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Anyone heard Ayreon? Recommend it for anyone who is a fan of proggy stuff.

Basically an artist called Arjen gets all these different artists together such as Russel Allen from Symphony X or Labrie from Dream Theater, Mikael from Opeth and such and throws them all onto the same album. Most of the albums have a science fiction theme to them or fantasy.

Into The Electric Castle is a great starter, all the albums are concept albums so best to listen through them from track 1 to finish.

I never could spell Ayreon right. hahaha. good stuff though.

Oh my god, how the hell did I not know about this? WHY WASN'T I INFORMED!? I spent the whole of yesterday listening to this stuff on Spotify and I still wanted more. It's all my favourite bands rolled into one. Literally. I mean on "Flight of the Migrator" alone, you've got the guys from Symphony X, Helloween, Iron Maiden and Rhapsody of Fire, all of which I'm a big fan of. On others, you have the vocalists from Blind Guardian and Within Temptation. I haven't even found the one with Labrie or Mikael yet. And vocalists aside, the music is just fantastic. This is nuts.

What's funny is, I always thought some of my favourite power/progressive metal bands should get together and do some kind of epic musical. This is almost like they did but they didn't bother to tell me.

Don't like it,

weird cause I like folk music and I like rock ... but the two mixed, meh.

I wouldn't say that's what this is. Blackmore's Night is a better example of that.