thank You so much Pascal
@@sopwithsnoopy8779 Also his guitar solo in the Ayreon album The Source is probably one of my favourite solos ever
@@franciscoborjaescobarsuare5802 Yes! I love that one too. For everyone else it's in "The Dream Dissolves".
Lisette shines so much in this song, she and Hansi kills...
Ayreon Age of Shadows - live and wild. 🤘🏻🤪
The little duet between Hansi and Floor is to die for.
He has to do it! No way around it! Not with those singers
@@ayrie09 It is a heavily truncated version of the song, but it's still great.
Marko Hietala in a kilt, nudge nudge, wink wink, say no more say no more!
Stop spoiling everything ^^
It's like Tank was invited to a party... and he doesnt know much people... maybe a couple by name... and then, he finds a friend and light up... is that Hansi ?
ahaaha... we all feel the same about Ayreon... gotta have internet to google every single singer and discover new worlds
One of the best comments about Hansi 🤣🤩
Arjen played on Castle Hall, Amazing Flight, and The Eye of Ra from this show.
Damian Wilson did an amazing job on And The Druids Turn To Stone...
Tommy Karevik was outstanding on Into The Black Hole...
Intergalactic Space Crusaders is a great rocking number too.
It was a truly amazing show.
You won't regret that purchase. :-)
Ayreon Universe is indeed an amazing concert. Of all your suggestions, which I agree with totally by the way, I think Intergalactic Space Crusaders is the most up Tank's alley.
Yeah. Druids Turn to Stone is a simple song, but Damien crushed it!
Wow
Valhalla - Deliverance
Why've you ever forgotten me!!!! *sing*
The new Ayeron song "Daniels decent into transitus"..... Tommy Karevik and Simone Simons...,. magic...
And I´ll keep nagging: Avatar :)
Avatar! Yes!
HEY TANK, THAT'S FLOOR AND ARJEN HAS STAGEFRIGHT AND IRENE IS FLOOR'S SISTER AND ASKNDJFSFSKFN *spamspamspamspam*
In seriousness, great reaction, as always.
😂😂😂
And it's pronounced Eerayneh 😂
Yup that pretty much sums up all the reactions you'll find under these Ayreon reaction videos ;-)
And occasionally you get Arjen himself replying to your videos. How much time does this man have in his day?? 😆
Yeah, right. Go ahead, make fun of people who try their best to provide some background information to the reactor. Most people only know how to complain when a reactor watches the wrong video...
"Floor came out of f'n nowhere" Yep, that was my reaction the first time I watched that video!
No worries about not knowing all the players and singers but that's how I started too, Ayreon is one giant hub of artists to discover, that's how I found out about Floor, Irene, and Magali Luyten (Raspy singer) back in 2004-2007
I've discovered Oceans of Slumber because of Arjen so... thank you as always
I found out about Ayreon because of Floor. lol. Ayreon is so out of this world. Wow.
This song has one of my favorite things in it, the call and answer between Tommy and Hansi. I'd love to see more of that in any song.
This song is on the same album as The Day That the World Breaks Down. It's a great album
yes, "the source" is the best ayreon album i would say, i love the sound and lyrics of it. tayscott has a full lyric video on the album which makes it very easy to follow the story of the album and also know who sings what
@@Deilwynna i think its one of the best. nr1 for me is the human Equation.
@@MajorTom696 Top 3 for me with The Human Equation and 01011001
(I had to google that)
@@MajorTom696 The Human Equation for me too. The Theory Of Everything is underrated
Awesome reaction Tank. I did the same thing and immediately bought the Blu-ray after seeing this song myself. Age of Shadows is a must reaction, it has a very fun cast of singers and is of course a great song as well.
Still the best live concert I've been too, so glad my friends dragged me along for this. And the crowd was just soooo into it, there were people flying in from all across the world to be there!
I agree, this performance was amazing, maybe even better than the studio versions. So much energy from all the performers. I think it was even better than ITEC Live, mostly because I did not really like Marcel Singor's improvisations.
Man, I would have killed to have been there knowing what I know now.
@@TankTheTech If you are going to buy it, you should consider the bluray (too). Arjen went great lengths to make sure to get the best quality.
Before I forget, the 3 angels are very accomplished singers. All of them are worth investing time into listening to on their own. They might not take the front in this collaboration but that is more of an attribute to their professionalism and devotion to the art.
