This Is Amazing!! | Ayreon - The Day That The World Breaks Down | REACTION 

Haha... thanks for your nice comments, Mr Rock N Roll, I really enjoyed this! Big smile on my face right now. Good to see you happy! Next time I see Floor and Simone I'll give them a hug for you :-)

I'm glad whoever suggested this song didn't tell you who all was in it 😂 Your face was priceless!

Valley of the queens! It’s a must from this band!

Finland has Tuomas, we Dutchies have Arjen, both geniuses.

Ayreon Is top level music AND a dream team mucisians and singers!! The Man Is f**k genius!!

a floorgasm at the end is the best end

I actually laughed out loud at the end, I've been an Ayreon fan since "Into the Electric Castle" came out, when I heard this for the first time I was also pleased when Simone and Floor were singing. I knew what was coming and was waiting for the reaction.. We got it... Priceless! Floor's sister Irene also sings with the band and many other talented singers and musicians. Some you will know too.. Take care Stay safe.

At 18:08, you changed your shirt to say "floor Jansen", I see you.

So they got Floor.....

You should definitely continue with Ayreon I listen to metal for like 25 years and I am ashamed that until like month ago I never heard of Arjen. Since I listen this song those roughly 4 weeks ago I have become a huge fan of Ayreon. I have listened to first 4 albums already and oh man, what a masterpieces. I don't know which one is better. I watched Electric Castle live as well and I am not affraid to compare Arjen's work to Andrew Loyd etc stuff. Its a theater, opera, music with metal. Amazing And the best thing is, Arjen is just teasing new album :D

That reaction to Floor was precious 😂 and the end of the video was adorable!

Yes!!! Now you have to check out Ayreon live, it's...epic! The Eye Of Ra with Floor and Irene. 😉

Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden contacted HIM and asked if he could work with him on one of his older albums. I mean, how awesome do you have to be to have one of the dudes whose voices basically define classic heavy metal call you up and say "Hey, if you can find a spot for me on an album I'd like to do it"

This song is a perfect song to introduce Ayreon, which why it’s a joy to watch all these reactions. Man, I’ve discovered so many bands/singers over the years through listening to Ayreon!

lol...you cracked me up again man😂thx for that....you should check out more Ayreon stuff, the man is a genius

Nobody: Mr. Rock n Roll: *flabbergasted look* "Floor's in it. *walks away*

The Music of Ayreon is a journey, you will never forget. Its Amazing

Hey man, thanks for reacting to this. If you want to continue this Ayreon journey, here is some additional info. Ayreon (first album 1995) is just one of Arjen Anthony Lucassen's projects. Beside this main project he has some smaller ones: Star one, Stream of passion, Ambeon, Guilt Machine, Gentle Storm and some solo stuff. In most project science fiction story telling plays a big part. As you can imagine, with over 75 diverent singers (with most in there own bands)its hard to get them together. (beside the point that he is a social recluse and has severe stage fright). But there have been 4 big events (and some smaller ones) Below I will make follow up post explaining the diverent shows and the songs available.

Ayreon for me, is the central hub of almost all of the music I like. I bought one of his records as I knew that Simone was on it, and that way I learned about heaps of other singers, which led me to their bands. Now please react to the following: - The Valley of the Queens (Ayreon, from the Ayreon Universe show, live) - Everybody Dies (Ayreon Universe show, live) - The Eye of Ra (Ayreon Universe, live, you’ll recognize the ladies in the thumbnail) And he has basically put all his music on his channel (the link you specified is a video from his channel), so you can react to everything :-D And keep a lookout if a certain Arjen Anthony Lucassen comments on your video ;-)

you should react to "everybody dies" live, and "run apocalype run" from the same album

Yay! Finally :D Check out Star of Sirrah next!!!

He has a new album on the way narrated by Tom Baker, aka Doctor Who.

you have to see some live show man, with all of them singing and playng like a theatre/concert. Unbelieveble amazing

Yaaaasss!!! I've been requesting this since I found your channel, at some point I gave up but now I'm so glad! The world needs more Ayreon, please keep listening to them, it's an amazing journey! "Everybody dies" should be next, maybe the live version! Also, tall hippie dude is TALL, quite taller than Floor!

Nice react! The "Freddie Mercury'" guy is called Mikael Eriksen and is the singer of the band Circus Maximus (if I'm not mistaken)

Hahahaha I bursted out laughing when you saw Floor in the end. When you were surprised that Simone was in there I knew you were going to lose it with Floor.

