AYREON - The Day That The World Breaks Down - Ryan Mear Reacts!!

Ayreon, what a great video and song. very creative and special
I have nothing that compares, but here's what I got...
• RYAN MEAR - RED HOUSE ... some blues I can offer
• RYAN MEAR - JAZZ IMPRO... some jazz shred I can offer

[@renejensen7799]

Dont be surprised if Arjen himself come here and make a comment, ive seen quite a lot of reactions to this specific song, and on many Arjen have been in watching it, and making a comment.. and if Arjen read this one, rock on dude!! love your style..

[@kimfabritiusdetengnagel2038]

This is an introduction song to the Album The Source, introducing the different characters. You just go for the whole album - lots of great duets from all the singers incl Floor and Simone. Arjen has been working with over 100 top singers and musicians from all over the world, during the years in all his brilliant projects - many of them several times. He has worked with Floor since 2000 - and on his latest project it was Simone that was female lead - and those 2 are the top, but all his singers are top level. You should also notice the guy Joost Van den Broek, on Grand piano - you will meet him again I can promise you.. Arjen gets some of his inspiration from dialogs with his fans on social media, to his ongoing stories - and he is a great guy - and one hell of a composer. You should not be surprised if he comment here - he is very active on social media, and here in your case - I would not be surprised. So glad you liked it 👍 🤘 🤘

[@shirazzza]

Yeah doesn't he seem just so cool? I have loved it seeing him comment on people's reactions.

[@mnewm21]

I'd put Russell Allen at the top as well both in quality and the number of times he has worked with Arjen. We do get a bit carried away with our symphonic metal female leads as we love em so much :D I loved the old Star One Live concert with baby Floor and Irene, Russell, Damian Wilson, Joost and Arjen actually on stage playing!!

[@orangeguppie6897]

Thank you so very much for this amazing performance, , this was the best way to listen to this song, if you can watch the live performances from other ayreon song. Get well soon, all the best!!! Thanks again and see you, bye

[@MisterJ56]

Btw. About a different kind of singing by Floor, watch her in *NORTHWARD* (a hard rock duo composed of Dutch vocalist Floor Jansen of Nightwish and Norwegian guitarist Jørn Viggo Lofstad of Pagan's Mind) with the song *_"While Love Died"_* : kzbin.info/www/bejne/mHLMgZiJqNZ3Y5Y

[@sleeepwalk]

Go for Everybody Dies live... Is this song compressed in a 5 minute live performance... Amazing

[@shirazzza]

Yeah it's so good!

[@karinjanssen8987]

Yes please with Floor's sister as one of the backvocals..the tall one on the left..off course tall😁 have fun🤘

[@doncoon3146]

Simone Simons is the lead singer for Epica a band you should check out. She and Floor are good friends and used to be roommates. They have a duo called Sancta Terra that is worth the watch.

[@ralflukas9695]

And a second duett too: Don't forget "Stabat Mater Dolorosa", a christian hymn from the 13th century with music from the 18th century played by a full orchestra kzbin.info/www/bejne/pJnXgIKIjrl6rpo

[@KL-qy4ye]

Fully agreed. And a personal Epica favourite is Consigned to Oblivion - Live.

[@Zozo-K-]

Glad you liked it…I was pretty sure you would. Everyone is going to recommend Everybody Dies, so I’ll go a different way…The Age of Shadows and The Valley of the Queens are both good ones.

[@shirazzza]

Agree, I mean there's plenty of Ayreon to check out!

[@zenszufi]

The artists in the song are all worth further reactions many more successes and early healing

[@Eloso3135]

I really thought you’d like that. You ought to have seen the joy on your face! Everyone will suggest Everybody Dies which is a great next step for Ayreon. Also check out Across the Rainbow Bridge and The Castle Hall. The bands represented by the performers in this one are awesome and worth exploring! Heal up and get well soon.

[@D-ragon-S]

Here you go! Fixing the recording and editing just fine 👍 Good for us that you're back and in recovery. Much love

[@TomTomson81]

Ayreon brings often the Floor-Hammer at the end of a song. He is very fond of her. He discovered her when she was 16 years old, I read once. That's when she sang for him for the first time. Floor knows how to thank him. 😁 Ayreon - Everybody Dies (live) kzbin.info/www/bejne/b3KkiaeLmbJqrqc is my favorit one from him Do you like guitar solos? Tina S - Beethoven Moonlight Sonata kzbin.info/www/bejne/pWfVc35md9Z_aNk Your eyes will fall out. 😁

[@crabuki1273]

Floor and her sister Irene have been working with Arjen for many years. I think Irene was 19 when she and Floor sang on the live Star One events with Arjen. Tremendous stuff, thanks for checking it out!