If you want to see Arjen himself on stage, check out "Ayreon - Amazing Flight (Electric Castle Live And Other Tales)" from the most recent live show. He performs his role of Hippie from the Electric Castle album in its entirety.
Star One live DVD he's on stage during the entire show
Second that. Another great one featuring the master himself is ‘Castle Hall’ from the same concert. And to answer the question: Arjen likes to create the music, but he does not want to to perform on stage. Although he seems to enjoy it, he has great fear before going on stage. Unfortunately on the album Into the Electric Castle he plays the role of the hippie, so in the other concert (Electric Castle Live And Other Tales) he has to do a few songs!
Or anything by Bodine or Vengeance (but prepare for grainy stuff from the 80s :D)
Random viewer: Tank did you know.......
Tank: Watch the damn video!!
I envy everybody who was at this show. It must have been an amazing experience.
There are so many great songs on the Ayreon Universe DVD. One of my favourites is "Magnetism" with Tommy, Anneke and also Marco from Nightwish.
The shows are so rare that they sell out in minutes and people from all over the world will travel to see it.
Sorry, can't resist. Yes the shows where amazing both this one and Electric castle. Though to me the absolute coolest thing is how all the artist are just having a lot of fun on stage with eachother. It's so cool to watch and be a tiny part of while there.
Apart from the concerts at 013 I know that at least 1 time they also performed at Graspop Metal Meeting in Belgium. Half a year after the Universe concerts. And while fact-checking myself I just found out that they will be again at GMM next year (If we can have festivals again by then)
"Im gonna order this... right now"
ME TOO!
Same.
It was a true privilege to see that concert live! Luckily Arjen is a Dutch citizen and so am I, so I was very fortunate to buy tickets real quick. You won’t regret to buy this DVD at all, enjoy the world of Ayreon Universe live‼️
More fun facts:
- Joost and Marcel Coenen were both in prog metal band Sun Caged before Joost joined After Forever.
- Johan van Stratum and Marcela Bovio were both in Stream Of Passion, a symphonic metal band originally formed around Marcela and Arjen to continue their successful collaboration after Ayreon’s The Human Equation.
- Marcel, Joost, Ed, Floor & Irene were also part of the Star One - Live On Earth tour in 2002. Arjen performed the entire show. Star One is a sci-fi themed project of Arjen, with songs based on films like Star Gate, Star Wars, Dune etc. This show was also recorded and released. It also was my first taste of Arjen’s music, though I unfortunately didn’t get to see them live back then. I still listen to these recordings regularly (and I prefer the live versions).
Thank you for more Ayreon! I've been listening to his music for years and the guests have been a gateway to other bands. This entire live show is amazing, some personal favorites are Dawn of a Million Souls, Age of Shadows, Eye of Ra (Star One), Looser, and Computer Eyes. (Personally I like the album version of Looser better, and Computer eyes is longer on the album.) Looser would be a good live/album comparison song, BIG difference in the ending singing style.
If you want to see a BIG video wall check out Within Temptation Live Black Symphony, look for the 1080p version. Recommendations: The Howling, or Stand My Ground. Personally I like their older albums Enter and Mother Earth better than the new stuff. (Arjen did a solo on the Mother Earth album).
And to add my other recommendation, Riverside - Wasteland Live. Great progressive metal with lots of gear shots.
Definitely a great recommendation since they were backed by a full symphonic orchestra and choir. I myself would recommend "The promise" that makes full use of the orchestra and lets not forget the angelic voice of Sharon den Adel. One of the members of the holy trinity of Dutch metal goddesses. th-cam.com/video/39k1IQoeLAU/w-d-xo.html
I agree with Within Temptation's first few being their best. I never knew of the Arjen solo!
I love this video so much, I'm glad Tank's done it. Arjen's work, and that of his collaborators, is unreal.
Ohhhhh tank, you may not even realize how you react whenever you see the valkyrie goddess floor jansen. You gush like the rest of us. Love it....addicted to floorgasms.
More Fun Facts just to show how connected this segment of the European metal scene is:
1) Floor Jansen and Joost van den Broek were together in After Forever (Floor's first band); Joost contributed to Floor's second band ReVamp; AND is currently working with her on SUPER-SECRET solo material for Floor :D th-cam.com/video/T68mp-Fn9Rk/w-d-xo.html
2) Tommy Karevik was just getting settled in with Kamelot as they were supporting Nightwish on the North American leg of the Imaginarium Tour when the Denver Debacle happened: www.blabbermouth.net/news/nightwish-in-denver-a-night-without-anette-olzon/
One week later Floor was brought in to finish the rest of the Imaginarium Tour with Nightwish.
