The Final Experiment

by Ayreon

The Final Experiment cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 27 October 1995
  • Label: Transmission
  • Country: Netherlands
  • Length: 1:11:19
  • Community rating: 3.21/5 from 2 ratings

Artists on this release: Ruud Houweling, Peter Vink, Jan-Chris de Koeyer, Oscar Holleman, Jolanda Verduijn, Mirjam Van Doorn, Jan Bijlsma, Ian Parry, Robert Soeterboek, Lucie Hillen, Lenny Wolf, Leon Goewie, Barry Hay, Arjen Anthony Lucassen, Ernst Van Ee, Edward Reekers, Jay Van Feggelen, Ren茅 Merkelbach, Debby Schreuder

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Arjen Lucassen launched his incredibly ambitious, star-studded rock opera project with this sprawling, time-traveling science fiction epic. Featuring over a dozen guest vocalists and instrumentalists, the highly theatrical compositions merge heavy progressive metal riffing with prominent folk instrumentation and 1970s analog synthesizers. The complex, highly narrative release laid the massive, cinematic groundwork for one of the most successful conceptual projects in modern European metal.

Genres

Descriptors: fantasy, progressive, medieval, melodic, uncommon-time-signatures

Tracklist

  1. Prologue (1:55)
  2. The Time Telepathy Experiment
  3. Overture
  4. Ayreon's Quest
  5. The Awareness (6:36)
  6. The Premonition
  7. Dreamtime (Words Become A Song)
  8. The Awakening
  9. Eyes Of Time (5:05)
  10. Eyes Of Time (5:05)
  11. Brainwaves
  12. The Banishment (11:08)
  13. A New Dawn
  14. The Gathering
  15. The Accusation (3:49)
  16. The Banishment (11:08)
  17. Oblivion
  18. Ye Courtyard Minstrel Boy (2:45)
  19. Sail Away To Avalon (4:02)
  20. Nature's Dance (2:27)
  21. Computer-Reign (Game Over) (3:24)
  22. Waracle (6:44)
  23. Listen To The Waves (4:58)
  24. Magic Ride (3:35)
  25. Merlin's Will (3:20)
  26. The Charm Of The Seer (4:11)
  27. Swan Song (2:44)
  28. Ayreon's Fate (6:55)
  29. Ayreon's Fate (6:55)
  30. Merlin's Prophecy
  31. Epilogue (9:16)

Credits

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