Another old video of mine 😂 and probably the last! Next week half of my midterms will be done so I'll have some free time to film new reactions. Enjoy!❤️
Ayreon is a project created by a Dutchman named Arjen. He will hire different musical guests for songs and albums. Most members full time job are in other bands. For example James Labrie from Dream Theater does vocals on certain songs from a couple of albums. Think of Aryeons music more like a play than an actual band. Each album could have as many as 10 guests. Even Bruce from Iron Maiden sang on one album.
Never heard of Aryeon before but I'm glad I know them now. I absolutely loved this. My only critique is that I wanted each solo to be longer. I loved all the different types of solos but felt like I was only getting a sample taste of each one and what I really wanted was the full meal. Tgats how much I liked them. I wanted them to go on longer. Thanks Rana for introducing me to this.
Welcome to the Ayreon universe. Ayreon is just one man and manny manny friends performing his music. Over time hundreds of musicians joined the project. Even Floor Jansen and her sister performed live in a side project called star one as backup singers. (this concert is also on youtube) when 19 and early 20s . The live concerts are a rare and almost mythical event , and sold out with out promotion . I might want to sugest the eye of ra of the ayreon universe concert to get an idea of how and what ayreon is.
Ayreon is not really a band as such but a name for Arjan Lucassen musical projects. When he is finished composing the music and writing his lyrics he gets all these amazing vocalist and musicians to create a one of a kind album. All of his albums tell a central story line and some of the albums are also connected. (It sounds a bit like Jeff Wayne's War of the worlds album. If you never heard that take a look at that to). His live performances are really rare and sold out in minutes. You can imagine how difficult it is getting all these successful artists on a stage at the same time. Dedicated fans of him will travel world to see it. Funny thing is that even though he loves creating these albums he has a very serious case of stage fright and is also very shy. FYI One of the planed Mars rovers is going to transmit a radio program from the planet. They also decided to include a song in the program and it was up to the public to decide which song would be included. They chose the song "My house on Mars". That is a Ayreon song and who is one of the vocalist on this song? Our beloved Floor Jansen. As far as i am concerned they could not have picked a better and more deserving vocalist to announce our presence to the universe could they? Here are 2 links to get a taste of what the live performances look like. "Everybody dies" th-cam.com/video/9AAXtUdM7xE/w-d-xo.html (the woman on the left side of the back-ground singers is Irene Jansen, Yes that is Floor's sister who is pretty awesome herself) "The valley of the queens" th-cam.com/video/TbebO5BZi-I/w-d-xo.html The blond in the middle called Anneke van Giersbergen who was the lead vocalist of the band "The Gathering" and was the inspiration for Floor to get in to metal and become a professional singer . According to Tuomas she was also an inspiration for him. So she has quiet a lot answer for 😁
I would love to hear a collab between NW and Anneke. That would be awesome. Maybe Anneke on Tuomas's next side projects, something like 'The Life and Times of...'.
Mmm.. "My house on Mars" was sung on the album "The Universal Migrator 1&2" by Johan Edlund, Floor did the countervoice, as she did on many more albums. Check out "Condemned to live" and "Between the waves." Also, in the shows, Floor often comes in at the end of a song as a climax. Hear and see "Everybody dies"and "Star of Sirrah".
If you want to have a possible short circuit in your brain: Arjen - the man on bass, guitars and keyboards - wrote all the music, the lyrics and the concept story for the double album this song is the opening song for. And planned (and probably adjusted here and there along the way) for all the roles to be covered by all the different singers. There are 17 songs on the album where this song is the opening track, with an 88 minute play time. And the story and concept on the album ties in with stories he has explored on several of his previous albums.
@@marcusfranconium3392 Not ALL but almost The human equation has no ties to this storyline and Transitus only has some references Edit : Not the Human equation but The theory of everything
And he Is so humble, I had the honor of chating through Facebook with him some years ago, when he launch the 010010100 (may be wrong the code, but you get the idea Haha) album, he is my heroe, Iliterally had spoke about him in conferences, I love all his music and the magic he brings to the existence
@@ya723 So true, he even spends hrs a week just to reply to mesages. Who els can sell out albums before they are released , and put the albums online for every one to hear for free. And even visits reaction channels reading the comments and placing messages. A verrry verry cool space hippie.
@@marcusfranconium3392 the best one, and is impressive the magic he puts in all his proyects, I like how people like Giddy get so impressed when they see the amount of musicians in his proyects, once I told to afriend "hey listen to this project it has Labrie, Mikael Akerfekdt, Devin Twonsend, Anneke, Jensen and even to Marcela Bovio(she is from mi country Mexico) in one single album", and he set angry "Don't lie to me, that can be possible", and I was like "It's my frien it is",for me no doubt he is one of the best musicians in the earth history , and in deed the only space hippie
WORD! NEW converted fan here a week ago, his music AND fans are amazing! Sadly I am going slowly into this hole compared to what I want BUT well WORTH IT!
Request to feed more of your Ayreon hunger: "Everybody Dies" live at Ayreon Universe. You'll see and hear many of those from this track, plus a few new ones.
The binary code spells out "Trust th1" That's the role mike mills sings on the album. And if you read the text in the opening you'd know that there's 11 main singers on the album. 😉
Ayreon uses many different vocalists. They usually play roles in the stories. All 11 of the singers are on this song. They all play roles on the whole record. You will notice that each vocalist has a role listed. It is kind of a rock opera. That guitarist is Arjen Anthony Lucassen the genius who writes all of Ayreon's music. Surprise! 😊😊😊🎶🎶🎶👍
@10:05 Me almost shouting at the screen: How can you not know how many people to expect?! It's mentioned by Arjen @1:27 that all 11 main singers are featured... So at least 11 and some for instrument parts...
In response to your "how is it profitable for you guys" question. As a fan of this group, we're kind of obsessed. Just to put it into perspective, this band is kind of niche even in its genre. Even so, a few years ago they did a live concert with as many of the guest musicians as they could. The show sold out in an hour, and demand was so high they had to book a second day. That one also sold out in an hour.