3) Marcela Bovio (Stream of Passion, MaYaN) is singing "backup" with Floor's sister Irene and has worked with Kamelot and Floor has sung in concert with MaYan.
4) Floor is tall (6'0" or 6'1" depending on who you read) but Arjen is taller (6'8"); he has been bringing Floor into Ayreon/Star One projects since 2000.
5) Non-Ayreon connected factoid: After Forever toured (as support) with Nightwish back in 2002; Tuomas and Marko hint at that when in interviews they note that after Tarja's dismissal they had toyed with bringing Floor on then, but didn't want to break up After Forever to do it.
Tommy is also in a band called Seventh Wonder. If you want a long song: (30mins) The Great Escape. And for a tear jerking album: Mercy Falls (concept album).
Dude, yes. Mercy Falls is amazing. "One Last Goodbye" always gets me...
@@BryonAutry Me too. Do you think @Tankthetech would do the full album? Because once you start the intro you can't stop. At least that's how I look at it.
@@senditkevin I mean, obviously no one should put words in his mouth, but so far full album reactions haven't been a thing on his channel so I am not assuming that is something he may do, but I could be wrong.
Of course since the album tells a continuous story it would be the ideal listening method, but "The Source" does the same thing and he has heard 2 songs separate from the album so far, and the songs can definitely stand on their own as well.
I think the most likely scenario is maybe listening to a few of the most popular songs sometime in the future (maybe) and then eventually (maybe) listening to the full album on his own if he likes the songs enough.
It seems rough, being a reactor and having to hold yourself back from listening to things so that you can hold them for future videos, I certainly don't have the strength to do that, myself.
@@BryonAutry Yeah I agree. And maybe after listening to the whole album give a review on it.
@@senditkevin Well, another reason it's not likely he may do it is gear is his thing, so he'd most likely prefer to watch official live videos. Thankfully Seventh Wonder have a live DVD "Welcome To Atlanta (Live 2014)" where they play Mercy Falls in it's entirety. Idk, I would certainly suggest asking him in the suggestion section on Discord, and see what he thinks.
I love Ayreon live! Age of shadows is another great song! Or Valley of the queens. But they are all great, so just watch the whole thing 😁
So I will say. This was an amazing reaction video. But I'll be back with a more detailed comment when my jaw gets picked up off the Floor. Because holy hell, Ayreon is amazing.
Dude, it is soooooo good. Haha
Hahaha, you can't even write floor without capitalizing the F any more S1lient. I see a slight (but understandable) fixation forming 😂
@@Boerke oh that was 100% intentional. The joke was there haha
The Eye of Ra is pretty fun to watch, as the last song of the show, everyone comes to the stage, and the scale of the project becomes really obvious.
And I'm completely offended that you didn't identify each of the keyboards!
Great closing song. Damn, all the harmonies at the end.
Hey Tank, big thanks from the Netherlands for highlighting Ayreon here. My suggestion for your next Ayreon reaction would be the song The Eye of Ra which is also featured on the Universe DVD. You'll get to see each and every musician who appeared during that performance.
Just want to mention: I just love how you have Valhalla running as background music. And also, Hansi should be easily recognizable from afar. He has this very specific body posture that makes me wonder if he never has neck pains.
Thank you for this reaction too, Arjen is so extremely shy, when he held a speach at this show, you could literally see him sweat buckets. Didn't stop him from even singing live there. My personal request for another song of Ayreon would be: "The Eye Of Ra" from this same show. It's epic in a special way. It's really such a pitty that Simone (from Epica) couldn't make it, that would have really made it like a family gathering backstage. She too, has been with Ayreon for a long time, including the freshly released new Ayreon album, as the Angel of Death.
The lead guitarist (long hair) Marcel Coenen plays in metal band Godscum, the other guitarist Ferry Duijssens plays in symphonic band VuuR (with Anneke van Giersbergen) , back vocalist and sister of Floor Jansen, Irene Jansen plays in Star One (another band/project of Lucassen).
That was a fun Song and really interesting stage show. I really enjoyed your facts and breakdowns of what was going on with the stage show because it just made it more interesting. Great reaction, have a good one Tank!
The amount of chills and goosebumps i have and still have listening to this band and their performers
Merlin's Will ... won't regret it.
