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Ayreon Universe premiere live video for Everybody Dies

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Exclusive: Arjen Lucassen’s live Ayreon project reveal video for Everybody Dies featuring Nightwish’s Floor Jansen and Marco Hietala, Nightmare’s Maggy Luyten and Kamelot’s Tommy Karevik

Arjen Lucassen
Arjen Lucassen

Arjen Lucassen’s live Ayreon project titled Ayreon Universe have shared a video for the track Everybody Dies exclusively with Prog.

It’s been taken from the upcoming live package Ayreon Universe: The Best Of Ayreon Live, which is set to arrive on March 30 via Music Theories.

The live track features vocals from Nightwish’s Floor Jansen and Marco Hietala, Nightmare’s Maggy Luyten and Kamelot’s Tommy Karevik.

Lucassen says: “I’m extremely proud to present you the first full live video track of the upcoming Ayreon Universe DVD/Blu-ray.

“I picked Everybody Dies, which is not only a personal favourite, it also features many of the amazing singers and a lot of mayhem and commotion on stage.

“This is a total bitch of a track to play, but I must say the band totally nailed it. Hope you like it!”

The musical extravaganza was captured during three shows at Tilburg’s 013 venue last year which featured 18 singers along with 11 musicians, including Headspace’s Damian Wilson, Blind Guardian’s Hansi Kursch, Vuur’s Anneke van Giersbergen, Katatonia’s Jonas Renkse and Kayak’s Edward Reekers.

Along with the live music, the DVD will feature 90-minutes of exclusive behind-the-scenes footage, along with interviews with the full cast.

Find the cover art below, along with the final tracklist.

Ayreon Universe: The Best of Ayreon Live tracklist

  1. Prologue
  2. Dreamtime
  3. Abbey Of Synn
  4. River Of Time
  5. The Blackboard
  6. The Theory Of Everything
  7. Merlins Will
  8. Waking Dreams
  9. Dawn Of A Million Souls
  10. Valley Of The Queens
  11. Ride The Comet
  12. Star Of Sirrah
  13. Comatose
  14. Day Sixteen Loser
  15. And The Druids Turned To Stone
  16. The Two Gates
  17. Into The Black Hole
  18. Actual Fantasy
  19. Computer Eyes
  20. Magnetism
  21. Age Of Shadows
  22. Intergalactic Space Crusaders
  23. Collision
  24. Everybody Dies
  25. The Castle Hall
  26. Amazing Flight In Space
  27. Day Eleven Love
  28. The Eye Of Ra

Ayreon Universe at Poppodium 013, Tilberg - live review

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