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| | Ayreon - definition of Ayreon in Encyclopedia |
 | | Ayreon albums are written by Arjen Lucassen who also sings and plays instruments on each album. | | | Ayreon's music is characterized by the combination of mellow rock and metal, often within the same songs. | | | Ayreon has an original musical style which derives mostly from heavy metal and progressive rock, but combines them with different genres to form what some call a completely new style of music. |
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http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Ayreon
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| | Ayreon |
| | Ayreon isn't actually a band, but actually an elaborate project from Dutch songwriter Arjen Anthony Lucassen, a project which happens to churn out huge, immaculately produced concept albums that often have a futuristic twist to them. | | | Ayreon starts preaching about stuff that contributes to humanity's decline, and that's also not coincidentally where the album begins to decline, whether the theme is technology (the really stupid sci-fi themed "Computer-reign (Game Over)"), war (the slow, endless "Waracle") or pollution (the decent arena rocker "Listen To The Waves"). | | | Oh yeah, and the title track is cool, too, a minute and a half soundtrack-ish buildup song that has a neat eerie melody while it's on. |
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http://www.geocities.com/mjareviews/ayreon.html
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| | No Life 'til Metal - CD Gallery - Ayreon |
| | This was the first Ayreon album I have ever heard, and oh my, what an album it is. Progressive rock fans rejoice for your time has come. | | | All the tracks on this disc have been released on other Ayreon recordings, and most with better sonics and singers. | | | Unlike all other Ayreon releases, this isn't a concept album and doesn't feature a score of guest artists. |
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http://www.nolifetilmetal.com/ayreon.htm
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| | AYREON The Human Equation reviews and MP3 |
| | Ayreon is in fact one man, Arjen Lucassen, who goes the Alan Parsons Project route, composing epic conept albums like this one and bringing in a collection of the best and brightest singers in prog to perform them. | | | This might be typical Ayreon music as it happened also in the “In To the Electric Castle” album. | | | Dutch prog-masters Ayreon (really just the multi-talented Arjen Lucassen) tell the tale of a comatose man's life (yes I know you're wondering why so man concept albums are centered on people in comas) through 20 separate but thematically linked pieces of music. |
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http://www.progarchives.com/Progressive_rock_discography_CD.asp?cd_id=5362
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| | Ayreon |
| | Without doubt this album is the highest level of composing Ayreon has achieved so far. | | | Personally, I love the unique, full, almighty, melodic side of Ayreon's music, it's too grand and important to turn away from, which this CD nearly does. | | | We are back into recognised full sounds of keys, strings, quiet vocal sections, heavy, chopping chords from the guitar and eventual emotional guitar. |
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http://www.tandet.freeserve.co.uk/ayreondream.html
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| | Universal Migrator, Pts. 1-2 Review Ayreon Reviews @ Ultimate-Guitar.Com |
| | Ayreon is a project that is almost single-handedly Arjen Anthony Lucassen, who plays guitar, synths, bass, and primary songwritings for it. | | | This album is a re-release of the two Ayreon Albums "The Dream Sequencer" and "Flight Of The Migrator," which share a continuous storyline about Arjen's sci-fi story about how the universe formed. | | | He incorporates a vast number of guest singers, and on this particular album he incorporates one singer per song, unlike other albums where multiple singers share a song. |
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http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/compact_discs/ayreon/universal_migrator_pts_1-2
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| | Shattered_Future's Futures Of Metal #4: Ayreon - Musician Forums |
| | Ayreon’s next album, Actual Fantasy, was a bit different. | | | Arjen is one of the pioneers of rock and metal operas...every single one of Ayreon’s albums tells a story. | | | Certain themes throughout this album’s songs were also found on some of Ayreon’s later releases, especially the Universal Migrator albums. |
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http://www.musicianforums.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=385697&styleid=18
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| | Ayreon Biography |