[@ericsmith1641]

Floor sings on several of Aryeon songs. You should really check out more. Enjoy all of your reactions. Nightwish fan from Alabama checking in.

[@clivematthews5296]

For your enjoyment but not necessarily reaction, AYREON Star One live 2003 with just Floor and her sister Irene as female vocalists plus Arjen ( Aryeon) playing guitar which he doesn't do on newer productions. And yes there are also various male singers.

[@sierkvanderwerf4765]

Ayreon is the (main) project of Dutch composer, producer, singer and multi-instrumentalist Arjen Anthony Lucassen. He does scifi concept albums (both instrumental and lyrics he writes about 95% of the songs). He has had over 80 different singers on his 9 (double)albums. Most albums are part of the bigger story called the Ayreon Universe. He has not done many live-shows but the ones he did are all killer. The 4 main shows are: 1.) Star One - live on earth (actually starone is a side project, but they did play some Ayreon songs) 2002-dvd2003 2.) The Theater Equation (a playthrough of the cd human equation, this is more a broadway-theater show) 2105-dvd2016 3.) Ayreon Universe (a best of full on prog-rock-metal show) 2017-dvd2018 4.) Ayreon - Electric castle live and other tales (a playtrough of the cd Into the electric castle, and 1 song of each side-project) 2019-dvd2020 To get you started: To get a better impression of Ayreon check out The Day The World Breaks Down kzbin.info/www/bejne/pXfYfn6ap9-Dp7c And here is one song of each show. 1.) Into the black hole kzbin.info/www/bejne/paPMg2t5pa5gf9E&ab_channel=Metallwish 2.) Day two: Isolation kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZqvEe5-sotV_qNk 3.) Everybody dies kzbin.info/www/bejne/b3KkiaeLmbJqrqc&ab_channel=ArjenAnthonyLucassenArjenAnthonyLucassenVerified 4.) Garden of Emotions kzbin.info/www/bejne/rWfVc3uXhNKLg9E&ab_channel=ArjenAnthonyLucassen

[@black4pienus]

Never gets old watching people being blown away by this one.

[@vmaxbabe]

Thanks for reacting to Ayreon, the music of Arjen Lucassen. He’s a great composer and a master of collaboration. He knows which vocalist or musician will be right for specific parts of his compositions. There is so much to explore, and all different and unique. Amazing. The slbum The Source is a scifi rock opera and vocalists play the parts you saw in this first track video, telling the story from their characters perspective. So you will hear multiple singers in one song, magic stuff.

[@carldevries9108]

I knew you would like it. Hope your arm heals up. Next up should be Every body Dies live. It is insanely good. Also, Floor did a side project called Northward. Check out When Love Died. It is more of a rock sound, but as usual Floor slays.

[@RyanMear]

It's healing, thanks. I'm onto that stuff too!

[@randymarple9830]

@@RyanMear YAY.

[@TheMateriaalkunde]

Yes. Everybody dies and the Star of Sirrah. Live collected in the Ayreon Universe. With Michael Mills again who can be a funny entertainer too. And Joost playing his fingers off on a wall of keyboards. And Floor. And the chorus of Irene Jansen, Lisette van der Berg and Marcela Bovio. And the 'gritty' Maggy Luyten. And if you explore those sequences further you will meet more musicians. Did I mention Marko Hietala? Arjen himself appears only in one out of sixteen songes, about that, his talent is in composing, arranging and producing. Don't expect Ayreon to go on the road. It takes Arjen about two years to organized just one satisfactory gig not far from where he lives.

[@randymarple9830]

Aryeon is impressive. Anything that the consortium puts out is exceptional. And if you want to hear Floor sing rock, Northward, While Love Died. A song she wrote in 2007 but didn't record until 2018. The guitarists name eludes me but he is great. Hope your surgery went well! Jorn Viggo Lofstad, Guitarist.

[@flavio_spqr]

This!

[@eveningglow2608]

Ridiculously talented lineup. I love Tommy Kareviks voice. Nice to see you enjoyed this one.

