American Rapper FIRST time EVER hearing - AYREON - The Day That The World Breaks Down 

The Source is the name of a science fiction concept album, Ayreons ninth studio album and the first in a series. This video can be seen as an introduction to the album. Ayreon is a progressive metal/rock opera project by the Dutch musician/artist/genius Arjen Lucassen. This album features different singers, all acting their own role. Arjen uses different singers for different albums but has some favorites, who return from time to time. One is Floor. Another is Tommy Karevik, the guy that you liked most. He is swedish, like myself (proud for that ☺️). He is vocalist in the band Kamelot, you can check them out if you want.

Yessss you did it! Now “everybody dies” live from Ayreon! What you say in the end: Arjan has a big rolodex with the best singers in it. He is the componist and director. Every voice has a specific role wich he carefully chooses. I dont know if the collaboration is a typical European thing but as a person who lives in the Netherlands; it is normal to collaborate. There is no competition between artists because everybody wants the same: beautiful music. You could watch the Dutch show: “Beste zangers” (best singers/ dear singers) were professional singers try to honor eachother to make a connection with their music and the music of 1 of the singers in that episode and make crossovers or be creative. Floor Jansen was a guest in this show and has many breathtaking unexpected songs for the guest (she sings pop, metal, operette, musical etc). Her “fantom of the opera” with the real Dutch fantom (Henk Poort) from the international Fantom of the opera (Andrew Lloyd Webbers favorite fantom) was a big hit. Whenever Nightwish performs in the Netherlands, Henk Poort is a special guest who sings this with her.

Always great to see some love for Ayreon. It's incredible the amount of talent Arjen manages to get involved in his projects. And it's a great way to discover a lot of artists you might not have heard of yet.

Ok, this is something I never thought I would see on this channel but I am all for it, I love this song and I can’t wait to see the reaction, a nice surprise to wake up to, it has put me in a good mood for the rest of the day now 🙏

VERY GOOD,NEXT FANTASTIC SONG FROM AYREON IS -EVERYBODY DIES-

This Andi must be a very knowledgeable person, you should listen to him more often. :D

The binary code sung by Mike Mills translates to Trust TH-1. His character is the computer TH-1. (TH denotes Mike Mills band Toe Hider). Check him out in the live version of Aryeon song Everybody Dies. You will be blown away at his range.

Now you need to watch the video “Everybody Dies” also by Ayreon!

I consider myself extremely fortunate to have just seen Ayreon live this month in the Netherlands since they only do live shows for one weekend every couple years due to how difficult it is to get everyone together. Probably the best metal/rock show I've ever been to just in terms of how much fun the experience was and how good it sounded live. The last two live productions they've done have each focused on specific albums, so it's possible that the show they did this month will never be played live again (fully) unless they finish the other albums and loop back around.

Yes, the one guy you were talking about is Hansi Kürsch from the German band Blind Guardian. Here's a list of all the singers and their bands from the video. 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.

I love Ayreon, this is a dope track ❤

16K visitors in the Netherlands for 5 Ayreon concerts two weeks ago....... more than 60 nationalities traveled to Tilburg (city nearby where Arjen Lucassen - Ayreon, lives). The city was flood with black Ayreon shirts and all sorts of languages. I was there and I still can't believe it!

Oh now you're stepping into my lane. 😊 this is the master.

Imagine, a small town in the countryside of rural The Netherlands. In an attick there is a hippy hermit that happens to be one of the greatest composers on this planet. It's a real pleasant cool dude that writes his scifi-music stories. A lot of them. When it is on paper he starts recording because he is a really goooood multi instrumentalist. But he needs voices that sing the characters from his story. So he contacts a lot of friends worldwide who happen to be the greatest singers on the planet. And then the wonder takes place. They are honoured to be asked and participate with his projects with enthousiasm. They all kill it because they are so motivated bij this magical hermit and fine human being. I recently saw a show where they did this live. Can you imagine? 25 main worldwide singers on a three story high podium with the best musicians you can find. All extremely enjoying themselves and having a party. Of course with lasers, smoke, pyro's, the works. Can you imagine what that does with the audience from 50 nationalities? ( they come from all over the world to experience this). I leave the conclusion to you.......epic epic epic.