| | As each Ayreon CD features a large amount of different artists, it would technically and logistically be impossible to take Ayreon as a project on the road for a tour, though recently some Ayreon songs have been performed live by Arjen's Star One band. | | | Arjen set a trend with his Ayreon albums. | | | But especially after the highly successful release of his third Ayreon CD, the rock opera 'Into the Electric Castle', many musicians and producers have followed in his footsteps and new rock operas with multiple singers are beginning to surface all over the world. |
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http://photo.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Ayreon-Biography/6DB56DE7B353E62148256CE2001995DD
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| | Universal Migrator Part 2: Flight of the Migrator - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Universal Migrator Part 2: Flight of the Migrator is a musical album composed by Arjen Anthony Lucassen and released under his project Ayreon. | | | Flight of the Migrator is a metal opera, which is narrated accross several eras which preceed the existence of the known universe, with each era being interpreted by a different singer. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_of_the_Migrator
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| | Ayreon interview June 20th 2000 |
| | The first one was officially a solo album: Arjen Anthony Lucassen with the album Ayreon. | | | The next idea was 2084: on the quiet record I would put a story of the world when they had listened to Ayreon on The Final Experiment. | | | The power of Ayreon lies in variation: from quiet to metal to symphonic to folky to pop, all those aspects. |
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http://www.cs.uu.nl/people/jur/interviews/ayreon.20072000.html
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| | Amazon.com: The Final Experiment: Music: Ayreon |
| | Following up on the success of Ayreon’s, The Human Equation, and the re-releases of The Universal Migrator, Into The Electric Castle and Actual Fantasy, Inside Out Music is pleased to announce the first official US release of The Final Experiment, the third of the Ayreon releases from Arjen Anthony Lucassen, originally released in 1995. | | | Finally, almost all singers appear on the final track, "Ayreon's Fate", which is one of the most emotional songs ever. | | | The Final Experiment is Arjen Lucassen's debut release with his unique project, Ayreon, and this special edition is the reissue of a once-terribly overlooked first album. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0007M8I3M?v=glance
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| | Review: "Ayreon: The Human Equation (Special Edition)" - Sea of Tranquility - The Web Destination for Progressive Music! |
| | One departure for Ayreon is the fact that the concept doesn’t involve science fiction (I’m discounting the joke at the end of the album) but rather tells a fairly involved story of a man lying in a hospital bed in a coma. | | | This is the first full Ayreon studio album since 2000, and these albums are grand opuses and are always a treat. | | | After hearing the numerous albums Arjen Lucassen released under the Ayreon moniker as well as his side projects Star One and Ambeon, I came to the conclusion that, while each release is its own masterpiece, he would never release something better than the very first Ayreon disc The Final Experiment. |
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http://www.seaoftranquility.org/reviews.php?op=showcontent&id=1484
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| | Ayreon - Actual Fantasy Revisited - AVS Forum |
| | On another note- I purchased the DVD-A of Metallica's Black Album with the Ayreon disc and was blown away by that album as well. | | | And if you enjoyed his voice on the Ayreon and Star One records, you need to check him out in Symphony X. Their last album "The Odyessey" is incredible. |
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http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?p=5955427
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| | DPRP Reviews - 2004 - 30 |
| | But for the people who love all that stuff, and judging from Ayreon's growing popularity that is a majority, this is one heck of an album and a very strong contender for "Best Album of the Year". | | | Oh yes Ayreon's style can be found throughout the album but this is not a copy of any of the previous work. | | | Musically the songs on this album are more rock oriented and accessible, however with those typical Ayreon trademarks. |
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http://www.dprp.net/reviews/200430.html
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| | DPRP CD Reviews - Ayreon Roundtable Review |
| | Having said that I should also point out that I've had some doubts about the idea of releasing two Ayreon CDs on which the quieter, atmospheric songs would be crammed on one CD and the rougher tracks on another. | | | The machine that is central to these CD has also been foreshadowed on the second Ayreon album Actual Fantasy in the song Back on Planet Earth. | | | This compact trilogy is by far the best song Ayreon brings us this time and has to be reckoned a strong contender for 'best song of the year'. |