Now that's a whole new world to enjoy. Try live Ayreon performances of Everybody Dies, Twisted Coil, Intergalactic Space Crusaders.

The amount of singing talent in this one song is simply astonishing! 😀

This is one of the reasons why i love prog... How they mix different styles of rock With the diversity and rythm from Jazz and you get some quite unique. Favourite prog? Must be Porcupine tree… Anesthetize (Live Tilburg) got it all if you are open for it. 17 mins which you either never will get back or bring you pure bliss… Your Choice :) Great reaction! These guys are on the easier scale of prog, in an area between Pink Floyd, Rush and Dream theatre.. Drummer? A god!!

17:15 Arjen's character in the latest show "Electric Castle and other Tales" is actually called "The Hippie"

It was like one BIG jam session. Like listening to YES, RUSH, STEELY DAN, IRON MAIDEN, etc. ALL rolled into one. 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤯🤯🤯🤯

Finally MrRocknRoll meets Arjen Anthony Lucassen aka Ayreon!!! What took you so long😉listen to day sixteen “Loser” from the album “the Human Equation”.

i seen this video awhile back its awesome FLOOR AND SIMONE oohhh yeeaahh

lol, I was just sitting here waiting for the Floor part the whole time 😂

best reaction what I saw ever. I heard this song and watched this video countless times so I was totally enjoying how you falling deep into it. thank you man.

Oooo!! Yes !! This song is amazing and my precious Floor sing there too ❤️❤️❤️🎉👊

What a great gathering of talent! I think that he's able to colab with so many atists because he is so well respected himself! +1 for more Dream Theater, and the Floor shirt!! :-)

How he gets these people together? By being an incredibly charismaticand humble musician/producer oozing creativity and skill. Oh and his backlog. He's been at this for decades and his work is loved by just about every big name in the business here in Europe.. When he did a Live version of 20 year old record, The Electric Castle, most of the original singers jumped on the chance to perform it live with him.

Awesome! I haven't heard anything Ayreon in ages but the musical talent and skill was always fascinating!

Check out Eye of Ra..it's the final song of the Ayreon Universe live show, all singers are present at the end on stage of this track to sing the chorus..Great song.!

To be fair Arjen Lucassen is a legend in the Dutch metal community and I’m sooooooo happy people are discovering this genius mans art. Welcome in the Aryeon universe my friend

AYREON's Beneath The Waves!!!! That song is stuck in my head this days, soooo amazing ❤ And of course too: valley of the queens, everybody dies, the eye of Ra, the electric castle, and you could just go and watch it all, amazing songs.

Arjen just announced a new Ayreon album for 2020. Transitus

Finally!! Wondering when you were going to do this. One of my favs

I love it!! When Floor came the look on his face the best!!🤘🤘🤘🙂

Love me some Ayreon!!! As others have said, next up should be “Everybody Dies”!

Hahahaha awww you put on her shirt. Ok. Sooo many things to recommend from this one on. First of all, Ayreon is a journey in itself. Every concept album he's made is a ride. And the sisters Jansen appear multiple times. So you could try, for example: the DVD Ayreon Universe Live, the song Isolation from the cd The Human Equation, Toehider's song How Do Ghosts Work.

Yessss yess yes!!! Just came home from work to find the new song from Floor which was released at midnight and now Ayreon, just what I needed ❤️

Amazing reaction! Ayreon is really good!

I was waiting for the Floor moment lol! All Ayreon albums are great and feature outstanding artists. More please!

So glad my begging for Ayreon eventually paid off :-) Now please some more! Valley of the Queens for instance, sure you will like that one.

At last! You rock Mr. Rock N Roll 🤘🏻

One of the mars rovers is going to transmit a radio program broadcast from Mars. Among the program is a single song selected by vote. The song selected is "My house on Mars" by Ayreon . Can you guess who is one of the vocalist? Who else then the Goddess herself. :-)

about time you joined the Ayreon club - Welcome to our best secret

HA. I think we were all waiting for the Floor part.

The last 10 or so seconds is like - definition of a mind blown reactor having a floorgasm = points at newly changed top and screen with blank look " floor was in it " lol - I love this guy!!!

