Ayreon - 01011001 (Trailer)

"01011001" is the seventh studio album by Arjen Anthony Lucassen's long-running Ayreon project. 17 singers in total (including Arjen himself) contribute to the album.

TRACKLIST:

Disc 1 - Y
"Age of Shadows" − 10:47 incl. "We Are Forever"
"Comatose" − 4:26
"Liquid Eternity" − 8:10
"Connect the Dots" − 4:13
"Beneath the Waves" − 8:26 "Beneath the Waves" "Face the Facts" "But a Memory..." "World Without Walls" "Reality Bleeds"
"Newborn Race" − 7:49 "The Incentive" "The Vision" "The Procedure" "Another Life" "Newborn Race" "The Conclusion"
"Ride the Comet" − 3:29
"Web of Lies" − 2:50

Disc 2 - EARTH
"The Fifth Extinction" − 10:29 "Glimmer of Hope" "World of Tomorrow Dreams" "Collision Course" "From the Ashes" "Glimmer of Hope (reprise)"
"Waking Dreams" − 6:31
"The Truth Is In Here" − 5:12
"Unnatural Selection" − 7:15
"River of Time" − 4:24
"E=MC2" − 5:50
"The Sixth Extinction" − 12:18 "Echoes on the Wind" "Radioactive Grave" "2085" "To the Planet of Red" "Spirit on the Wind" "Complete the Circle"

VOCALISTS - FOREVER:
Hansi Kürsch (Blind Guardian, Demons & Wizards)
Daniel Gildenlöw (Pain of Salvation)
Tom S. Englund (Evergrey)
Jonas Renkse (Katatonia)
Jørn Lande (ex-Masterplan, ARK)
Anneke van Giersbergen (Agua de Annique, ex-The Gathering)
Steve Lee (Gotthard)
Bob Catley (Magnum)
Floor Jansen (After Forever, Star One)
Magali Luyten (Beautiful Sin, Virus IV)

VOCALISTS - MAN:
Simone Simons (Epica) as an internet-dating service user.
Phideaux Xavier as an internet-dating service user.
Wudstik as a 21st century scientist, preparing The Final Experiment.
Marjan Welman (Elister) as a 21st century scientist, preparing The Final Experiment.
Arjen Anthony Lucassen as the Hippie from Into the Electric Castle, who is now in a mental asylum and is able to get visions from the Forever people.
Liselotte Hegt (Dial) as the Hippie's nurse in the asylum.
Ty Tabor (King's X) as an average middle-class worker, with an average family and who is an avid user of the BitTorrent protocol for downloading files.

INSTRUMENTALISTS:
Arjen Anthony Lucassen - Guitar, keyboards, synths, bass guitar, programming
Ed Warby (Gorefest) - Drums and percussion
Lori Linstruth (ex-Stream of Passion) - Guitar solo on "Newborn Race"
Michael Romeo (Symphony X) - Guitar solo on "E=MC2"
Derek Sherinian (Planet X, Yngwie Malmsteen, ex-Dream Theater) - Keyboard solo on "The Fifth Extinction"
Tomas Bodin (The Flower Kings) - Keyboard solo on "Waking Dreams"
Joost van den Broek (After Forever) - Piano and Keyboard solo on "The Sixth Extinction"
Jeroen Goossens (Flairck) - Flutes
Ben Mathot (Dis) - Violins
David Faber - Cellos

STORY:
On Planet Y, the seafaring 'Forever' have long ago forgotten their emotions as well as becoming dependent on machines, in order to become immortal. Longing to rediscover emotions, Forever sends their DNA to planet Earth using a comet as vessel. The vessel reaches earth seeding humanity, but not before causing the extinction of the dinosaurs. Human rise and through them, Forever is able to relive lost emotions. However, Forever's continued meddling with humanity in order to make them evolve faster have disastrous consequence when their physical and mental evolution goes faster than their moral development : humanity starts becoming dependent on machines, they start slowly losing their emotions and worst of all heads toward the path to their own extinction. Forever must then orchestrate a way to help humanity save themselves, or should they even bother...is the experiment over?

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[0traveler0in0time0]

THIS ALBUM IS PURE PERFECTION ! ! !

AJREN'S IMAGINATION!

STORY!

PERFECT ARTISTS!

PERFECTLY ARRANGED!

MUSIC!!! (WITH MIX OF DIFFERENT INSTRUMENTS AND GENRES!!!!!

AAAA!!!! 01011001 !!!! (wake me up before I die to listen this once more, then I may die...) =D

[Unflexablegrace]

I think this is probably my favorite Ayreon album, easily. I love all of Ayreons work, but the craftsmanship inside and out on this album is flawless. Truly a masterpiece.

[GameSpazzer]

To be honest, I really couldn't give a flying rat's fuck about the story. Partially because I found it uninteresting, and partially because I was too busy listening to FUCKING AWESOME to care.

[swolocz07]

Goosebumps.

[TheHumanUnity]

Ayreon - Unnatural Selection = FTW

[MiroshlavaMedvel]

Love this album... LOVE AYREON!!! \m/

[DevilSinclair]

Ayreon, is a philosophic and futurist, deep texts, and fantastic music!

[Doodooma]

i have human equation, and i am just blown away by Arjen's craftsmanship. This guy is a true musician, and to have so many storylines that move through eachother musically fascinates me.

I have to check 01011001 out, it looks yet again to be a masterpiece

[Clairvoyant23]

If they made this album into movie form I would deffiantly see it.

[DeathTimer]

01011001

A number I'll never forget

[SleepingMetropolis]

the best thing i saw today^^

[Silfaryia]

Holy crap, Derek Sherinan is in here? I never knew that! That guy gets everywhere, man.