James Labrie - Lead singer for Dream Theatre. Tommy Karevik - Lead singer of Kamelot . Tommy Rodgers - Lead singer of Between the Buried and Me. Simone Simmons - Lead singer of Epica. Nils K. Rue - Lead singer of Pagan's Mind . Tobias Sammet - Lead singer of Avantasia. Hansi Kürsch - Lead singer of Blind Guardian Mike Mills - Multi-instrumentalist, vocalist and main songwriter for Toehider. Russell Allen - Lead singer of Symphony X . Michael Eriksen - Lead singer of Circus Maximus. Floor Jansen - Lead singer of After Forever, ReVamp & now Nightwish. May I suggest their song "Everybody Dies" its a live performance - th-cam.com/video/9AAXtUdM7xE/w-d-xo.html
Technically Avantasia is a super group much like Ayreon, Tobias Sammet is the lead singer of Edguy and the Arjen of Avantasia. Otherwise, great list and very useful comment!
Arjen is the one who discovered Floor at the age of 16. She always shows her gratitude as soon as he writes to her if she wants to sing for him. Next Ayreon - Everybody Dies (live) th-cam.com/video/9AAXtUdM7xE/w-d-xo.html Have fun. Is a must see 😁
@@sabina1118 Disliked and unsubscribed because of the continuous deletions of my criticisms of anonymous Coyote false claims that Arjen discovered Floor at age 16. Either you are the problem, or TH-cam is. What's it gonna be?
Discovered? She also made marks of her own!!! I mean Arjen has little to do with her Nightwish, After forever, ReVamp or Northward. I agree that he discoverd her talent, but she did it her self😮❤😮
@@jimGotland You need people in the business to support you. You can have as much talent and bands as you want, but for notoriety you need people to promote you. That's what Arjen did. He was known and Floor was not.
Ayreon is one of the many musical projects of Dutch composer/multi-instrumentalist/producer Arjen Lucassen. All Ayreon albums are concept albums that tell a story, and Arjen recruits top-notch vocalists from all over the world to portray the various characters in the story. Some of his other projects are Star One, The Gentle Storm, Ambeon, Guilt Machine, and Stream of Passion. Floor and her sister Irene are frequent participants. Due to the logistics of tryin to get all these people together at the same time, live Ayreon performances are few and far between. There have been a few, and luckily they have been preserved on video. Next, I would recommend the live version of Everybody Dies.
An incredible song. To have that come from your mind to the actual song is borderline genius. I loved watching your smile and facial expressions with every change within the song. And the head banging... hell yeah. You've come a long way and it's been a joy to watch 🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼🤗
This is a true Masterpiece! Excellent casting of singers, and then there's Floor (💗👸). Oh, how I want SIR Russell Allen's ultramasculine voice. Well, everyone was perfect there. And the genius behind all of this is "The Tall Hippie Dude", Arjen Anthony Lucassen, tallest known rock musician (203 cm). ⛄👍
In 2021, I was fortunate to have a brief text exchange with Arjen Lucassen. He is a s genuine and cordial as you would expect. I was so curious what it was like for him to see artist after artist come to his studio and he said he just couldn't stop smiling on the talent on display. Arjen is an absolute musical genius.
Yes! Meet Maggy Luijten as a (replacing?) captain, with a voice that makes sandpaper seem smooth... Hear the incredible backing choir of Irene Jansen, Lisette van der Berg and Marcela Bovio. Enjoy again the unbelievable range of Michael Mills!
Singers in order James LaBrie (Dream Theater), Tommy Karevik (Kamelot), Tommy Rogers (Between The Buried and Me) Simone Simons (Epica), Nils K Rue (Pagan's Mind), Tobias Sommet (Avantasia), Michael Mills (Toehider), Russell Allen (Symphony X), Michael Eriksen (Circus Maximus) Floor Jansen (Nightwish)
@@sabina1118 Just to clarify : The Ayreon Universe is the Best of Concert they did and I would love you and Henri do the whole concert in sequence 😊. Of course people will recommend the most known songs now but to me every single one is a little gem in its own right. And although it was a "best of Ayreon" with songs from various albums I feel this concert still followed kind of a red line. Anyways have lots of fun with it and don't keep it from Henri 🤘🏻😄.
@@sabina1118 Yes, the Ayreon Universe concert is spectacular. Here's my newest favourite discovery from that show: Intergalactic Space Crusaders th-cam.com/video/mDjomu33Xzc/w-d-xo.html&start_radio=1
Every time I hear this song I feel like I'm on an adventure. it's like Ayreon is taking us on a guided tour of how he puts his music together. Thank you for checking this out, and a great reaction as always. Love from Florida.
I love the video with all the production tidbits and info. Arjen just really comes off as so genuine and sweet here, which from everything I have heard about him is exactly how he is.
@@sabina1118 My youngest son bought them all - over some time as he is still at school so some have been requested for birthdays and Christmas presents, which has kept him busy for a while.
I try to make a list of the vocalists in order of appearance: James LaBrie - Dream Theater Tommy Karevik - Kamelot Tommy Rogers - Between the buried and me Simone Simons - Epica Nils K Rue - Pagan's Mind Tobias Sammet - Avantasia Hansi Kürsch - Blind Guardian Michael Mills - Toehider Russell Allen - Symphony X Michael Eriksen - Circus Maximus Floor Jansen - Nightwish I hope I didn't mess it up, so correct me if I am wrong.
Arjen Anthony Lucassen is a master and a genuine nice guy. He is a recluse so does not tour outside the Netherlands. I'm sure you would enjoy the songs in the Ayreon Universe concert. BTW - the binary being sung by Michael Mills is "Trust TH-1". Thank you for the review :-)
Best presentation of the performance I’ve seen. Great job on that. Well thought out on your part as well. Thanks again for sharing this wonderful song with us all. 😎
Arjen is such a musical master when it comes to big prog projects, he produces whole soundscapes that paint pictures in the mind. Arjen is so good at placing the richt person for every character, he has written multiple albums all with huge themes. I have to lesten to at least one album a week
I loved watching you enjoying this. Some people pause several times and give their comments during the song but you watched and listened to the whole thing first and then gave your comment. You also have a lovely energy. Kind regards!
Thank you! After so many years I'm now gonna rediscover Ayreon. The first time back when I was searching for cooperations where Anneke van Giersbergen was singing in her beautiful voice
I'm so glad you got to finally experience the Genius that is Arjen Lucassen. Note that every performer not explicitly mentioned by him is himself - on keyboards, synths, and all guitars, in addition to composing, casting, mixing, mastering and producing this masterpiece. The albums are all well worth listening to, and all are themed parts of the same universe setting. The binary lyrics for TH-1, the android that helps the survivors escape are extended ASCII for "trustTH1", and Michael Mills' vocal range in all that harmonising is absolutely insane! He could cover (easily, with spare range at both ends) every part in a male voice choir from bass to top tenor.
