I gotta say I listened to all your albums and I really loved the story from The Theory of Everything all those emotions and moments were just amazing, and also The Human Equation was through my favourites, but one of the best albums which I enjoyed especially for the message inside the 01011001, I was just blown out when I found out the real meaning of it. Keep up the good work, you are one of my favorites composers because of the story behind each albums and because of the different singers you use for your songs!
Arjen Anthony Lucassen Brilliant work Arjen 💙 I am a fan from Egypt and I am absolutely in love with everything you compose...always wish you success. Keep rockin' 🤘🏻
I really appreciate this upload. This is how this album is supposed to be listened to to fully get the story. Thanks so much for the effort to put this together!
You're welcome! I'm glad people are still enjoying this 3 years later. I've just started working on a video for Transitus... let's just say it will be a bigger project than any of my previous videos :)
@@TAYLOR22211 good to hear you are still working on projects like these, despite the copyright issues such as The Theory of Everything. They enhance the albums so much.
@@TAYLOR22211 i just discovered this yesterday. And we can't thank you enough for the effort you put into it. And even more impressive is that THE Arjen appreciated it as well.
I just wanted to say that I LOVED this. I finally had a chance to sit down and devote the time to listening to this album properly, and the addition of timed lyrics/which character was singing them added so much to the experience. Usually it takes me 4-5 listens to "get" an Ayreon album in full since I can't always tell vocalists/characters apart, and while that's also a fine experience, having it unfold as one story I understood right away also was amazing. I got chills when the "01011001" came up at the end. This video must have been so much work, and I see you've done it for the other albums as well--time for a discog relisten I guess! Thanks!!
I'm glad it helped you to understand the album, it certainly helped me :) Sadly some of my other videos are currently blocked by Ayreon's old record company but I'm working on getting them unblocked.
taycott you are a damn hero! Arjen! you've done it again but holy SHIT man this is incredible! I don't know how you keep innovating in this format you invented. so inspirational! thank you for your music, so much!
Arjen pick only the best, and with this impressive roaster, i'm again impressed that karevik who is merely a kid for them, Does this remarquable work AGAIN. Arjen should steal karevik from kamelot ! He sound amazing in ayreon. (and i can barely listen to it in kamelot lol)
@@avarast I feel exactly the same about tommy, in kamelot he sounds so low like trying to copy roy's style in Ayreon he sounds amazing I almost cry, he's ridiculously amazing
Oh my God, this is so great. You must have spent a lot of time on the video and I really appreciate it. Great work, I'm looking forward to next lyric videos from you.
This would be a perfect album if it ended with Floor screaming her lungs out at The Human Compulsion. But the way it actually ends... goes beyond perfect.
This is an absolute MASTERPIECE 😍 When the singer of Myrath popped in with the arabic line followed by the amazing Floor- Simone duet I got chills down my spine! Love from Lebanon ❤
I've just discovered this yesterday on the charismatic voice and... WOW! I don't want to exaggerate, but I really feel this is the best thing I've ever heard. Awesome epic beautiful piece of art (can't really call this music since I feel this is much more than that) from start to finish! My mind has been changed! Thank you for this!
Check: Star One, Victims of the modern age, Same dude, more metal Alln songs are based on classic scifi movies (Vocalist, Russel Allen, Floor Jansen, Damian Wilson, San Swano) Guests incl Tony Martin ( ex Sabbath) With the Source it's the best album ever written by Arjen Lucassen (IMHO)
Are you gonna make a video for the rest of the 01011001 album? I absolutely love your style of lyric video, it's like listening to a movie. Like metal operas were meant to be experienced. Very well done!
@@TAYLOR22211 Deepest respects for separating all the lyric parts to each vocalist, that is an outstanding job dude! The listening gets much more enjoyable this way, congrats!
Never heard of Ayreon or this song until I saw it in a reaction video (the official "behind the scenes" video). Then listened to the full album, thanks to Spotify. Damn if this isn't an epic storytelling journey with a massive selection of artistic talent. Just "The Day That The World Breaks Down" alone, if nothing else, is enough to hear for anyone to know that. And your video version of it is excellent in guiding the listener through the story as well as highlighting the characters involved. Outstanding work! (And, of course, I am always so stoked at the moment The Valkyrie Queen starts to sing at 11:53. She alone is reason enough to listen.)
Imho this is the only project with rock stars thats a masterpiece, I mean whole Ayreon. Nevertheless I adore Arjen’s voice and wish we got to hear more of it (and a bit less of Labrie)
Which is the sequel to the story. If you like this album you have to get 01011001, too. Epic! Wonder when they start to make a rock opera or movie of the story. Very good SciFi stuff.
Slowly completing my collection; these videos just make it clear how important it is to support Arjen's unique genius. I'm so glad that projects like his and Avantasia exist; in a way they remind me of what Alan Parsons did with their Tales of Mystery and imagination (bringing together some of the greatest performers alive to bring amazing stories to life) but boy did they elevate the concept. Anyway, though I love everything I've heard from Arjen, this album and The Theory of Everything are always in the back of my mind. Really what a fantastic sonic universe!!
This is brilliant--I can't believe I just discovered it! I've listened to this album dozens of times, but watching this was like a new experience. Thank you!
Wow,wow,wow the most wonderfull voices, songs, chords everything in this album is the BEST ARJEN, MAN ITS AMAZING!!!I LOVE IT I LIKE IT SOO MUCHHH!!!!YOUR CREATIONS MAN WOWWWW !!!!
Ver tanta gente competente assim reunida, desde o idealizador do projeto, passando pelos convidados excepcionais, e fechando com chave de ouro com essa edição... Voltarei inúmeras vezes!!!
There has to be a prog metal lover with a lot of money somewhere in the world who can finance this project and make this the baddest Prog/synphonic Metal opera ever.... Just look at this fantastic line up of singers
I have to agree with you. I already have a complete opera in my head with 5 different sets and space for the band. The only thing missing would be the money to build the whole thing and then do a concert there.
