Ayreon - The Day The World Breaks Down - Reaction - FLOOR AND SIMONE!!!

They all turn up because they know what a great composer Arjen is. Next up has to be ‘ everybody dies’ live.

There song "Everybody Dies" live is a must next

seeing Simone.."don't tell Floor"....oops there she is..haha. loved it.

Be prepared, This rabbithole is MASSIVE !!!!! Arjen is My favorite Space Hippie 🥰!!! I also call it: "The song that exploded my music world"!!!! Ayreon is a musical project by Dutch songwriter, singer, musician and record producer Arjen Anthony Lucassen. Ayreon's music is described as progressive rock, progressive metal and power metal sometimes combined with genres such as folk, electronica, experimental and classical music. The majority of Ayreon's albums are dubbed "rock operas" because the albums contain complex storylines featuring a host of characters, usually with each one being represented by a unique vocalist. Each Ayreon album tells a different story, but all, with the exceptions of Actual Fantasy, The Theory of Everything, and Transitus, take place in the same fictional, science fiction universe; additionally, Lucassen's solo album Lost in the New Real is also set in the Ayreon universe. Ayreon's music is characterized by the use of traditional instruments in rock music mixed with instruments more native to folk and classical music. Lucassen writes the music and the lyrics, sings and plays most of the instruments on all of the Ayreon albums, alongside many guest musicians. His most regular collaborator is drummer Ed Warby. The binary code means "Trust TH-1" NWSU/FloorFan/Epican/Ayreonaut/TWA 🤘😎🤘.

He always leaves the best for last, Floor Jansen.

Did you say ‘Dickinson’? Check out the studio version of ‘Into the black hole’ by Ayreon….😉

FYI: Arjen Lucassen - Composer - Dutch singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist musician and record producer best known for his long-running progressive metal/rock opera project Ayreon. SINGERS: 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 (Trans-Siberian Orchestra 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 – (Gorefest) drums, Ben Mathot – violin, Jeroen Goossens (ex-Pater Moeskroen) – flute and wind instruments, Arjen Anthony Lucassen – electric and acoustic guitars, all other instruments BTW .... The 2024 live version: STAR ONE (2024) ”The Day That The World Breaks Down (01011001 - Live Beneath The Waves)” : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ei4QjMN1y5g

What's amazing to me is the quality of musicians from the small country of the Netherlands. Arjen, Floor, Simone, Irene, Joost, Dianne van Giersbergen, Annette Van Giersbergen, all the members of Epica and on and on. And all these European musicians know each other and are willing to work together.

Arjen has been working with over 120 of the top musicians and singers from all over the world. He found Floor in 2000 and her sister Irene some years later. Arjer is a genuine genius on the same level as Tuomas from Nightwish. Russel Allen and Floor are also long time friends, and have made some mind blowing duets - like Phantom of the Opera & Sweet Curse.

The world breaks down. And when Simone and Floor tell you so, you better believe it 😂 Ayreon really is the metal version of 'have your cake and eat it too'.

Floor worked with him since 2000. It was the Star one project. She became a friend of Joost ( later After forever keyboardist. Now producer of Epica...) And Rusell Allen became a close friend. On her first ReVamp album they did the duett Sweet Curse. Here's her link with her sister Irene in 2003. https://youtu.be/oriR8CpI-Io?si=ubq72yhPwynm7vJr She is also an incredible singer and works constantly with Arjen. And yes Bruce Dikinson worked with Arjen many years ago. AYREON/Floor Merilins Will 2018 https://youtu.be/VMD7EzhmGII?si=oHCoA5OA4824pIMg

Everybody Dies live as everyone else is saying :) Great reaction.

OK, now we have to add a third female singer to really set your head a-spinning. Brittney Slayes of Unleash the Archers, a Canadian power metal band. The interesting bit is that Brittney has started to work with Arjen on his projects and not that long ago went to the Netherlands to sing her Ayreon song "Fate of Man" and some of Floor's parts as well. The funny part of that was Arjen asked her to take over a female singer's role as she was unavailable (Floor's pregnancy). Brittney said yes, then Arjen dropped the little tidbit that she would be replacing Floor. GULP! was her reaction. Now isn't that a teaser, a singer that Arjen thinks can stand in for Floor, and ya, she nailed it. Check out Star One, "Fate of Man" and as an added bonus, it features a solo by Micheal Romeo. BTW, Brittney has had classical voice lessons since the age of 8 and has sung in an award winning university choir. There's also a cute interview of Arjen where he discovers Brittney by listening to a very amateur YT video from a phone of a Karaoke bar recording of Brittney going ham on "Queen of the Reich" after a gig in Edinburg, Scotland. Rumour has it that the bar had to close down for the rest of the night.

Bruce has sung parts on Ayreon records. You will also find Floor and Simone all over Ayreon music. If you want to hear some heavier live Ayreon, check out this one. A song which is a prt of this same Scifi story. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dEHQNAZsIo - Ayreon - Star of Sirrah (Universe) LYRICS IN SUBS

He produced Simone's new solo album coming the 23th off August. You should check out their 2 songs released the last weeks!

After this please also check the live version (01011001 - Live Beneath The Waves) Then you will see it also possible live with crazy audience. I know you love simone simons; so check out "aeterna" and "in love we rust" (featuring Ayreon) you will be gone forever!

Dutch - Melodic Metal - Flawless Queens - Thats all you need to know about a small but grande nation in Europe. Greetings from Germany Great Reaction as always GP!

The Live Ayreon shows are all unbelievable! Bucket list for me.

Ha ha - from the moment when you saw Simone and said don't tell Floor I was strapped in with a beer in my hand just waiting for the end - I wasn't disappointed. Great stuff man!

Congratulation you entert the next dutch rabbit hole 👍😃