Live performance from the same Ayreon Universe show ;)
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The entire Final Experiment album!
From this concert, songs that are often reacted to are (spoilers ahead)
Merlin's Will, Valley of the Queens, Star of Sirrah, Eye of Ra (Floor factor)
Intergalactic Space Crusaders (fun factor)
One song I like that is rarely reacted to is Loser (Michael Mills and background choir factor!)
Irene and Floor look so freaking similar...I actually thought it was Floor at first and wondered why she'd be singing backup. Apparently, she has some pipes, too. Runs in the family (as does the height)!
This is the melt pot of almost every of my favorite singers of the last Ayreon video. Just everyone in those projects has so much skill and.. Yeah no words to describe them.
You need to check out Avatar, they are a very original band with every single song of them sounding completely different. Also their live shows are among the best ever, it's a very captivating band. A good song to start with would be "Bloody Angel, live at Polandrock 2019"
I second this! Love, love, love Avatar.
If there´s a possibility of a non live video, I love the video for the eagle has landed, and of course the video for bloody angel too :D
yeah man, dooo it!!!! Avatar - The eagle has landed, In Napalm, Tower (!!)
.... all the songs are soooo fckn crazy and insane, .... just sayin: DO IT!! ;) \m/
Nice react man, thanks! My thought would be - get the setlist, decide if you'll do any other react vids from it, and then just spend quality time watching the rest of this fabulous show. From the prologue to the bows I've been happily shocked how well Arjen's genius translated to live performance. Truly enjoyable art. So do yourself the favor and enjoy it!
I must have watched the blu ray of this 10x in a row after first putting it in and a zillion since, amazing start to finish.
Wow, great reaction to this production. I've seen this video (Ayreon's, not yours 😉) about 20 times now, and it's amazing. I'll be buying this DVD as well, for sure.
As far as singers go, you did very good. Missing only one, with such a lineup, kudos. I was afraid you wouldn't mention the background singers, but you shouted them out in the outro which was cool. Mike's clothing was probably this elaborate, because he plays TH1, the AI that destroyed the planet as told in The Day the World Breaks Down.
Also a decent try on the LUL pronounciation, but not quite there yet. Maybe us Dutchies can teach you some proper Dutch swearing in discord 😁.
I am looking forward to your Toehider reaction (also new to me) and would suggest you react to Phantom Divine by Kamelot from the I am the Empire show, live at the 013.
Thanks buddy. I looked up how to properly say “lul” afterwards to we can practice on Discord. Hahaha
Ayreon: Universe an OUTSTANDING dvd, kind of a Arjen Lucassen greatest hits. He also recently put out a similar dvd performance of his early album "The Electric Castle" with John de Lancie (Q from STTNG) as the live narrator. Also fabulous, with just as awesome a cast.
@@TankTheTech Lisette, Tommy, Mike, Marcela and Joost appear on TRANSITUS.
Slight correction: The computer overtaking Alpha is called "The Frame". Also it doesn't want to destroy the planet, it just calculated that to save the planet it must eradicate humankind. Kinda like Thanos, only with more consequence. TH-1 is the roboter staying at the side of the Alphans and leaving the planet with them.
@@Eluarelon Oh, okay. Didn't know that yet... thanks for that bit (😉) of info.
Evil back groud vocals too. This is a musical prog, metal and funny performance. even the subject is dark. Great show.
Oh man, I'm soooooo glad you're doing Toehider next week! Mike really deserves way more attention, he's a huge talent and Toehider songs are nothing less than amazing! They're also pretty different from each other, make sure to check out more than just one song: you're in for such a treat! Big hugs from Italy, keep rockin'!
That whole album is so good. "Sea of Machines" and "Run! Apocalypse Run!" are such bangers.
When you got the inclination, I recommend Æther Realm - Slave to the Riff or The Sun, The Moon, The Star
Any performance with this Universe show is fire, but I have a soft spot for Intergalactic Space Crusaders with the raspy voice of Maggy Luyten.
Here is a list of the singers in order of appearance:
Arjen Lucassen - The composer. Dutch singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist musician and record producer best known for his long-running progressive metal/rock opera project Ayreon.
Mike Mills - Multi-instrumentalist, vocalist and main songwriter for Toehider.
Tommy Karevik - Lead singer of Kamelot.
Hansi Kürsch - Lead singer of Blind Guardian.
