Ayreon - The Source '2017

Tracks list

	Tracklist
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CD1
01. The Day That The World Breaks Down
02. Sea Of Machines
03. Everybody Dies
04. Star Of Sirrah
05. All That Was
06. Run! Apocalypse! Run!
07. Condemned To Live

CD2
01. Aquatic Race
02. The Dream Dissolves
03. Deathcry Of A Race
04. Into The Ocean
05. Bay Of Dreams
06. Planet Y Is Alive!
07. The Source Will Flow
08. Journey To Forever
09. The Human Compulsion
10. March Of The Machines

Progressive metal outfit Ayreon is essentially just Dutch multi-instrumentalist
and songwriter Arjen Anthony Lucassen (formerly of the more mainstream metal
band Vengeance), plus a revolving-door cast of collaborators and guest musicians
that changes from project to project. Ayreon albums are usually large-scale
concept epics and sometimes rock operas, in the latter case featuring a
different vocalist for each character. Lucassen formed Ayreon in 1994 and
released its first album, The Final Experiment, the following year. The more
ethereal Actual Fantasy followed in 1996, and from there Ayreon only got more
elaborate.

Released in 1998, Into the Electric Castle was a campy sci-fi concept work
spanning two discs and featuring guests like ex-Marillion singer Fish and the
Gathering's Anneke van Giersbergen. Next up was Universal Migrator, another
double-disc set whose volumes were issued separately under the subtitles Part I:
The Dream Sequencer and Part II: Flight of the Migrator. These featured even
more guest appearances, most notably Tiamat's Johan Edlund and Iron Maiden's
Bruce Dickinson, plus current and former members of Gamma Ray, Primal Fear,
Helloween, Stratovarius, and Symphony X; musicians included Rocket Scientist's
Erik Norlander and ex-Gorefest drummer Ed Warby. Released in 2004, The Human
Equation traded sci-fi for medical drama, taking place in the mind of a coma
patient recovering from a car crash. It featured the usual slew of guests,
including Opeth's Mikael Åkerfeldt, Devin Townsend, and Dream Theater's James
LaBrie.

The ambitious, tech-heavy 01011001, which arrived in 2008, featured 17 different
vocalists - more than any other Ayreon album to date - and brought to a close
much of the narrative mythology that had begun with 1995's The Final Experiment.
Lucassen returned in 2013 with a new work, The Theory of Everything, inspired by
the films A Beautiful Mind and Rain Man. Theater Equation, a concert album/DVD
featuring cast, choir, and a small orchestra delivering a rousing performance of
2004's Human Equation, followed in 2016. A year later, Ayreon returned with
their ninth studio album, The Source, a concept album prequel to 2008's
01011001. 




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