Awesome seeing you react to this. Would love to see Andiroo's take on this

singers in order of appearance . 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 - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-9AAXtUdM7xE.html

I am so happy to see you react to this song! You were right, Hansi has a band called Blind Guardian and a song called The Bards Song: In the Forest. If you like Tobias Sammet's voice then you should check out his band Avantasia. They are so freaking awesome!

This should be good. 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻 Arjen Lucassen an Co. really rock

OMG Ayreon is my favorite band ever, and you're my favorite react streamer ever WHAT A CROSSOVER. I hope you do more ayreon!!!!!!! Hope the ayreonauts out there are crazy enough to get him to listen to more of them. Its amazing.

Oke, you just unleash the Prog gates of Ayreon...... a true masterpiece and rabbithole!!!

I love this group. It is like a all star band.

First time watching you man, loved your reaction. As a long, LONG time Ayreon fan that's been listening to Arjen's music (the tall dude that writes the whole thing) for nearly 20 years, ill try to explain as best I can. "Ayreon" is the name of a prophet in Ayreon's first self-titled album. It's established in it that he's been contacted by entities from the future to warn Humanity of its future mistakes. The story about those entities is recounted in the following concept album. I don't want to write a long-@ss essay, but pretty much every Ayreon album, which are all concept albums by themselves, are all linked together, save for a few, but even then an argument could be made its still all part of the same universe. Sort of like the MCU. Arjen has created a whole universe through his projects Ayreon and Star One. He's invited countless superstars to sing on his albums, including Bruce Dickinson, Floor and Irene Jansen, Devin Townsend, to name but a VERY VERY few. Ayreon is a VERY deep rabbit hole, it's extremely compelling and tells a Roch story full of interesting characters and intertwined stories across many albums spanning decades, it's a historic artistic endeavor woven by a passionate genius.

Hi Black Pegasus, the first female singer that you saw in the video 'SImone Simons' is the lead singer for Dutch symphonic metal band EPICA, this band will blow your mind 🙃 Check them out, this song is from a concert earlier this year in Amsterdam: EPICA - Unleashed (Live At The AFAS Live)

This ( and most of the Ayreon repertoire ) is a modern take on the " Prog Rock " Concept albums of the 1970s - the days when the album was king and kids had a longer attention span than a goldfish 😂😉 The fact that Arjen can call on so many of these performers - most of whom are Rock & Metal nobility - is an indication off the esteem in which he is held . BTW several of the vocalists featured are from the U.S. There is an extensive back catalogue of his work ( mostly studio albums ) but every few years most of these performers come together in Holland and do some EPIC live performances - the time gaps between these and the fact there have been so few is due to the logistics of getting usually 30+ artists who are at the top of their careers to find a time slot which suits them all and travel from all over the world to the Netherlands to perform . I'd suggest you perhaps check out some of these live performances - they are truly awesome ( as is their creator Arjen Lucassen - a true musical genius )

Ayreon…..pronounced “air - e - on”. Awesome video!

Aryeon is Arjen Lucassen. He's very creative and unique. His albums are stories. With a lot of different musicians. They performed it live. Not with every musician who's on the album because, each one of them are in their own band and the schedules don't always match. It is live magical and unbelievable good. This month Aryeon (Arjen Lucassen) did another amazing story live concert again from his latest album. Everything live is truly amazing and even the back-up vocals are famous. Another very good story musician is Avantasia. Arjen mentioned him in this music video. In the USA you have a band called Ice Earth. I like all three. All three are different with their own sound, inspiration, stories etc. All three are amazingly good live. Happy you enjoyed yourself. By the way Arjen Lucassen is a real down to earth person with his own mind and also very approachable. Some reaction channels even did a live stream interview etc. Take care and warm greetings from The Netherlands. 🤘🍀💜👍🤗🌷🇳🇱💪

Think of Arjen Anthony Lucassen's albums as a movie. Each song is an individual scene in the movie. Each character is "played" by a different guest vocalist. The album/movie this song comes from has 11 characters/vocalist.