All Ayreon albums are really worth listening and enjoying. His is really a genius and I hoped to see him this July, but as the concerts are cancelled I hope the next year festival is having the same line-up, including Ayreon!!

Thanx for finally doing Ayreon !!!!

and there is a new Ayreon album this year!! So excited all my bands are releasing albums :D Nightwish, Ayreon, Ne Obliviscaris, Make them Suffer, Toe Hider so much new metal to listen to!!!

Arjens blessing is a blessing of the highest grade... a bless to your soul, my friend

Everybody Dies Ayreon Universe live is an AMAZING live performance.

I AM SO HAPPY YOU FINALLY DISCOVERED AYREON!!! Sorry, total fangirl here. ;) But how amazing is this, right? xD

Great reaction. And Your face when You saw a Simone and Floor, flawless. Take care about Yourself.

It was awesome to see how damn happy the music makes you! Thanks for sharing that joy and passion with us - you had me grinning like a loon the whole video! And, PS, Michael Mills (the 1 0 guy) is awesome in toehider - he plays all the instruments and sings all the parts. Check out his live How Much for that Dragon's Tooth if you haven't already. It's like if Dio and Freddie Mercury had a secret lovechild, i swear to god.

Haha Floor comes on and he walks away!!!

Mike Mills is awesome! Check out "How Do Ghosts Work" by Toehider 🤘

Like #100. 'Bout dadgum time. This song launched a journey of exploration for me into so many fine bands and stellar artists. I knew DT, and had only just begun hearing Nightwish, but Toehider is hilariously, riotously amazing, Symphony X is CLASSIC hard prog metal with a storytelling bent, and you already know Epica, so just dive into any of these folks' discography and hang on! There is SO much more to come...

I am genuinely surprised you have never heard of Ayreon (which is basically an English bastardisation of his first name: Arjen Lucassen). The man has being doing his spacerockmetaloperas for years with growing and growing success and he basically will ask anyone (yep, he even asked David Gilmour) to participate. At first it was usually musical friends and slowly but surely he got bigger names (he had Barry Hay of Golden Earring on his first album) for instance Bruce Dickinson and James LaBrie. But he also has his regular cast including Floor, Simone and a guy called Damian Wilson. The interesting part of his work is the stories of a lot of his albums are apparently connected, something akin to the Marvel Universe so to speak. But even more interesting is this bit: he never intended and wanted to play this music live but his fans which included some of his regular contributors really wanted to see it live so they (with his permission) crowdfunded a series of performances of his album The Human Equation and he came to see it and was stunned it could actually be done. This finally persuaded him to do it himself as well and with help from a lot of his muscal friends (especially Joost van den Broek who has become his music director / bandleader) they created the show called Ayreon Universe. It was announced as a once-in-a-lifetime experience but .... the shows were sold out in minutes and went extremely well (Arjen even did perform on stage although he suffers from big stage fright) so in 2018 he did another show this time focusing on the performance of just on whole album, the rockopera Into The Electric Castle. You should check out some of the videos online for these shows because in the Universe show Floor is taking part and in the Electric Castle the lovely Simone is gracing the stage and ... the Hippie even returns to th stage: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-w6rBHaOmXMo.html

Tommy was with Kamelot, touring with Nightwish in North America, when Floor was called with 48 hours to learn the set list and join them in Seattle. Epic end of tour concert when Tommy, Elize and Alissa crashed Nightwish’s ending song!

If you like the voice of Michael Eriksen, you have to listen to his band Circus Maximus. And why not the masterpiece "Mouth of Madness". :)

Yes finally!! More Ayreon please!!! There’s a few songs from the Universe live album where you can say: Floor‘s in it. And even: Marco‘s in it. Sierk provided you with a lot of info. I‘ll out it very simply. There’s way more to Ayreon then you can think.

Imagine he sees The Eye of Ra

Haha this is epic :D have ordered my self a copy. Your reaction to seeing Floor was the same as mine. I had to pause and go pick my face up off the Floor.....

Air-ee-on

Everybode else: FLOOR! Me: HANSI!

You should absolutely react to some Seventh Wonder here (with Tommy Karevik at 4:17) you'd enjoy them a lot.

HAHAHAHahHA Yes Floor and Simone were in it ... lol you must love the humor of us Dutch ... Now you know we have more to offer than wooden shoes , tulips and windmills ... Well floor does have a good windmill ... She also has a new song out for warchild .. just saying

After Human Nature I’m not surprised at all that Floor plays the Biologist, lol! 😂

This is one I was really hoping you were gonna react to :D

This is a great way for you to discover more bands to react to, as well!

