Artist: | AYREON |
Label: | Inside Out / Century Media |
Release Year: 2017
Artist Origin: NED
Style: atmospheric harmonious neoclassical progressive metal
divided into four Phases, counting no less than fourty two fragments spread on two disks, this bombastic opus [2013] by neoclassical progressive metal composer Arjen Lucassen is traditionally highly ambitious effort, featuring yet brighter stars and starlets of both metal and hardrock worlds, including members of as diverse ensembles as King Crimson and Yes, Lacuna Coil and Nightwish, Grand Magus and Dream Theater - with its concept a challenging and dramatic scientific story is told, thus marking a new challenging beginning for the whole project, while music is collected like a mosaic from rather short to longer segments building the whole epic vastness via tiny bonds and smooth, detailed transitions; recent European edition comes with a multi-page booklet