Our first taste of Ayreon. We must come back for more after that! Shout-out to all involved, espeicially the man who out it all together. Arjen Anthony Lucassen. We have links to learn more about him and Ayreon, and to support them directly in our description. Let us know what reaction you want to see next! See you on the next one friends
Simone Simons the other woman in the video is great friends with Floor Jansen and also leads her own Symphonic Metal Band called Epica. For another long but excellent journey of a song here's an Epic by Epica Kingdom of Heaven part 3 from Omega Alive ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-BdBCVMD8TiM.html (Yes they have part 1 and 2 I just prefer part 3)
They have done (3) live shows with some (other) songs from this album as well, obviously not all the original vocalists as they have their own bands and tourdates to look after as well, but you will be amazed by the vibe and espacially the quality on stage of ALL the artists, not just the singers! And next year there are another 3 shows planned 😍 >because it's almost impossible to gather so many artists, mainly the vocalists like Floor and Marko from Nightwish and Tommy Karevik from Kamelot etc. at the same time on one stage they don't do these shows very often, last were in 2019. Next year they gonna do the album 1011001 and some extra gems
Ayreon is a prog rock/metal opera project of Dutch musician Arjen Lucassen. He writes the songs and invites guest singers and musicians to perform. Mostly a studio project, his albums tell a story. The story in this album, The Source is ,chronologically, the first in the story arc that spans several records. The singers here are: James LaBrie (Dream Theater) as The Historian Tommy Karevik (Kamelot, Seventh Wonder) as The Opposition Leader Tommy Rogers (Between the Buried and Me) as The Chemist Simone Simons (Epica) as The Counselor Nils K. Rue (Pagan's Mind) as The Prophet Tobias Sammet (Edguy, Avantasia) as The Captain Hansi Kürsch (Blind Guardian) as The Astronomer Mike Mills (Toehider) as TH-1 Russell Allen (Symphony X) as The President Michael Eriksen (Circus Maximus) as The Diplomat Floor Jansen (Nightwish, ex-After Forever, ex-ReVamp) as The Biologist There were a couple live performances put together, the Ayreon Universe show is on RU-vid, songs including Every Body Dies, Star of Sirrah, Valley of the Queens, and Eye of Ra.
@@RNTV It's another DEEP rabbit hole like Nightwish. Anthony Arjen Lucassen writes all the music and lyrics and then picks the musicians and singers he wants on each album. There are currently 10 Ayreon albums and then you have all his side projects like Star One, Stream Of Passion, Ambeon, etc. Arjen is a fantastic musician and an all-around nice guy. And he's 6'7" so he towers over Floor. LOL en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arjen_Anthony_Lucassen
Arjen is more than the guitarist...he is also the guy playing the bass and the synths...as well as narrating via the subtitles...he's also the composer and producer of the Ayreon project. It is a project vs a band...it's all him, but he gets top notch singers from all over the world to sing the parts of the various characters in the story (all Ayreon albums tell a story), as well as incredible musicians to contribute to the instrumentation. Because of the logistics involved in getting all these folks together in the same place at the same time, live performances are few and far between. There have been a few, and luckily they are preserved on video. For your next Ayreon adventure, I'd recommend the live version of Everybody Dies.
You guys are keeping me young. Or I feel that way, with what you have shown today. That Strat sounded like heaven to this rocker. Al the vocals were great, then I got Floored. What a great clip. Every day I say you do great. Then you up the anti. I don't think there is a limit. Keep on Thank you
Hold on tight Jeff 😅. We're just getting warmed up. Now that we are back to 2 uploads a day you might want to take a little nap between videos 🤣. Glad you enjoyed friend 💚 💜
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. (about 100 artists thick) ….. Enjoy the music!! The cool thing about Ayreon is that all the albums sort of tie into the same story. 'The Source' (the album which this song is from) is technically the start of the story. It's about a race of humans that give control of their planet to a computer (the 'frame) to help solve an environmental catastrophe, but the computer determines that the best course of action is to eliminate the humans. Ten humans and the robot TH-1 escape the planet on the only interstellar ship they have (the 'Starblade') along with the ships crew and head to an ocean planet. The chemist creates a drug ('The Source', aka 'Liquid Eternity') that allows them to evolve into an 'aquatic race'. The drug also makes them basically immortal and allows them to communicate telepathically. The album ends with the survivors (ten plus the ships small crew) living on their new planet ('Planet Y') in relative peace, but in the final track we learn that TH-1 is becoming a new version of the 'frame deep in the ocean. The next album in the timeline, 01011001 ('Y') tells us how machines have now taken over this new planet, and the humans have basically merged with the machines are losing their emotions and sense of time. They now call themselves 'The Forever', since they are essentially ageless drones at this point. We also learn about how they seeded a comet with DNA and sent it to Earth, where it creates human life on our planet. The Forever believe they can live through us telepathically and that they may regain their emotions by doing so. Some of The Forever believe that we need to advance more quickly, and use their telepathy to give us medicine/technology, but this results in us advancing quicker than our morality can cope with. Eventually The Forever realize humanity is doomed and has to decide if they will give them the technology to reverse their past mistakes. Somewhere in the timeline sits the album 'The Electric Castle'From a summary by Arjen: "At the end of the journey those that successfully dealt with their personal demons find out that the voice belongs to an alien named 'Forever of the Stars', a member of an alien race living in a distant galaxy. These aliens created planet Earth and its people as an experiment so they could study, and hopefully one day experience emotions, as they themselves lost feelings eons ago." That's only three albums (less than half!) but I believe those three give you a solid foundation for how the story plays out. Also, I highly recommend any of the Electric Castle Live videos; They are just so fun to watch, plus John de Lancie ('Q' from Star Trek) plays the 'Forever of the Stars' character, which Arjen said he originally based on Q.
