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Did I enjoy it? Hell yeah
Should you listen to it? HELL YEAH!!!
Arjen Lucassen's seventh album (under the name Ayreon) was an interesting album for sure. The album features a lotta singers (Seventeen according to Wikipedia), but there is only one singer I'm really familiar with, which is Jonas Renkse, who was featured in two of The Ocean's albums, Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic and Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic | Cenozoic (Both are GOOD albums MUST LISTEN). I love the concept of the album ... read more
I am kind of surprised to see there is only 1 review for the most popular Ayreon album. I had only heard the first song for quite a while, but I actually liked it more as I heard a few more tracks, if not just LP 1 in general, which normally I would not say. I feel like this album isn't harmed as much by the 2LP, nearly two hour bloat of itself that Ayreon likes doing. I might say it's actually a benefit for this album. Just remove track 11 and you're solid.
Ayreon has slowly ... read more
While this is a solid record, I do think it's a bit of a step backwards from The Human Equation. It's just as long so it's a bit of a hard album to listen to, but it's just not quite on the same level as it could be. There's definitely more cheese in this one, the dating app section in particular was pretty bad, but it's bearable for the most part. It is pretty cool to finally get some ties back to The Final Experiment, the albums have felt mostly isolated outside ... read more
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Track List
| 1 | Age Of Shadows/We Are Forever 10:47 | 95 |
| 2 | Comatose 4:26 | 85 |
| 3 | Liquid Eternity 8:09 | 95 |
| 4 | Connect The Dots 4:12 | 78 |
| 5 | Beneath The Waves 8:26 | 86 |
| 6 | Newborn Race 7:49 | 81 |
| 7 | Ride The Comet 3:29 | 82 |
| 8 | Web Of Lies 2:50 | 79 |
| 9 | The Fifth Extinction 10:29 | 88 |
| 10 | Waking Dreams 6:31 | 86 |
| 11 | The Truth Is In Here 5:12 | 82 |
| 12 | Unnatural Selection 7:15 | 82 |
| 13 | River Of Time 4:24 | 82 |
| 14 | E=mc2 5:50 | 81 |
| 15 | The Sixth Extinction 12:18 | 97 |
Total Length: 1 hour, 42 minutes
