Ayreon is the project of Dutchman Arjen Lucassen, once guitarist in the hard rock band Vengeance and now a successful multi-instrumentalist. Between 1995 and 2000 Ayreon released five albums with progressive, symphonic and sometimes fairytale metal. On the snack Ayreonauts Only we mainly find existing songs in special versions. We hear an early demo version of the song Carpe Diem, which later ended
… up as Chaos on Flight Of The Migrator. The beautiful Original Hippie's Amazing Trip is an unreleased three-piece medley previously released on Into The Electric Castle. Arjen Lucassen has now formed a new band called Ambeon. Pivotal in this is the only fourteen-year-old singer Astrid van der Veen. So the question is whether a new Ayreon album will be released. To be on the safe side, Lucassen closes the CD Ayreonauts Only with the new Cold Metal by Ambeon. That's customer loyalty! (MvP)more