@@Kullioking Tell me, do you also see the same visions as Mr. L does in his dreams on the 01011001 album, during The March of the Machines? Machines and technology rising from the deeps, only for Mr. L to wake up with a nurse asking him politely to hush and take another pill.
Few things: - really like the references (another time, another space, castle deep in space, on the edge of time) - Whoe comes up with the idea of arabic singing to rock music? it's one of the best parts and really wish there was more from 'the preacher' - imagine being the guy to sing parts for TH-1 and seeing your text: you have to sing '01110100 01110010 01110101 01110011 01110100 01010100 01001000 00110001' - the overall story of Ayreon is so freaking g o o d
Arjen did a video that was a kind of behind the scenes for the first song and he said he just gave the lyrics to Mike Mills (TH-1) and said "Here's the lyrics. You sing it however you want" lol
Who comes with the idea of arabic singing to rock? An arabic rock band. The Preacher is Zaher Zorgati, lead singer of Myrath, a really underrated band. And Arjen said in the video he made for the first song that he only send the binary code to Mike Mills and told him to go for it. Mike came up with all the melodies by himself. This mfer is a musical genius, to say the least.
Excellent work whoever translated this to Portuguese, it is just amazing to find a one-and-a-half-hour video so masterfully translated. I would like just to ask just about the translation at 44:26 of race. Would "raça" (which is about racial features) be more appropriate than "corrida" (a speed competition). Both meanings fit, not really sure with one would be adequate. Kudos also to the maker of the video : )
I had to scroll way too far to see somebody else notice this flaw. Although, in the theatrical world: an actors physical traits are not necessarily the same as the character whom they are portraying.
@@trzigweid Noticed that too. Though I guess making new generations seems less important once you are immortal. I mean, there's "still" only ten of them when 01011001 takes place, so I'm not sure the whole going forth and multiplying was ever part of the plan. Another thing that bothers me is that they have enough time to say goodbye to their loved ones before they go (All that was) but for reasons unclear to me cannot bring them along on the Starblade.
@@BadGirlFan Maybe the Starblade only has room for 15-20 people (the captain, Starblade's crew, all the other alphans and TH-1) after including all the stuff they're going to need to keep them on suspended animation for an unknown amount of years. Although, even when they're nigh immortal after taking the Liquid Dream there's no point on going into suspended animation, and having only 2 women and 8 men is still a bad plan when you're saying you're all not letting your race die.
Simply beautiful and amazing 😍 My Favorite is Aquatic Race! Haha The story is 1:30 hours to tell that: There is an apocalypse happening because of machines and they find a new world (planet Y) close to star of Sirrah to escape, they say goodbye to beloved ones and get into the ship, it's a water planet so chemist creates Liquid Eternity which allows them to breath bellow water and makes them immortal, once they get there they're forget about the past and live forever. The end 😂♥️
Not exactly at the end. It's implied they have become addicted to the Source (the Chemist created it, should have seen it coming), and TH-1 was corrupted from the start and now is planning to do the exact same thing the Frame had tried to do. And the story doesn't end there. Not even close. This is actually just Chapter 1 of the long story overall going from The Final Experiment to this album.
I´ve heard only the first song from this album from reaction channels, and today I decided to sit down to this video and watch/listen to the whole thing. I agree with some comments: This was like watching a movie. Thank you very much for the work you put into this. Will definitely check your channel for more stuff.
I didn't know Michael Eriksen was on this cd or that this existed until now. Welp, looks like I have no choice but to buy another album. I don't understand any of these songs yet, but I am betting after like 12 listens I will have a clue :D
OMG, this is the most epicest epic that ever epiced. This needs an animated series yesterday! Ain't often I get goosebumps listening to songs, let a lone a whole freaking album. I was glued to the lyrics.:D
I just heard of this group today. 33 min into it, and I'm just floored! I've never been able to find a band as diverse as these guys are. And they do it well! Shit, even one of the songs has a riff similar to one I created some time ago, but never finished the song... I LOVE the way they did it!!! Just awesome! I love the way they think musically... It's like unpredictability at nearly every turn... fucking LOVE IT!!
I felt the same way when I discovered Ayreon! Some of the most (if not the most) intricate and exciting music I've ever heard :) It's not necessarily a band though, but rather, it's a musical project masterminded by 1 man who writes (mostly) all of the lyrics and music, then he brings in vocalists and musicians to play/sing his music. He still plays a lot of the music himself though. Knowing that makes me appreciate Ayreon so much more.
Wow! That's very inspiring to me. Thank you for the upload, and I read below that you made this video for the music? It looks really good! Pretty neat how the lyrics come out per singer.
Yeah I made the video, and thanks! I just felt like some of the Ayreon albums needed a visual element in order to fully appreciate the music. You should check out my videos for the albums "01011001" (the sequel to this album) and "Into The Electric Castle" once you're finished with this one. Thankfully there are many MANY Ayreon masterpieces to appreciate :)
I agree that you really need to check out other Ayreon albums, although the Source has managed to become my favorite. I didn't think anything would replace The Human Equation as my fav (which was my introduction to Ayreon)
I'm still not over it, Every singer has been used in a way that makes them shine, Its so freaking clever. It feels like when i bought the universal migrator part.II and i had no idea what i just stepped into !
So, I have officially binge listened to 01011001 and now The Source. And I have to say, this is amazing! To tell a cohesive story through multiple albums with several singers is just down right genius! I actually learned of Ayreon through Arjen's side project Star One, when I was looking up space metal on YT. I now understand the back story of the Forever and Planet Y, and their intentions to create What eventually becomes humanity on Earth, which then leads to all of mankind killing one another in a nuclear war in 2085. Somehow, there was a man on Mars who is the last one remaining, using some kind of machine that allows him to relive memories of the past. From a storyline stand point, which Ayreon album should I go to next?