They pulled off this song live at the concert two weeks ago - absolutely mindblowing. My very first Ayreon live experience, and it was a blast. As others have mentioned, every album tells a story, and the storyline stretches across almost all of those. For better understanding you need to listen to them in the right order. Arjen Lucassen thought his music was too complicated to be played live, but he was proven wrong (The Theater Equation was the first show ever). Then he did Ayreon Universe live (a few songs from every album) and Into the Electric Castle and other Tales, where a whole album was played (with some extras, thus "other tales"). The 01011001 (also a complete album) was two weeks ago and we all hope for another one to come in 2025. Preparation time for a show is about 2 years.

Yeah ... I'm sure everyone has already told you; but you have to see this live. Ayreon's music is such a wonderful rabbit hole to fall down. I'd suggest a couple of tracks to try: 'Into the Black Hole' live from Ayren Universe ( ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-LIvnxsb83No.html ) and 'Intergalactic Space Cusaders, again a live track from Ayreon Universe ( ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-yO6TisCHGhA.html ). Both are outstanding and you're sure to enjoy. If you feel you're ready, them there's always 'Everybody Dies' ( ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-9AAXtUdM7xE.html ) which could blow your socks off! Plan B might be 'Isis and Osiris' ( ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Z6YFbgMzkZY.html ). Enjoy!

The Mike Mills part is the most extraordinary thing I have ever seen a musician do.

we need to make him listen to this as much as he has with rammstein. Because Ayreon is another gift, ontop of star one and ambeon and strange hobby and his albums with lost in the new real

Hi! You wondered how many Americans participated on this song: 3! James Labrie from Dream Theater, Tommy Rogers from Between The Buried And Me and Russell Allen from Symphony X. The last one, with the gravelly voice, has worked many times with Arjen Lucassen, mainly on Arjen’s Star One project (Star One album Space Metal and Stsr One album Victim Of The Modern Age). On those 2 albums Russell played a major part in most of the songs. On the latest Star One album Revel In Time, Russell Allen was vocalist on 1 song. Did you know that Russell Allen collaborated with Floor Jansen and her band Revamp as well? Look,for the song Revamp Sweet Curse. Magical song!!!

Nightwish army checking in so glad your checking this out

It’s a prog rock opera. The genre is progressive rock. Aryeon is a project group. The participant’s list reads like a who’s who of euro metal. They are all major names and top talents in the genre.

I guess you now have to hear at least one song of every band of every singer mentioned in the printed comments in that video. But first do 'Deutschland' by Rammstein offcourse 😛.

Thank you sir. Proud Dutchie here with all the Dutch muciscians on flute, cello, violin and piano. Ofcourse also Floor and Simone, our Dutch Metal Godesses. The other singers from all over the world are freaking good too wow wow wow. ❤ So awesome to see American people dive into European musiscians!

The way I like to explain it to those who are unaware about what Ayreon is, think Star Wars. Ayreon is like the Star Wars universe and Arjen is the George Lucas of the Ayreon universe. Arjen has different projects/universes that he writes musical stories for and so his Ayreon albums are all stories that connect to the Ayreon universe. The albums are like episodic Star Wars stories, the songs being the episodes of the greater story in the Ayreon universe, this kind of album structure is called a concept album. Usually bands do a concept album and that album ties in the whole story and then another concept album they do is not connected to previous concept albums but with Arjen, he has his universes which are a project and the name of the project is the name of the “band” so you know which universe the album is part of, it’s an interesting way of doing it, it wasn’t something I had come across until I discovered Ayreon and had to do some research to understand it. So what happens is, Arjen is the creator (the George Lucas) he writes the songs etc and then he gets musicians and singers to perform the music and the singers play their individual character in the story like an actor and in the different albums, some of those characters are reoccurring, so you have the individual albums that are a story and all the albums in say the Ayreon catalog are all part of a bigger story. Arjen was also the one who discovered Floor Jansen back in the day and he just seems like a very cool guy. He is like the Ren of the symphonic metal scene and he has been at it longer than I have been around and I am in my 40’s, the two remind me of each other, their creativity, their musicality, their writing, their production, their generosity, their good nature, how they help others and give others their flowers and how they appreciate the fans and how humble they are etc