Maggy Luyten - One of Belgium's leading female rock singers.
Floor Jansen - Lead singer of After Forever, ReVamp & now Nightwish.
The backups singer from left to right:
Irene Jansen - Younger sister of Floor, usually sings backup vocals for Ayreon shows.
Lisette Van den Berg - Dutch vocalist mostly known for her work with Scarlet Stories.
Marcella Bovio - Mexican singer, violinist, songwriter, and vocal teacher, who is currently a member of the Dutch symphonic death metal band MaYaN.
Watching or listening to Ayreon can be seriously damaging to the bank account.
My youngest son heard one song, and now has itemised lists of vinyl, CD and blu-ray of the entire catalogue, to request for Christmas, from each family member. I'm pretty sure he has some merch on the list too.
And I think Nuclear Blast are going to do well out of him as well.
I daren't ask what the eldest son has already, or how much he's spent that he can't afford to.
I introduced him to Nightwish. I daren't play him any Ayreon, but I suspect I won't be able to stop him once son 3 has his purchases arriving, and I may be too late anyway thanks to Spotify.
I guess I did something right. I'm not sure my wife agrees.
Getting PUMPED for Toehider! I don't know how I stumbled across Mike 10 years ago considering we're on opposite sides of the world, but SO MANY Toehider songs are linked to such nostalgia for me.
The Ayreon concert blurays of the past few years are phenomenal. So much great stuff to mine there.
Have been there live at the first evening, in the 4th or 5th row. It was mindblowing and mesmerizing. Thank you for this great reaction!
Everybody dies... but at least we'll go with a smile after this performance.
This was incredible to see live! Fun fact: The moving lights on the sides were/are called Wilma and Betty :')
Also, Marko was also present during this show 💜
I'd get married to this dvd if possible, seriously, it's the best! And of course I'd sell my soul for an Ayreon's concert. :(
Thanks for this one! Please keep them coming and help us with Chase, he needs this!
Actually you can do every song from this show, since they are all great! It's a best of, remember ;) And Arjen gives a speech during the show, which is on youtube, where he explains some stuff about the screen and the production. Fun info. He did sing some songs during this show, like Amazing flight in space. Next stop: Age of Shadows or Eyes of Ra? So after Nightwish wednesday, now you know it's time to do a Ayreon Friday :P Because after this show, there are more live shows: The Theatre Equation and Into the Electric Castle and other stories.
so this is 2017. Nightwish is on hiatus, having wrapped the "Vehicle of Spirit" tour in 2016, and before the "Decades" tour in 2018. does Floor take some time off to relax? nope. she had a baby, recorded her parts for Ayreon, then performed with them live on stage. think she also recorded and released her solo album as well during this period. 2019, world shattering performance on Beste Zangers, recorded new Nightwish album, and, solo tour throughout Europe until Covid shut down the world. she is living embodiment of "ride it till the wheels fall off." if you're looking for something new to react to, Floor released a video for her song, "While Love Died", from her hard rock album she cowrote with the guitarist from Pagan's Mind, whose name i'm not even going to attempt.
"This is a ridiculous production 😲"
hum hum... *cue Into The Electric Castle* 😁
Not to mention they hauled that video wall to the marquee at Graspop in 2018 for a festival gig 😂 but yes, I'd love to see the reaction to Castle Hall or Amazing Flight
Check out Age Of Shadows (featuring, well I don't wanna spoil it) from the same concert.
Yes...Ayreon again.
I have both live concerts on blu-ray and they are epic.
Ayreon Universe live
The electric castle live and other tales
Just choose songs and react to them.
Everything you ever want to know about bands, musicians, albums, songs, instruments etc, you can find on Wikipedia.
Joost is pronounced correctly. Lul is Dutch slang for dick.
Irene Jansen, Floor’s sister is in the background vocals on the left.
Arjen has stage fright but comes later in the concert.
Lisette van de Berg has her own band Scarlet Stories. I can recommend that band.
Marcella Bovio was the singer of Stream of Passion which I also recommend.
Joost van den Broek and Irene Jansen performed in an earlier band called Star One, with composer Arjen Anthonie Lucassen.
Maybe these songs for future reactions.
Cosmic Fusion, or the song Ashes with Simone Simons (Epica)
Twisted Coil, or the song The druids turned to stone with Damien Wilson.
Merlin’s will with Floor.
