Jana Reacts to Ayreon 'The Day That The World Breaks Down' 

Nightwish fans love it not only because of Floor ,but because of their excellent taste in music😊

"Don't tell my husband!" I love it. She's evolving, Y'all.

Don't be surprised that the Nightwish Army suggests Ayreon - Arjen Lucassen has been working with Floor since the year 2000, so she is on a lot of track. And so is her sister Irene, whom is also a very powerful and excellent singer. Greetings from Nightwish Army Denmark 🇩🇰 👍 💪 🤘 🤘 🤘

This is a huge Masterpiece! Those grade A singers are hand picked to their roles and all the other musicians are top notch professionals. And the genius behind all this is "the tall hippie dude", Arjen Anthony Lucassen, the tallest known rock musician (203 cm). 😎👍

Thanks Nathan for this reaction to Ayreon. Great. And Jana, thank you for being so open minded in terms of music. Enjoy. Greetings from the Netherlands 🇳🇱

FYI; The 11 guest singers are: [James LaBrie (Dream Theater), Tommy Karevik (Kamelot, Seventh Wonder), Tommy Rogers (Between the Buried and Me) , Simone Simons (Epica), Nils K. Rue (Pagan's Mind), Tobias Sammet (Edguy, Avantasia), Hansi Kürsch (Blind Guardian), Mike Mills (Toehider), Russell Allen (Symphony X), Michael Eriksen (Circus Maximus), Floor Jansen (Nightwish)]

Since it looks like no one's answered Jana's comment that she didn't understand what Arjen meant by his "NWOBHM moment", the acronym stands for New Wave Of British Heavy Metal - bands like Iron Maiden (mentioned in his comment, as they're very well known for their "galloping" bass lines) and other British bands of the very late 1970s/early 1980s era. Iron Maiden is probably the best-known of NWOBHM bands (and certainly one of, if not THE most enduring!); some other bands considered part of the movement include Samson, White Spirit, Saxon, Girlschool, Venom, and even Def Leppard, although their music shifted to a more glam/techno style following drummer Rick Allen's car crash and the loss of his left arm on New Year's Eve 1984.

Thanks guys! Ayreon has great albums and songs. There are songs with Marco, Floor, Floor`s sister etc. Delain has also nice songs with Marco. He has performed many times with them. They have good chemistry between Marco and the band (woman vocalist) and he has also made a world tour with Delain just for fun.

For this song only exist one word: Masterpiece.

Here is a list of the composer and singers in order of appearance: Arjen Lucassen - Composer - Dutch singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist musician and record producer best known for his long-running progressive metal/rock opera project Ayreon. James Labrie - Lead singer for Dream Theatre. Tommy Karevik - Lead singer of Kamelot and Seventh Wonder. Tommy Rodgers - Lead singer of Between the Buried and Me. Simone Simons - Lead singer of Epica. Nils K. Rue - Lead singer of Pagan's Mind and also worked with Eidolon. Tobias Sammet - Lead singer of Edguy & Avantasia. Hansi Kürsch - Lead singer of Blind Guardian and Demons & Wizards. Mike Mills - Multi-instrumentalist, vocalist and main songwriter for Toehider. Russell Allen - Lead singer of Symphony X and Allen/Lande. Michael Eriksen - Lead singer of Circus Maximus. Floor Jansen - Lead singer of After Forever, ReVamp & now Nightwish. Instrumentalists Joost van den Broek (ex-After Forever) - grand piano and electric piano Maaike Peterse (Kingfisher Sky) - cello Ed Warby - drums Ben Mathot - violin Jeroen Goossens (ex-Pater Moeskroen) - flute, wind instruments Arjen Anthony Lucassen - electric and acoustic guitars, all other instruments (composer) Next I would suggest reacting to the performances at Ayreon Universe concert, especially the following Intergalactic Space Crusaders, River of Time, Merlin's Will, Valley of the Queens, Ride the Comet, Star of Sirrah, And the Druids Turn to Stone, Age of Shadows & Everybody Dies.

Not only floor jansen is in it ,also our other dutch Queen simone simmons, From epica another dutch metal band to check out! For example sancta terra with floor as a guest singer!

One of the best songs i have ever heard,i love it.

I always say - also check out Arjen`s earlier Band "Vengeance" and the Killertrack "Arabia".

You 2 seem like a really loving and fun couple. Always enjoyable to spend some time with you. Wow I would listeeeeee. I would listen to the whole album? Wait "What am I saying"? next check out some live songs. Star of Sirrah or Everybody Dies, both from Ayreon Universe.

Mindfulness, love for music, sense of humor, benevolence, respect for performers. Great reaction. Thanks! God bless you guys.

Lovely, joyful reaction and 'The Source' is one of my favourite prog albums of all time.