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http://www.dprp.net/reviews/ayreon.html
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| | CD review - Ayreon, The Human Equation |
| | Already from the beginning we perceive that this it won't be only another Ayreon album. | | | it is difficult to find a clear style in his music and it is the good thing of to listen Ayreon albums. | | | The cover painting of the album has been made by the great Jef Bertels who already worked for him in previous Ayreon albums. |
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http://www.progvisions.i12.com/reviews_uk/ayr_the_uk.htm
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| | BLABBERMOUTH.NET - AYREON Mastermind Unveils STREAM OF PASSION |
| | Ayreon is good...but i really would not consider it 'metal'...human equation had all the famous singers in metal but the album collectively was more like a rock record to me... | | | I just listened to the first Ayreon album: The Final Experiment, excellent stuff. | | | After Dutch guitarist/composer/producer Arjen Anthony Lucassen had finished his latest endeavour, the AYREON rock opera "The Human Equation", he wanted to do two things: showcase the many talents of Mexican singer Marcela Bovio, one of the vocalists on the AYREON album, and form a band for the first time in 10 years. |
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http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=37076
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| | Ayreon |
| | This track has wonderful wailing guitar and superb backing vocals as the stonking beat resurfaces. | | | Opens with keys which gradually build up the tempo as the sinister sounding vocals come in and eventually turns heavy and dramatic with tuneful keys and guitar and female backing vocals. | | | So here is the second Ayreon album and once again all the vocalists are exceptional. |
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http://www.tandet.freeserve.co.uk/ayreon.html
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| | Ayreon - Free Music Downloads, Videos, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links |
| | Ayreon albums are usually large-scale concept epics and sometimes rock operas, in the latter case.. | | | The progressive metal outfit Ayreon is essentially just Dutch multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Arjen Anthony Lucassen (formerly of the more mainstream metal band Vengeance), plus a revolving-door cast of collaborators and guest musicians that changes from project to project. | | | Ayreon - Free Music Downloads, Videos, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links |
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http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/music/artist/webs/0,,872591,00.html
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| | Star One featuring Ayreon: Intergalactic Space Crusaders visit Planet Earth |
| | AI: The very diverse AYREON cd's you have released so far are all based on a concept that's quite unique for hard rock and metal: stories performed by a group of singers, each with their own character. | | | Ayreon: AYREON stories are always my own stories, and they are continuing stories throughout the cd. | | | A sparkling guitar solo from the Master, Ayreon, who usually took a modest position on the side of the stage, in favour of his performers. |
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http://www.aural-innovations.com/issues/issue21/arjen02.html
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| | Transcending the Mundane: Interview with Ayreon |
| | Star One focuses mainly on the metal side of Ayreon, has fewer singers and is much more straight forward both lyrically and musically. | | | When I was 34 and the band feel apart I was ready for Ayreon. | | | Having said that, Alice may hate my guts and my music, I'd have him on my album anyway at any price. |
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http://basementbar.com/InterviewN1.asp?ID=462
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| | Ayreon Page |
| | The 2 new albums of Ayreon (1 prog rock, the other prog metal) will be available end May/beginning June. | | | All of the Ayreon traits of past albums are here, the superb production values, the enormous wall of sound from the vintage keyboards and soaring guitars, and a list of guest stars a mile long. | | | The album has a wonderful tension, coupling a relaxed pace, with some dramatic lyrics and ominous musical passages. |
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http://www.e-prog.net/bands/ayreon.htm
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| | InsideOut Music America |
| | Lucassen explains, “The musical direction of the new Ayreon is very diverse. | | | Dutch hard rock innovator Arjen Anthony Lucassen is renowned for thought provoking, groundbreaking, and spiritually intriguing rock opera epics for nearly a decade through his immense undertakings with AYREON and the recent STAR ONE project – albums whose sonic vastness is matched by the unique melding of talent Lucassen handpicks to record them. | | | Since 1995, when I released my first Ayreon album, a lot of other Sci-Fi and Fantasy projects have surfaced, and stories like the Lord Of The Rings have become quite popular in the mainstream. |
