Constantly reassessing oneself is essential, both in order to test our own limits but also to be able to move forward and allow renewal. It doesn’t mean that we always manage to do so, but at least, at the end of the journey, we always gain some maturity and self-comprehension. This is why the new Ayreon album took so long to be released after 01011001, which was judged too complicated and loaded according to its own creator.
Arjen Lucassen needed to take a step back in order to be able to look back, do things differently and see where this would lead him when it was time for him to get back in the game. The result is Theory of Everything: more legible, with “only” seven singers – which means ten fewer than the previous album – but for the first time composed of four songs, each longer than twenty minutes. A format that immediately reminds of the ambitious albums that progressive rock bands dared to offer in the 70’s.
However, this doesn’t stop the composer from remaining within a sort of continuity regarding his career. Indeed, instead of considering his last solo album as an outsider, he regards it as an essential milestone in many aspects which lead towards this new Ayreon opus, and doesn’t put aside the possibility of turning to science fiction again for the next episode. Arjen Lucassen is an impenitent sci-fi fanatic that somehow doesn’t fail to criticise the sequels of some major genre masterpieces in the following interview.
THE DARKNESS de passage à Paris en novembre 2023
EVANESCENCE de passage à Lille en juin
MASS HYSTERIA dévoile la lyric vidéo de la nouvelle chanson « Mass Veritas »
Satan Jokers : mélomane mégalomane
Laura Cox : la tête sur les épaules
GOZU : les détails du nouvel album Remedy ; clip vidéo de la chanson « Tom Cruise Control » dévoilé
MAMMOTH WVH : les détails du nouvel album Mammoth II ; vidéo de la chanson « Another Celebration At The End Of The World » dévoilée
La tournée européenne de WHITE WARD est annulée
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