Oh yes, you guys have to see more of Ayreon! After this great introduction you definitely wanna go live! Anything from the Ayreon Universe 2017 gig will do. Perhaps start with "Everybody Dies", nice uplifting song that will give you a taste of what's in store.. Cheers from Amsterdam! 🤘 EDIT: Did you figure out yet what the binary part done by Mike Mills said?
@@RNTV Wow, never heard that one before, haha.. Nice, but not even close, I'm afraid. You guys have 2 attempts left until this thread will self-destruct in 5.. 4..
Arjen Lucassen is the top 21'th century master composer. Together with Tuomas from Nightwish. They both have unlimited fantasy and are musical geniusses. I am still recovering from a live concert from Ayreon some weeks ago. I will never be the same again. Eternal goosebumps and a frozen smile. This is sooooo goooood. Nightwish and Ayreon. Nothing comes close.
Hello , I liked your comments and enjoyed it, Arjen gave a live show universe in 2017, with a lot of great artists, including Marko Hietala Nightwish, and many more artists a pleasure to watch, he discovered Foor in her younger years at After Forever, many fun greetings from the Netherlands
Great reaction guys. Arjen is a legend in the European Metal and Prog Rock scene. Being invited to sing or play on one of his projects is a huge honor. Ayreon is like a gateway drug to all the great European bands like Kamelot, Epica, Blind Guardian, Avantasia, and Symphony X. Ayreon albums are all prog rock opera's with most of them coming from the same story arc as this song. He also has a number of other projects like Star One (songs inspired by Sci Fi Movies/TV Shows), Stream of Passion, and Ambeon. My favorite Ayreon songs are Daniel's Descent into Transitus Medley (music video),Valley of the Queens, Intergalactic Space Crusaders live (actually a Star One song), Druids Turned to Stone, Amazing Flight (Arjen actually sings on stage), Out in the Real World (Stream of Passion song performed live at the Ayreon Electric Castle live concert), Into the Black Hole (either the 2019 Universe live performance or a real treat is 2003 live performance with a young Floor and her sister Irene as the backup singers, ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-oriR8CpI-Io.html), Universe Live concert has Floor's sister Irene is one of the Ayreon Angels (backup singers). A couple of other favorites are from the new Star One album released back in January, Children of the Universe (inspired by Interstellar movie) and Fate of Man (inspired by Terminator movies).