I would like you to check out more Ayreon. This is a prog-rock project by dutch composer, and multi-instrumentalist Arjen Lucassen. He rounds up some of the worlds greatest musicians and singers to take part in his rock opera's. the first song is a nice introduction with comment from Arjen himself. If your reaction gets blocked contact Arjen via mail or facebook, he will help you out! The day that the world breaks down: the singers and instrumentalists who worked on this one ( James LaBrie (Dream Theater), Tommy Karevik (Kamelot, Seventh Wonder), Tommy Rogers (Between the Buried and Me), Simone Simons (Epica),Nils K. Rue (Pagan's Mind), Tobias Sammet (Edguy, Avantasia), Hansi Kürsch (Blind Guardian), Mike Mills (Toehider), Russell Allen (Symphony X), Michael Eriksen (Circus Maximus), Floor Jansen (Nightwish, ex-After Forever, ex-ReVamp) Joost van den Broek (ex-After Forever) - grand piano and electric piano, Maaike Peterse (Kingfisher Sky) - cello, Ed Warby - drums, Ben Mathot - violin, Jeroen Goossens flute, Arjen Anthony Lucassen - electric and acoustic guitars, all other instruments) some other songs to react to: Merlins will: th-cam.com/video/Uh7wFKcpFO4/w-d-xo.html Valley of the Queens: th-cam.com/video/TbebO5BZi-I/w-d-xo.html Star of Sirrah: th-cam.com/video/3dEHQNAZsIo/w-d-xo.html intergalactic spacecruisaders: th-cam.com/video/yO6TisCHGhA/w-d-xo.html everybody dies: th-cam.com/video/9AAXtUdM7xE/w-d-xo.html eye of Ra: th-cam.com/video/cMq4icPuGa8/w-d-xo.html Do a few of the others before you do the Eye of Ra, you'll apreciate it more! All those are from Ayreon Universe live show, all songs from different Albums. for the understanding of the stories an album review would be nice! Timeline: ayreon.hu/universe/timeline/ from the latest album Transitus(2020): daniels decent into transitus medley: th-cam.com/video/ozmTXh2CBWw/w-d-xo.html This human equation: th-cam.com/video/lKwaBJmSUps/w-d-xo.html Maybe watch one of the Ayreon life concerts? The Theater Equation: www.bilibili.com/video/BV1r441187Qu?from=search&seid=15135489123300683441 Best Of Ayreon Live (Ayreon Universe): www.bilibili.com/video/BV1BW411u7dQ?from=search&seid=558509702462477153 Electric Castle Live and Other Tales: www.bilibili.com/video/BV12Q4y1M7qH?from=search&seid=558509702462477153
The song The Day That The World Brakes Down, is a very good introduction into Ayreon. Then do songs from the two live concerts: Ayreon Universe live The electric castle live and other tales
Good news for you: the eleven main singers continue to intertwine throughout the whole album. It's a great listen and well worth going through in its entirety!
First of all, welcome to the Ayreon universe. Ayreon is a musical project created by the Dutch multi-instrumentalist Arjen Anthony Lucassen in 1995. In every Ayreon album, Arjen composes a greater 95% of music and texts average and plays electric guitars, acoustic guitars, electric bass, synth and keyboards, and invites several guest vocalists to join him to play a part in his own metal operas. The Ayreon's album sequence is the following one: 1) in 1995 Arjen created the first Ayreon album "The Final Experiment", talking about the story of a blind ministrel of the 6th century britain, named Ayreon, who receives from the future visions of humanity decline and tries to sing about these visions to save the world from its own downfall. The prologue of this album is that in the year 2084 a.d. (chosen by adding 100 years to 1984 referring to George Orwell's most famous novel) mankind has virtually destroyed itself, it's survival depends on the final experiment. 2) Ayreon's second album "Actual Fantasy" (1996) is the only Ayreon album not being a concept album, but it is a group of song each of them narrating story related to science-fiction themes or fantasy themes 3) in 1998, "Into the Electric Castle" talked about eight different characters each of them taken by a different historical age of the earth, that are brought to another dimension and are given a quest by a mysterious alien presence, to go through this unknown land to find the electric castle and try to survive it to go back home. It is the first album to talk about the alien race named "forever", but this seems to be a completely different story from the first two albums 4) in 2000 "Universal Migrator" an album split in two different parts, each of the released as a unique album [pt1: the Dream Sequencer] and [pt2: flight of the migrator]. This is the first album to make clear that all the stories told by "The Final Experiment" and "Into the Electric Castle" are connected to create a bigger picture, a real "Ayreon Universe" 5) in 2004 "The Human Equation", that seems to be disconnected by the "Ayreon Universe" big picture, until the last 30 seconds of the last song, in which it is revealed that the story developed all through the album is a program run by the Forever race to try to solve "The Human Equation" in order to save us and them from the final catastrophe. 6) in 2008 there are two events: --> a) the album 01011001 (binary code for the letter "Y") is declared by Arjen to be the final chapter of the "Forever race saga" and reveals that the Forever alien race is the human race ancestor arrived from another planet after a global catastrophe and they are guiding our evolution from the dawn of human race until now to make us save them from their destiny --> b) the best of "Timeline" contains a poster describing how all the album related to the "Forever Saga" are connected and their own part in the "Ayreon Universe big picture", and contains also a new song "Epilogue: The Memory Remains" that is the final epilogue of the "Forever Saga" 7) in 2013 the album "The Theory of Everything" is the first Ayreon concept album completely disconnected by the "Forever Saga" telling about the research of a father and his son of the theory of everything 8) in 2017 with the album "The Source" Arjen returns to his beloved "Forever race" characters, telling us the prequel of the Forever Saga, explaining us where they lived, what was the extinguishing event they have to face, what caused that event, and how the Forever race faced it. 9) in 2020 with the title "Transitus" Arjen created a complete different story, set on earth in the 19th century, and being a tragic love story with dark and gothic vibe. This album was conceived to be a musical, so there are more songs each of them being shorter than an average Ayreon's song. In more than 25 years of Ayreon, they released only three live albums: The Theater Equation (a live performance of the album "The Human Equation"); Ayreon Universe (a live performance with a best of the songs created by Arjen for Ayreon and Star-One projects); Electric Castle Live and Other Tales (a live performance of the album "Into the Electric Castle" and a selection of 1 song for every Arjen's side project + the Marillion song "Kayleigh" performed by Fish, the original Marillion singer, that has played the "Highlander" part in the Arjen's metal opera). Each one of these live performances deserves to be considered a masterpiece in the music history. Arjen also released a lot of other music throughout the years, with many side-projects as "Ambeon", "Star One", "Guilt Machine", "Stream of Passion" , "The Gentle Storm" and his own solo albums. When he creates new music, he creates music, words, story and everything else and when he feels the real mood of what he's creating, he decides if the following creation will be an Ayreon album, another of his own existing side-projects, or a complete new side-project. Fun fact is that Floor Jansen has been a guest vocalist for Arjen since 2000 when she appeared on Universal Migrator. Since then she was a guest in Arjen's project in both the project Star One's albums and in the "01011001" Ayreon album. I hope this post will help you to go through the wonderful world of Arjen Anthony Lucassen's music
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….!
