Arjen 'Ayreon' Lucassen - ProfilesArchive

About Me

Arjen Anthony Lucassen is a Dutch multi-instrumentalist who in 1995 released an album called Ayreon, the first of a very successful series of rock operas featuring many international guest-musicians.

Ayreon is Arjen's main project, but he also works on various side-projects. Such as Star One, Ambeon, and the band Stream of Passion.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 2/28/2006
Band Website: ayreon.com
Band Members:

Arjen Anthony Lucassen
Vocals, guitars, keyboards, bass guitar.

Vocalists

Bruce Dickinson
Iron Maiden

Fish
ex-Marillion

Sharon den Adel
Within Temptation

James LaBrie
Dream Theater

Mikael Åkerfeldt
Opeth

Russell Allen
Symphony X

Anneke van Giersbergen
the Gathering

Floor Jansen
After Forever

Jacqueline Govaert
Krezip

Devin Townsend
Devin Townsend Band, Strapping Young Lad

Fabio Lione
Rhapsody (of Fire)

Ralf Scheepers
Primal Fear

Eric Clayton
Saviour Machine

Heather Findlay
Mostly Autumn

Timo Kotipelto
Stratovarius

Barry Hay
Golden Earring

Neal Morse
ex-Spocks Beard

Andi Deris
Helloween

Magnus Ekwall
The Quill

Peter Daltrey
ex-Kaleidoscope

Johan Edlund
Tiamat

Lenny Wolf
Kingdom Come

Devon Graves
Dead Soul Tribe, ex-Psychotic Waltz

Dan Swanö
Nightingale

Jan-Chris de Koeijer
Gorefest

Edward Reekers
ex-Kayak

Dave Brock
Hawkwind

Edwin Balogh
ex-Omega

Damian Wilson
ex-Threshold

Gary Hughes
Ten

George Oosthoek
ex-Orphanage

Ian Parry
Elegy

Jay van Feggelen
ex-Bodine

Mouse
Tuesday Child

Leon Goewie
Vengeance

Marcela Bovio
Stream of Passion, Elfonia

Mike Baker
Shadow Gallery

Irene Jansen
ex-Karma

Okkie Huysdens

Robby Valentine
Valentine

Robert Soeterboek
Cotton Soeterboek Band

Ruud Houweling
Cloudmachine

Robert Westerholt
Within Temptation

Astrid van der Veen
theEndorphins, Ambeon

John JayCee Cuijpers

Esther Ladiges

Rodney Blaze

Keyboard players

Alejandro Millan
Stream of Passion, Elfonia

Cleem Determeijer
ex-Finch

Clive Nolan
Arena

Joost van den Broek
After Forever

Keiko Kumagai
Ars Nova

Ken Hensley
ex-Uriah Heep

Martin Orford
IQ , Jadis

Oliver Wakeman

René Merkelbach

Robby Valentine
Valentine

Ton Scherpenzeel
Kayak

Guitarists

Gary Wehrkamp
Shadow Gallery

Lori Linstruth
Stream of Passion, Warbride

Michael Romeo
Symphony X

Oscar Holleman
ex-Vengeance

Bass players

Jan Bijlsma
ex-Vengeance

Johan van Stratum
Stream of Passion, ForceFeed

Jolanda Verduijn

Peter Vink
ex-Q65, ex-Finch

Walter Latupeirissa
ex-Snowy White

Drummers

Davy Mickers
Stream of Passion

Ed warby
Gorefest

Ernst van Ee
Trenody

Rob Snijders
ex-Celestial Seasons

Stephen van Haestregt
Within Temptation

Classical Musicians (selection)

Ewa Albering
Flute

Jeroen Goossens
Wind instruments

John & Pat McManus
Flute, Fiddle

Robert Baba
Violin

Thijs van Leer
Flute

Influences: Guitar:
Ritchie Blackmore (Deep Purple)
Tony Iommi (Black Sabbath)
Edward van Halen
Steve Vai
David Gilmour (Pink Floyd)

Drums:
John Bonham (Led Zeppelin)
Cozy Powell (Rainbow)

