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Topic: Ayreon New Album details "01011001"
Posted By: valravennz
Subject: Ayreon New Album details "01011001"
Date Posted: October 10 2007 at 20:52
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New details including the title and confirmed vocalists for the new album can
be found at the following link:
http://www.arjenlucassen.com/ayreon/ay_01011001.html - http://www.arjenlucassen.com/ayreon/ay_01011001.html
The album is scheduled to be released in January 2008. The album release "build up" is certainly making this a highly anticipated work among fans globally, of Arjen's incredible musicianship. I can hardly wait until January  .------------- 
"Music is the Wine that fills the cup of Silence" - Robert Fripp |
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Posted By: KoS
Date Posted: October 10 2007 at 20:56
Awesome cast, I can't wait. Is the guy from Katatonia alive? |
Posted By: valravennz
Date Posted: October 10 2007 at 20:58
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^ Yes - incredibly exciting - even the not so well known vocalists have great voices. I think some of the sound bites from each vocalist are still available on the main
Ayreon home page.
As far as I know - Jonas P Renske from Katatonia is still with us!!!! -------------
"Music is the Wine that fills the cup of Silence" - Robert Fripp |
Posted By: Drew
Date Posted: October 10 2007 at 21:03
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Not too excited about the dude from Evergrey- (the reason I stopped listening to them was the vocals) and Daniel?  (Mr. anti US)Everyone else though?   ------------- |
Posted By: KoS
Date Posted: October 10 2007 at 21:05
He just looks as he's about to croak. |
valravennz wrote:Posted By: valravennz
Date Posted: October 10 2007 at 21:11
 Yes - he is kinda dark (or should I say "ashen") gothic in appearance.
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"Music is the Wine that fills the cup of Silence" - Robert Fripp |
Posted By: TalmLikeABalm
Date Posted: October 11 2007 at 06:15
| One of the main reasons I'm looking forward to it is because of the guy from Evergrey. I love his vocals. Him and Daniel Gildenlow should be awesome! |
Posted By: dAJaro
Date Posted: October 11 2007 at 08:35
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I'm really looking forward to this. hansi kuersch finally makes an appearance on an ayreon album - yay! btw. the album's name is "Y" ! No, I dont know all the binary code by heart. i had to look it up. :) ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/dAJaro/?chartstyle=basic10"> 
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Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: October 11 2007 at 10:55
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Some excellent vocalists there except one, the guy from Evergrey is dreadful.
------------- Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005 
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Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: October 11 2007 at 10:58
Floor and Simone! 
Hot 'n' Sexy Gildenlow!
 Guy from Blind Gurdian!  ------------- http://soundcloud.com/drewagler" rel="nofollow - My soundcloud. Please give feedback if you want! |
Posted By: el böthy
Date Posted: October 11 2007 at 11:48
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At last we have Gildenlöw on an Ayreon album, this is more than enough for me!!!
------------- "You want me to play what, Robert?" 
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Posted By: el böthy
Date Posted: October 11 2007 at 11:54
Mr anti USA jejeje... now come on, you know thats just not true, he is against the current administration, and keep in mind that the America track is not from his perspective, but from the He character in Scarsick!  ------------- "You want me to play what, Robert?"
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Posted By: cold103
Date Posted: October 11 2007 at 13:37
| Yay for Daniel Gildenlow! |
Posted By: Lofcaudio
Date Posted: October 12 2007 at 20:00
Absolutely! This is very exciting news.
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Posted By: Drakk
Date Posted: October 12 2007 at 21:15
What I would like to see on this album would be the Vocalist from Sleepytime.  ------------- [QUOTE=darkshade] [QUOTE=Sckxyss] I'm disappointed - neither of these players are avant-garde! Al di Meola. [/QUOTE] haha i know. but the poll itself is avant-garde [/QUOTE] |
Posted By: magnus
Date Posted: October 13 2007 at 09:26
Jørn Lande  ------------- The scattered jigsaw of my redemption laid out before my eyes Each piece as amorphous as the other - Each piece in its lack of shape a lie 
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Posted By: Ne_Plus_Ultra
Date Posted: October 14 2007 at 15:45
I've heard Evergrey onlt once and they didn't catch my hear. Seemed to be your usual boring and rather pointless prog-metal band, and Englund didn't shine as something special at all, but I think that his sample of the new Ayreon album is great! Caught me in a second. The line-up is very impressive. My anticipations for this release are very high. (and Daniel Gildenlow!   ) |
Posted By: KoS
Date Posted: October 14 2007 at 15:54
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Posted By: Aristilus
Date Posted: October 15 2007 at 08:09
| Englund and Renske. Two great vocalists from two really great bands. Should be an album well worth waiting for. |
Posted By: Xeroth
Date Posted: October 17 2007 at 23:53
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I'm excited, Simone is a great singer from a terrible band. I went to the Kamelot show where Epica opened for Kamelot and they didn't do so hot, Simone's the only good quality with the band. And Evergrey's and Katonia's singer will be quite interesting. I find that interesting that Arjen is using the guy to growl, I remember hearing a little bit of it from his first album (I think that's the album he growled on), I like the newer less harsher vocals but all is well. Didn't really know much of the others, heard of them but haven't heard them. Blind Guardian should be cool, and from the few samples I did hear this'll be exciting. A lot of vocalists, but knowing Arjen, we're in good hands. ------------- I once was cool, but now I'm cold. Can you please turn up the heat. |
Posted By: King of Loss
Date Posted: October 18 2007 at 00:01
Gildenlow! Gildenlow! Gildenlow! 