You're my favourite reactors ✌💞🔥🦁🙏🏼..why? ....You're respectfull..Funny...enthoustic...sweet people...your relaxed...your e both enjoyable. .thanks from Holland to Y'all 🦅🌷🇳🇱🤗💎
@@RNTV BTW, you talked about listening to the whole album: there is a fan made video where specific singers are highlighted when they sing, and lyrics are provided, too. It´s literally like watching a metal opera. Fantastic experience. ;) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-vN-kbmQckw8.html
Dream Theather is said to be one of Nightwish`s many inspirations in becoming a band. So the beginning of this massive collaboration was off to a really legendary start! 5:26 UhOh,thats my boy right there! Funfact right out the gates: The guitarist that is in the same band as Nils,is so good that when Floor Jansen got to make a sideproject while in Nightwish (they all had a band break,so they got to pursure solo projects) She straight up headhunted him,and he accepted. Jørn Viggo Lofstad is his name (pronounced "Jurn" Viggo) and Northward became the most successfull sideproject of Nightwish. People been telling me "Jurn" reminds them of the skater Tony Hawk lol. Floor and "Jurns" chemistry shows right out the gates,and she even humourosly "has some sassy gestures his way". What kind and when i leave as a small mysterious easter egg for you to spot. But if you want to see Floor live out her rock n roll dream with "Jurn" Viggo: Northward - While Love Died. Dont bring energy,Floor and "Jurn" provides it for you!! "Jurn" Viggo plays in Pagan`s Mind with Nils K Rue wich you see in this collaboration. If you are curious down the road as to how Pagan`s Mind sounds like,check out theyr in loving memory tribute to 2 legends no longer with us: Gary Moore and Ronnie James Dio called: [4K Ultra HD] Pagan's Mind - Intermission (Official Music Video) Theese guys are as hilarious as they are crazy talented,after they did ProgPower Usa ,stunned brand new fans said this: About "Jurn": How the heck can a single guitarist occupy so much sonic space while playing so tightly?? Never caught on the studio albums that much but live, this is a whole different thing. Well done!" Another one said this: "Incredible. I'm speechless everytime.....this band is a gift from the Heavens. Holy shit how i sense these vibrations...
Hi, Ayreonaut here!!! 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" Progressive metal is a fusion between progressive rock and heavy metal. It is one of heavy metal's more complex genres, due to its use of unusual and dynamic time signatures, long compositions, complex compositional structures, and skilled instrumental playing, where instrumental solos are detailed and extended. 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 from "Blind Guardian" Mike Mills playing a computer program TH-1 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" PS: Floor and her sister Irene are pretty regular singers in "Ayreon" and "Star One" projects. Here is a Starting point for Ayreon Universe (Live, best Of): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-hPcDLWsRX04.html NWSU/Ayreonaut/Epican ✌😎🤘.
Welcome to the world of Arjen Lucassen. You also have met Simone Simons from Epica and Hansi Kürsch from Blind Guardian. Two MUST reactions. 4 Epica "Beyond the Matrix" Paris live. 4 Blind Guardian "The Bard's Song and Valhalla" Wacken 2016. The next deep rabbit holes. Promised 😂😂😂
2 года назад
I am with you regarding Blind Guardian and they have the link to that video. And I still have to listen to the Epica Retrospect show. I only know the two songs everybody reacts to. Too many rabbit holes... :D
Y'all will love this. Tobias was the Captain in The day That The World Breaks Down Tobias Sammet's Avantasia - Misplaced Among The Angels (feat. Floor Jansen)
These creations from Arjen Lucassen are kind of like progressive metal opera or Broadway plays. Loads of great vocalists and musicians. The vocalists usually play a role in the overall story. Fun stuff and so unique.
Hey guys, here are some information and suggestions for you: The singers in order of appearance are: James LaBrie from Dream Theater as you know very well. Tommy Karevik from Kamelot, Seventh Wonder Tommy Rogers from Between the Buried and Me Simone Simons from the most epic Epica (you must watch "Consign to Oblivion" live from the Zenith) 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 (Big suggestion: "Blind Guardian from Wacken 2016 with "The Bard's Song & Valhalla") Mike Mills playing a computer and singing binary from Toehider Russell Allen from Symphony X ( I didn't know that band before I listened for the first time to this Ayreon song) Michael Eriksen from Circus Maximus and last but not least the incredible Valkyrie Goddess Floor Jansen from Nightwish Ayreon is a project by Arjen Lucassen (the long haired guy in the vid). Ayreon from the Universe live concert: The Valley of the Queen (Floor, Anneke & Marcela) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-TbebO5BZi-I.html River of Time (Hansi, Marko) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-bieFc3WhBKw.html Age of the Shadow (Marko, Hansi, Floor) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-DGv1RwhpvZY.html Everybody Dies (Mike, Tommy, Hansi, Maggy & Floor) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-9AAXtUdM7xE.html Eye of Ra (everybody) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-odcO0SciTUY.html
Gives you a whole new set of bands to explore just by following the singers that you dont already know. Maybe start with the first singer James LaBrie and the band Dream Theater - I suggest ‘The Count of Tuscany’. And work forward from there
Singers already mentioned in the comments, so ...... about the 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
Hello, thanks for your comment , you can choose the whole concert and then you will get all the songs , Age of Shadows , Star of Sirrah , Everybody Dies , but the whole concert is perfect , but also listen to the link I sent , How;s yhe heart , have fun
Next Valley of the Queens, please....if you look closely you can say that Tommy Karevik sings with his hands in this video..on YT there is a video with the whole album, it's around 1.30 hours long...
