In September 2025, Tilburg in the Netherlands was once again transformed into Ayreon City, as six spectacular shows took over the 013 venue— or what is fast becoming known as “Home” by Ayreonauts around the world. All 15,000 tickets were snapped up within minutes, with fans traveling from an astonishing 71 countries to witness […]
Review: Arjen Anthony Lucassen – Songs No One Will Hear InsideOut Music (September 12th 2025) Reviewer – David Brighouse Dutch songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Arjen Lucassen is no stranger to a concept album with his main creative project Ayreon, but this is a solo album, his first since 2012’s ‘Lost In The New Real’ and it […]
After five sold-out performances of Ayreon – 01011001 – Live Beneath the Waves at the 013 venue in The Netherlands in 2023, attended by 15,000 fans from 64 countries, and following four sold-out Ayreon – Electric Castle Live & Other Tales shows in 2019, as well as three sold-out Ayreon Universe shows in 2017, Ayreon […]
Ayreon reveals the spectacular live video for ‘Fate of Man‘. The song is taken from ‘01011001 – Live Beneath the Waves‘ which is released today, via Music Theories Recordings / Mascot Label Group. An Ayreon live event is a monumental occasion where the highest-calibre musicians and an enormous production come together to forge a bombastic spectacle. […]
Review: Lucassen & Soeterboek’s Plan Nine – The Long-Lost Songs Music Theories Recordings (May 17th 2024) Reviewer: David Mark Pearce Right from the start my cards are well and truly on the table because this is a cracking album! The band/project is called Plan Nine and this is a collection of long lost and forgotten […]
Ayreon reveals the spectacular live video for ‘The Day The World Breaks Down‘ which features an enormous singing cast of Damian Wilson, Daniel Gildenlow, Jan Willem Ketelaers, Simone Simons, Maggy Luyten, John Jaycee Cuijpers, Hansi Kürsch, Mike Mills, Tom Englund, Anneke van Giersbergen, Marcela Bovio and Irene Jansen. An Ayreon live event is a monumental […]
Lucassen & Soeterboek’s Plan Nine have revealed the fun new comic-book themed animated video for ‘Ice On Fire‘. The song is taken from the album ‘The Long-Lost Songs‘ which will be released on 17th May via Music Theories Recordings / Mascot Label Group. The song rockets its way out of the 80s and into the […]
Italian maestros of modern melodic/symphonic metal Temperance have unveiled a brand-new music video for their rousing track ‘Full of Memories‘, taken from their recent studio album, ‘Hermitage – Daruma’s Eyes Pt. 2‘, via Napalm Records. The album features stand-out performances by Arjen Lucassen (Ayreon), Fabienne Erni (Eluveitie, Illumishade), Laura Fella (Faun) and Alessandro Conti (Twilight […]
An Ayreon live event is not just any concert. It’s a monumental occasion where the highest-calibre musicians and an enormous production come together to forge a bombastic spectacle. The rarity of these shows only adds to their uniqueness. In September 2023, Arjen Lucassen‘s ‘01011001 – Live Beneath the Waves‘ sold out five performances at Poppodium […]
17th May will see the release of Lucassen & Soeterboek’s Plan Nine album ‘The Long-Lost Songs‘ via Music Theories Recordings / Mascot Label Group. To go with the album announcement, they have revealed the video for ‘Before The Morning Comes‘. Listen – here It was the early nineties, and musical polymath Arjen Lucassen had begun […]
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