Welcome to the Ayreon universe! Everybody Dies, Ride The Comet, Intergalactic Space Crusaders or Valley of The Queens all live. There is so much more! Good luck on your journey! Rock On Stay Safe!🙏🤘🤘🤘
Arjen Anthony Lucassen's creations are so amazingly fun. You should see some of the live performances from the mind of this Dutch genius. So many great singers and musicians. Also many different styles. Kind of like opera or Broadway shows with metal musicians. So unique and special. Loved it Sabina. 💖
Yes yes yesssss Sabina! You have found Ayreon!! Shortest 13.5 min of your life! I've used that phrase before 😉 You are going to love, not only this album, but all of Ayreon/Star One/Guilt Machine. Trust me😊
Arjen is one of my musical heroes. His talent, sense of humor and the fact that he is an all around good guy listening to him since the mid to late 90s and the musicians he as gotten to work with over the years blows my mind.
Ayreon is one of the projects from the musical genius Arjen Lucassen. It is set in a SciFi world and each album is a story, kind of a rock opera (he labels it so himself). The most prominent other project he has is Star One which overall is a bid harder music, and the topic here is that each song relates to a movie or TV series and each album has a main topic. For instance, the last album “Revel in Time” deals with time travel and has songs related to well-known movies like Terminator, Interstellar and Back to the Future. Both Ayreon and Star One are not fixed band but projects that rely on guest musicians. Arjen has such a high reputation and is such a nice guy that musicians love to perform for Arjen. For instance, I once say an interview with Simone Simons from Epica where asked about projects she was going to do and she mentioned that Arjen asked her and of course she agreed, even though she didn’t have the time yet to check the material. Initially Arjen though that it would be impossible to perform Ayreon songs live because of the many musicians involved. However, after a live production of the Ayreon album “The Human Equation” (not produced by Arjen himself) was a big success, he decided to give it a chance and has since produced 2 amazing live shows, one was called “Ayreon Universe (the best of Ayreon)” with a selection of songs from different albums, and the other one was a live performance of the whole “Into the Electric Castle” album. In the later one, in spite of the album being 20 years old, he managed to get all the original main signers except for 2. If you want to see a live performance of Ayreon, I suggest you start with “Everybody dies” th-cam.com/video/9AAXtUdM7xE/w-d-xo.html from the same album as the current video you have reacted to. You will recognize most characters in it, even though Arjen didn’t get all the original vocalists. You can clearly see how everyone is really enjoying playing. Overall, Arjen is very communicative about his projects. He regularly posts behind the scenes videos and often gives long geeky interviews. However, he doesn’t like to perform live. So in live shows, you will only see little from him.
Not just the ayreon shows, Star one as well, I've been to one of the earlier ones in 2003(if I recall) as you mentioned it is his other prominent project, containing just about the same number of musicians.
Arjen is a talented composer and an amazing musician. Besides all this, he is a humble and lovable person. I like that you noticed that human aspect of him at the first listen! I am his fan, and I look forward to your next reactions to his extensive work. Greetings from Argentina!
This has to sink in girl. I'm a truly such a big fan of everything this guy does. I know him from the early years in Bodine and Vengeance and meet with him in those days. His projects make me cry, laugh and headbang like insane when driving. All album (special editons) on Vinyl you really got to check out the rest of this LEGEND called Arjen. He is such a great and humble, fun person!
Arjen's a mad genius, and he's always seemed like a really nice dude in the interviews I've seen of him. He always introduces me to new musicians and singers too, which I love. Glad you enjoyed this, and as I discovered when I first this in 2017 through some other reaction channel, you've got decades of great stuff from Arjen to go back and check out now!
I heard this project for many time in my opinion it is absolutely amazing. thank you for you reaction nd that you have play the whole video without comments! I recommend you to listen the brand-new project star one it is worth to listen
Arjen has made so much great music. Most recently, he released a Star One album. Be sure to listen to the song "Fate of Man" featuring Brittney Slayes from Unleash the Archers. a fantastic song!
Great reaction to a great song. I loved it. And a good idea to skip your written comments and tell it verbally. (only for this song, i usually enjoy these comments)
Loved your reaction as usual. I think you need to do it again with Henri though. You can't leave her out on Ayreon reactions. Your facial expressions were priceless and now we need to see Henri's expressions.
Sabina, I am going to quote you verbatim. "Music is a strong connecting force in which we can meet and understand each other no matter our backgrounds or beliefs. And I enjoy meeting new people and share the unique moments of listening to a new piece of music for the first time - there's few things that can compare..." You could not have put my own thoughts better. Ayreon is a very good example. Such a diversity of music styles. BTW my favourite part is pianist Joost doing some beautiful keyboard work in the "bluesy" part.
Justin Haywood/War of the Worlds meets Dream Theatre. Sci fi imaginarium with a great collection of musical talent. I like this a lot. Outstanding song choice Sabina.
Sabina, you have provided again an excellent take on this project. Arjen is a genius, and I look forward to his and your next posting. Uh, Note: toward the end, I think I heard your clothes dryer running... not a critique, just something I noticed.
FINALLY 🤩!!!! Ayreon is a musical project by Dutch songwriter, singer, musician and record producer Arjen Anthony Lucassen. Ayreon's music is described as progressive rock, progressive metal and power metal sometimes combined with genres such as folk, electronica, experimental and classical music. The majority of Ayreon's albums are dubbed "rock operas" because the albums contain complex storylines featuring a host of characters, usually with each one being represented by a unique vocalist. Each Ayreon album tells a different story, but all, with the exceptions of Actual Fantasy, The Theory of Everything, and Transitus, take place in the same fictional, science fiction universe; additionally, Lucassen's solo album Lost in the New Real is also set in the Ayreon universe. Ayreon's music is characterized by the use of traditional instruments in rock music mixed with instruments more native to folk and classical music. Lucassen writes the music and the lyrics, sings and plays most of the instruments on all of the Ayreon albums, alongside many guest musicians. His most regular collaborator is drummer Ed Warby. The binary code means "Trust TH-1" The singers in order of appearance are: James LaBrie from Dream Theater Tommy Karevik from Kamelot, Seventh Wonder Tommy Rogers from Between the Buried and Me Simone Simons from the most epic Epica Nils K. Rue from Pagan's Mind and Eidolon Tobias Sammet from Edguy and here mentioned Avantasia Hansi Kürsch the „Bard from Walhalla“ from Blind Guardian Mike Mills playing a computer and singing binary from Toehider Russell Allen from Symphony X Michael Eriksen from Circus Maximus and last but not least the incredible Valkyrie Goddess Floor Jansen from Nightwish Legend says , Arjen was the one who discovered Floor's talent when she was 16... Here is little taste Of Ayreon Universe , Whole Concert list : Ayreon - Prologue / Dreamtime (Universe) LYRICS IN SUBS th-cam.com/video/hPcDLWsRX04/w-d-xo.html Ayreonauts UNITE ✌🤓🤘.