Thank you for the laughs. First thing, you might want to, and probably have, go(ne) back and watch the beginning of the video when Arjen says there are 11 Vocalists on this particular performance. I guess the best description of the Genre, is "Rock Opera". But Arjen is a bloody genius! And on top of that every time I listen to this, I want to start writing again... My problem is a lack of discipline. Oh, and don't sell yourself short, your brain works great!
You mentioned the sound engineering. In the next to last song on the album Arjen has all 11 singers doing the chorus together. But they’re all recorded individually. Yet, their vibratos are all in synch. Just... how?!?
Arjen Lucassen is master composer and projectleader of Ayreon. A lot of terrific and wellknown (fe)male artists participate in his music projects. For instance we do have a lot of awesome female metal frontwomen in the Netherlands; Anneke van Giersbergen, Simone Simons, Charlotte Wessels, Sharon den Adel, Dianne van Giersbergen, the sisters Floor and Irene Jansen, and so on. Most of them are working with Arjen, but they have also their own careers. Taking your happy reaction for this video in consideration, let us know what you have found more. There is a lot, some suggestions; Delain, Nightwish, Xandria, Ex Libris, Epica, The Gathering, Within Temptation, more Ayreon, etc., etc.....
There's a lot to unpack here... Ayreon is the brainchild of Arjen Anthony Lucassen (the guy playing synths, guitar and bass). All of the albums from his Ayreon project tell a story within the same universe. Arjen is famous for collabing with other talented people from the prog/metal/rock sphere. He roughly composes the entire album and then 'casts' the vocalists he want to play the different roles on the album (each of the 11 vocalists in the song, and on the album have a part they play in the story). At this point, Arjen's reputation as an artist is so strong that nobody turns him down when he asks someone to be on an album, if they aren't busy. His discography at this point in time is huge. He's incredibly friendly and loves when people react to his stuff. So if you do run into trouble with the video, reach out to him! In the past, he has helped some amazingly talented people get started in the music industry, by featuring them on his albums. He has even started bands up for (at least one of) them. 🙂 i recommend you listen to the entirety of the album this song is from, if you want more. It is a one of his greatest albums.
Ayreon is a whole trip, every album has a concept and very deep story. The Source is connected to 01011001, the song from 01011001 "The Truth Is In Here" has a character Mr. L who shows up on other ayreon albums and has his own album "Lost in the New Real". Arjen is a beast
"Yansen" GiddyKitty, she's Dutch and the J's are Y's! Arjen therefore sound like Ayreon !! You liked that, I can tell !! Well done, lets have some more !
WELCOME to the RABBIT HOLE called Aryeon from the MASTER Ajren Lucassen! I JUST discovered him last week and on a journey!!! Ayreonaught here now! Btw, nice seeing someone from the K-Pop side of music doing a React channel. My 8yr old LOVES K-Pop and we feature some on our React channel under another name than this. Shocking we do get K-Pop fans hitting us! lol. Subscribing and hoping my son will like your channel!
The red guitar player is the mastermind. Arien Anthony Lucassen. All the singers are guests. Most of them are lead singers from well known metal bands. They gladly participate in this genius's projects for free most of the time.
How many people in the band? in fact just 1 :D Ayreon is a "project" rather than a Band. Arjen Lucassen is the mind behind Ayreon project. Wher he compose a new album/opera calls a lot of musicians, mainly singers, because he writes rock operas with different characters played by different singers (11 different singers in this album). He, by himself, plays guitar, bass and keyboards. Usually on drums there is Ed Warby, one of his long time friends, and then many singers invited from various other metal bands, plus additional musicians like the ones for flutes, violin e cello.
Hi ! You said that you have no clue who were those singers except Floor Jansen, ... They are ones of the most Iconic singers of the metal scene today. Just that little.
Welcome to the world or Ayreon. If you are sad that song is finished, good for you that you still have like 20ish albums to listen to from Arjen and his Ayreon (including side projects like Star One or Gentle Storm etc), each album lots of singers (always same characters) each album from same story keep adding to it... and the best. All songs, all albums, all projects... same quality as this one, if not better
Ayreon is not a particular band. Ayreon is Arjen Lucassen (You see him playing several instruments) and for his projects he invites all different musicians and vocalists IOT represent each a different character or aspect in his ‘Ayreon Universe’. The binary 01 codes was the speaking computer character. Vocalists * Floor Jansen (Nightwish, ex-After Forever, ex-ReVamp) * Damian Wilson (Headspace, ex-Threshold) * Hansi Kürsch (Blind Guardian) * Tommy Karevik (Kamelot, Seventh Wonder) * Anneke van Giersbergen (Anneke van Giersbergen, The Gentle Storm, VUUR, ex-The Gathering) * Marco Hietala (Nightwish, Tarot) * Jonas Renkse (Katatonia, Bloodbath, ex-October Tide) * Mike Mills (Toehider) * Marcela Bovio (MaYaN, ex-Stream of Passion, ex-Elfonía) * Irene Jansen * Robert Soeterboek (ex-Erik Norlander) * John Jaycee Cuijpers (Praying Mantis) * Edward Reekers (ex-Kayak) * Jay van Feggelen (ex-Bodine) * Maggy Luyten (Nightmare) * Lisette van den Berg (Scarlet Stories) Instrumentalists * Ed Warby - drums except on "Comatose" and "And the Druids Turned to Stone", additional vocals in "Day Eleven: Love" * Johan van Stratum (VUUR, ex-Stream of Passion) - bass, except on "Intergalactic Space Crusaders" * Peter Vink - bass in "Intergalactic Space Crusaders" * Marcel Coenen (Lemur Voice, Sun Caged) - lead guitar * Ferry Duijsens - guitar * Joost van den Broek (ex-After Forever) - keyboards * Ben Mathot - violin * Jeroen Goossens - flutes, woodwinds * Maaike Peterse - cello * Rob Snijders - percussion in "Comatose" and drums on "And the Druids Turned to Stone" * Arjen Anthony Lucassen - additional guitar and vocals in "Amazing Flight in Space" and "The Eye of Ra"
You hope they do more of that... Well congratulations :) they have done it for over 20 years now so you have lot to discover. I suggest you start with the live show ayeron universe. Its fantastic and really show lot of the amazing people that works with arjen Lucassen
I'm waiting for a reaction video to slaughter to prevail' s demolisher. And I'm pretty sure someone like Alex Terrible will make metal covers of popular kpop songs if he knows Korean...
