TIMELINE follows the thirteen-year evolution of the Ayreon sound from the 1995 debut The Final Experiment to the release of 01011001 in 2008. Its 3 CDs contain 32 essential Ayreon tracks plus one brand new song recorded especially for this release — almost 4 hours of music! The DVD features nearly two hours of selected … Continue Reading
Ayreon – The Human Equation
Story A man lies comatose in hospital after a terrible car accident. The accident was bizarre: it happened in broad daylight with no other cars in sight. The man’s wife and his best friend are keeping a bedside vigil, trying to understand how the accident happened, and hoping for any sign of recovery. Unable to … Continue Reading
Ayreon – The Universal Migrator (parts 1 and 2)
The Universal Migrator parts I and II is the 2-CD re-release of what were originally released as two single albums: The Dream Sequencer and Flight of the Migrator. The Dream Sequencer On Universal Migrator part I: The Dream Sequencer Arjen picks up the story of The Final Experiment and the year 2084. Over a hundred … Continue Reading
Ayreon – Into the Electric Castle
The third Ayreon release is a 100+ minute double CD and like ‘The Final Experiment’ it tells a story. Eight stereotypical characters from different eras in time suddenly find themselves in another dimension as subjects of an experiment conducted by an alien race. The characters on ‘Into the Electric Castle’ (1998) are blown out of … Continue Reading
Ayreon – Actual Fantasy
Originally released in 1996 on the Transmission label, Actual Fantasy is the second album in Arjen’s Ayreon project. Instead of having a continuous story with a beginning and an end, the the individual songs are based on fantasy and sci-fi movies, or on stories Arjen wrote himself. The first ten thousand copies of Actual Fantasy … Continue Reading