01011001
Ayreon essay contest with prizes :-)
[Edit: This contest is now closed. The winners have been posted here.] If you’ve not yet got your copy of the new Ayreon album 01011001 vinyl edition or the Elected EP, here’s your chance to get a free copy. Just enter your essay by 30 June, 2008 and hope the judging panel likes your turn [...]
In the studio with Arjen
How do you approach recording a rock opera, anyway? A few weeks ago the FaceCulture.nl film team visited the Electric Castle to get some answers to this very question. In this series of video interviews, Arjen explains the recording process of the new album 01011001, using the song The Fifth Extinction as an example. The [...]
01011001 to be released on vinyl
As we reported last month in the Arjen Lucassen newsletter #82, the new Ayreon album 0011001 is to be released on vinyl. However, there have been a couple of changes since we sent the newsletter. First of all, the mid-March release date has been postponed. The new (but still tentative!) release dates are as follows: [...]
Chart positions 01011001
FYI, 01011001 has been the most successful Ayreon release to date when it comes to chart positions around the globe. Here are some stats from the first week of release: Holland #2 Germany #18 Norway #42 Finland #44 Sweden #54 France #90 Wallonien #96 UK Rock/Metal Charts #26 USA Billboard Indie Charts #68 #86 Canada [...]
Arjen interview @ Imhotep
The kind folks at Imhotep.no have made their great interview with Arjen the feature of the month for February (yay!). You can read it in it’s entirety here.
01011001 enters Dutch album charts at no.2
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