Ayreon is Arjen Lucassen and only him. He created a universe called ‘Ayreon Universe’. This album is the first of multi albums to follow. I would suggest to watch Epica - ‘Sancta Terra’ ft. Floor th-cam.com/video/cx22Yuj2nzg/w-d-xo.html
Hey, you should definitely check out Ayreon the eye of rah live show and the age of shadows live show featuring Floor Jansen and Marco as guest singers, awesome awesome thanks 😊
Sweety, try a reaction to Ayreon-The Eye of RA. I have included the link below. Ayreon is not a Group but a concept. At the end of the video there is in the vicinity of 30 of the top singers in the world on the stage, which includes, Floor, her sister Irene, and Marco.
Hey i think you should react to Gulaggh or Everywhere at the end of time some of them might be very long and you will have the most [REDECTED] of all time :)
Songs that I suggest to delve into... 1)..Day One : Vigil. 2)..Day Two : Isolation.. these two songs are intro and first song should be listened as a pair.
many viewers will tell you that Ayreon is not a band...do not listen to them...Ayreon is a one member band...wait till you see Arjen on stage performing playing simultaneously 16 different instruments while singing ... 😂
As previously written, Arjen has a hue stage fright and will not go on a stage. Maybe at the very end of a live show he will join the rest of the singers. But that is all what he does
Great reaction! I like your perception and that you are open minded, A suggestion though, maybe you will consider pausing the video when you want to say something. You said there is so much going on, for us viewers your comments are something more that's going on. And if you decide to pause, please take the video back 10 seconds so I can get back in the video and reflect on your comments. Nice catch btw, most people miss that Arjen Anthony Lucassen is playing guitar, bass and synths. He didn't get the binary code from a scary movie. The code means 'trust in TH-1', TH-1 is the computer played by Micheal Mills.
If anyone is curious, the binary code (01110100 etc.) is ASCII for the string "trustTH1". I'm thinking this might have some meaning in the story later...
I see you're a Kpop fan... Considered checking out J-rock and metal? Band-maid - Blooming (mv) and Lovebites - holy wars (live 2020). You will thank me later. P.s. seems like you have a love for progressive rock..
This is a "metal opera" if you will. Arjen, the guy playing the guitar, bass and synth, is a Dutch artist. He has been pulling together the best metal singers and musicians from around the world to perform in his works. Besides Floor, you saw Hansi from Blind Guardian and Simone from Epica among the many other singers. Marco from Nightwish has also performed with Ayreon. There is some amazing music in the Ayreon universe.
Another old video of mine 😂 and probably the last! Next week half of my midterms will be done so I'll have some free time to film new reactions. Enjoy!❤️
Go Ahead!😘
Ayreon is a project created by a Dutchman named Arjen. He will hire different musical guests for songs and albums. Most members full time job are in other bands. For example James Labrie from Dream Theater does vocals on certain songs from a couple of albums. Think of Aryeons music more like a play than an actual band. Each album could have as many as 10 guests. Even Bruce from Iron Maiden sang on one album.
OUUUU that's such a cool idea actually it's brilliant.
Never heard of Aryeon before but I'm glad I know them now. I absolutely loved this. My only critique is that I wanted each solo to be longer. I loved all the different types of solos but felt like I was only getting a sample taste of each one and what I really wanted was the full meal. Tgats how much I liked them. I wanted them to go on longer. Thanks Rana for introducing me to this.
React to Ayreon Everybody Dies live... Mind blowing...
Welcome to the Ayreon universe.
Ayreon is just one man and manny manny friends performing his music.
Over time hundreds of musicians joined the project. Even Floor Jansen and her sister performed live in a side project called star one as backup singers. (this concert is also on youtube) when 19 and early 20s .
The live concerts are a rare and almost mythical event , and sold out with out promotion .
I might want to sugest the eye of ra of the ayreon universe concert to get an idea of how and what ayreon is.
Excellent suggestion, my friend!
Yes yes yes !! Great sugestion!
Ayreon is not really a band as such but a name for Arjan Lucassen musical projects. When he is finished composing the music and writing his lyrics he gets all these amazing vocalist and musicians to create a one of a kind album. All of his albums tell a central story line and some of the albums are also connected. (It sounds a bit like Jeff Wayne's War of the worlds album. If you never heard that take a look at that to). His live performances are really rare and sold out in minutes. You can imagine how difficult it is getting all these successful artists on a stage at the same time. Dedicated fans of him will travel world to see it. Funny thing is that even though he loves creating these albums he has a very serious case of stage fright and is also very shy.
FYI One of the planed Mars rovers is going to transmit a radio program from the planet. They also decided to include a song in the program and it was up to the public to decide which song would be included. They chose the song "My house on Mars". That is a Ayreon song and who is one of the vocalist on this song? Our beloved Floor Jansen. As far as i am concerned they could not have picked a better and more deserving vocalist to announce our presence to the universe could they?
Here are 2 links to get a taste of what the live performances look like.
"Everybody dies" th-cam.com/video/9AAXtUdM7xE/w-d-xo.html (the woman on the left side of the back-ground singers is Irene Jansen, Yes that is Floor's sister who is pretty awesome herself)
"The valley of the queens" th-cam.com/video/TbebO5BZi-I/w-d-xo.html The blond in the middle called Anneke van Giersbergen who was the lead vocalist of the band "The Gathering" and was the inspiration for Floor to get in to metal and become a professional singer . According to Tuomas she was also an inspiration for him. So she has quiet a lot answer for 😁
I would love to hear a collab between NW and Anneke. That would be awesome. Maybe Anneke on Tuomas's next side projects, something like 'The Life and Times of...'.