Ah Ayreon time! I think doing some epica & blind guardian reactions to recognise a few more of the people would be good but yeah dig in, there's much fun to be had

You’re about to fall into a deep rabbit hole and you’ll never want to climb out of it again. Look at both epic live concerts after this: Ayreon Universe live The electric castle live and other tales. And don’t forget the albums. A third live concert was performed a few weeks ago. New official material of that concert will appear on the channel of Arjen Lucassen. Ayreon; pronounce, more or less, as air-reon. Ayreon is just one but the main projects by Arjen. Also look at: Star One, Stream of Passion, The Gentle Storm, Guilt Machine.

Reminds me of being a 9 10 years old and Guns N Roses Iron Maiden they were very very good

The whole live ‘Universe’ concert is epic❣️ Want more? Start with: ‘Everybody dies’ live 2019 Just saw them live last week 🥳

If you like your music to tell a story, you should check out Rush 2112 then! It rocks hard!

as soon as I saw this i went on amazon and ordered it!!:)

Oh wow , you sure ain’t in Kansas now Hip Hop dude. Flowers for stepping so far out of your lane. Just follow the yellow brick road………

Holy shit you doing Arian he'll yes you'll love this guy

Congratulations on 40. Clearly you are born way later than me so I wonder if references to Beatles, ELO and other music from sixties and seventies resonate with you. Clearly, Ayreon is global with people from Europe, USA and Australia, and Marcela Bovio from Mexico doing lots of background vocals in Ayreon productions.

Ayeron makes the music and he get some people to sing for him he is such a legend he don't have to try who doseinwant to be on a Aryion album

Fine, delicate view upon this unique works of art!

Do at least one more Ayreon reaction (pronounced AirREEon), this time "Everybody Dies" and it's LIVE! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-9AAXtUdM7xE.html You'll see some of the same singers as you saw in "The Day the World Breaks Down". I won't spoil anything, but one tidbit. There are three backing singers and one of them is Floor's sister Irene. She has an excellent voice as well, but she is not a full time musician. Floor has been working with Arjen Lucassen (the mastermind behind all of this) for over 20 years. Arjen puts together these super groups for his sci-fi based prog rock projects.

This song is essentially the exposition intro to an entire rock opera. Basically introducing the characters and actors and plot...

Ayreon is the main project of Arjen Lucassen, a brilliant Dutch producer / songwriter / multi-instrumentalist. He works with a small crew of great musicians (like drummer Ed Warby, and Keyboard player Joost vandenBroek and the string players you saw in the beginning of the video), and on top of that he invites top level singers and musicians from all over the world to sing vocalparts or play solo's. TIP: a great follow up is "Everybody Dies", live. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-9AAXtUdM7xE.html

this song is so amazing I could listen to it everyday

The first guy that you said you really liked is Tommy Karevik and he is the lead for a group called Kamelot. You should absolutely dive down that rabbit hole. They have some really good music. The Elizabeth trilogy is a must.

Hi BP, this would be massive to see live...☝️🤓

I love when world's collide

Arjen is my musical hero. Maybe not stylistically...but his collaborative immersion thing is...perfect.

So this is the first song of a concept album called The Source. Its meant to introduce everything, mainly the setting and the characters. Arjen cleverly combined the two by introducing the characters by their role in the story, thereby explaining the setting through what the characters argue for according to their role. Shout out to Andy indeed. Ayreon is great and only makes concept album. If you're into that stuff, you need to dive in head first.

Do the new live version of this. Mind blowing along with their other live songs from Tilburg!

Floor's sister Irene is on almost all of Arjen's albums as one of the backing vocals.

Since you loved Tommy Karevik's voice, might be fun to check Kamelot the band he sings in. Of course every singer in here is very very good and worth checking out. I think you already reacted to something from Epica where Simone and Arjen are from.

There is a pretty cool video on RU-vid of the entire album with the singers pictures and lyrics.