SUGGESTION: If you like our Dutch Floor, then try a Dutch band called *EPICA* (with one of Floor's BFF's and former roommate, Simone Simons). Live (Retrospect show) - *_"Sancta Terra"_* : ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-cx22Yuj2nzg.html (duet with Floor)

A masterpiece indeed. Another masterpiece by Ayreon that I really love is The Human Equation. Maybe a piece of that (one of the 20 days) for another video?

Just pick songs from the two live concerts: Ayreon Universe live The electric castle live and other tales

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.

Just did a thumbs up for the Album cover of Leprous

🙌 with your 100 reaction!! You are a Nice couple 🤗

You can share a post on youtube asking the subscribers if they have questions, and then they can comment there. Same as you can make polls as well 😊 Just a suggestion. I gotta come up with a good question myself as well 😄

Great guys, now that Jana seem to like Ayreon, here are more recommendation - some for Ayreon (and all the great singers and musicians participating in the project) 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 Ayreon - Valley of the Queen's 3 singers: Floor Jansen, Anneke Van Giersbergen and Marcela Bolio 1. You can see Irene, Floor's sister together with Floor and hear how the two sister genetically sound alike, in the Eye of Ra ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-odcO0SciTUY.html 2. Marcela Bolio, the red hair lady, together with Mike Mills, from the Human Equation, Ayreon, please react to: The Blackboard / The Theory of Everything ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-KzcmmVcRi3Q.html or, Marcela sings in MaYaN, Mark Jansen from Epica side project. Check it out here (sound quality not optimal) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-woVpaauzP1U.html 3. last, but not least, the blond lady, Anneke van Giersbergen. Floor and other dutch metal ladies inspiration - kinda mother of them all. To see a very young version of Anneke, with The Gathering - Strange Machines: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-1HUMwinV2AQ.html Devin Townsend project with Anneke van Giersbergen: Awake - one of many must see: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-NEVOEWRGdCM.html Within Temptation ft. Anneke van Giersbergen: Somewhere ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ScjEJRIZGvg.html Anneke van Giersbergen VUUR - Ayreon Universe bassist member of the band - On Most Surfaces: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ScjEJRIZGvg.html Anneke van Giersbergen - solo - My Promises ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ScjEJRIZGvg.html

"And not too long" - eeeehehehehehe

12:58 for clarification: NWOBHM = New Wave Of British Heavy Metal, which was lead by groups such as Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, and the like. A very common theme in many bands during that time was the "bass gallop," a series of triplets played with a heavier pick or pluck on the first note of the triplet so that it sounded like a horse was galloping along. As time has passed, the gallop style has evolved and gotten more complex, so you'll have double hard picks followed by two softer picks like Arjen uses, you can put the emphasis on the last pick of a gallop series, and there are even some metal bands that will speed-pick a gallop.

Well here's hoping when you do your 100th show that you'll have 1000 subscribers 🙂

Oh, yes. Arjen Lucassen is THE MAN. Cool reaction, and good to see her being into it! :) I'd recommend Diablo Swing Orchestra and their recent song "Celebremos Lo Inevitable", which is a crazy song, lots of fun and sang entirely in Spanish. I know it's actually avant-garde, but I think it's also prog in some way. :)

You two are adorable.

That was fun! Still a bit heavy for my taste, but the video really helped. Quite enjoyable.

Hello to the both of you! Question: which song you reacted to has the most impact/is your favorite?

Greetings from Finland & thanks for this reaction, I just love & enjoy your mutual chemistry and relaxed & natural/genuine style. Arjen Anthony Lucassen is a progressive rock/metal genius who has been able to create wonders with most talented musicians & vocalists for decades. This song is one of such masterpieces. P.S. Still waiting for a reaction to Scardust's "Shards" (Lyrics video) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-NApZQD8hLgU.html It will blow your minds.

22:48 Since Jana likes a "steady beat", I just wanna recommend 'Discipline' by King Crimson. Sorry... couldn't resist 😛

In the same prog line, why not try The Gathering - Travel with the wonderfull Anneke van Gierbergen :)

Did Arjen stop by at this reaction/reactor yet?

I desperately miss PopUp videos!

Congratulations on the 1k subs. I am subscriber 1011 and no, it's not binary

Nice!!! Prog on!!!🖖🏼🖖🏼🖖🏼🖖🏼🖖🏼 What's your favorite prog react video?

Next one everybody dies

Love that you are bringing Jana through this journey. May I suggest adding another unique prog metal song, Tales of the Destinies by Babymetal (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-gnw2h_6ZOwo.html)? I know that you will find that one will blow you away.

NWOBHM = New Wave Of British Heavy Metal.

"Some information about us..." Yep. ^this^ How did you meet? How long have y'all been together? How long were y'all together before you decided to get married? Any children planned for the near future? Etc , etc., Etc...

Переводчик в настройках не активирован, смотреть не буду и лайкать тоже. Мир не только из одних англосаксов состоит.

I am sorry. After more than five minutes I still have not heard any music. Why did you think it was OK to waste my time with your inane commentary? You are really bad at this.