January 2018 Listening List

This was Ayreon month. I started with, Into the Electric Castle and then became obsessed. Arjen Anthony Lucassen is such a great composer. All the Ayreon albums are awesome sonic epics and if you pay attention to the lyrics they tell compelling and complex stories, something that cannot be said about all concept albums. Where others have failed Ayreon succeeds, from excellent orchestration, composition, heavy progressive riffs, and some blazing technical displays of guitar shredding, each song