Here is a list of the composer and singers in order of appearance: Arjen Lucassen - Composer - Dutch singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist musician and record producer best known for his long-running progressive metal/rock opera project Ayreon. James Labrie - Lead singer for Dream Theatre. Tommy Karevik - Lead singer of Kamelot and Seventh Wonder. Tommy Rodgers - Lead singer of Between the Buried and Me. Simone Simons - Lead singer of Epica. Nils K. Rue - Lead singer of Pagan's Mind and also worked with Eidolon. Tobias Sammet - Lead singer of Edguy & Avantasia. Hansi Kürsch - Lead singer of Blind Guardian and Demons & Wizards. Mike Mills - Multi-instrumentalist, vocalist and main songwriter for Toehider. Russell Allen - Lead singer of Symphony X and Allen/Lande. Michael Eriksen - Lead singer of Circus Maximus. Floor Jansen - Lead singer of After Forever, ReVamp & now Nightwish. Instrumentalists 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 (ex-Pater Moeskroen) - flute, wind instruments Arjen Anthony Lucassen - electric and acoustic guitars, all other instruments (composer) Next I would suggest reacting to the performances at Ayreon Universe concert, especially the following Intergalactic Space Crusaders, River of Time, Merlin's Will, Valley of the Queens, Ride the Comet, Star of Sirrah, And the Druids Turn to Stone, Age of Shadows & Everybody Dies.
Buckle up because we are going on a trip into the world of Arjen Anthony Lucassen (Ayreon, Ambeon, Star One, Guilt Machine, Gentle Storm, Stream of Passion) aka Ayreon Universe. Enjoy the music!! Next stop: Ayreon - Everybody Dies (Ayreon Universe) th-cam.com/video/9AAXtUdM7xE/w-d-xo.html Ayreon - Star of Sirrah (Universe) th-cam.com/video/3dEHQNAZsIo/w-d-xo.html Ayreon - Intergalactic Space Crusaders (Universe) th-cam.com/video/mDjomu33Xzc/w-d-xo.html Ayreon - The Eye Of Ra (Universe) th-cam.com/video/odcO0SciTUY/w-d-xo.html Ayreon - Twisted Coil (Electric Castle And Other Tales) th-cam.com/video/gcHn0kCgmAs/w-d-xo.html
i love Ayreon! if you want a complete experience i would love for you to do the entirety of "into the electric castle". There is a live version on youtube of every song in the project. it's pretty amazing; Doing them in sequence you get the experience that entire story; he plays a part in that one himself: the hippy :-). Another one is "the human equation". Entirely different feel but a masterpiece as well; very emotional; thanks for this one and see you soon;
Originally, all the live songs from the Electric castle where on TH-cam. However lately, about half of them has dsappeared, I guess for copyright reaons because there were ripped from the BlueRay. Gladly for me, I have the BlueRay Version so I can rewatch it as often as I want.
Arjen has been working with over 100 top singers and musicians during the years - and with Floor since 2000!! - and Floor's sister Irene is also more or less a permanent member of his "returning singers". Arjen Lucassen produces tons of phenomenal music, and most artists from all over the world, wants to be a member of his little black book of preferred artist.
This is exactly what Arjen hopes for and is keeping his music from getting blocked. His projects are not know for being played on the radio and he does not tour (how can he with all these guest singers). So the only way to get out and be known in the world is via reaction video's and you are proof that it works... ps. He already worked with Floor when she was like 19 years old... She is a regular in his universe (Ayreon and Star One)
To complete the list of singers ..... INSTRUMENTALISTS: Joost van den Broek (ex-After Forever) - grand piano and electric piano, Maaike Peterse (Kingfisher Sky) - cello, Ed Warby - (Gorefest) drums, Ben Mathot - violin, Jeroen Goossens (ex-Pater Moeskroen) - flute and wind instruments, Arjen Anthony Lucassen - electric and acoustic guitars, all other instruments
Mike Mills makes me happy to be Aussie. He's great, really lovely guy who held my jacket at a gig while I was trying to get my purse out of my bag. But check out Toehider which is mostly him playing in his studio.
Hi Sabina, great live performances by Ayreon are "Everybody dies" and "Star of Sirrah" (From the same project as this), and from on of the other projects of Arjen Lucassen: Star One: "Lost Children of the Universe", "Prescient" and "Fate of Man"
Ayreon is amazing, a new rabbithole to explore. I highly recommend Twisted Coil song by the amazing Damian Wilson in the live Ayreon concert "Electric Castle Live and Other Tales" The subject matter is depression and the lyrics were written by Arjen's girlfriend Lori Linstruth.
If some day, which is hopefully in the very, very distant future, a certain Mr. Dickinson shouldn't be able to muster enough of the power it would take him to rock both, mic 'n' stage, then (and only then) Tommy Karevik would be a very adequate heir to the throne...
Floor and Arjen go way back. She just was a couple of years with 'After Forever' when he asked her for one of his many projects. She and her sister Irene joined him several times again since and on his latest album 'Revel in Time' also. Do not be surprised when Arjen makes a comment on your video as he does this often.
yep ayreon and star one by Arjen is worth every minute lots of songs... also avantasia by tobias sammet (here the captain) is a similar project where he goes for singers he loves and lso created lots of good music. these are the two multi singer projects I personally love most.
Omg! Sabina, Please please please watch. Everybody dies! Its live and most of the artists from the album are singing. Its truely a entertaining ride and definately one to watch with Henri.. Please xx
Great reaction! Arjen is an amazing musician and song writer. I will recommend some different songs from the usual follow on's. From the Transitus album I like This Human Equation and Daniel's Descent into Transitus medley. Simone is featured as the sassy and sexy Angel of Death and more of Tommy Karevik's glorious voice. Eye of Ra from the Ayeron Universe live show to see Floor singing with her sister Irene. Valley of the Queens for Floor, Anneke, and Marcela's gorgeous harmonies. Last from his Star One project Lost Children of the Universe (inspired by movie Interstellar) and Fate of Man (inspired by Terminator movies). Ayeron is like a gateway drug to lots of other bands through all the people he gets to perform on his songs. Kamelot was a big one for me (Tommy Karevik's band).
