01011001

by Ayreon

01011001 cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 28 January 2008
  • Label: InsideOut
  • Country: Netherlands
  • Length: 1:42:15
  • Community rating: 3.24/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Arjen Anthony Lucassen's massive, double-disc rock opera serves as a crucial linchpin connecting the complex sci-fi lore of his previous concept albums. The project features an astounding roster of seventeen guest vocalists from the progressive metal and rock spheres, exploring the tragic history of the aquatic alien race 'Forever'. It is highly praised for its enormous, symphonic production and wildly ambitious narrative scale.

Genres

Descriptors: fantasy, progressive, melodic, conceptual, aliens

Tracklist

  1. Age Of Shadows/We Are Forever (10:47)
  2. Comatose (4:26)
  3. Liquid Eternity (8:09)
  4. Connect The Dots (4:12)
  5. Beneath The Waves (8:26)
  6. Newborn Race (7:49)
  7. Ride The Comet (3:29)
  8. Web Of Lies (2:50)
  9. The Fifth Extinction (10:29)
  10. Waking Dreams (6:31)
  11. The Truth Is In Here (5:12)
  12. Unnatural Selection (7:15)
  13. River Of Time (4:24)
  14. E=Mc2 (5:50)
  15. The Sixth Extinction (12:18)

Credits

  • Ayreon - primary artist
  • David Faber - cello
  • Ed Warby - drums
  • Lori Linstruth - guitar [guitar solo]
  • Michael Romeo - guitar [guitar solo]
  • Simon J. van Vegten - illustration [3d illustrations]
  • Jef Bertels - painting [cover painting]
  • Derek Sherinian - synth [synth solo]
  • Jeroen Goossens - Flute, Recorder [Soprano], Recorder [Tenor], Bass Flute, Tin Whistle
  • Anneke van Giersbergen - Written-By [Melodies]
  • Jonas Renkse - Written-By [Melodies]

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