Keyboards:
Keith Emerson (ELP)
Rick Wakeman (Yes)

Bassguitar:
Phil Lynott (Thin Lizzy)
Geddy Lee (Rush)

Vocals:
John Lennon (Beatles)
Ronnie James Dio (Rainbow)
Robert Plant (Led Zeppelin)
David Gilmour (Pink Floyd)

Sounds Like: Includes bandmembers of: Dream Theater, Opeth, Marillion, IQ, Within Temptation, The Gathering, Iron Maiden, Symphony X, Savior Machine, Psychotic Waltz, Dead Soul Tribe, Mostly Autumn, Shadow Gallery, Gorefest, After Forever, Rhapsody, Stratovarius, Krezip, Tiamat, Spock's Beard, Helloween.
Record Label: InsideOut Music GmbH
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Preview track online!

We've put one track online of the forthcoming Ayreon album called 01011001. The song is called The Fifth Extinction and is the same track that we put up here as a demo last July (then without the voca...
Posted by Arjen 'Ayreon' Lucassen on Sat, 01 Dec 2007 10:56:00 PST

Artwork online!

Belgian painter Jef Bertels once again provided the cover for the new Ayreon release named "01011001". Jef previously made paintings for the Ayreon albums Into the Electric Castle, The Dream Sequencer...
Posted by Arjen 'Ayreon' Lucassen on Thu, 08 Nov 2007 01:12:00 PST

Three Keyboardists Announced!

Beside guest guitarists, Arjen also invited keyboard players for the new Ayreon album. They are (in order of appearance) Derek Sherinian (Planet X), Tomas Bodin (The Flower Kings) and Joost van den Br...
Posted by Arjen 'Ayreon' Lucassen on Sun, 28 Oct 2007 01:17:00 PST

Three Guest Keyboardists!

Have a guess who these three guest keyboardists are. It's the last guessing 'game' of the season (though don't hold me to that). Have fun!In other news: Flutist Jeroen Goossens of the Dutch folk band ...
Posted by Arjen 'Ayreon' Lucassen on Fri, 26 Oct 2007 10:38:00 PST

Guitarists announced!

The following three guitarists play solos on the new Ayreon album called 01011001: Lori Linstruth, Arjen Lucassen himself, and Michael Romeo. Stay tuned for more guessing when we give you a sample of ...
Posted by Arjen 'Ayreon' Lucassen on Mon, 22 Oct 2007 08:44:00 PST

Guitarists for 01011001

Get ready for a little bit more guessing, this time it's solo guitarists. See if you can guess who these three are: sample. Discuss your guesses on our messageboard, there is no contest this time, tho...
Posted by Arjen 'Ayreon' Lucassen on Wed, 17 Oct 2007 11:23:00 PST

Daniel Gildenlöw confirmed!

Arjen recently left the Electric Castle and flew to Stockholm, Sweden to record Pain of Salvation frontman Daniel Gildenlöw. Daniel is the final vocalist to be confirmed to sing on the new Ayreon albu...
Posted by Arjen 'Ayreon' Lucassen on Wed, 10 Oct 2007 04:30:00 PST

The Final Vocalist!

Arjen has all the bases covered and at last we are able to reveal the final vocalist to be featured on the new Ayreon album due for release early 2008! Here is Mystery Vocalist Number 17. Be sure to&n...
Posted by Arjen 'Ayreon' Lucassen on Mon, 08 Oct 2007 10:45:00 PST

Wudstik and Marjan Welman

For the past few years Arjen has made it a point to invite relatively unknown vocalists to sing along with the more well known artists. Arjen chose these two Dutch singers because, as he puts it: "......
Posted by Arjen 'Ayreon' Lucassen on Mon, 08 Oct 2007 10:42:00 PST

Mystery Vocalists 15 & 16

Here are mystery singers 15 and 16, both hailing from Holland. I chose these two singers because they are very talented, they have charisma and they possess the drive needed to m...
Posted by Arjen 'Ayreon' Lucassen on Sat, 06 Oct 2007 10:13:00 PST