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Posted By: valravennz
Date Posted: October 19 2007 at 21:10
All good!!! 
Keep an eye out now for the naming of the guest musicians! -------------
"Music is the Wine that fills the cup of Silence" - Robert Fripp |
Posted By: aapatsos
Date Posted: October 29 2007 at 19:48
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just saw the site and was amazed by the excellent names of guests (including Englund of course...) great singers and musicians all over there was one thing I realised and was not aware Anneke is not in Gathering anymore  man, where was I when this happened? (probably in the army...  )anyways the line-up is promising, hope to produce another masterpiece |
Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: October 30 2007 at 14:01
I think she left The Gathering in about June. ------------- Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005
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Posted By: valravennz
Date Posted: October 31 2007 at 06:26
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A final update on the guest musicians - for those who have not seen the list of musicians they are as follows: INSTRUMENTALISTS:
ALBUM RELEASE DATE January 2008 Regular Edition (2CD) The above information has been taken directly from the Official Album site which can be viewed at:
http://www.ayreon.com/ayreon/ay_01011001.html - http://www.ayreon.com/ayreon/ay_01011001.html
This information was also released via Arjen's My Space blog. There are no more major announcements for now. But keep an eye on the Ayreon Official site for the actual release date.
Without really wanting to wish my life away, January 2008 can not arrive soon enough.
Cheers -------------
"Music is the Wine that fills the cup of Silence" - Robert Fripp |
Posted By: aapatsos
Date Posted: November 01 2007 at 12:16
sad... she has a new project I reckon but seems very 'poppy'... |
Posted By: Forgotten Son
Date Posted: November 05 2007 at 20:06
| Looking at a lot of these artists and guest musicians I'm not sure this is going to be quite as good (for my tastes at least) as The Human Equation. That said I'm optimistic that Arjen will put out an album as strong as Into the Electric Castle or The Universal Migrator. I'm sure I won't be disappointed. Can't wait. |
Posted By: rushaholic
Date Posted: November 05 2007 at 21:08
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T R A C K L I S T
Update on the release dates:
January 25th: edit: BTW, the above comes from Ayreon's site http://www.ayreon.com/ayreon/ay_01011001.html#tracks - http://www.ayreon.com/ayreon/ay_01011001.html#tracks |
Posted By: sean
Date Posted: November 05 2007 at 23:29
| i'm sure arjen won't disappoint. this seems like a great cast, although topping the human equation will be quite difficult. |
Posted By: EvilNight
Date Posted: December 12 2007 at 18:27
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I've been listening to "Planet Y" now for a couple of days. It's incredible. The only other Ayreon album I actually own is Into the Electric Castle. I found the story a bit hokey and pretentious in many places (and just pure fun in others) but liked the musical quality of it the best. I've given a listen or two to everything since The Final Experiment but none of the others really clicked for me. Human Equation in particular didn't do anything for me (in the emotional or story sense) even though it was musically excellent. I have a vague understanding of the overall story. I gave this one a try because I liked the talent I was hearing, and man I was just not ready for what I got when I put those headphones on. This album tells the story of "Planet Y" (Forever's homeworld). It's dark, haunted, murderously melancholy, progressive rock genius all rolled together with a pseudo-industrial sound to set the overall tone of a world fallen into oblivion. Someone needs to send a copy of this to both Trent Reznor and Al Gore - they'll appreciate it for entirely different reasons. The story this time around is anything BUT corny. The lyrics aren't perfect but never fail to be at least adequate, and some of them are just downright fantastic. This is a far more serious album just oozing science fiction... there isn't a hell of a lot of plot, more like a history lesson of how a race can lose everything while trying to conquer science and acquire knowledge. It isn't the quest of knowledge that is the problem - it's the increasingly unnatural technology used to achieve it. Forever achieves mastery of the entire universe only to find they have no meaning left to drive them. I won't spoil the story for you, that's just what comes out in the stunning opening track (and there's two CDs left to go!) Fans of the series can doubtless guess what happens next. Frankly I think Age of Shadows was every bit as epic an opener as The Poet & The Pendulum from Nightwish's latest Dark Passion Play. After hearing this one, the story has my attention enough for me to go out and pick up Ayreon's entire catalog - something Coheed and Cambria hasn't managed to do yet. Consider me a converted Ayreon fan. I haven't enjoyed an album like this in a very long time, reminds me of the first time I actually 'heard' Amarok. It's going to take me a while to digest this one yet - and I don't want to review it on progarchives until I've got my head firmly around the rest of the catalog. The music has respectful (almost playful) nods to Giorgio Moroder's Metropolis score from the 1980s - Arjen must be a fan. It's taken industrial sound influences from NIN, thrown a dash of Tool in, but put them to work in more active ways weaving around Ayreon's own sound (which is still there, never fear). It is cold as ice and very, very dark, something I didn't feel in the other albums despite the subject matter at times. I'd bet at least once you'll find yourself feeling sorry for Forever and have an entirely new perspective on the events of Into The Electric Castle. I can only wonder if it shines more light on the other albums I'm not more familiar with (yet). I'm thinking 5/5, betting it'll rate 4.2+. Just brilliant. |