Mmm.. "My house on Mars" was sung on the album "The Universal Migrator 1&2" by Johan Edlund, Floor did the countervoice, as she did on many more albums. Check out "Condemned to live" and "Between the waves." Also, in the shows, Floor often comes in at the end of a song as a climax. Hear and see "Everybody dies"and "Star of Sirrah".
There is NO other who can do what this MASTER of Prog can do! EVERY track he does just WOWS me in a different way!
If you want to have a possible short circuit in your brain: Arjen - the man on bass, guitars and keyboards - wrote all the music, the lyrics and the concept story for the double album this song is the opening song for. And planned (and probably adjusted here and there along the way) for all the roles to be covered by all the different singers. There are 17 songs on the album where this song is the opening track, with an 88 minute play time. And the story and concept on the album ties in with stories he has explored on several of his previous albums.
O yes and so verry well done , story lines of all albums interconnect.
@@marcusfranconium3392 Not ALL but almost
The human equation has no ties to this storyline and Transitus only has some references
Edit : Not the Human equation but The theory of everything
@@franciscoborjaescobarsuare5802 Good point i forgot about that, its hard to keep up with all ayreon and side projects .
@@marcusfranconium3392 Arjen is always creating and I love that about him
Also the skill to evolve while maintaining a certain sound
@@franciscoborjaescobarsuare5802 I love it that some songs sound familiar but are totaly different . a nostalgia feel .
Finally AYREON! Everything Arjen Lucassen does is a masterpiece.
And he Is so humble, I had the honor of chating through Facebook with him some years ago, when he launch the 010010100 (may be wrong the code, but you get the idea Haha) album, he is my heroe, Iliterally had spoke about him in conferences, I love all his music and the magic he brings to the existence
@@ya723 So true, he even spends hrs a week just to reply to mesages.
Who els can sell out albums before they are released , and put the albums online for every one to hear for free.
And even visits reaction channels reading the comments and placing messages.
A verrry verry cool space hippie.
@@marcusfranconium3392 the best one, and is impressive the magic he puts in all his proyects, I like how people like Giddy get so impressed when they see the amount of musicians in his proyects, once I told to afriend "hey listen to this project it has Labrie, Mikael Akerfekdt, Devin Twonsend, Anneke, Jensen and even to Marcela Bovio(she is from mi country Mexico) in one single album", and he set angry "Don't lie to me, that can be possible", and I was like "It's my frien it is",for me no doubt he is one of the best musicians in the earth history , and in deed the only space hippie
WORD! NEW converted fan here a week ago, his music AND fans are amazing! Sadly I am going slowly into this hole compared to what I want BUT well WORTH IT!
Request to feed more of your Ayreon hunger: "Everybody Dies" live at Ayreon Universe. You'll see and hear many of those from this track, plus a few new ones.
Imagine how different this reaction would have been if she had read the part at the beginning mentioning that the song has eleven singers.
And actually had two neurons inside its brain..
The binary code spells out "Trust th1" That's the role mike mills sings on the album. And if you read the text in the opening you'd know that there's 11 main singers on the album. 😉
If you like the flute, listen to valley of the queen.
Ayreon - The Garden Of Emotions (Live)
I warn you, Ayreon is highly addictive, I have been hooked for a long time. A hug, see you in group therapy.
Therapist: The swirling faces of Michael Mills cannot harm you.
The swirling faces of Michael Mills:
Therapist, thanks for your help, Michael is a good boy, as well as a great musician.
Ayreon uses many different vocalists. They usually play roles in the stories. All 11 of the singers are on this song. They all play roles on the whole record. You will notice that each vocalist has a role listed. It is kind of a rock opera. That guitarist is Arjen Anthony Lucassen the genius who writes all of Ayreon's music. Surprise! 😊😊😊🎶🎶🎶👍
A spectectular follow up is Everybody Dies! The old hippy dude creator of Ayreon loves Star Trek, hence this sci-fi concept .
@10:05 Me almost shouting at the screen: How can you not know how many people to expect?! It's mentioned by Arjen @1:27 that all 11 main singers are featured... So at least 11 and some for instrument parts...
In response to your "how is it profitable for you guys" question. As a fan of this group, we're kind of obsessed. Just to put it into perspective, this band is kind of niche even in its genre. Even so, a few years ago they did a live concert with as many of the guest musicians as they could. The show sold out in an hour, and demand was so high they had to book a second day. That one also sold out in an hour.
I would like you to check out more Ayreon. This is a prog-rock project by dutch composer, and multi-instrumentalist Arjen Lucassen. He rounds up some of the worlds greatest musicians and singers to take part in his rock opera's. the first song is a nice introduction with comment from Arjen himself. If your reaction gets blocked contact Arjen via mail or facebook, he will help you out!
The day that the world breaks down: the singers and instrumentalists who worked on this one
( James LaBrie (Dream Theater), Tommy Karevik (Kamelot, Seventh Wonder), Tommy Rogers (Between the Buried and Me), Simone Simons (Epica),Nils K. Rue (Pagan's Mind), Tobias Sammet (Edguy, Avantasia), Hansi Kürsch (Blind Guardian), Mike Mills (Toehider), Russell Allen (Symphony X), Michael Eriksen (Circus Maximus), Floor Jansen (Nightwish, ex-After Forever, ex-ReVamp) Joost van den Broek (ex-After Forever) - grand piano and electric piano, Maaike Peterse (Kingfisher Sky) - cello, Ed Warby - drums, Ben Mathot - violin, Jeroen Goossens flute, Arjen Anthony Lucassen - electric and acoustic guitars, all other instruments)
some other songs to react to:
Merlins will: th-cam.com/video/Uh7wFKcpFO4/w-d-xo.html
Valley of the Queens: th-cam.com/video/TbebO5BZi-I/w-d-xo.html
Star of Sirrah: th-cam.com/video/3dEHQNAZsIo/w-d-xo.html
intergalactic spacecruisaders: th-cam.com/video/yO6TisCHGhA/w-d-xo.html
everybody dies: th-cam.com/video/9AAXtUdM7xE/w-d-xo.html
eye of Ra: th-cam.com/video/cMq4icPuGa8/w-d-xo.html
Do a few of the others before you do the Eye of Ra, you'll apreciate it more! All those are from Ayreon Universe live show, all songs from different Albums. for the understanding of the stories an album review would be nice!