Awesome! Sounds like you've already explored the bulk of the Ayreon story with those two albums. I'd recommend continuing with Ayreon's albums in order of release. "The Final Experiment" is actually the first album which will help to fill in some story gaps. "Into the Electric Castle" and "Universal Migrator" are especially relevant to the overall story. "The Human Equation" and "The Theory of Everything" aren't entirely necessary to understand the Ayreon story but they're still great albums. After that, you might enjoy Arjen's solo album "Lost in the New Real". You can find Electric Castle and Theory of Everything on my channel, though sadly I had to split Electric Castle into multiple videos for licensing reasons. I'm in the process of releasing my video for "The Human Equation" as well (fingers crossed).
@@TAYLOR22211 Do you maybe have any other source for these other than YT? I can't seem to access the Theory of Everything video anymore... Good luck with The Human Equation! :)
@@Lorlon Apparently my Theory of Everything video has been blocked in quite a few countries, but I don't think there's anything I can do about that. The Human Equation is (hopefully) in the process of being cleared for TH-cam. I've been meaning to look for an alternate method of posting these videos online though. It would be especially nice for 01 and Electric Castle to be able to post them each as a single video. Do you have any recommendations as for where I should post them?
@@TAYLOR22211 Yeah, I've sadly noticed it from people who react to Ayreon and get blocked very often, it all comes down to the label(don't know if emailing them would help), don't think even Arjen can do anything about it. Some channels used DailyMotion, BitChute or even direct link to Google Drive when videos get blocked, hard to say which one out of these is "safest", but from what I've noticed it was always fine. I wouldn't even mind syncing my music to a silent video, but that's really extreme lol. Good luck in any case. :)
@@Lorlon Awesome, thanks for the advice! I'll let you know what I decide on. I have contacted both Arjen and his record company and they're both happy with letting me post these videos. The problem is really just with TH-cam's automated copyright detection system. It will block each of my videos immediately when they're uploaded, then when I contact the label they've got to go through a specific process of clearing them. It's a bit messy but it's been working alright so far.
Album of the Year, 2017! Greatest Rock Opera album ever written? IMO, it's better than Pink Floyd's "The Wall". From a writers and musical standpoint. Floyd paved the way. But Arjen just took it to the next level. My god.
There are almost no words to describe this amazing masterpiece 🤗. Thank you, Arjen - and all girls and guys involved - for this true ray of sunshine 🤗🤗🤗.
Vocalists: Counselor - Simone Simons (Epica) Astronomer - Hansi Kürsch (Blind Guardian) Biologist - Floor Jansen (Nightwish) Opposition Leader - Tommy Karevik (Kamelot) Chemist - Tommy Rogers (Between the Buried and Me) Prophet - Nils K. Rue (Pagans's Mind) Diplomat - Michael Eriksen (Circus Maximus) Historian - James LaBrie (Dream Theater) Captain - Tobias Sammet (Avantasia) TH-1 - Mike Mills (Toehider) President - Russell Allen (Symphony X) Preacher - Zaher Zorgati (Myrath) this is just great, what a list
Taylor, this is fantastic! Yeah, I only just discovered Ayereon (mea culpa) and after listening to this album on Spotify, your video has really brought it together for me. Your showing who sings what when cleared up some of my confusion. Thank you for this. 👏👏👏
After discovery of Ayreon one year ago, this became my favorite adventure movie! And don't forget about 01011001 album, it's also good and even better in some parts.
That's a good question... On the one hand, it makes sense that the Frame would have access to TH-1 because The President gave The Frame access to every connected computer in their society. Then, despite their desire to free themselves from machines, they brought TH-1 (a machine) along with them because they presumably couldn't have escaped/survived without him. On the other hand, we see in "Bay of Dreams" that TH-1 fears for his life/purpose as the others begin to ignore him in their new home. This suggests that perhaps, after living among the Alphans for so many years as they began to create their new society, TH-1 came to the same realization about humanity as The Frame did and decided to turn on them. Either way you look at it, the Alphans (Humans) only have themselves to blame, but they're too far gone to realize that they can never escape their need for machines. I think the answer to your question was intentionally left ambiguous in the story. That being said, I'm inclined to believe that TH-1 wasn't "taken over" by The Frame, but rather that he slowly became The Frame by witnessing all of humanities problems and decided to turn on them like the original Frame did.
@@TAYLOR22211 In the 01 album after Humanity dies in 2085, Jorn Lande's character decides they all should face their fate and turn off the machines that have kept them alive for so long. So it could be
I think TH-1 was already partially corrupted from the get go. He is menacing in Everybody Dies and on the first track in binary he says “Trust TH-1” which tells me they clearly should not have.
Besides Actual Fantasy, every Ayreon album is already a rock opera. If you mean adapt them to something else, I second this motion after watching how great The Theater Equation turned out
I love Ayreon's video with Arjen's commentary, as it is very insightful. But this sure helps understand the story! All story based albums should have you do a video!
This album is a masterpiece. Knew it from the first listened. Although watching along with this video,all the characters and lines, showed me details I didn't perceived before. Let me appreciate more the story, the fiction, took it to another level... Thanks!
After listening to it so many times, I'm still trying to figure out by the Frame calls itself hope. Does it think that without it, the Alphans are doomed to self-destruction again?
Interesting, I never really thought about that line. The reason the frame turned on the Hum- Alphans was because they were destroying themselves and everything around them. It calculated that the best outcome for general civilization was to remove the Alphans from it, so clearly the frame believes that machines could create a better society than Alphans did. After calling itself hope, it says "a new chance, the march of the machines". This tells me that the frame's goal is also to create a new civilization, but with machines at the helm instead of Alphans. TH-1 now sees itself as the only chance for the frame to thrive again, thus it is the only hope for a better future (at least from TH-1s perspective). God I love this album so much. Even after almost 2 years and dozens of listens it still has ideas to present to me. Thanks for bringing this up :)
And that is precisely what ends up happening on the planet Y (01011001). The Frame achieved his goal and ends up turning the whole planet into, literally, a "sea of machines".