I like that your cap has A for "Ayreon" on it! This is a great song for sure, was waiting for you to see Floor :) Greetings from Iceland

Hahah i viewed this several times now, and just now see you changed to a floor shirt. . Thats gold dude. 😇

RUSSELL!!!! 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘

If i recall, the binary Mike Mills sings translates to "Trust TH1," TH1 being the name of the android he portrays.

all ayreon records deserve an animated series, the universal migrator alone imo.

And you NEED to check out some Symphony X as well. The Odyssey, Iconoclast, Nevermore, Set the World on Fire, there's so many...

You pronounced it correct!!! Great man! At last!!! The song....this song!!!!

Ha. I hadn't noticed your shirt until you pointed it out .. was great

OMG you finally did this one!

For more Ayreon try some live stuff maybe, I'd recommend the following (titles should be specific enough to find the version I suggest): Valley Of The Queens (Ayreon Universe): Some more Floor (together with two other awesome ladies, Anneke van Giersbergen and Marcella Bovio) Amazing Flight (Electric Castle Live And Other Tales): Probably Ayreon's most popular song. You also might recognize someone there that you'd normally not expect in a music video :). The Eye Of Ra (Universe): Originally a Star One (another project of Arjen) song, but performed live at an Ayreon event. Has been sometimes called "the we are the world of metal" due to the ridiculous amount of people involved on stage. It's Stargate, the song. Intergalactic Space Crusaders (Universe): Also Star One but performed at the same event as before. It's about a British Sci-Fi Show called Blake's 7. Really fun song in my opinion.

Amazed? This is another "why didn't I know about this?" Mr. Lucassen has been doing stuff like this for quite a while. Most of his projects are just like this. He makes a story, composes the music and such. Then hires musicians to record it all. The stories have several roles in them. Each role will have one (or sometimes two) singers. Each singer appearing whenever the role needs to do something. And sometimes (like in this one) all roles have a part. I can see how much you enjoyed this. Look up pretty much the entire Ayreon discography to find tons of greatness. I fail at suggesting anything in particular, because I like it all so much. One warning, though. All of it is loooooong. And you get to appreciate most of it even more, if you hear the full story. (which is also loooooong.)

And now you know why Arjen is my favorite musician. The end.

Arjen assembles the greatest musicians and singers on every project he does! Brilliant!

whelp, someone's opened a whole can of amazingness now... and you know the best thing? Arjen's just announced a new album for later this year (without Floor unfortunately, but looks like Simone might be in). And yes, as many others have said, go check out some of their live performances... Oh, and if you like this style of Supergroup (let's be honest, who doesnt enjoy the various awesome combinations they produce!), one of the singers on here has one of his own. Dude's name is Tobias Sammet (playing The Captain here), the project is called Avantasia. More on the power metal side of things while Ayreon is Prog, but really really good. Guest vocalists include (among many many many others) Marco Hietala (does he need an introduction...?), Klaus Meine (Scorpions), Alice Cooper, Sharon den Adel (Within Temptation), Russel Allen (Symphony X), Hansi Kürsch (Blind Guardian)... Arjen's been on the guitar for him a few times... so lots of crossover with Ayreon, and this very song in fact :-) Plenty of good songs to get you started, "The Raven Child" would be the long monstertrack from their latest album. "The Toy Master" is a bit older but you cant go wrong with Alice Cooper. Or maybe "Draconian Love" for just a very good song in general, imho.

Boom...💣 Floor..!! 🙏

The Eye of Raw has Floor and Irene. You might want to check it out.

Bro....listen to Ayreon Valley of the queens!!

So.....i definitely was waiting for this 🤣 lol....especially after the way you reacted when Simone did her thing...🤔 doesn't he know Floor is in this? .....🤣 first time for everything i guess...laughed so hard and almost on the floor because of a reaction..💪👌 Thnx...for this! 🤘

Say it after me, brother ... "Air - eon" ... haha took me a few goes also. Awesome! You should look into Ayreon's "Universe" concert/Blu-ray. You won't believe it. Enjoy the ride. Cheers from Downunder ;) \m/

You make me laugh..man. Nice reaction... :-D