Timeline: ayreon.hu/universe/timeline/
from the latest album Transitus(2020):
daniels decent into transitus medley: th-cam.com/video/ozmTXh2CBWw/w-d-xo.html
This human equation: th-cam.com/video/lKwaBJmSUps/w-d-xo.html
Maybe watch one of the Ayreon life concerts?
The Theater Equation: www.bilibili.com/video/BV1r441187Qu?from=search&seid=15135489123300683441
Best Of Ayreon Live (Ayreon Universe): www.bilibili.com/video/BV1BW411u7dQ?from=search&seid=558509702462477153
Electric Castle Live and Other Tales: www.bilibili.com/video/BV12Q4y1M7qH?from=search&seid=558509702462477153
The song The Day That The World Brakes Down, is a very good introduction into Ayreon.
Then do songs from the two live concerts:
Ayreon Universe live
The electric castle live and other tales
Good news for you: the eleven main singers continue to intertwine throughout the whole album. It's a great listen and well worth going through in its entirety!
I have zero doubt that you're gonna love Ayreon performing "Supergalactic Space Crusaders" live from the Ayreon Universe DVD.
This video was literally made for me I’m a k-pop fan and ayreon is my favorite band.
First of all, welcome to the Ayreon universe. Ayreon is a musical project created by the Dutch multi-instrumentalist Arjen Anthony Lucassen in 1995.
In every Ayreon album, Arjen composes a greater 95% of music and texts average and plays electric guitars, acoustic guitars, electric bass, synth and keyboards, and invites several guest vocalists to join him to play a part in his own metal operas.
The Ayreon's album sequence is the following one:
1) in 1995 Arjen created the first Ayreon album "The Final Experiment", talking about the story of a blind ministrel of the 6th century britain, named Ayreon, who receives from the future visions of humanity decline and tries to sing about these visions to save the world from its own downfall. The prologue of this album is that in the year 2084 a.d. (chosen by adding 100 years to 1984 referring to George Orwell's most famous novel) mankind has virtually destroyed itself, it's survival depends on the final experiment.
2) Ayreon's second album "Actual Fantasy" (1996) is the only Ayreon album not being a concept album, but it is a group of song each of them narrating story related to science-fiction themes or fantasy themes
3) in 1998, "Into the Electric Castle" talked about eight different characters each of them taken by a different historical age of the earth, that are brought to another dimension and are given a quest by a mysterious alien presence, to go through this unknown land to find the electric castle and try to survive it to go back home. It is the first album to talk about the alien race named "forever", but this seems to be a completely different story from the first two albums
4) in 2000 "Universal Migrator" an album split in two different parts, each of the released as a unique album [pt1: the Dream Sequencer] and [pt2: flight of the migrator]. This is the first album to make clear that all the stories told by "The Final Experiment" and "Into the Electric Castle" are connected to create a bigger picture, a real "Ayreon Universe"
5) in 2004 "The Human Equation", that seems to be disconnected by the "Ayreon Universe" big picture, until the last 30 seconds of the last song, in which it is revealed that the story developed all through the album is a program run by the Forever race to try to solve "The Human Equation" in order to save us and them from the final catastrophe.
6) in 2008 there are two events:
--> a) the album 01011001 (binary code for the letter "Y") is declared by Arjen to be the final chapter of the "Forever race saga" and reveals that the Forever alien race is the human race ancestor arrived from another planet after a global catastrophe and they are guiding our evolution from the dawn of human race until now to make us save them from their destiny
--> b) the best of "Timeline" contains a poster describing how all the album related to the "Forever Saga" are connected and their own part in the "Ayreon Universe big picture", and contains also a new song "Epilogue: The Memory Remains" that is the final epilogue of the "Forever Saga"
7) in 2013 the album "The Theory of Everything" is the first Ayreon concept album completely disconnected by the "Forever Saga" telling about the research of a father and his son of the theory of everything
8) in 2017 with the album "The Source" Arjen returns to his beloved "Forever race" characters, telling us the prequel of the Forever Saga, explaining us where they lived, what was the extinguishing event they have to face, what caused that event, and how the Forever race faced it.
9) in 2020 with the title "Transitus" Arjen created a complete different story, set on earth in the 19th century, and being a tragic love story with dark and gothic vibe. This album was conceived to be a musical, so there are more songs each of them being shorter than an average Ayreon's song.
In more than 25 years of Ayreon, they released only three live albums: The Theater Equation (a live performance of the album "The Human Equation"); Ayreon Universe (a live performance with a best of the songs created by Arjen for Ayreon and Star-One projects); Electric Castle Live and Other Tales (a live performance of the album "Into the Electric Castle" and a selection of 1 song for every Arjen's side project + the Marillion song "Kayleigh" performed by Fish, the original Marillion singer, that has played the "Highlander" part in the Arjen's metal opera). Each one of these live performances deserves to be considered a masterpiece in the music history.
Arjen also released a lot of other music throughout the years, with many side-projects as "Ambeon", "Star One", "Guilt Machine", "Stream of Passion" , "The Gentle Storm" and his own solo albums. When he creates new music, he creates music, words, story and everything else and when he feels the real mood of what he's creating, he decides if the following creation will be an Ayreon album, another of his own existing side-projects, or a complete new side-project.
Fun fact is that Floor Jansen has been a guest vocalist for Arjen since 2000 when she appeared on Universal Migrator. Since then she was a guest in Arjen's project in both the project Star One's albums and in the "01011001" Ayreon album.
I hope this post will help you to go through the wonderful world of Arjen Anthony Lucassen's music
He is like the Devin Townsend from Europe. We need to keep balance.
I love Ayreon, it's my favorite band, welcome to Ayreon universe, listen the complete album it's amazing
Ayreon is basically the avengers of the metal world haha
Damn that's really well said xD
WOW !!! That's by far one of the best descriptions of Ayreon, I've ever read !!!!
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….!
11 Singers. Like it said in the beginning.
Loved your face everytime a new singer came on.
You are great
Don’t ever change
Thank you for the laughs. First thing, you might want to, and probably have, go(ne) back and watch the beginning of the video when Arjen says there are 11 Vocalists on this particular performance. I guess the best description of the Genre, is "Rock Opera". But Arjen is a bloody genius! And on top of that every time I listen to this, I want to start writing again... My problem is a lack of discipline.
