Year : 2022
Style : Progressive Metal , Progressive Rock
Country : Netherlands
Audio : 320 kbps + scans
Size : 210 mb
Bio:
Star One (also referred to as Arjen Anthony Lucassen's Star One) is a Dutch progressive metal supergroup/side-project of Arjen Anthony Lucassen of Ayreon fame.The band released two albums in 2002 and in 2010 respectively, plus a live album in 2003, and features four different singers: Russell Allen (Symphony X), Damian Wilson (Threshold, Headspace), Dan Swanö (Edge of Sanity, Nightingale), and Floor Jansen (After Forever, ReVamp, Nightwish).Unlike Ayreon, albums do not follow one storyline; instead, each song is a different story with a sci-fi concept, most of the tracks based on existing movies and series. The band takes its name from the second season finale of Blake's 7. The band includes four singers alternating in all the songs, not including Lucassen, who sings occasionally, plays all guitars and keyboards and is writing and composing all the songs.Star One was born out of the remnants of an abandoned collaboration between Lucassen and Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson. Dickinson proposed the idea and the two exchanged ideas and put together four songs, Lucassen writing the music and Dickinson writing the lyrics. The project was abandoned however after Lucassen mentioned the project on the internet and Dickinson's manager called off negotiations. Instead of completely abandoning the material that had already been produced, Lucassen decided to put his own lyrics to the music and created Star One.When asked on the "Ask Arjen Anything" channel of communication if there would be another Star One album, Lucassen simply stated "Probably".
Album:
“Revel in Time”, the third album from ARJEN ANTHONY LUCASSEN'S STAR ONE, is as much of a reaction as it is a contrast to Arjen Lucassen’s previous album, “Transitus” from Ayreon. While “Transitus” is a cinematic experience that you may almost call a musical, “Revel in Time” is a heavy album that is very riff driven and there is more focus on virtuoso musicianship. Similar to its predecessors, “Revel In Time” works as a concept album. All tracks are inspired by different movies that deal with some kind of manipulation of time. There is one thing this time around that is quite different compared to the earlier STAR ONE albums: The first two had the same cast of four singers: Floor Jansen, Russell Allen, Damian Wilson and Dan Swano. However, this time Arjen decided to generally have mainly one singer per track, and a different for almost each track. This shows especially on CD 2, the “Same Songs, Different Singers”-CD as Arjen likes to call it. The guide vocals that were recorded (for the other singers) were way too good to just be guide vocals. Thus, Arjen decided to release a second version of the songs with the guide vocals on them as CD2. At some point he started spontaneously inviting other singers to sing some of these tracks, because he was curious how the songs would sound with their voices. Ultimately CD2 ended up with no less than 9 different singers, all equally as good as the ones on CD1. A total of about 30 different musicians contributed to the new album, not all of them being singers though. The core of STAR ONE remains Ed Warby’s powerful drums as well as Arjen’s guitar and bass work that hold it all together and give it that typical STAR ONE sound. The icing on the cake is the front cover art that was created by Arjen’s trusted favorite artist Jef Bertels.
Line Up:
Damian Wilson Vocals (2002-present) - See also: Headspace, Lalu, ex-Computer Mind, ex-Unwritten Pages, Arena, Damian Wilson, Maiden United, ex-Threshold, ex-Stream of Passion (live), ex-Landmarq, ex-Rick Wakeman
Floor Jansen Vocals (female) (2002-present) - See also: Nightwish, Raskasta Joulua, ex-After Forever, ex-ReVamp, Floor Jansen, Northward, ex-Mayan (live), ex-Countermove
Peter Vink Bass (2002-present) - See also: Knight Area, Magoria, Mark Bogert, Nine Stones Close, ex-HDK, ex-Big Wheel, ex-Finch, ex-J. & T., ex-Leadbelly's Limited, ex-Omsk, ex-Q65, ex-Range, ex-Renegades, ex-The Boxx, ex-The North Stars, ex-Veralin
Ed Warby Drums (2002-present) - See also: Ayreon, Heads for the Dead, The 11th Hour, Vuur, ex-Aggressor, ex-Demiurg, ex-Gorefest, ex-Hail of Bullets, ex-Impact, ex-Valkyrie, ex-The Gentle Storm (live), ex-Elegy, ex-Orphanage, ex-Tempter, ex-After Forever (live), ex-Lana Lane
Gary "Garyeon" Wehrkamp Guitars (lead) (2002-present) - See also: Amaran's Plight, Shadow Gallery, ex-Warlord (live)
Arjen Anthony Lucassen Guitars, Bass, Keyboards, Hammond organ, Mellotron, Solina strings (2002-present) - See also: Arjen Anthony Lucassen, Ayreon, Guilt Machine, ex-Ambeon, ex-Computer Mind, ex-The Gentle Storm, ex-Vengeance, ex-Bodine, ex-Stream of Passion, ex-Countermove
Joost van den Broek Keyboards (2002-present) - See also: ex-After Forever, ex-Sphere of Souls, ex-The Supremacy, ex-Demons & Wizards (live), ex-The Gentle Storm (live), ex-Sun Caged, ex-Countermove
Sir Russell Allen Vocals (2002-present) - See also: Allen / Olzon, Level 10, Russell Allen's Atomic Soul, Symphony X, ex-Adrenaline Mob, ex-Allen - Lande, ex-Trans-Siberian Orchestra
Dan Swanö Vocals (2002-present) - See also: Nightingale, Odyssey, Unicorn, Witherscape, ex-Anathema, ex-Cryptic Death, ex-Dan Swanö, ex-Demiurg, ex-Diabolical Masquerade, ex-Edge of Sanity, ex-Godsend, ex-Incision, ex-Infestdead, ex-Karaboudjan, ex-Masticate, ex-Mortify, ex-Pan.Thy.Monium, ex-Steel, ex-Stygg Död, ex-Total Terror, ex-Darkcide, ex-Route Nine, Obliterhate, ex-Another Life, ex-Bloodbath, ex-Maceration, ex-Overflash, ex-Ribspreader, ex-Brejn Dedd, ex-Caress into Oblivion, ex-Fordz, ex-Ghost, ex-Malfaithor, ex-Morot, ex-Sörskogen
Tracklist:
CD 1:
01. Fate Of Man
02. 28 Days (Till The End Of Time)
03. Prescient
04. Back From The Past
05. Revel In Time
06. The Year Of ’41
07. Bridge Of Life
08. Today Is Yesterday
09. A Hand On The Clock
10. Beyond The Edge Of It All
11. Lost Children Of The Universe
CD 2: Alternate Version
01. Fate of Man
02. 28 Days (Till the End of Time)
03. Prescient
04. Back from the Past
05. Revel in Time
06. The Year of ‘41
07. Bridge of Life
08. Today is Yesterday
09. A Hand on the Clock
10. Beyond the Edge of it All
11. Lost Children of the Universe
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