Wow, nice! *looking at Counter 19.01 Minutes, ok, should be some Talk, aftertwards lets go! OK, first Minute, nearly 2 i think didnt get you, and the Wait till the Fade out last 30 secs also werent your Thing:) everything between, i am absolute happy you do like it! Ayreon is Prog at its Core, and he knows how to activate the Artists, never heard of anyone, who would regret Working with him. I mean, he has to, bcs of his Stagepanic, he need the Guys and Ladies;) This Album is really an great Listen to, if you can spare the aprox 2 Hours,. and just let you take away on an Prog Rock Novell , writtenand performed by Music. There will come up some Recons like Everybody dies Live, if you do, great. If not, perhaps you really try one of his Albums instead of an TV Evening, think it would be suited for you Stay Healthy NWA Bavaria north out.
Okay, Sabina, I can tell you right away that you have just scratched the surface. I discovered Arjen Lucassen´s work only this winter, and have been obsessing about it ever since. First of all, the amount of musicanship involved is off the charts. You can check out vocal coaches and music coaches, they are going nuts about this. Also you will enjoy this thing more if you listen to it many many times, because you will always discover something new. That´s how good this is. Then the amount of creativity. How can you even create something like this? Every album is about different time line. The whole universe and it´s history? What the heck? If you want to delve in deeper, which I would highly recommend, check out Everybody Dies next. th-cam.com/video/9AAXtUdM7xE/w-d-xo.html It´s from a live performance, which itself is once-in-a-lifetime experience, because Arjen´s work is said to be unreplicable live. So it took a lot of work to actually make it happen. I recently bought the whole DVD, and we watched it with my colleagues at work - PHENOMENAL!! And the atmosphere - everybody just loved to be the part of this "family"! Two more things: There is a YT channel which makes a sort of "music videos" to Arjen´s albums, where he shows all singers and highlights them, when they sing, and he shows the lyrics. It´s literally like watching an OPERA. Amazing stuff. I highly recommend that you sit down one evening and listen to the whole album Source, from which you just heard the first song. Here is the mentioned lyrics video: th-cam.com/video/vN-kbmQckw8/w-d-xo.html Also, when you introduce this music to Henry, you can watch together a sort of "animated", "cartoon" opera - drama called Transitus. Arjen´s music is not always about space, and sci-fi things. This is a sort of "medieval" story. It would be a beautiful evening for the two of you. Check it out: th-cam.com/video/wZKJJ5gJ-0E/w-d-xo.html Thanks for reading! Enjoy this unbelievable rabbit hole!!! :D
Hello Sabina , welcome to the world of Arjan Lucassen (Aeyron), he composes just like Tuomas (Nightwish) his own Universe (live) in Tilburg 2017, a number of songs that are great to hear, is the Age of Shadows (Marco, Hansi and Floor) and the Star of Sirrha (Tommy Karevik, Maggy Loyd and Floor, have fun , the Whole show is WOW
heyyy, nice reaction as always done well, i second every word by Miller Beer´s comment. i missed your text comments a lot ! but who is in the background making noises ?!
You’re about to fall into a deep rabbit hole and you’ll never want to climb out of it again. Have a look at the two epic live concerts: Ayreon Universe live The electric castle live and other tales.
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May i suggest you to watch the interview with Arjen on the channel "The Charsimatic voice" ? A great channel and a really nice interview. And Arjen is an awesome person. It is a longer video and i don't expect a reaction video to it (you can do that of course, if you want to).
1st there was groups like YES, and ELP, and PROJECTS like Rick Wakeman (from YES) with his "Journey to the Center of the Earth" recording... Then there was side to from Kansas -LeftOverture album, side 2,... and I ROBOT, by Allan Parson's Project, THEN THIS!!!! .... What will be the next?
Since you really liked this one, you maybe would also enjoy this interview of Arjen with Elizabeth from The Charismatic Voice. Its nearly 2 hours, but i watched it all an never felt bored. Tea Time Interview: The greatest epic metal opera composer of all time! th-cam.com/video/zNd6rtIaVr0/w-d-xo.html
Fun fact: I cropped the middle section of this song, the one that starts with 0 1 0 0 0 ecc and renamed it: You can't get away with the blues. Such a great title ikr
Love your videos Sabina...Btw,can you please react to (Tommy Johansson-you raise me up cover) but every time it loops,it's an octave up challenge...It's just insane what he can do with his voice.....Your reaction would be appreciated...♥️🙏
James Labrie - Lead singer for Dream Theatre.
Tommy Karevik - Lead singer of Kamelot .
Tommy Rodgers - Lead singer of Between the Buried and Me.
Simone Simmons - Lead singer of Epica.
Nils K. Rue - Lead singer of Pagan's Mind .
Tobias Sammet - Lead singer of Avantasia.
Hansi Kürsch - Lead singer of Blind Guardian
Mike Mills - Multi-instrumentalist, vocalist and main songwriter for Toehider.
Russell Allen - Lead singer of Symphony X .
Michael Eriksen - Lead singer of Circus Maximus.
Floor Jansen - Lead singer of After Forever, ReVamp & now Nightwish.
May I suggest their song "Everybody Dies" its a live performance - th-cam.com/video/9AAXtUdM7xE/w-d-xo.html
Technically Avantasia is a super group much like Ayreon, Tobias Sammet is the lead singer of Edguy and the Arjen of Avantasia. Otherwise, great list and very useful comment!
And be aware that Ayreon is a rabbithole and there are so many great songs to discover!!!!! Sabina, YOU WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED!
I just love watching people's faces during the Mike Mills part.
It's one of the most extraordinary musical pieces I've ever heard.
Arjen is the one who discovered Floor at the age of 16. She always shows her gratitude as soon as he writes to her if she wants to sing for him.
Next Ayreon - Everybody Dies (live)
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Have fun. Is a must see 😁
Thanks! 😊 🙏
@@sabina1118 Disliked and unsubscribed because of the continuous deletions of my criticisms of anonymous Coyote false claims that Arjen discovered Floor at age 16. Either you are the problem, or TH-cam is. What's it gonna be?
I agree with Everybody Dies live, that one is just something else, an experience to say the least!
Discovered? She also made marks of her own!!! I mean Arjen has little to do with her Nightwish, After forever, ReVamp or Northward. I agree that he discoverd her talent, but she did it her self😮❤😮
@@jimGotland You need people in the business to support you. You can have as much talent and bands as you want, but for notoriety you need people to promote you. That's what Arjen did. He was known and Floor was not.
Ayreon is one of the many musical projects of Dutch composer/multi-instrumentalist/producer Arjen Lucassen. All Ayreon albums are concept albums that tell a story, and Arjen recruits top-notch vocalists from all over the world to portray the various characters in the story. Some of his other projects are Star One, The Gentle Storm, Ambeon, Guilt Machine, and Stream of Passion. Floor and her sister Irene are frequent participants. Due to the logistics of tryin to get all these people together at the same time, live Ayreon performances are few and far between. There have been a few, and luckily they have been preserved on video. Next, I would recommend the live version of Everybody Dies.
