Arjen Lucassen sampler – handpicked by Arjen himself

Since 1995, when he released Ayreon: The Final Experiment, Arjen Lucassen’s imagination and ambition have flourished, unfettered by convention. Albums centred around a conceptual theme began to attract the attention of a burgeoning audience interested in new progressive sounds. For 1998’s Into The Electric Castle, he collaborated with artists from the prog and metal worlds, namely Fish, Anneke van Giersbergen, Sharon den Adel, Damian Wilson, Thijs van Leer, Ton Scherpenzeel and Edward Reekers from Kayak, and Clive Nolan. This was the masterstroke that would bring his musical vision the wider acclaim that he so clearly sought. Explore his supersonic universe with this free digital sampler, curated by Arjen Lucassen himself. The two-part Universal Migrator albums, released in 2000, saw Bruce Dickinson, Floor Jansen, Russell Allen and Neal Morse join the…

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