Posted By: EvilNight
Date Posted: January 08 2008 at 10:43
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That was a freakin' fun ride. I posted my review, and I'd appreciate criticism as I'm kinda new at this. I don't usually review albums unless I have something good to say about them - I figure it's better to let the people who like an artist advocate for them. If I'm into a specific artist's whole catalog I'll usually write both good and bad reviews for their good and bad albums since I figure I've got a better handle on why those are bad, enough to be constructive. I try to review promos that come my way because I think it's important to promote artists before release, especially these days. I just love the way this new Ayreon album ties all of the other works together. It gave me those precious 'new ears' we all sometimes get when listening to works we've heard before, where you find yourself thinking "how the hell did I miss this the first time?" Anyone who has heard Amarok probably knows what I am talking about ;). I am way, way out of my depth to review the music on the album. I only know about half of the artists featured (something I plan to correct shortly), and frankly all of the singing sounds so fantastic to me that I'm hard pressed to make any distinctions let alone criticisms. All I can say is that I haven't been this blown away by the music since Spock's Beard's "V" which is one of my most favorite albums. |
Posted By: Easy Livin
Date Posted: January 16 2008 at 11:28
| Just bumping this one as the release of the album is now imminent. |
Posted By: sean
Date Posted: January 16 2008 at 13:23
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I'm hoping I can find this in stores, I'd like to get it when it comes out. Arjen posted some songs and they sound great. |
Posted By: johnobvious
Date Posted: January 17 2008 at 15:26
Maybe imminent in Europe. We have to wait until Jan 29 in the States. ------------- Biggles was in rehab last Saturday |
Posted By: Forgotten Son
Date Posted: January 21 2008 at 14:05
| I shall be handing my University assignments in early so I can listen to this album all day next Monday. |
Posted By: sean
Date Posted: January 22 2008 at 22:35
| I'm hoping some stores here will carry it. I hope to be able to get it the day it comes out. |
Posted By: avestin
Date Posted: January 22 2008 at 22:43
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I find the album to be good+ now after several listens (at first I was a bit disappointed; I have a promotional copy). It grows on me slowly. I think it's a step down from previous albums and has elements taken from both Human Equation and Electric Castle. Liquid Eternity is a catchy good song as is the closing song. For those open to buying online, you can try http://www.lasercd.com - www.lasercd.com ------------- http://hangingsounds.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow - Hanging Sounds http://www.progarchives.com/ProgRockShopping.asp" rel="nofollow - PA Index of prog music vendors |
Posted By: johnobvious
Date Posted: January 24 2008 at 15:33
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Just read his interview on DPRP. Knew about his split with the wife but hadn't heard about his losing his sense of taste and smell. How awful that has got to be on top of it. He just seems like a really down to earth guy who has a lot of talent (with little ego) and is a kid in a candy store doing what he is doing but life has dealt him a few blows recently. Whether you like the new album or not, you got to give the guy his due.
------------- Biggles was in rehab last Saturday |
Posted By: Easy Livin
Date Posted: January 29 2008 at 14:29
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Congratualtions to reviewer "EvilNight", whose review of a promo release of this album is featured in a link from Ayreon's website:
http://www.arjenlucassen.com/ayreon/ay_01011001_reviews.html - http://www.arjenlucassen.com/ayreon/ay_01011001_reviews.html
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Posted By: keiser willhelm
Date Posted: January 29 2008 at 15:00
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his sense of taste and smell? well i can think of a few times when i wished i couldnt smell but taste? i really feel sorry for him; no more steaks, no more cakes, no more pies, cupcakes, ice cream, brownies, chocolate, hamburgers, cheeseburgers, french fries, roast duck, dumplings, apple fritters, apple pie, apple crumble, peaches, peach cobbler, canned peaches, turkey, turkey sandwich, turkey a la king, ham, diced ham, smoked ham, roast ham, honey glazed ham, HAM SANDWICHES!!!!
------------- http://www.last.fm/user/KeiserWillhelm" rel="nofollow - What im listening to |
Posted By: johnobvious
Date Posted: January 29 2008 at 18:26
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He can still eat those things, just can't taste them. I believe that is why Michael Hutchence killed himself. He had the same thing.
------------- Biggles was in rehab last Saturday |