The whole ‘Universe’ concert is epic!
Definitely worth to check out!
Looking forward 😍
An incredible song. To have that come from your mind to the actual song is borderline genius. I loved watching your smile and facial expressions with every change within the song. And the head banging... hell yeah. You've come a long way and it's been a joy to watch 🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼🤗
It is!! A Work of art! And Thank you so much! Enjoying every moment of it 🥰
No borderline there, Arjen Anthony Lucassen is as far beyond that border as Tuomas Holopainen is, but in a prog, rather than metal, direction.
Try "Valley of The Queens" next. It features Marcela, Anneke and Floor...
Thanks! Notes taken!!
@@sabina1118 You need to do this Sabina, and you need Henri too, especially for a repeat of this masterpiece.
@@sabina1118 Everybody reacted to that song, Ayreon has much epic records I'd advice Waking Dreams
Or maybe just watch the entire Universe concert with Henri? :)
Ja, such a beautiful song.
This is a true Masterpiece! Excellent casting of singers, and then there's Floor (💗👸). Oh, how I want SIR Russell Allen's ultramasculine voice. Well, everyone was perfect there. And the genius behind all of this is "The Tall Hippie Dude", Arjen Anthony Lucassen, tallest known rock musician (203 cm). ⛄👍
A tie-in with Pete, then. Height-wise, at least. :)
In 2021, I was fortunate to have a brief text exchange with Arjen Lucassen. He is a s genuine and cordial as you would expect. I was so curious what it was like for him to see artist after artist come to his studio and he said he just couldn't stop smiling on the talent on display. Arjen is an absolute musical genius.
Hi Sabina, if you want to explore this project further (live!) you can follow-up up with: " Everybody dies" and (especially) " Star of Syrrah" !!!
Which video should she watch?
@@treintje1001 th-cam.com/video/3dEHQNAZsIo/w-d-xo.html for "Star of Sirrah" and th-cam.com/video/9AAXtUdM7xE/w-d-xo.html for "Everybody Dies".
Yes! Meet Maggy Luijten as a (replacing?) captain, with a voice that makes sandpaper seem smooth... Hear the incredible backing choir of Irene Jansen, Lisette van der Berg and Marcela Bovio. Enjoy again the unbelievable range of Michael Mills!
Singers in order James LaBrie (Dream Theater), Tommy Karevik (Kamelot), Tommy Rogers (Between The Buried and Me) Simone Simons (Epica), Nils K Rue (Pagan's Mind), Tobias Sommet (Avantasia), Michael Mills (Toehider), Russell Allen (Symphony X), Michael Eriksen (Circus Maximus) Floor Jansen (Nightwish)
Omg, Sabina, this rabbit hole is huge and deep but so worth exploring! A whole universe is ahead of you. Just enjoy every bit of it, it's amazing!
I love it!
@@sabina1118 Just to clarify : The Ayreon Universe is the Best of Concert they did and I would love you and Henri do the whole concert in sequence 😊. Of course people will recommend the most known songs now but to me every single one is a little gem in its own right. And although it was a "best of Ayreon" with songs from various albums I feel this concert still followed kind of a red line. Anyways have lots of fun with it and don't keep it from Henri 🤘🏻😄.
@@sabina1118 Yes, the Ayreon Universe concert is spectacular. Here's my newest favourite discovery from that show: Intergalactic Space Crusaders
th-cam.com/video/mDjomu33Xzc/w-d-xo.html&start_radio=1
Oh here's some more Floor action in a great folk-like group setting, Valley of the Queens
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Every time I hear this song I feel like I'm on an adventure. it's like Ayreon is taking us on a guided tour of how he puts his music together. Thank you for checking this out, and a great reaction as always.
Love from Florida.
I love the video with all the production tidbits and info. Arjen just really comes off as so genuine and sweet here, which from everything I have heard about him is exactly how he is.
I was waiting SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO long for this reaction!
Finally here 😂❤️
I binged all Ayreon albums after hearing this song he is so amazing and at least 5 albums are part of this storyline
Insane! 😍
@@sabina1118 amazingly yes
I never buy CD's anymore... One exception: I bought all of Ayreon.
@@sabina1118 My youngest son bought them all - over some time as he is still at school so some have been requested for birthdays and Christmas presents, which has kept him busy for a while.
Sabina, watching you watch this video is as entertaining as the the video itself. Much love from the US!!
I try to make a list of the vocalists in order of appearance:
James LaBrie - Dream Theater
Tommy Karevik - Kamelot
Tommy Rogers - Between the buried and me
Simone Simons - Epica
Nils K Rue - Pagan's Mind
Tobias Sammet - Avantasia
Hansi Kürsch - Blind Guardian
Michael Mills - Toehider
Russell Allen - Symphony X
Michael Eriksen - Circus Maximus
Floor Jansen - Nightwish
I hope I didn't mess it up, so correct me if I am wrong.
Arjen Anthony Lucassen is a master and a genuine nice guy. He is a recluse so does not tour outside the Netherlands. I'm sure you would enjoy the songs in the Ayreon Universe concert. BTW - the binary being sung by Michael Mills is "Trust TH-1". Thank you for the review :-)
Another project from Arjen to check out is Star One - Children of the Universe and other songs based on time (travel) movies.
Best presentation of the performance I’ve seen. Great job on that. Well thought out on your part as well. Thanks again for sharing this wonderful song with us all. 😎
Arjen is such a musical master when it comes to big prog projects, he produces whole soundscapes that paint pictures in the mind. Arjen is so good at placing the richt person for every character, he has written multiple albums all with huge themes. I have to lesten to at least one album a week
I loved watching you enjoying this. Some people pause several times and give their comments during the song but you watched and listened to the whole thing first and then gave your comment. You also have a lovely energy.
Kind regards!
The Planet Y/Forever story he mention is from his 2008 album 01011001
Thank you! After so many years I'm now gonna rediscover Ayreon. The first time back when I was searching for cooperations where Anneke van Giersbergen was singing in her beautiful voice
I'm so glad you got to finally experience the Genius that is Arjen Lucassen.
Note that every performer not explicitly mentioned by him is himself - on keyboards, synths, and all guitars, in addition to composing, casting, mixing, mastering and producing this masterpiece.
The albums are all well worth listening to, and all are themed parts of the same universe setting.
The binary lyrics for TH-1, the android that helps the survivors escape are extended ASCII for "trustTH1", and Michael Mills' vocal range in all that harmonising is absolutely insane! He could cover (easily, with spare range at both ends) every part in a male voice choir from bass to top tenor.
