Country: Netherlands
Genre: Progressive Metal/Heavy
Arjen Anthony Lucassen is a well-known multi-instrumentalist from the Netherlands. He's been involved in many projects (which end up being almost solo projects) such as A.A. Lucassen, Star One and Ayreon, just to name a few. In overall, he holds more than 25 albums under his belt. He is just one of these geniuses that produce music throughout all of their lives and get little or no credit for achieving such levels of artistic proficiency. Actually, sometimes I feel very bad about him because he should be enjoying the fame of anyone in the big (commercial) leagues. Maybe that's not what he is looking for. Enough from this.
About the record. This record seems like a very defined and obsessive idea that one day came into AAL's mind and was written, executed and recorded just the way he imagined it. It has all this small details which sound like a symphony, like music you hear in your dreams and then wake up and say: "I was literally composing the music!". Too bad because most of us won't remember almost anything or will have the capacity to write any of the notes. But AAL was able to put all these pieces together, write it in a "rondo" fashion (think of Beethoven's Fifth Piano Concerto, "The Emperor") and invite some friends to sing and sound exactly as he had in mind. The vocal arrangements are truly my favourites here, the metal genre has great vocalists but not great vocal composers, and AAL is certainly one who stands out of the crowd. If you have an eclectic musical taste, like some art rock combined with metal and can stand the fact that the whole recording is the pulsating ego of AAL, this record is for you. Not everyday you get beautiful music like this, give it a try.
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