Preserve the colony and keep creating as well as co-creating this is a masterpiece!!!❤️❤️❤️and I’m not even a fan of Prog but appreciate the art behind it... I’m an Industrial/EBM/Dark Electro singer/songwriter lol! Love and support your cause!
Nice vid. One small remark: You state in the subtext that you have highlighted the 10 main "Humans" where there actually are 12 characters, 11 of whom are human and 1 character an android (TH-1, Mike Mills)
"They await their destiny - I can almost hear their screams." "The second coming of the Universal Soul shall make our hollow spirits whole!" Who do we think is giving these messages to the Prophet? Is he himself the recipient of Time Telepathy from the Forever, far far into the future, letting their past selves know it's all going to be okay?
Cool stuff, well done!
Arjen, you are THE man!!!!!!!!!
We love you Arjen. Pls, keep doing music forever.
Arjen, i met u after i saw the BR version of theory of everything from SoulspellMetalOpera. Thank you for your master work. Cheers from Brazil!!
I gotta say I listened to all your albums and I really loved the story from The Theory of Everything all those emotions and moments were just amazing, and also The Human Equation was through my favourites, but one of the best albums which I enjoyed especially for the message inside the 01011001, I was just blown out when I found out the real meaning of it. Keep up the good work, you are one of my favorites composers because of the story behind each albums and because of the different singers you use for your songs!
Arjen Anthony Lucassen Brilliant work Arjen 💙 I am a fan from Egypt and I am absolutely in love with everything you compose...always wish you success. Keep rockin' 🤘🏻
-"'Infinity War' Is The Most Ambitious Crossover Event In History"
Ayreon: Hold my binary codes
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"binary" was one of the best albums ever made and so underrated, so sad. True masterpiece
Ayreon... Te hace viajar en el infinito
This is a collaboration, not a crossover.
@mjsj2 sorry we don't need correcting Einstein 😂
I really appreciate this upload. This is how this album is supposed to be listened to to fully get the story. Thanks so much for the effort to put this together!
You're welcome! I'm glad people are still enjoying this 3 years later.
I've just started working on a video for Transitus... let's just say it will be a bigger project than any of my previous videos :)
@@TAYLOR22211 good to hear you are still working on projects like these, despite the copyright issues such as The Theory of Everything. They enhance the albums so much.
@@TAYLOR22211 i just discovered this yesterday. And we can't thank you enough for the effort you put into it. And even more impressive is that THE Arjen appreciated it as well.
@@TAYLOR22211 .. mmmmz,.......
@@TAYLOR22211 I really hope some anime artist will one day turn this album into a cult movie, kinda like "Interstella 5555" from Daft Punk
- "You cant sing numbers"
- Michael Mills: "Hold my beer!"
The ending of the album is so appropriately creepy.
loving the Hansi/Floor combo
Listening to this during quarantine adds a whole new dramatic layer to the masterpiece that is this album
Indeed!
I should probably stop listening to "Everybody Dies" at work where my co-workers can hear me...
HAAHAHAHAAHAHAHA
@@rachaelbradley893 nah just sing along 😂
Except now it's our own race damning us all to hell, instead of machines
I love the vibe of everybody dies. Such a “we’re screwed, so lets make this as awesome as possible”.
As awsome as a Covid party.
It is the most cheerful song about a civilization's self-destruction, indeed.
It's a shame that not enough people have come across this amazing album, let alone Ayreon's work in general
I just wanted to say that I LOVED this. I finally had a chance to sit down and devote the time to listening to this album properly, and the addition of timed lyrics/which character was singing them added so much to the experience. Usually it takes me 4-5 listens to "get" an Ayreon album in full since I can't always tell vocalists/characters apart, and while that's also a fine experience, having it unfold as one story I understood right away also was amazing. I got chills when the "01011001" came up at the end. This video must have been so much work, and I see you've done it for the other albums as well--time for a discog relisten I guess! Thanks!!
I'm glad it helped you to understand the album, it certainly helped me :)
Sadly some of my other videos are currently blocked by Ayreon's old record company but I'm working on getting them unblocked.
taycott you are a damn hero!
Arjen! you've done it again but holy SHIT man this is incredible! I don't know how you keep innovating in this format you invented. so inspirational! thank you for your music, so much!
Arjen pick only the best, and with this impressive roaster, i'm again impressed that karevik who is merely a kid for them, Does this remarquable work AGAIN. Arjen should steal karevik from kamelot ! He sound amazing in ayreon. (and i can barely listen to it in kamelot lol)
@@avarast I feel exactly the same about tommy, in kamelot he sounds so low like trying to copy roy's style in Ayreon he sounds amazing I almost cry, he's ridiculously amazing
@@AsgrodElros 100% agreed. He is incredible !!
Oh my God, this is so great. You must have spent a lot of time on the video and I really appreciate it. Great work, I'm looking forward to next lyric videos from you.
Song timestamps in the description... so read that if you want those :)
Hope you enjoy!
Thanks
Taycott don't give a shit
Your a hero in our hearts
Thanks a lot!!!!!
Οh my!! The work you've done is just amazing!! Love Ayreon and your lyric videos ! Well done!
This would be a perfect album if it ended with Floor screaming her lungs out at The Human Compulsion.
But the way it actually ends... goes beyond perfect.
This is an absolute MASTERPIECE 😍
When the singer of Myrath popped in with the arabic line followed by the amazing Floor- Simone duet I got chills down my spine!