Oh, and don't sell yourself short, your brain works great!
One main artist. Arjen Lucassen.. them all others are guests. Both singers and musicians .. his stuff is like a metal opera..
Arjen Lucassen
Its not about profit, its pure passion! I love Ayreon since i discover it this year! Your reaction is great to watch :-)
You mentioned the sound engineering. In the next to last song on the album Arjen has all 11 singers doing the chorus together. But they’re all recorded individually. Yet, their vibratos are all in synch. Just... how?!?
Nice reaction. Welcome to Ayreon, they (well..., Arjen and his friends...) are amazing!
Arjen Lucassen is master composer and projectleader of Ayreon. A lot of terrific and wellknown (fe)male artists participate in his music projects. For instance we do have a lot of awesome female metal frontwomen in the Netherlands; Anneke van Giersbergen, Simone Simons, Charlotte Wessels, Sharon den Adel, Dianne van Giersbergen, the sisters Floor and Irene Jansen, and so on. Most of them are working with Arjen, but they have also their own careers. Taking your happy reaction for this video in consideration, let us know what you have found more. There is a lot, some suggestions; Delain, Nightwish, Xandria, Ex Libris, Epica, The Gathering, Within Temptation, more Ayreon, etc., etc.....
Your big round surprised eyes when you saw Floor has been the most adorable thing I've seen today.
Awwwh xD ❤️
Ayreon supports reaction channels, so if you get crap from you tube, let him know!
There's a lot to unpack here... Ayreon is the brainchild of Arjen Anthony Lucassen (the guy playing synths, guitar and bass). All of the albums from his Ayreon project tell a story within the same universe. Arjen is famous for collabing with other talented people from the prog/metal/rock sphere. He roughly composes the entire album and then 'casts' the vocalists he want to play the different roles on the album (each of the 11 vocalists in the song, and on the album have a part they play in the story). At this point, Arjen's reputation as an artist is so strong that nobody turns him down when he asks someone to be on an album, if they aren't busy. His discography at this point in time is huge. He's incredibly friendly and loves when people react to his stuff. So if you do run into trouble with the video, reach out to him!
In the past, he has helped some amazingly talented people get started in the music industry, by featuring them on his albums. He has even started bands up for (at least one of) them. 🙂 i recommend you listen to the entirety of the album this song is from, if you want more. It is a one of his greatest albums.
You reacted to Ayreon and here's my effing subs!
Ayreon is a whole trip, every album has a concept and very deep story. The Source is connected to 01011001, the song from 01011001 "The Truth Is In Here" has a character Mr. L who shows up on other ayreon albums and has his own album "Lost in the New Real". Arjen is a beast
"Yansen" GiddyKitty, she's Dutch and the J's are Y's!
Arjen therefore sound like Ayreon !! You liked that, I can tell !! Well done, lets have some more !
Ayreon is a progressive metal project/musical created from Arjen Anthony Lucassen who is using band members from numerous bands.
WELCOME to the RABBIT HOLE called Aryeon from the MASTER Ajren Lucassen! I JUST discovered him last week and on a journey!!! Ayreonaught here now!
Btw, nice seeing someone from the K-Pop side of music doing a React channel. My 8yr old LOVES K-Pop and we feature some on our React channel under another name than this. Shocking we do get K-Pop fans hitting us! lol. Subscribing and hoping my son will like your channel!
The red guitar player is the mastermind. Arien Anthony Lucassen. All the singers are guests. Most of them are lead singers from well known metal bands. They gladly participate in this genius's projects for free most of the time.
Ayreon - music for intelligent listeners. Brilliantly constructed.
You saw Nils in there ..
Well, here he is again with another music genius from American (Athens, GA) ..
Project Aegis -- Collide and Spark
AMAZING REACTION!😀💕😘
How many people in the band? in fact just 1 :D
Ayreon is a "project" rather than a Band. Arjen Lucassen is the mind behind Ayreon project. Wher he compose a new album/opera calls a lot of musicians, mainly singers, because he writes rock operas with different characters played by different singers (11 different singers in this album). He, by himself, plays guitar, bass and keyboards. Usually on drums there is Ed Warby, one of his long time friends, and then many singers invited from various other metal bands, plus additional musicians like the ones for flutes, violin e cello.
Welcome to one of the "European prog and power metal all star projects".(A second one as Arjen mentioned is Avantasia) :D
Look all so to the eye of ra and you see how many people are working together in ayreon
The binary stands for trust TH-1
Yep, and simple ASCII I think.
Hi ! You said that you have no clue who were those singers except Floor Jansen, ... They are ones of the most Iconic singers of the metal scene today. Just that little.
Ayreon deserves to win all the polls.
If you like the flute try "Valley of the Queens" the Floor Jansen And Marcella version
And Anneke
Welcome to the world or Ayreon. If you are sad that song is finished, good for you that you still have like 20ish albums to listen to from Arjen and his Ayreon (including side projects like Star One or Gentle Storm etc), each album lots of singers (always same characters) each album from same story keep adding to it... and the best. All songs, all albums, all projects... same quality as this one, if not better
You should check out the live video of everybody dies next please
Ayreon is not a particular band. Ayreon is Arjen Lucassen (You see him playing several instruments) and for his projects he invites all different musicians and vocalists IOT represent each a different character or aspect in his ‘Ayreon Universe’.
The binary 01 codes was the speaking computer character.