Welcome to the Ayreon universe! Everybody Dies, Ride The Comet, Intergalactic Space Crusaders or Valley of The Queens all live. There is so much more! Good luck on your journey! Rock On Stay Safe!🙏🤘🤘🤘
What a PURE reaction!!!
Arjen Anthony Lucassen's creations are so amazingly fun. You should see some of the live performances from the mind of this Dutch genius. So many great singers and musicians. Also many different styles. Kind of like opera or Broadway shows with metal musicians. So unique and special.
Loved it Sabina. 💖
Yes yes yesssss Sabina! You have found Ayreon!! Shortest 13.5 min of your life! I've used that phrase before 😉
You are going to love, not only this album, but all of Ayreon/Star One/Guilt Machine. Trust me😊
Arjen is one of my musical heroes. His talent, sense of humor and the fact that he is an all around good guy listening to him since the mid to late 90s and the musicians he as gotten to work with over the years blows my mind.
Greetz from the Netherlands, land of gothic metal 🤘😎🤘
Magic rollercoaster ride!!!
I'm so ready!!
Ayreon is one of the projects from the musical genius Arjen Lucassen. It is set in a SciFi world and each album is a story, kind of a rock opera (he labels it so himself). The most prominent other project he has is Star One which overall is a bid harder music, and the topic here is that each song relates to a movie or TV series and each album has a main topic. For instance, the last album “Revel in Time” deals with time travel and has songs related to well-known movies like Terminator, Interstellar and Back to the Future.
Both Ayreon and Star One are not fixed band but projects that rely on guest musicians. Arjen has such a high reputation and is such a nice guy that musicians love to perform for Arjen. For instance, I once say an interview with Simone Simons from Epica where asked about projects she was going to do and she mentioned that Arjen asked her and of course she agreed, even though she didn’t have the time yet to check the material.
Initially Arjen though that it would be impossible to perform Ayreon songs live because of the many musicians involved. However, after a live production of the Ayreon album “The Human Equation” (not produced by Arjen himself) was a big success, he decided to give it a chance and has since produced 2 amazing live shows, one was called “Ayreon Universe (the best of Ayreon)” with a selection of songs from different albums, and the other one was a live performance of the whole “Into the Electric Castle” album. In the later one, in spite of the album being 20 years old, he managed to get all the original main signers except for 2.
If you want to see a live performance of Ayreon, I suggest you start with “Everybody dies” th-cam.com/video/9AAXtUdM7xE/w-d-xo.html from the same album as the current video you have reacted to. You will recognize most characters in it, even though Arjen didn’t get all the original vocalists. You can clearly see how everyone is really enjoying playing.
Overall, Arjen is very communicative about his projects. He regularly posts behind the scenes videos and often gives long geeky interviews. However, he doesn’t like to perform live. So in live shows, you will only see little from him.
Not just the ayreon shows, Star one as well, I've been to one of the earlier ones in 2003(if I recall) as you mentioned it is his other prominent project, containing just about the same number of musicians.
This whole album is incredible, my favorite Ayreon album
Heard the song like 70 times so i know it by heart so i could concentrate on you reaction :)
Arjen is a talented composer and an amazing musician. Besides all this, he is a humble and lovable person. I like that you noticed that human aspect of him at the first listen! I am his fan, and I look forward to your next reactions to his extensive work. Greetings from Argentina!
This has to sink in girl. I'm a truly such a big fan of everything this guy does. I know him from the early years in Bodine and Vengeance and meet with him in those days. His projects make me cry, laugh and headbang like insane when driving. All album (special editons) on Vinyl you really got to check out the rest of this LEGEND called Arjen. He is such a great and humble, fun person!
I been waiting for this moment. thank u sabine. now the next tracks jejeje..
Cant believe this song has 4 years i miss those days
Arjen's a mad genius, and he's always seemed like a really nice dude in the interviews I've seen of him. He always introduces me to new musicians and singers too, which I love. Glad you enjoyed this, and as I discovered when I first this in 2017 through some other reaction channel, you've got decades of great stuff from Arjen to go back and check out now!
True Piece of Masters 😊🇫🇮❤️🎶✨🤘
I heard this project for many time in my opinion it is absolutely amazing. thank you for you reaction nd that you have play the whole video without comments! I recommend you to listen the brand-new project star one it is worth to listen
Ayreon is always a great listen.
arjen is a genius like tuomas
Thanks for the video and happy first april :)
Great song 🤘🤘🔥🔥
Yes, it AWESOME!
Arjen has made so much great music. Most recently, he released a Star One album. Be sure to listen to the song "Fate of Man" featuring Brittney Slayes from Unleash the Archers. a fantastic song!
Great reaction to a great song. I loved it. And a good idea to skip your written comments and tell it verbally. (only for this song, i usually enjoy these comments)
Thank you!! ❤️💥 It was so captivating to both read about the journey and listen to the amazing song. One of the best reaction experiences I have had!!
Definitely check out more Ayreon live shows, awesome thanks 😎
Loved your reaction as usual. I think you need to do it again with Henri though. You can't leave her out on Ayreon reactions. Your facial expressions were priceless and now we need to see Henri's expressions.
Sabina, I am going to quote you verbatim.
"Music is a strong connecting force in which we can meet and understand each other no matter our backgrounds or beliefs.
And I enjoy meeting new people and share the unique moments of listening to a new piece of music for the first time - there's few things that can compare..."
You could not have put my own thoughts better. Ayreon is a very good example. Such a diversity of music styles. BTW my favourite part is pianist Joost doing some beautiful keyboard work in the "bluesy" part.
Oh man what a tune. Awesome just awesome. In my humble opinion he saved the best singer for in Floor. Haha, great reaction Sab
Justin Haywood/War of the Worlds meets Dream Theatre. Sci fi imaginarium with a great collection of musical talent. I like this a lot. Outstanding song choice Sabina.
Thank you so much! 🌸
That was fun!
Sabina, you have provided again an excellent take on this project. Arjen is a genius, and I look forward to his and your next posting. Uh, Note: toward the end, I think I heard your clothes dryer running... not a critique, just something I noticed.
FINALLY 🤩!!!!
Ayreon is a musical project by Dutch songwriter, singer, musician and record producer Arjen Anthony Lucassen. Ayreon's music is described as progressive rock, progressive metal and power metal sometimes combined with genres such as folk, electronica, experimental and classical music. The majority of Ayreon's albums are dubbed "rock operas" because the albums contain complex storylines featuring a host of characters, usually with each one being represented by a unique vocalist.