[@sleni5501]

I always enjoy to see reactions to this video. Most music lovers are getting a big surprise!✨ . If you do react to the Ayreon "Universe" concert (SOOOO amazing and you will see a lot more to Floor and her sister btw)- remember to save "The Eye Of Ra" for last. It has such an epic ending! ✨

[@572Btriode]

Ryan, I hope you're recovering well. I knew when everybody kept directing you here your head would explode !! Michael Mills has a 4 octave range, you'll see him elsewhere and the part he sings as a "Digital Pavarotti" is as the android TH-1 (Mill's band is Toehider - TH) and it is simple old fashioned ASCII which says "Trust TH-1" but without the spaces of hyphen. Best wishes to you for a complete and speedy recovery.

[@phillee2814]

Close, but it is extended ASCII (8 bit) rather than simple old fashioned, which was 7 bit - every bit cost money on those days - so much so that many programmers proposed using morse as it is pre-optimised variable word length. Just use a 1 for a dash and a 0 for the dot to fully digitise it. And the line starts with a lower case t, so trustTH1.

[@sonjaschweinsberger1637]

My Favorit song is The Eye of Ra........the ending is soooooooo amazing

[@carolinaastudillo4867]

Everybody dies live next, es impresionante! Saludos desde Chile!

[@liavanwissen1963]

Everybody dies, Valley of the queens, the eye of Ra and the age of shadows.

[@572Btriode]

YES !!!!!!!!!!!

[@MrKacangijo]

Nice reaction there 👍 especially when our goddes valkry start to sing 👍❤️ ... btw get well soon bro

[@RyanMear]

Thank you

[@TheIpadfanatic]

How did I miss this on the day it premiered? No matter, we are THRILLED you loved it!. Just like you, Nightwish led to Ayreon. Ayreon led to Anneke Van Giersbergen. Anneke led to Kamelot and so on. Arjen Lucassen is a crazy talented composer. This song really showcases everyone's brilliance. There are so many European bands that the US has never heard of let alone know of. Great reaction as always Ryan!

[@shirazzza]

This is just a great feast for the eyes & ears. I've seen Toehider a few times (the AI spinning heads guy's band) & they're worth checking out, local to me. A lot of people have issues where they've made a sound in the studio but trying to emulate it live doesn't work. Like I was impressed when I saw Johnny Marr from the Smiths play "How Soon Is Now" live & he did a really good job of the guitar in it after what, 30+ years lamenting not being able to.

[@OlettaLiano]

The entire album is this good.

[@anika1169]

Oh my, nice reaction... Must watch Ayreon - Everybody Dies (Ayreon Universe). Thanks!

[@davevanvuuren578]

all the artists you have just seen, know each other and help each other out at times. brilliant. Dave south africa

[@JaneDoe-ge5di]

Get well soon! Was really obvious that you enjoyed it!😀so many good musicians in this masterpiece! Perhaps you would like to check out Hansi s band Bind Guardian with Bard s Song & Valhalla (like an introduction into their stuff) or Mirror Mirror! Tobias Sammet s project Avantasia is worth a look, too. He works with many guest vocalists as well but his songs are more fantasy based! Try please The Scarecrow or Moonglow!😀

[@Thorgrim247]

Yes, Arjen is playing guitar, bass, and some Hammond. Tommy Karevik from "Kamelot" Check them out. You would like them. All of the singers are playing roles in the story. You can do it my friend. It reminds me of what you do. Multi-talented. Mike Mills plays the role of TH-1 the computer. Thus the binary vocals. Arjen is a humble genius. I love his creations. He always uses top notch musicians to perform his compositions. Check out the live shows. "Ayreon Universe" & "Electric Castle Live and other Tales". You had your surgery. I hope you heal up quickly. In the meantime, there is lots of Ayreon to check out. You will also discover many amazing vocalista and musicians along the journey. Wait until you hear Marcel Coen rip up the guitar in some of Ayreon's live shows. Arjen does many different projects and he loves to write about Science fiction stories. Much of his music is done as rock/metal operas. Sometimes bordering on progressive Broadway performances.

[@davidstephen6753]

Nice reaction, thank you. The Source is one of the best prog albums I have ever heard (in my opinion...) and I'm an old 'Yes' fan! I listen to it about once a week and I've owned it for about 3 years!!!