Etc
Whe i was 14 a friend of mine introduced me to Ayreon. He also was and still is a musician. I love the album "into the electric castle"
It's like when i was a kid and i listned to childre stories on cd's, but with an adult theme and great music.
"The castle hall" from this album is one of my favorite songs ever
I like seeing reactions to bands I love but reactions to a new band and falling in love with them is even better
Age of Shadows - from the same show. I think you will really like it! Or...River of Time.
The background singers are Marcela Bovio, Lisette van de Berg and Floor's sister Irene. Arjen appears near the end of the concert for 3 songs and a 12 minute speech which is awesome
There is besides this Ayreon Universe another live show, also recorded on blue -ray/ dvd, it's the live performance of Ayreon's iconic album Into the Electric Castle in 2019. That show is called Into the Electric Castle and other Tales..Again a formidable cast at this show too. Check it out! 🤟
My first reaction was “yes, buying this stuff”. Uplifting, amazing.
I first started listening to Ayreon in the late 1990's. Love watching people watching Ayreon getting into Ayreon now.
Such a wild song with so much talent in it. The highlight for me was ❤️ Floor ❤️ right at the end. I literally jumped up out of my chair :D
I came back to watch this again. I have never checked out Toehider but finally got around to it and listened to a few of their songs so am throwing out a suggestion for the recent upload of How do Ghosts Work live
Ayreon is one of those super-groups that I wish everyone could experience in person - I was lucky to be able to go to the third show they played in 2017 (the first two shows sold out in minutes, so they added a third one on Sunday that wasn't filmed. It was great when Arjen came out in the end to thank everyone and could be as uncensored as he wanted :P ).
Also if you liked the Ayreon Angels, I recommend checking out Marcela Bovio's current project "Dark Horse White Horse" .
You should check out Tommy Karevik's original band, Seventh Wonder (He's actually still with them). That band is amazing!
Thanks for another great Ayreon reaction! For more epic Michael Mills performances please check out Ayreon - Day sixteen: Loser, live version from the same show
Ayreon-Magnetism, with Marco!
Thanks for your reaction! (and your Tank's tips, of course)
Maybe you could create Ayreon's Thursdays 👀
Yay! I love this song and this show is just outstanding! I am very envious of the people who were able to see them live, honestly!
And you did a very good job of remembering the guest vocalists, hehehe!
A large part of the song "The Two Gates" from the Ayreon Universe DVD is Irene Jansen (Floors little sister) introducing the Band. Everybody who wants to know how to pronounce the names of the bandmembers should watch the video. The top comment below the video is: "came for 'The Two Gates', stayed for Irene introducing the band".
Irene did a great job. (Introduction starts around 3min 45 sec of the video)
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I just discovered ayreon to. The dvd off ayreon universe arrived yesterday and i saw both dvd's already!!! The concert off 2,5 hours is just great!!! Also the extra's, especcially the behind the scenes explain a lot. I also will start the journey off ayreon.😁
Mike Mills high note at the start destroys me every goddamn time...just...such a high mixed belt, i CAN'T
Holy Sh*t. Tank, I just listened to Epica (ft. Floor Jansen) doing SANCTA TERRA live. O M G. I feel like Kylie Minogue 'cause I can't get it out of my head. This is incredible.
Great Reaction Tank. If I can request a Toehider song, look at the play through version of The Giants who walked with men. And from Ayreon please do Intergalactic Space Crusaders!
I discovered Ayreon in 2004 when Arjen released his album “the Human Equation”, a main character on that album is: “Passion ”sang by Irene Jansen, yes Floor sister. But the number that stayed with me the most on the Human Equation is day sixteen LOSER. On keyboards (Hammond) Ken Hensley (Uriah Heep) and Devin Townsend (pain of Salvation) as the character “Rage”. At Ayreon Universe live that number Loser is awesome performed by Joost van den Broek on keyboards and the amazing Mike Mills as Rage. I am very curious about your comments on this insanely beautiful song, keep up the good work, greetings from the Netherlands 🇳🇱
Ps there were more musicians on stage:
Maaike Peterse: cello
Ben Mathot: violin
Jeroen Goosssens: all wind instruments
Rob Snijders: percussion
Pieter Vink: bass
Tommy Karevik, singer of Seventh Wonder and Kamelot.
In my opinion Seventh Wonder is a better band than Kamelot, check "Mercy Falls" album by them, is a masterpiece.
I will second this
It’s a concept album and you will not believe the ending.
I'm also curious about Toehider, because Mike's voice is phenomenal. I'll be watching that video of yours.