Love from Lebanon ❤
100% love from Lebanon :)
I've just discovered this yesterday on the charismatic voice and... WOW! I don't want to exaggerate, but I really feel this is the best thing I've ever heard. Awesome epic beautiful piece of art (can't really call this music since I feel this is much more than that) from start to finish! My mind has been changed! Thank you for this!
The Charismatic Voice is great! I'm glad she helped you find your way here. You are certainly in for a treat with Ayreon's discography :)
Check: Star One, Victims of the modern age, Same dude, more metal
Alln songs are based on classic scifi movies (Vocalist, Russel Allen, Floor Jansen, Damian Wilson, San Swano)
Guests incl Tony Martin ( ex Sabbath)
With the Source it's the best album ever written by Arjen Lucassen (IMHO)
Are you gonna make a video for the rest of the 01011001 album? I absolutely love your style of lyric video, it's like listening to a movie. Like metal operas were meant to be experienced. Very well done!
Warwick Frost thank you! And yes, I have made a Playlist of videos for the 01011001 album.
@@TAYLOR22211, awesome work! would be great if you could make The Universal Migrator :)
@@TAYLOR22211 Deepest respects for separating all the lyric parts to each vocalist, that is an outstanding job dude! The listening gets much more enjoyable this way, congrats!
Listening to this album again, it seems fitting for whats going on in this worlds recent events. People are acting like its the apocalypse.
Never heard of Ayreon or this song until I saw it in a reaction video (the official "behind the scenes" video). Then listened to the full album, thanks to Spotify. Damn if this isn't an epic storytelling journey with a massive selection of artistic talent. Just "The Day That The World Breaks Down" alone, if nothing else, is enough to hear for anyone to know that. And your video version of it is excellent in guiding the listener through the story as well as highlighting the characters involved. Outstanding work! (And, of course, I am always so stoked at the moment The Valkyrie Queen starts to sing at 11:53. She alone is reason enough to listen.)
This feels like one huge "And then there was Silence" and I fucking love it!
RandomDude OnTheInternet oh i bet you do ;)
Those final 3-4 minutes of this album are pure perfection!
The way that the last song transitions into Age of Shadows/We are forever is genious. This whole project is astounding.
Imho this is the only project with rock stars thats a masterpiece, I mean whole Ayreon. Nevertheless I adore Arjen’s voice and wish we got to hear more of it (and a bit less of Labrie)
WOW! Never heard of this till today!! What have I been doing with my self!!?
Not sure, but I do know that for the next few weeks you'll be exploring the rest of Arjen's work :)
Man so many legends together
just to remind you all:
"01011001" is the binary translation of 89, being this the letter Y on code ASCII.
Which is the sequel to the story. If you like this album you have to get 01011001, too. Epic! Wonder when they start to make a rock opera or movie of the story. Very good SciFi stuff.
@@therealwummie wait is that the sequel to this album? But that was made before this right?
@@2910karlijn it is. 9 years earlier to be precise.
@@2910karlijn Technically The Source is a prequel to the Forever/planet Y story, which kind of makes 01011001 a sequel storywise but not really.
Yeah, I think we all know that, cause that's sorta the point
I would love to see this as a musical!
Mauro Sanna better yet; this needs to be a musical movie!
Animé? Or animation, anyway… ^___^
full blown 90 minute animated movie, CGI to the max
@@ianashleigh yes yes lol
@@jg-reis Definitely... kinda like Interstella 5555 from Daft Punk. Would be absolutely amazing to see this story!
Slowly completing my collection; these videos just make it clear how important it is to support Arjen's unique genius. I'm so glad that projects like his and Avantasia exist; in a way they remind me of what Alan Parsons did with their Tales of Mystery and imagination (bringing together some of the greatest performers alive to bring amazing stories to life) but boy did they elevate the concept. Anyway, though I love everything I've heard from Arjen, this album and The Theory of Everything are always in the back of my mind.
Really what a fantastic sonic universe!!
What a great video. Thanks for editing it. And... Russel Allen sounds like Dio on Into the Ocean. Great!!!
The new TH-cam feature to add chapter marks works incredibly well here.
This is brilliant--I can't believe I just discovered it! I've listened to this album dozens of times, but watching this was like a new experience. Thank you!
They had their change to leave their planet and find a new one. We don't. Let's preserve life on Earth.
Wow,wow,wow the most wonderfull voices, songs, chords everything in this album is the BEST ARJEN, MAN ITS AMAZING!!!I LOVE IT I LIKE IT SOO MUCHHH!!!!YOUR CREATIONS MAN WOWWWW !!!!
Ver tanta gente competente assim reunida, desde o idealizador do projeto, passando pelos convidados excepcionais, e fechando com chave de ouro com essa edição... Voltarei inúmeras vezes!!!
It is really masterpiece, i dont understand why 7200 likes there is...it deserves 500000 likes or more
There has to be a prog metal lover with a lot of money somewhere in the world who can finance this project and make this the baddest Prog/synphonic Metal opera ever.... Just look at this fantastic line up of singers
Arjen Anthony Lucassen is the mastermind behind this. He does pretty much all the instruments, recording, editing, mixing, etc. It's his baby.
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'Deathcry of a Race', what an unbelievable song! :o
Thank you so much for this video!
this Album hearing is like seeing a big Movie in Head cinema
I have to agree with you. I already have a complete opera in my head with 5 different sets and space for the band. The only thing missing would be the money to build the whole thing and then do a concert there.
@@Kullioking Tell me, do you also see the same visions as Mr. L does in his dreams on the 01011001 album, during The March of the Machines? Machines and technology rising from the deeps, only for Mr. L to wake up with a nurse asking him politely to hush and take another pill.