[@papaverweg]

If you want to see Queen Floor more prominently within Ayreon (Arjen Lucassen), watch: “Valley of the Queens” live. The other two Queens in that one are Anneke van Giersbergen (fmr The Gathering, and much more) and Marcela Bovio (fmr Stream of Passion, Arjen’s ex-band. BTW this song is done before by her live with SoP back in the time they both were members)

[@damienmaynard8892]

Album = Awesome! Tommy Karevik is from Kamelot. Michael Mills - Aussie!Aussie!Aussie! Toehider - how do you hide toes? - kick a$$ really hard!

[@andykereztury1450]

"Ayreon Universe" and "The Electric Castle Live" are unbelievably incredible Live shows - highly recommend you watch both!

[@brendawolf6557]

I second that

[@PaulBosenJr]

Knew you were gonna appreciate this on many levels!

[@marcel021065]

I loved youre reaction, hope everithing goes wel and you fet speedy recovery, think this was fantastic, and over the top deu to last minute😀

[@pencilhb13]

So glad you're checking out Ayreon! I love the whole album of The Source. For some very young Floor with Ayreon, "My House on Mars" and "Ride the Comet" are favourites of mine (she does the backing vocals mostly, and the main vocalists are also absolutely wonderful!). Other than that I hope you enjoy the start of yet another musical journey with a lot of awesome artists to discover through Arjen's projects, and I wish you a swift recovery! :)

[@joeyc630]

Ayreon is awesome, definitely check out more , awesome 👌

[@majbrat]

This is the best version I think :) but it's too short lol

[@dac2007]

Arjen is amazing, also is very friendly with reactors, has done some interviews and stuff with some of the youtubers that are fans of his work Glad you are getting better with the arm!

[@mandje2002]

The cool thing about Ayreon is that all the albums sort of tie into the same story. 'The Source' (the album which this song is from) is technically the start of the story. It's about a race of humans that give control of their planet to a computer (the 'frame) to help solve an environmental catastrophe, but the computer determines that the best course of action is to eliminate the humans. Ten humans and the robot TH-1 escape the planet on the only interstellar ship they have (the 'Starblade') along with the ships crew and head to an ocean planet. The chemist creates a drug ('The Source', aka 'Liquid Eternity') that allows them to evolve into an 'aquatic race'. The drug also makes them basically immortal and allows them to communicate telepathically. The album ends with the survivors (ten plus the ships small crew) living on their new planet ('Planet Y') in relative peace, but in the final track we learn that TH-1 is becoming a new version of the 'frame deep in the ocean. The next album in the timeline, 01011001 ('Y') tells us how machines have now taken over this new planet, and the humans have basically merged with the machines are losing their emotions and sense of time. They now call themselves 'The Forever', since they are essentially ageless drones at this point. We also learn about how they seeded a comet with DNA and sent it to Earth, where it creates human life on our planet. The Forever believe they can live through us telepathically and that they may regain their emotions by doing so. Some of The Forever believe that we need to advance more quickly, and use their telepathy to give us medicine/technology, but this results in us advancing quicker than our morality can cope with. Eventually The Forever realize humanity is doomed and has to decide if they will give them the technology to reverse their past mistakes. Somewhere in the timeline sits the album 'The Electric Castle'From a summary by Arjen: "At the end of the journey those that successfully dealt with their personal demons find out that the voice belongs to an alien named 'Forever of the Stars', a member of an alien race living in a distant galaxy. These aliens created planet Earth and its people as an experiment so they could study, and hopefully one day experience emotions, as they themselves lost feelings eons ago." That's only three albums (less than half!) but I believe those three give you a solid foundation for how the story plays out. Also, I highly recommend any of the Electric Castle Live videos; They are just so fun to watch, plus John de Lancie ('Q' from Star Trek) plays the 'Forever of the Stars' character, which Arjen said he originally based on Q.

[@RyanMear]

Holy shit.... that's in depth! Thank you!

[@watchtheskies]

This album is phenomenal

[@juliannewarren5466]

It is not possible to find Ayreon song that is not amazing. The vocal representation in them never disappoints.

[@philipbaker5386]

If want to hear Floor do hard rock then check out Northward

[@craigwiggins253]

Yea I was reading the comments to see if anyone would mention Northward..He should definitely check it out.

[@renevw5812]

This year Arjen will bring another album from one of his other projects (Star One) and believe me, that will be something amazing.