Vocalists
* Floor Jansen (Nightwish, ex-After Forever, ex-ReVamp)
* Damian Wilson (Headspace, ex-Threshold)
* Hansi Kürsch (Blind Guardian)
* Tommy Karevik (Kamelot, Seventh Wonder)
* Anneke van Giersbergen (Anneke van Giersbergen, The Gentle Storm, VUUR, ex-The Gathering)
* Marco Hietala (Nightwish, Tarot)
* Jonas Renkse (Katatonia, Bloodbath, ex-October Tide)
* Mike Mills (Toehider)
* Marcela Bovio (MaYaN, ex-Stream of Passion, ex-Elfonía)
* Irene Jansen
* Robert Soeterboek (ex-Erik Norlander)
* John Jaycee Cuijpers (Praying Mantis)
* Edward Reekers (ex-Kayak)
* Jay van Feggelen (ex-Bodine)
* Maggy Luyten (Nightmare)
* Lisette van den Berg (Scarlet Stories)
Instrumentalists
* Ed Warby - drums except on "Comatose" and "And the Druids Turned to Stone", additional vocals in "Day Eleven: Love"
* Johan van Stratum (VUUR, ex-Stream of Passion) - bass, except on "Intergalactic Space Crusaders"
* Peter Vink - bass in "Intergalactic Space Crusaders"
* Marcel Coenen (Lemur Voice, Sun Caged) - lead guitar
* Ferry Duijsens - guitar
* Joost van den Broek (ex-After Forever) - keyboards
* Ben Mathot - violin
* Jeroen Goossens - flutes, woodwinds
* Maaike Peterse - cello
* Rob Snijders - percussion in "Comatose" and drums on "And the Druids Turned to Stone"
* Arjen Anthony Lucassen - additional guitar and vocals in "Amazing Flight in Space" and "The Eye of Ra"
It’s nice to see that beautiful face of yours again, Momma!😍😍😍😍
You hope they do more of that... Well congratulations :) they have done it for over 20 years now so you have lot to discover. I suggest you start with the live show ayeron universe. Its fantastic and really show lot of the amazing people that works with arjen Lucassen
OMG Rana! You wanted to live inside this song. Your reaction was really funny
Simone simons is the lead singer from EPICA..
I'm waiting for a reaction video to slaughter to prevail' s demolisher. And I'm pretty sure someone like Alex Terrible will make metal covers of popular kpop songs if he knows Korean...
Ayreon is Arjen Lucassen and only him. He created a universe called ‘Ayreon Universe’. This album is the first of multi albums to follow.
I would suggest to watch Epica - ‘Sancta Terra’ ft. Floor th-cam.com/video/cx22Yuj2nzg/w-d-xo.html
Hey, you should definitely check out Ayreon the eye of rah live show and the age of shadows live show featuring Floor Jansen and Marco as guest singers, awesome awesome thanks 😊
Ayreon sounds like Power Metal which has talent and shows off a lot
Sweety, try a reaction to Ayreon-The Eye of RA. I have included the link below. Ayreon is not a Group but a concept. At the end of the video there is in the vicinity of 30 of the top singers in the world on the stage, which includes, Floor, her sister Irene, and Marco.
th-cam.com/video/odcO0SciTUY/w-d-xo.html
The binary translated to ASCII reads "Trust TH-1". TH-1 stands for Transhuman 1, a Cyborg who stands with the Alphans against the Mainframe.
At the same time it is widely considered a nod towards Michael Mills' band Toehider.
Oh hell yeah!
Hey i think you should react to Gulaggh or Everywhere at the end of time some of them might be very long and you will have the most [REDECTED] of all time :)
Looking good in teal and black hot stuff. Go Sharks.
If you watch some of the live songs you will see Floor Jansen again and her taller younger sister Irene.
Songs that I suggest to delve into...
1)..Day One : Vigil.
2)..Day Two : Isolation.. these two songs are intro and first song should be listened as a pair.
All Songs between Day One and Day Twenty!!
Time to react to some Toehider aka Mike Mills. How Do Ghosts Work is a good one =)
You got hooked on a new great vocalist every minute lol...
I miss your new videos!!!! But don’t worry, ima stick with you no matter what!!!
many viewers will tell you that Ayreon is not a band...do not listen to them...Ayreon is a one member band...wait till you see Arjen on stage performing playing simultaneously 16 different instruments while singing ... 😂
As previously written, Arjen has a hue stage fright and will not go on a stage. Maybe at the very end of a live show he will join the rest of the singers. But that is all what he does
Ayreon isn't a band - it's a project to assemble the most awesomeness in one musical opus.
Ayreon!
Great reaction! I like your perception and that you are open minded, A suggestion though, maybe you will consider pausing the video when you want to say something. You said there is so much going on, for us viewers your comments are something more that's going on. And if you decide to pause, please take the video back 10 seconds so I can get back in the video and reflect on your comments. Nice catch btw, most people miss that Arjen Anthony Lucassen is playing guitar, bass and synths. He didn't get the binary code from a scary movie. The code means 'trust in TH-1', TH-1 is the computer played by Micheal Mills.
Thank you! Hahah well I filmed this like a year ago or so xD My new reactions have a different layout now 😊 but thanks for the insight & info!😲
Please react to Falling in Reverse “I’m not a Vampire (Revamped)”!!
If anyone is curious, the binary code (01110100 etc.) is ASCII for the string "trustTH1". I'm thinking this might have some meaning in the story later...
TH1 is the character played by Mike Mills, an android who helps the Alphans escape their doom.
GiddyKitty a Symphony X reacts Pleaseeee!
Really should have read the text
Sei BELLISSIMA 🤩
I see they threw you into the deep end.. This is quite a piece to take in blind.
Ayreon rules!
you should check song "always will be" by Hammerfall :)
ARJEN ANTHONY LUCASSEN THE GOAT NUMBER 1 ☝☝☝☝
well yes little girl it is not computer generated noise that may be enhanced by autotune..this quality live music....
Oh Tommy........
I see you're a Kpop fan...
Considered checking out J-rock and metal? Band-maid - Blooming (mv) and Lovebites - holy wars (live 2020).
You will thank me later.
P.s. seems like you have a love for progressive rock..
Hi. Welcome to the world of progressive music...your rabbit hole begins....LOL! You all know what i'm saying.
This is full-on prog
Please react to more Tesseract ❤🙏
Kat!!
This is a "metal opera" if you will. Arjen, the guy playing the guitar, bass and synth, is a Dutch artist. He has been pulling together the best metal singers and musicians from around the world to perform in his works. Besides Floor, you saw Hansi from Blind Guardian and Simone from Epica among the many other singers. Marco from Nightwish has also performed with Ayreon. There is some amazing music in the Ayreon universe.
its nota Band, I mean, its a Band, but every album different feats
The binary section translates into "Trust TH-1"
Actually, extended ascii for "trustTH1"
Try "Igorr - ieuD"
This is not a song ... is a sci - fi scenario what is antagonist of Star Wars ! Alphas better than Jedi ! I want to watch it in a movie ...
Is progressive metal.
You should listen to teras by sylosis.