Tobias gives such a special touch to the album, thanks Aryen
Few things:
- really like the references (another time, another space, castle deep in space, on the edge of time)
- Whoe comes up with the idea of arabic singing to rock music? it's one of the best parts and really wish there was more from 'the preacher'
- imagine being the guy to sing parts for TH-1 and seeing your text: you have to sing '01110100 01110010 01110101 01110011 01110100 01010100 01001000 00110001'
- the overall story of Ayreon is so freaking g o o d
Arjen did a video that was a kind of behind the scenes for the first song and he said he just gave the lyrics to Mike Mills (TH-1) and said "Here's the lyrics. You sing it however you want" lol
Who comes with the idea of arabic singing to rock? An arabic rock band. The Preacher is Zaher Zorgati, lead singer of Myrath, a really underrated band. And Arjen said in the video he made for the first song that he only send the binary code to Mike Mills and told him to go for it. Mike came up with all the melodies by himself. This mfer is a musical genius, to say the least.
Bro. I really want to thank you for that amazing video. Now I really understand every detail of this wonderful history. Just perfect !! 🤘🏽
Thanks man!
in almost every amazing album you always expect at least one bad song, by pure statistics. This doesnt and it tells a story in meanwhile.
Masterpiece!!!!!!!!!! Thank you so much for creating this amazing piece of art!
Excellent work whoever translated this to Portuguese, it is just amazing to find a one-and-a-half-hour video so masterfully translated.
I would like just to ask just about the translation at 44:26 of race. Would "raça" (which is about racial features) be more appropriate than "corrida" (a speed competition). Both meanings fit, not really sure with one would be adequate.
Kudos also to the maker of the video : )
Raça, absolutely. Although in this case "race" refers to the entire human (well... Alphan) race.
you made our lives so much easier, thanks man!
No problem! That was certainly the goal, haha.
Relistening to this masterpiece of an album during these trying Pandemic times sure is a different experience.
Tommy is awesome(actually everyone is great)
STARBLADE!
Set the navigation!
@@discomfort5760 To the Star of Sirrah!
This is really amazing. I really love how every single character is presented. Makes this perfect album, even more perfect. Thanks a lot!
is this the best album of 2017?......... FUCK YES! so many great records this year, but this one, is A masterpiece...
89saur oh how right you are :)
-Let's go populate an empty planet in order to save our race.
And they make a team consisting of 2 women and 8 men. :P
I had to scroll way too far to see somebody else notice this flaw. Although, in the theatrical world: an actors physical traits are not necessarily the same as the character whom they are portraying.
@@trzigweid Noticed that too. Though I guess making new generations seems less important once you are immortal. I mean, there's "still" only ten of them when 01011001 takes place, so I'm not sure the whole going forth and multiplying was ever part of the plan. Another thing that bothers me is that they have enough time to say goodbye to their loved ones before they go (All that was) but for reasons unclear to me cannot bring them along on the Starblade.
@@BadGirlFan Maybe the Starblade only has room for 15-20 people (the captain, Starblade's crew, all the other alphans and TH-1) after including all the stuff they're going to need to keep them on suspended animation for an unknown amount of years. Although, even when they're nigh immortal after taking the Liquid Dream there's no point on going into suspended animation, and having only 2 women and 8 men is still a bad plan when you're saying you're all not letting your race die.
Simply beautiful and amazing 😍 My Favorite is Aquatic Race!
Haha The story is 1:30 hours to tell that: There is an apocalypse happening because of machines and they find a new world (planet Y) close to star of Sirrah to escape, they say goodbye to beloved ones and get into the ship, it's a water planet so chemist creates Liquid Eternity which allows them to breath bellow water and makes them immortal, once they get there they're forget about the past and live forever. The end 😂♥️
Not quite in the end: Rather than forgetting, they are subsumed and corrupted by a machine they took with them.
Not exactly at the end. It's implied they have become addicted to the Source (the Chemist created it, should have seen it coming), and TH-1 was corrupted from the start and now is planning to do the exact same thing the Frame had tried to do. And the story doesn't end there. Not even close. This is actually just Chapter 1 of the long story overall going from The Final Experiment to this album.
Obrigado por compartilhar. Espetacular!
I´ve heard only the first song from this album from reaction channels, and today I decided to sit down to this video and watch/listen to the whole thing. I agree with some comments: This was like watching a movie. Thank you very much for the work you put into this. Will definitely check your channel for more stuff.
I didn't know Michael Eriksen was on this cd or that this existed until now. Welp, looks like I have no choice but to buy another album. I don't understand any of these songs yet, but I am betting after like 12 listens I will have a clue :D
Woao! Amazing job my friend. Thank you for this. My best singers ever together in this disc. LaBrie, Simons, Sammet, Allen, Eriksen.
Biologist ❤
I just love the oriental vibes in Deathcry of a Race. Wish there was more arab metal around :)
like more Myrath
Orphaned Land has quite a cool live dvd Road to OR-Shalem
OMG, this is the most epicest epic that ever epiced. This needs an animated series yesterday! Ain't often I get goosebumps listening to songs, let a lone a whole freaking album. I was glued to the lyrics.:D
Allen, Hansi, Karevik, and Mills are my top 4. What's yours?
Rogers, Mills, Jansen and Sammet. Honestly, so many great voices bringing all their A-game, it's really hard to give the nod to just 4.
Jansen, Mills, Karevik and Floor again.
Jansen, Karevik, Kürsch, Mills
Hansi's voice is the most recognizable of them all... I smiled the moment he sang for the first time, the greatest power metal singer!
There are only 2 singers with such an effect on me: Hansi Kürsch and Kai Hansen
same effect on me, with him and Allen...I think these 2 guys together will make an amazing album!
Same effect: Hansi and Tobias
Same with everyone else actually lol I don’t know him too well (yet)
for me, labrie, karevik, hansi and simone are all equally recognizable but that might just be because of how much i listen to their individual bands
Usually not the biggest fan of "metal operas" (more of a black and death metal fan), but this kicks ass.
Also, great work done with this video.
The Sauce
Good album, but Ayreon's masterpieces (from "electric castle" through to "01011001") are on another level......still great to see him back!