[@ireen1962]

Great reaction Ryan ! Get well soon !

[@ginne7268]

You didn't even scratch the surface of the Ayreon rabbit hole. BTW the binaire text is Trust TH-1.

[@pdutchie4924]

Told you you would love this 😁 Think your face told me I was right 😄 Btw, the whole ‘Universe ‘ concert is Epic! Hope you have a speedy recovery.

[@renesteinkopf6068]

nice to see you run in same trap like me ,now you are a traveller in the ayreon universe and should listen the complete album .close your eyes when hearing and look this epic movie in your brain

[@martine3293]

Hi Ryan. How are you? I'm glad you kept watching the video, too much information you wouldn't want to miss 😊

[@RyanMear]

I'm good, Martine 👍 taking it easy

[@ShadowhispersBand]

Next stop: The Ayreon Universe live show. Basically pick any song and be blown away 😉

[@michaelsmith2723]

Tommy Karevik sings for Kamelot, a US band better known in Europe.

[@RonniePeterson]

Ever since you started this long journey I knew you would eventually get to Aryeon and for certain get an absolute "buzz" from this one because of your own creative musical mind and abilities. Great reaction. So many rabbit holes here and I'm sure many will give you suggestions. I hope the recovery is going well.

[@sixtuspettersson6059]

Floor has a "Bugg" named after her .. "Tmesis ternus floorjansenae". Tuomas has one to, "Sciophila Holopaineni".

[@michaelhoilman6897]

Love your reaction. I guess many may have said it, but you have a fantastic speaking voice. Broadening the horizons, that's what it's all about. Feel better soon! Cheers from N.C.

[@RyanMear]

Thank you! Feeling great! Cheers!

[@palantir135]

You took your first step into a big rabbit hole: the music projects of Arjen Lucassen. After this, just pick songs from the two live concerts: Ayreon Universe live The electric castle live and other tales. You’ll be amazed. Don’t forget to listen to the albums of course.

[@lancelarson9306]

Check out Day Sixteen: Loser and The Garden Of Emotions.

[@henkras2049]

Hi Ryan, this video draw me recently into an new world to discover. It was fun to see that this had the same effect on you as it had on me. Musically I had slept under a stone I believe. Ayrean had past by a several times, but I never had experienced it, like this one.

[@RyanMear]

That's great!

[@michaeljones8877]

If you want to hear Floor sing straight up rock and roll, you MUST listen to Northward...While Love Died!

[@mandje2002]

... Welcome in the amazing world of Arjen A. Lucassen Aka Ayreon Universe (Ayreon, Ambeon, Star one, Guilt Machine, Gentle Storm, Stream of Passion).... Enjoy this rabbit hole….!!!!!

[@RyanMear]

Are these all different bands or albums or what?

[@mandje2002]

@@RyanMear All are projects of Arjen !!

[@mandje2002]

See Wiki !!! LOL

[@RyanMear]

I know I could look it all up, but I like letting fans tell me stuff👍

[@mandje2002]

@@RyanMear ok, than the next one is Everybody Dies (live) also from the Source kzbin.info/www/bejne/b3KkiaeLmbJqrqc

[@alextol9950]

In case you are wondering....yes, there are live concerts from Ayreon and they are amazing. As you can imagine he wasn't able to get all the original singers for the show but he knows many other singers who were wiiing to fill in. I won't recommend any songs as I will just be repeating others

[@williamadkins3359]

You really should check out Northward the project her & guitarist of Pagans mind did it is straight up rock ( while love died).

[@richardhall6034]

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[@robbieceltic1036]

arjen is cool sometimes he will react to a reation so maybe he wil send you a message!!!p.s check out the live shit tahts awsome!!!

[@barbaravance6774]

Hmmm, you didn't recognize Sir Russell Allen? The blues guy? He's the lead singer of Symphony X. But, I've heard you meant another Super group he's in....Trans Siberian Orchestra. 😉

[@ToTheWolves]

They saved the best for last? Lol.

[@FyrenMagus]

Unless my binary is very rusty, he is more or less saying "Trust [Me]" ... he is playing an A.I. around the 8min

[@liavanwissen1963]

Michael Mills was the computer that terminated that civilization

[@jeroenwubbels7824]

No, he isn't. He's the drone that comes along with the fleeing humans. TH1 = Toehider 1