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http://www.insideoutmusic.com/bands/band-ayreon.php
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| | Ayreon - The Final Experiment |
| | The villagers accuse Ayreon of being the devil's spawn, but Ayreon persists in his innocence. | | | To entertain the court, Ayreon makes up a song about the brave knights of the round table and their journey to the isle of Avalon in search of the Holy Grail. | | | Sing ye, oh sing ye, courtyard minstrel boy |
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http://home.kabelfoon.nl/~jcvdb/songteksten/ayreon_the-final-experiment.html
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| | Pitfather.com - Ayreon |
| | Now some musicians are offering themselves for a place on the Ayreon albums. | | | I always like to do promotion for Ayreon because everything i want to say musically is in there. | | | I only ask people for Ayreon that have voices that i like and fit into the music context. |
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http://www.pitfather.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=399
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| | AnimatedBliss.com Forums: Ayreon - The Human Equation |
| | He already has 5 other releases and this album is no different in what he presents to the listener. | | | The many guests on Ayreon's cds and I say cds because Arjen likes to have as many different people put together his story and each character represents the voice. | | | This is the first album I've sat through and thought this is interesting. |
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http://www.animatedbliss.com/FORUM/forum_posts.asp?TID=1824
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| | Blistering.com Review: Ayreon - Universal Migrator Special Edition |
| | With a notable guest vocalist appearing on almost every track, both Part I and II of Universal Migrator become albums perfectly suited for those into character development and challenging storylines. | | | The fact that both discs are now sold together will only bolster Lucassen's name even further given the contrasting nature of both discs. | | | Ayreon - Universal Migrator Special Edition (InsideOut Music America) |
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http://www.blistering.com/fastpage/fpengine.php/link/1/templateid/8121/tempidx/4/menuid/2
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| | eSpudd: Ayreon Review |
| | Before Arjen Lucassen and his all-star prog outfit Ayreon released The Human Equation I had only heard two progressive albums that were pure perfection; Dream Theater's Metropolis 2: Scenes From A Memory, and The Tangent's The Music That Died Alone. | | | With the hair on the back of your neck standing, to water in your eyes, to the racing of your heart as inner demons are confronted and defeated to the grand finale, The Human Equation is the perfect progressive album. | | | For the life of me, I cannot get over how brilliant, inspiring and creative that this album is. When it comes to storytelling, arrangements, lyrics, production, music, and the pooling and coordination of some of progressive music's biggest names, Arjen is a genius. |
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http://www.espudd.com/articles/music/ayreon2.php
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| | AYREON |
| | Features unreleased versions of known Ayreon songs, home demos, and newly recorded so... | | | It all sounds like a real Ayreon album now. | | | Description: Anthony Arien LUCASSAN, alias AYREON, was the guitarist for the heavy metal group VENGEANCE. |
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http://www.gemm.com/q.cgi?rb=ANDYBURNETT&wild=Ayreon
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| | THE METAL OBSERVER - Review - AYREON - The Human Equation |
| | What got me the most enthusiastic about this new AYREON album is the fact that even though you recognize at first listen that it is AYREON stuff (mainly with the keyboard sounds) it still sounds fresh and modern, with, as usual, a strong production. | | | Also, one of the only musicians to have already participated on a past AYREON album, Ed Warby, is really destroying everything on drums, proving once more that he is really one of the best, if not THE BEST, progressive drummer out there. | | | The unique master of concept albums return this time around with his AYREON project, after a little “jump” in space with his STAR ONE project, which I had found rather disappointing compared to Ayreon’s albums. |
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http://www.metal-observer.com/articles.php?lid=1&sid=1&id=6669
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| | Amazon.co.uk: Human Equation, the [+DVD/Special Edition]: Music |