Each Ayreon album tells a different story, but all, with the exceptions of Actual Fantasy, The Theory of Everything, and Transitus, take place in the same fictional, science fiction universe; additionally, Lucassen's solo album Lost in the New Real is also set in the Ayreon universe. Ayreon's music is characterized by the use of traditional instruments in rock music mixed with instruments more native to folk and classical music. Lucassen writes the music and the lyrics, sings and plays most of the instruments on all of the Ayreon albums, alongside many guest musicians. His most regular collaborator is drummer Ed Warby.
The binary code means "Trust TH-1"
The singers in order of appearance are:
James LaBrie from Dream Theater
Tommy Karevik from Kamelot, Seventh Wonder
Tommy Rogers from Between the Buried and Me
Simone Simons from the most epic Epica
Nils K. Rue from Pagan's Mind and Eidolon
Tobias Sammet from Edguy and here mentioned Avantasia
Hansi Kürsch the „Bard from Walhalla“ from Blind Guardian
Mike Mills playing a computer and singing binary from Toehider
Russell Allen from Symphony X
Michael Eriksen from Circus Maximus
and last but not least the incredible Valkyrie Goddess Floor Jansen from Nightwish
Legend says , Arjen was the one who discovered Floor's talent when she was 16...
Here is little taste Of Ayreon Universe , Whole Concert list : Ayreon - Prologue / Dreamtime (Universe) LYRICS IN SUBS th-cam.com/video/hPcDLWsRX04/w-d-xo.html
Ayreonauts UNITE ✌🤓🤘.
Супер трек, супер талантливого музыканта!!!
Here is a list of the composer and singers in order of appearance:
Arjen Lucassen - Composer - Dutch singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist musician and record producer best known for his long-running progressive metal/rock opera project Ayreon.
James Labrie - Lead singer for Dream Theatre.
Tommy Karevik - Lead singer of Kamelot and Seventh Wonder.
Tommy Rodgers - Lead singer of Between the Buried and Me.
Simone Simons - Lead singer of Epica.
Nils K. Rue - Lead singer of Pagan's Mind and also worked with Eidolon.
Tobias Sammet - Lead singer of Edguy & Avantasia.
Hansi Kürsch - Lead singer of Blind Guardian and Demons & Wizards.
Mike Mills - Multi-instrumentalist, vocalist and main songwriter for Toehider.
Russell Allen - Lead singer of Symphony X and Allen/Lande.
Michael Eriksen - Lead singer of Circus Maximus.
Floor Jansen - Lead singer of After Forever, ReVamp & now Nightwish.
Instrumentalists
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 (ex-Pater Moeskroen) - flute, wind instruments
Arjen Anthony Lucassen - electric and acoustic guitars, all other instruments (composer)
Next I would suggest reacting to the performances at Ayreon Universe concert, especially the following Intergalactic Space Crusaders, River of Time, Merlin's Will, Valley of the Queens, Ride the Comet, Star of Sirrah, And the Druids Turn to Stone, Age of Shadows & Everybody Dies.
To continue exploring this rabbit hole, please react to Everybody Dies and Age of Shadows live.
Buckle up because we are going on a trip into the world of Arjen Anthony Lucassen (Ayreon, Ambeon, Star One, Guilt Machine, Gentle Storm, Stream of Passion) aka Ayreon Universe. Enjoy the music!!
Next stop:
Ayreon - Everybody Dies (Ayreon Universe) th-cam.com/video/9AAXtUdM7xE/w-d-xo.html
Ayreon - Star of Sirrah (Universe) th-cam.com/video/3dEHQNAZsIo/w-d-xo.html
Ayreon - Intergalactic Space Crusaders (Universe) th-cam.com/video/mDjomu33Xzc/w-d-xo.html
Ayreon - The Eye Of Ra (Universe) th-cam.com/video/odcO0SciTUY/w-d-xo.html
Ayreon - Twisted Coil (Electric Castle And Other Tales) th-cam.com/video/gcHn0kCgmAs/w-d-xo.html
i love Ayreon! if you want a complete experience i would love for you to do the entirety of "into the electric castle". There is a live version on youtube of every song in the project. it's pretty amazing; Doing them in sequence you get the experience that entire story; he plays a part in that one himself: the hippy :-). Another one is "the human equation". Entirely different feel but a masterpiece as well; very emotional; thanks for this one and see you soon;
Originally, all the live songs from the Electric castle where on TH-cam. However lately, about half of them has dsappeared, I guess for copyright reaons because there were ripped from the BlueRay. Gladly for me, I have the BlueRay Version so I can rewatch it as often as I want.
Arjen has been working with over 100 top singers and musicians during the years - and with Floor since 2000!! - and Floor's sister Irene is also more or less a permanent member of his "returning singers".
Arjen Lucassen produces tons of phenomenal music, and most artists from all over the world, wants to be a member of his little black book of preferred artist.
Hi Sabina my favorite song on the album is "Aquatic Race" 10 people singing together in the huge chorus, it's great :)
here is the link th-cam.com/video/vN-kbmQckw8/w-d-xo.html
😍😍😍😍😍😍 Arjen is "THE BOSS"
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I have to be honest...never heard of Ayreon...but damn I loved this! And Floor...wowsers!
This is exactly what Arjen hopes for and is keeping his music from getting blocked. His projects are not know for being played on the radio and he does not tour (how can he with all these guest singers). So the only way to get out and be known in the world is via reaction video's and you are proof that it works... ps. He already worked with Floor when she was like 19 years old... She is a regular in his universe (Ayreon and Star One)
To complete the list of singers .....
INSTRUMENTALISTS: Joost van den Broek (ex-After Forever) - grand piano and electric piano, Maaike Peterse (Kingfisher Sky) - cello, Ed Warby - (Gorefest) drums, Ben Mathot - violin, Jeroen Goossens (ex-Pater Moeskroen) - flute and wind instruments, Arjen Anthony Lucassen - electric and acoustic guitars, all other instruments
Mike Mills makes me happy to be Aussie. He's great, really lovely guy who held my jacket at a gig while I was trying to get my purse out of my bag. But check out Toehider which is mostly him playing in his studio.
Arjen, probably the most talented musician of our time, imho.
Hi Sabina, great live performances by Ayreon are "Everybody dies" and "Star of Sirrah" (From the same project as this), and from on of the other projects of Arjen Lucassen: Star One: "Lost Children of the Universe", "Prescient" and "Fate of Man"
Ayreon is amazing, a new rabbithole to explore. I highly recommend Twisted Coil song by the amazing Damian Wilson in the live Ayreon concert "Electric Castle Live and Other Tales" The subject matter is depression and the lyrics were written by Arjen's girlfriend Lori Linstruth.
If some day, which is hopefully in the very, very distant future, a certain Mr. Dickinson shouldn't be able to muster enough of the power it would take him to rock both, mic 'n' stage, then (and only then) Tommy Karevik would be a very adequate heir to the throne...