Continue with Ayreon.

Arjen is one busy hippy. He has his fingers in everything, but it seems like his passion ranges from light progressive rock to heavy progressive metal.

Arjen is very much a Guy you could arrange an interview with, He'll unblock any claim made against a reaction, He is a top guy with a VERY large musical brain. Ayreon is very much a "Super Group" although i think "Collective" is a better description. Arjen comes up with a concept for an album, then seeks to explain that concept with a musical story......there are very tracks that can be called "Singles" as they all follow and flow one into another, telling an epic tale. My personal favourite of Ayreon is "The universal Migrator Pt 1&2" but there is nothing weak in anything with the Ayreon badge

🤗🍒🤘🏻 well done man

Very very beautiful

If you like "live versions" On youtube there's the live version of this song done by Ayreon in the "Live Beneath the Waves" shows that were played in Tilburg on September 15th, 16th and 17th 2023. Enjoy!

Progressive Rock is the type of music

Check out Ayreon "Everybody Dies" in the live version. There's a pro shot floating around in RU-vid, you need to see that being pulled off live 😎

Can you guys react to the entire West German Beatbox Championships LOOPSTATION competition, its amazing

they do some live concerts you should react to. most people go to EVERYBODY DIES next.

Ayreon (Eh-ree-uhn) is a "project", by Arjen. Works with some of the best artists in the business. It's progressive rock. This song is the title track from a sci-fi concept album. You're not far off by saying a soundtrack. I'm fairly certain I suggested this one on the Bard Song, because at that point you were familiar with at least Floor and Hansi.

Yeh the whole Album as well as several others he's done are all parts of stories. Some that go all the way through several albums. Think War of the Worlds style storytelling.

Pegasus, this is a Dutch thing. Greetings from The Netherlands.

Arjen (ayreon) is a very talented Dutch musiscian and composer. He and Floor go back a long time, also Simone :)

Dude yes evebody dies is sick best song on album

Ayreon is a project.

For a bit of a hiphop counterpart to Arjen...check out Watskys Exquisite Corpse

Hansi Kursch is from Blind Guardian.

the bard song was Blind Guardian.

The second it started, I recognized James L. from Dream Theater and thought "This is going to be good"

Progressive Metal is still going strong I see!

"never heard of him..." 😄❣🤘

Yes, its a concept album. Quite common in Rock/Metal. To the other readers here, just add your favourite (rock/metal) concept album below. I start with (maybe) the first one: The Moody Blues: Days of Future Passed (1967)

If you watch closely you can say that Tommy Karevik sings with his hands in this video.. on YT is the complete video of this album to see..

You won't hear this on the radio in Europe. I guess you have to be really into one (or more) of the artists he works with, to know about Ayreon. I've seen some interviews with him and he's such a nice guy. He has stage fright, so what he's doing is smart. He writes the music and lyrics, and gets other people to be in the spotlight.

If you want to hear a great concept album listen to Queensryche's "Operation Mindcrime" album from 1988. You won't be disappointed!

Please react to ZVD vs Clutch ,is the craziest battle I have ever seen…You won’t regret watching it.😊

As a fellow Christian man, I suggest Mirror of Souls by Theocracy great story with a great message

Those 1001's are binary for Trust TH-1 which is the computer/Android Michael mills plays as

Black Pegasus can you please react to Yavid and the song called Ghetto Love Song?? It's emotional af.Sending love all the way from Australia..................

If you also liked Tobias Sammet (the "cocky" captain) you should do a reaction to Tobias Sammet's Avantasia - Misplaced among the angels. Great vibe for Halloween.

Toehider: How Much For That Dragon Tooth.

Just another Dutch hippy being creative :)

Any time someone say metal singers can't sing I just put this on and yea they are silenced

we are also not far away from a breakdown, I believei wie can match it.

hansi from blind gaurdian

there is a 12th singer on the album that wasn't in this song ;p

Please react to big heath fire in the booth part 1 and 2. Funny as fuk but also bars! Coldest most underrated rapper in the uk

The binary means TRUST TH1