| | For Exaple in Track(day) 2 their singing about hatred, but just 12 tracks later, there is a digeree doo solo, which i have never heard before and i was impressed. | | | Another distinctive feature of Ayreon that i noticed compaired with other power metal bands is the variety, theres loads!!!!! | | | Customers who bought music by Ayreon also bought music by these artists: |
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00020QZNO
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| | Ayreon |
| | I was at Media Play yesterday and they actually had a few other Ayreon albums there. | | | That's the story at one level, but there's another level that's only revealed at the very end, and which ties this album in with earlier Ayreon works. | | | I'll agree with you....It just has that imense feeling to it that I just don't get from listening to anything else... |
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http://www.mikeportnoy.com/forum/tm.aspx?m=875368
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| | Ayreon vs Tool vs Queen - Game Wire Forums |
| | i do like a lot of queen's music, i tried listening to ayreon, but it doesnt appeal to my tastes.... | | | One song I do like by them is "Disposition," even though it seems to be little more than a lead-in for "Reflection." | | | I'm not a big fan of any of those bands but I like Queen so that's where my vote goes! |
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http://www.mycomputerstore.com/wireforums/previous-rounds/3031-ayreon-vs-tool-vs-queen.html#post40378
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| | PROGRESSIVEWORLD.NET: REVIEWS BY KEITH "MUZIKMAN" HANNALECK |
| | There are two CDs full of high energy rockin' music dedicated to all of Lucassen's favorite celluloid that had to do with space, the final frontier. | | | It somehow didn't feel right to him to record all of this music under that name so he thought of an appropriate title and it stuck. | | | This is definitely Metal, and nothing like his previous releases under the name Ayreon. |
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http://www.progressiveworld.net/starone2.html
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| | Evolving Artist - Ayreon - Into The Electric Castle-A Space Opera |
| | Artists such as Fish and Damian Wilson perform vocal parts (look at the credits for the extensive list) and Clive Nolan and Robby Valentine provide keyboards, and Arjen is on everything- guitars, vocals, mandolin, bass, moog and mellotron. | | | In 1998, he released an absolute masterpiece, and one that I ashamed to say, missed somehow. | | | Typical of Ayreon, he engaged many of the brightest stars available to help tell his story and play the music to set the stage for his characters. |
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http://www.evolvingartist.com/View_CDReview.aspx?ID=298
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| | Arjen Anthony Lucassen - Ayreon The Final Experiment |
| | Anyway, the story is about this bloke Ayreon, who becomes subjected to visions from the future (not very believable) and he has to warn everyone of the oncoming doom. | | | Anyway it isn't given to anyone, and let us not forget that most of these projects are in some way based on a previous one. | | | The story then continues of him being chased away and having problems with himself (what I can easily understand). |
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http://www.cs.uu.nl/~jur/reviews/ayreon.html
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| | Test index v1 |
| | Click on the banners for Ayreon's lame pages or TAB 's ATARI dome wich doesn't excist yet.. | | | Hmm and besides that I don't have anything to do with the homepage and besides mental support i got none to nothing to do with the products.. |
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| | DnL Forums - View Profile: Ayreon |
| | Ayreon is not a member of any public groups | | | Contact Us - Dnl community - Archive - | | | Any applications for SOG from the territory of China will be managed and carried out by SnailGame China only. |
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http://www.darkandlight.net/forums/member.php?u=14903
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| | CGTalk - Freaky monster |
| | Last edited by Ayreon : 12-16-2002 at 12:00 PM. | | | I'm having some trouble keeping the polygonflow right, so the model will deform right when animated. | | | I'll try to give him a body like Shrek. |
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http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=32267
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| | CGTalk - antialiasing problems |
| | This has solved this problem for me many times. | | | When I changed the surface setting for the grill to just spherical map, no raytracing, everything looks great! | | | Ayreon: Definitely try clicking 'Limit Dynamic Range' on the Image Processing panel. |
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http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=14888
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