If you are interested to further react to Ayreon, I would suggest to react to live performances from the Universe, Electric Castle and The Human Equation shows.
I'm gonna ask you to do a double reaction of a band from Mexico called THE WARNING. The first song is their 2014 cover of Metallica's ENTER SANDMAN. The 3 sisters in the band were 14, 12, and 9yrs old at the time. The second song is from 2021, ENTER SANDMAN, The WARNING with Alessia Cara(The Warnings version). If you like clean, Rock&Roll, I think you will like them.
Great reaction. There are numerous Ayreon live RU-vid videos which are well worth a look. By the way, from this video, Tobias Sammet's band Avantasia has a song featuring Floor Jansen. - Misplaced among the Angels - here's the link in case you're interested. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-RRG0DO1YFic.html
It's so worth watching his live concerts often with Floor and usually her sister Irene is one of the backing singers. Arjen projects are either Ayreon or Star One. He often doesn't play in the concerts but the musicians are amazing. For him playing and singing and only Floor and Irene Jansen as female vocalists plus some great guys watch Star One live 2003. Maybe select a song you like from the nearly 2 hour concert ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-SuRJP_qmGy0.html
What a great concert was Star One Live from Earth! Russell Allen's voice does things to me. Not to mention a baby Damian Wilson and baby Floor and Irene Jansen. Pure magic. There are time stamps to the songs in one of the top comments so it's easy to choose a song. My personal favorite is Dawn Of A Million Souls but it's hard to really choose one favorite, so many great songs like The Eye Of Ra, Valley Of The Queens, Songs Of The Ocean, Into The Black Hole, High Moon etc etc etc
Follow the album before u go to the live versions...it makes the live performance even more impressive Sea of machines.....Nils Rue ( The prophet.....oh lord)
@@RNTV I know, that's why i commented you guys, most reactions go straight to the live versions Problem is not all 11 vocalist are featured there and Tall Hippie dude ( Arjen) chose those characterrs according to their specific voices, so it comes out best on the studio versions. But that just my opinion of course, live is still very good allthough some characters are done by the same vocalist. But nobody can out president Sir Russel Allen or out prophet Nils Rue, let alone do a 8 voices harmony with 8 iconic voices in an eargasm you've never heard before ( Aquatic Race,) Well, good luck with that and you can allways do both :D
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I noticed you guys have never reacted to little Mix....Who are they I hear you ask??? Only the biggest girl band in the world 🤣😂🤣 They started on the X factor nearly 11 year's ago they just recently retired!!! well taking a break 2 of the girls have had babies....You should start from the beginning of their career BUT!! Watch Little Mix covering Harry Styles song falling...it will blow you socks off....🤣😂. Love your channel🥰🥰 If you love it maybe go back to the start you will love there music, and they are a mazing live.
Great reaction guys! If you want to explore more of Ayreon's rabbithole than you should try "Everybody Dies (Live)" next. Here is the link: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-9AAXtUdM7xE.html Greetings from The Netherlands, Martin
Some advice: For more Ayreon reaction material just do a search for "Ayreon live universe" or "Ayreon live electric castle". It is all great. Most of other songs are suggested, not because of how good they are, but because they have appearances of Floor or Marco from NightWish. Everybody dies, that most people suggest, is not a bad song, but is simply suggested because of Floor. Sorry NightWish army for ruining the surprise, but Ayreon deserves being recognized despite of these two NW members.
"Everybody dies, that most people suggest, is not a bad song, but simply suggested because of Floor." Hi there Basic, I'm among those who've suggested this song and no, not "because of Floor". It's simply a nice follow-up i.m.o. to TDTTWBD. So by all means, feel free to speak for yourself and provide other suggestions. Cheers! 🤘
2 года назад
@@BrendonChase_2015 to be fair, the songs from Universe that get requested the most, as far as I have seen with other reaction channels, are the ones with Floor in them. So I see where Basic is coming from. That said, Everybody Dies is from the same album and would fit thematically. You both have a point here. Let's meet at "they should totally do the whole show" :D
@ ""they should totally do the whole show" That's what I recommended for starters ;) And to be clear: Floor & Arjen go way back (After Forever), nothing to do with NW. So from my perspective it seems a bit funny & unnecessary to drag the NW "Army" into this. But hey.. whatever man, let's enjoy the music. Cheers!
2 года назад
@@BrendonChase_2015 I totally see your point. And I agree, lets enjoy the music and be surprised how fast time flies by while listening to Arjen's songs.