Floor and Arjen go way back. She just was a couple of years with 'After Forever' when he asked her for one of his many projects. She and her sister Irene joined him several times again since and on his latest album 'Revel in Time' also. Do not be surprised when Arjen makes a comment on your video as he does this often.
yep ayreon and star one by Arjen is worth every minute lots of songs... also avantasia by tobias sammet (here the captain) is a similar project where he goes for singers he loves and lso created lots of good music. these are the two multi singer projects I personally love most.
Omg! Sabina, Please please please watch. Everybody dies! Its live and most of the artists from the album are singing. Its truely a entertaining ride and definately one to watch with Henri.. Please xx
Great reaction! Arjen is an amazing musician and song writer. I will recommend some different songs from the usual follow on's. From the Transitus album I like This Human Equation and Daniel's Descent into Transitus medley. Simone is featured as the sassy and sexy Angel of Death and more of Tommy Karevik's glorious voice. Eye of Ra from the Ayeron Universe live show to see Floor singing with her sister Irene. Valley of the Queens for Floor, Anneke, and Marcela's gorgeous harmonies. Last from his Star One project Lost Children of the Universe (inspired by movie Interstellar) and Fate of Man (inspired by Terminator movies). Ayeron is like a gateway drug to lots of other bands through all the people he gets to perform on his songs. Kamelot was a big one for me (Tommy Karevik's band).
Wow, nice! *looking at Counter 19.01 Minutes, ok, should be some Talk, aftertwards lets go!
OK, first Minute, nearly 2 i think didnt get you, and the Wait till the Fade out last 30 secs also werent your Thing:) everything between, i am absolute happy you do like it! Ayreon is Prog at its Core, and he knows how to activate the Artists, never heard of anyone, who would regret Working with him. I mean, he has to, bcs of his Stagepanic, he need the Guys and Ladies;)
This Album is really an great Listen to, if you can spare the aprox 2 Hours,. and just let you take away on an Prog Rock Novell , writtenand performed by Music.
There will come up some Recons like Everybody dies Live, if you do, great. If not, perhaps you really try one of his Albums instead of an TV Evening, think it would be suited for you
Stay Healthy
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Okay, Sabina, I can tell you right away that you have just scratched the surface. I discovered Arjen Lucassen´s work only this winter, and have been obsessing about it ever since.
First of all, the amount of musicanship involved is off the charts. You can check out vocal coaches and music coaches, they are going nuts about this. Also you will enjoy this thing more if you listen to it many many times, because you will always discover something new. That´s how good this is.
Then the amount of creativity. How can you even create something like this? Every album is about different time line. The whole universe and it´s history? What the heck?
If you want to delve in deeper, which I would highly recommend, check out Everybody Dies next. th-cam.com/video/9AAXtUdM7xE/w-d-xo.html It´s from a live performance, which itself is once-in-a-lifetime experience, because Arjen´s work is said to be unreplicable live. So it took a lot of work to actually make it happen. I recently bought the whole DVD, and we watched it with my colleagues at work - PHENOMENAL!! And the atmosphere - everybody just loved to be the part of this "family"!
Two more things: There is a YT channel which makes a sort of "music videos" to Arjen´s albums, where he shows all singers and highlights them, when they sing, and he shows the lyrics. It´s literally like watching an OPERA. Amazing stuff. I highly recommend that you sit down one evening and listen to the whole album Source, from which you just heard the first song. Here is the mentioned lyrics video: th-cam.com/video/vN-kbmQckw8/w-d-xo.html Also, when you introduce this music to Henry, you can watch together a sort of "animated", "cartoon" opera - drama called Transitus. Arjen´s music is not always about space, and sci-fi things. This is a sort of "medieval" story. It would be a beautiful evening for the two of you. Check it out: th-cam.com/video/wZKJJ5gJ-0E/w-d-xo.html
Thanks for reading! Enjoy this unbelievable rabbit hole!!! :D
I saw a great photo recently of Floor standing next to Arjen and it makes Floor (183m) look average height next to his 203cm.
😂😂👏🏻
Hi I've watched this video at least 15 times with different reactors
It seemed You were most impressed on voice of Tommy Karevik😀
She definitely needs to start reacting to Kamelot.
Hello Sabina , welcome to the world of Arjan Lucassen (Aeyron), he composes just like Tuomas (Nightwish) his own Universe (live) in Tilburg 2017, a number of songs that are great to hear, is the Age of Shadows (Marco, Hansi and Floor) and the Star of Sirrha (Tommy Karevik, Maggy Loyd and Floor, have fun , the Whole show is WOW
intergalactic space crusaders..
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You should take a evening and watch the live concert from 2017, Ayreon Universe. You will not be disappointed 😊
When you look good at Tommy Karevik, you see that he sings with his hands in this video ..
heyyy, nice reaction as always done well, i second every word by Miller Beer´s comment. i missed your text comments a lot !
but who is in the background making noises ?!
You’re about to fall into a deep rabbit hole and you’ll never want to climb out of it again.
Have a look at the two epic live concerts:
Ayreon Universe live
The electric castle live and other tales.
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Songs like AAJ and JEE Veeray are Masterpiece.
May i suggest you to watch the interview with Arjen on the channel "The Charsimatic voice" ?
A great channel and a really nice interview. And Arjen is an awesome person.
It is a longer video and i don't expect a reaction video to it (you can do that of course, if you want to).
listen to garden of emotions live from ayreon universe next ;)
Love your accent
1st there was groups like YES, and ELP, and PROJECTS like Rick Wakeman (from YES) with his "Journey to the Center of the Earth" recording... Then there was side to from Kansas -LeftOverture album, side 2,... and I ROBOT, by Allan Parson's Project, THEN THIS!!!! .... What will be the next?
at 7:15: Is that water running /a shower ? again at 9:20 : finishing in the shower ?
If you liked this you’ll want to watch everybody dies (live). It’s much shorter and is insane.
Since you really liked this one, you maybe would also enjoy this interview of Arjen with Elizabeth from The Charismatic Voice. Its nearly 2 hours, but i watched it all an never felt bored.
Tea Time Interview: The greatest epic metal opera composer of all time!
th-cam.com/video/zNd6rtIaVr0/w-d-xo.html
Fun fact: I cropped the middle section of this song, the one that starts with 0 1 0 0 0 ecc and renamed it: You can't get away with the blues.
Such a great title ikr
Love your videos Sabina...Btw,can you please react to (Tommy Johansson-you raise me up cover) but every time it loops,it's an octave up challenge...It's just insane what he can do with his voice.....Your reaction would be appreciated...♥️🙏
more Ayreon When?