Thanks for the all the Tank Facts 😁
I don't know if you found this out yourself or if someone previously told you, but fun fact: Joost Van Der Broek and Floor Jansen are actually old bandmates. He played keyboards in her first major band After Forever for the last few years of its existence. Also Mark Jansen from Epica (guitars and harsh vocals) was in After Forever but left a couple years before Joost joined the band.
Hey, Tank, so have you bought the Ayreon Universe DVD? I recently got into Ayreon VERY MUCH, bought this thing, and we watched it with my colleagues. WHAT A SHOW, MAN!!! The amount of talent on that stage!!! And watching the behind the scenes after - they felt like a family?? You could feel it from their performance! It added something more to their effort! And Arjen - not only he is a great musician and composer, but he is such also a nice guy! No wonder everybody wants to work with him! For me, this is a discovery of a decade. Loving this so much!
One of our community members, Jacq, was kind enough to send it to me and I've watched it so many times. Let my dad borrow it so he can see it too, and I don't know if I'll ever get it back. Haha
@@TankTheTech Pity you didn´t record yourself listening - I would love to see you when all the people came up on the stage for the last chorus of the last song. I had goosebumbs even in places I didn´t expect to have. :) I don´t think I have seen a more grandiose ending of a show ever with all those stars singing their hearts out.
Arjen joins the other players and singers in a couple of songs at the end of this concert. He plays a more prominent role as an actual character in their latest DVD "Electric Castle Live and Other Tales" which as the title suggests, they play the entire "Into the Electric Castle" album (which is one of Ayreon's finest) and a couple of songs from other Arjen's projects...If you want to see Arjen live, check out "Garden of Emotions" or "Amazing Flight" from the Electric Castle DVD
You might already know this, but there is a second Live Ayreon Blu-Ray which is Electric Castle Live and Other Tales, it came out a year later and it is a performance of the entire 1998 album of Into the Electric Castle. Arjen appears a lot in that one, since he is one of the major characters in the story. I recommend checking it out.
Awesome video! Totally dug on it. :)
This was an amazing concert ! Just a small note; there was an earlier concert (The Theater equation) a couple of years earlier which followed the album of Ayreon, named: The human equation. Keep up the cool vids, best reaction video's out there imho.
this is so much...that was why Arjen thought it couldn't be done. If you get the DVD there is great behind the scenes for this concert where they discuss everything about the show and the performers. The screen and robotic lights were additions when they realised the ticket sales were going gangbusters and they could afford a bit more bling! :D Arjen has stagefright but does perform on a couple of songs. He plays a more significant part in the live Electric Castle show where he is able to be the hippy he is!
Check out valley of the queen's from the same show. Two of my all time female vocalists together Floor and Anneke in the same song always blows me away. It's not a metal song but all 3 vocalists sound super tight.
I was waiting for the Floor reveal. You did not disappoint, sir
Definitely looking forward to your Toehider reaction. I recommend the song "Concerning Lix & Fairs" or "Whatever Makes You Feel Superior"
Ayreon - Only band where everyone is a superstar!
This was the second live performance :)
The first one was The Theater Equation, of the album The Human Equation. performed in 2015.
Thanks! More Ayreon please. Ayreon Day twelve Trauma Studioversion. One of the best Ayreon tracks. Important that it's the albumversion since Mikael Åkerfeldt from Opeth wasn't in the liveversion of the song.
Great video. Love Ayreon. Loved your reaction video for Yours is an Empty Hope. Was excited to see your reaction when I saw that's what you were reviewing. For next Nightwish Wednesday, if you want to go back to Tarja era and get a real Marko kick, should react to Planet Hell. Keep up the good work.
It truly is impossible to hate this song, it's amazing. It's one of my all times favorites from Ayreon.
I was going to type what almost everyone already wrote xD so I'll comment on something very small: YOU PUT VALHALLA AT THE END!!!
I couldn't concentrate xDDD it was either hear you or sing xDDD
Sometimes, working to get everyone together within my own band can be challenging. Can you imagine trying to work with all of those Rockstars' schedules to be able to put on this show? AMAZING!!!
Seriously man, it’s insane. Haha
If you revisit Ayreon again: Two Gates (Electric Castle and Other Tales concert) or The Castle Hall (this same show or Electric Castle and Other Tales concert) are amazing!!!!
In the Castle Hall version of this show you can see Arjen playing