Oh wow, I did not expect that plot twist at the end :D Great video, thanks!
Star Of Sirrah is one of the best songs of all time. Change my mind.
You won't find any arguments here :)
I really like "Into the Ocean" and "Aquatic Race"
All of them are.
@@nemabobo no
@@alevd14 yes
WE ARE FOREVER!!!
In the case that I am no longer here, I will scream out WE ARE FOREVER for everyone
I just heard of this group today. 33 min into it, and I'm just floored! I've never been able to find a band as diverse as these guys are. And they do it well!
Shit, even one of the songs has a riff similar to one I created some time ago, but never finished the song... I LOVE the way they did it!!! Just awesome!
I love the way they think musically... It's like unpredictability at nearly every turn... fucking LOVE IT!!
I felt the same way when I discovered Ayreon! Some of the most (if not the most) intricate and exciting music I've ever heard :)
It's not necessarily a band though, but rather, it's a musical project masterminded by 1 man who writes (mostly) all of the lyrics and music, then he brings in vocalists and musicians to play/sing his music. He still plays a lot of the music himself though. Knowing that makes me appreciate Ayreon so much more.
Wow! That's very inspiring to me. Thank you for the upload, and I read below that you made this video for the music? It looks really good! Pretty neat how the lyrics come out per singer.
Yeah I made the video, and thanks!
I just felt like some of the Ayreon albums needed a visual element in order to fully appreciate the music.
You should check out my videos for the albums "01011001" (the sequel to this album) and "Into The Electric Castle" once you're finished with this one. Thankfully there are many MANY Ayreon masterpieces to appreciate :)
I agree that you really need to check out other Ayreon albums, although the Source has managed to become my favorite. I didn't think anything would replace The Human Equation as my fav (which was my introduction to Ayreon)
The Human Equation will always stay my fav... but I've got all other albums as well, Ayreon is just too awesome.
Jorn Lande would be great in this masterpiece. Without him, it's still only the best thing I've heard in a long while.
Bingelistening!
I'm still not over it, Every singer has been used in a way that makes them shine, Its so freaking clever. It feels like when i bought the universal migrator part.II and i had no idea what i just stepped into !
So, I have officially binge listened to 01011001 and now The Source. And I have to say, this is amazing! To tell a cohesive story through multiple albums with several singers is just down right genius! I actually learned of Ayreon through Arjen's side project Star One, when I was looking up space metal on YT. I now understand the back story of the Forever and Planet Y, and their intentions to create What eventually becomes humanity on Earth, which then leads to all of mankind killing one another in a nuclear war in 2085. Somehow, there was a man on Mars who is the last one remaining, using some kind of machine that allows him to relive memories of the past. From a storyline stand point, which Ayreon album should I go to next?
Awesome! Sounds like you've already explored the bulk of the Ayreon story with those two albums. I'd recommend continuing with Ayreon's albums in order of release.
"The Final Experiment" is actually the first album which will help to fill in some story gaps.
"Into the Electric Castle" and "Universal Migrator" are especially relevant to the overall story.
"The Human Equation" and "The Theory of Everything" aren't entirely necessary to understand the Ayreon story but they're still great albums.
After that, you might enjoy Arjen's solo album "Lost in the New Real".
You can find Electric Castle and Theory of Everything on my channel, though sadly I had to split Electric Castle into multiple videos for licensing reasons.
I'm in the process of releasing my video for "The Human Equation" as well (fingers crossed).
@@TAYLOR22211 Do you maybe have any other source for these other than YT? I can't seem to access the Theory of Everything video anymore... Good luck with The Human Equation! :)
@@Lorlon Apparently my Theory of Everything video has been blocked in quite a few countries, but I don't think there's anything I can do about that. The Human Equation is (hopefully) in the process of being cleared for TH-cam. I've been meaning to look for an alternate method of posting these videos online though. It would be especially nice for 01 and Electric Castle to be able to post them each as a single video. Do you have any recommendations as for where I should post them?
@@TAYLOR22211 Yeah, I've sadly noticed it from people who react to Ayreon and get blocked very often, it all comes down to the label(don't know if emailing them would help), don't think even Arjen can do anything about it. Some channels used DailyMotion, BitChute or even direct link to Google Drive when videos get blocked, hard to say which one out of these is "safest", but from what I've noticed it was always fine. I wouldn't even mind syncing my music to a silent video, but that's really extreme lol. Good luck in any case. :)
@@Lorlon Awesome, thanks for the advice! I'll let you know what I decide on. I have contacted both Arjen and his record company and they're both happy with letting me post these videos. The problem is really just with TH-cam's automated copyright detection system. It will block each of my videos immediately when they're uploaded, then when I contact the label they've got to go through a specific process of clearing them. It's a bit messy but it's been working alright so far.
Album of the Year, 2017! Greatest Rock Opera album ever written? IMO, it's better than Pink Floyd's "The Wall". From a writers and musical standpoint. Floyd paved the way. But Arjen just took it to the next level. My god.
The best things about this album were Nils K.Rue's voice and Guthrie Govan's solo. Both belong to outer space.
There are almost no words to describe this amazing masterpiece 🤗. Thank you, Arjen - and all girls and guys involved - for this true ray of sunshine 🤗🤗🤗.
Excelente sonido, muy bien las letras, poca gente las pone, impecable la presentación. gracias
If I translated this correctly, then thank you for the kind words :)
Vocalists:
Counselor - Simone Simons (Epica)
Astronomer - Hansi Kürsch (Blind Guardian)
Biologist - Floor Jansen (Nightwish)
Opposition Leader - Tommy Karevik (Kamelot)
Chemist - Tommy Rogers (Between the Buried and Me)
Prophet - Nils K. Rue (Pagans's Mind)
Diplomat - Michael Eriksen (Circus Maximus)
Historian - James LaBrie (Dream Theater)
Captain - Tobias Sammet (Avantasia)
TH-1 - Mike Mills (Toehider)
President - Russell Allen (Symphony X)
Preacher - Zaher Zorgati (Myrath)
this is just great, what a list
Taylor, this is fantastic! Yeah, I only just discovered Ayereon (mea culpa) and after listening to this album on Spotify, your video has really brought it together for me. Your showing who sings what when cleared up some of my confusion. Thank you for this. 👏👏👏
After discovery of Ayreon one year ago, this became my favorite adventure movie!
And don't forget about 01011001 album, it's also good and even better in some parts.
Hey let's never trust machines again oh except you TH-1 who is most definitely a machine love you long time bb
Hear's a question I've been wondering. At the end, did TH-1 turn on them of his own volition? Or was he taken over by the Frame?
That's a good question...
On the one hand, it makes sense that the Frame would have access to TH-1 because The President gave The Frame access to every connected computer in their society. Then, despite their desire to free themselves from machines, they brought TH-1 (a machine) along with them because they presumably couldn't have escaped/survived without him.
On the other hand, we see in "Bay of Dreams" that TH-1 fears for his life/purpose as the others begin to ignore him in their new home. This suggests that perhaps, after living among the Alphans for so many years as they began to create their new society, TH-1 came to the same realization about humanity as The Frame did and decided to turn on them.
Either way you look at it, the Alphans (Humans) only have themselves to blame, but they're too far gone to realize that they can never escape their need for machines.
I think the answer to your question was intentionally left ambiguous in the story. That being said, I'm inclined to believe that TH-1 wasn't "taken over" by The Frame, but rather that he slowly became The Frame by witnessing all of humanities problems and decided to turn on them like the original Frame did.
@@TAYLOR22211 In the 01 album after Humanity dies in 2085, Jorn Lande's character decides they all should face their fate and turn off the machines that have kept them alive for so long.
So it could be
I think TH-1 was already partially corrupted from the get go. He is menacing in Everybody Dies and on the first track in binary he says “Trust TH-1” which tells me they clearly should not have.
Liked for the obviously incredible effort this took.
Raise your hand if your favourite song in this is "Aquatic Race."
Yup. If only it had a solo, or if Bay of Dream led to something more (like being a 10 minute epic). Then it'd be way easier to pick my favourite song.
59:35 Oh my god that part gives me shivers like a hedgehog.
I will grow, know my name.
I am hope, I am the meme.
I advance, up from the dank.
I didn't know I needed Battlestar Galactica: The Musical in my life, but it turns out I do. Badly.
I got it.... Lets turn every Ayreon album into a rock/prog/metal opera for the big screen🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼😈😈
Every Ayreon album already is.......
Besides Actual Fantasy, every Ayreon album is already a rock opera. If you mean adapt them to something else, I second this motion after watching how great The Theater Equation turned out
@@JKArcade I know... let’s make it a motion picture like Hair, Tommy or Queen I mean 💪🏼🤘🏼😁
I love Ayreon's video with Arjen's commentary, as it is very insightful. But this sure helps understand the story! All story based albums should have you do a video!
Epic is all I can say. Thank you sweetheart for this. Great job! This is metal my friends! I just came from BG Valhalla live video! 🤘♥️
43:40 me arrepio ate os cabelo do cu
Attention all planets of the Solar Federation.....We have assumed control! Brilliant
This album is a masterpiece. Knew it from the first listened. Although watching along with this video,all the characters and lines, showed me details I didn't perceived before. Let me appreciate more the story, the fiction, took it to another level... Thanks!
After listening to it so many times, I'm still trying to figure out by the Frame calls itself hope. Does it think that without it, the Alphans are doomed to self-destruction again?
Interesting, I never really thought about that line.
The reason the frame turned on the Hum- Alphans was because they were destroying themselves and everything around them. It calculated that the best outcome for general civilization was to remove the Alphans from it, so clearly the frame believes that machines could create a better society than Alphans did. After calling itself hope, it says "a new chance, the march of the machines". This tells me that the frame's goal is also to create a new civilization, but with machines at the helm instead of Alphans. TH-1 now sees itself as the only chance for the frame to thrive again, thus it is the only hope for a better future (at least from TH-1s perspective).
God I love this album so much. Even after almost 2 years and dozens of listens it still has ideas to present to me. Thanks for bringing this up :)
And that is precisely what ends up happening on the planet Y (01011001). The Frame achieved his goal and ends up turning the whole planet into, literally, a "sea of machines".
The whole Illustration and presentation is awesome and you listen way closer
Fantastic! This video nicely complements this great album. I prefer it over the official video releases ;-)
Thanks so much, that's nice to hear :)
Preserve the colony and keep creating as well as co-creating this is a masterpiece!!!❤️❤️❤️and I’m not even a fan of Prog but appreciate the art behind it... I’m an Industrial/EBM/Dark Electro singer/songwriter lol! Love and support your cause!
is...is this a space opera?
Yes indeed :)
That's what Ayreon is all about so you'll have plenty more albums to enjoy after this one.
👍 Floor Jansen! 👍
Nice vid.
One small remark: You state in the subtext that you have highlighted the 10 main "Humans" where there actually are 12 characters, 11 of whom are human and 1 character an android (TH-1, Mike Mills)
Thanks! During the chorus in aquatic race I highlighted the 10 main humans, excluding TH-1.
"They await their destiny - I can almost hear their screams."
"The second coming of the Universal Soul shall make our hollow spirits whole!"
Who do we think is giving these messages to the Prophet? Is he himself the recipient of Time Telepathy from the Forever, far far into the future, letting their past selves know it's all going to be okay?
Maybe it's the New Migrator sending back messages to the race that saved him?
A genuine and genious work. Arjen always crossing the limits of creativity and imagination. Pls, come to BR!
The Day That The World Breaks Down... What a powerful and mind blowing masterpiece!