Description

Double album on red vinyls with gatefold cover and comic book

Welcome to the colorful world of.. Transitus! As with any Ayreon album, it is an explosive and expansive affair and features Tommy Karevik (Kamelot) as Daniel and Cammie Gilbert (Ocean Of Slumber) as Abby. The all-star cast also features Simone Simons (Epica), Dee Snider, Joe Satriani, Marty Friedman (Megadeth), Johanne James (Threshold), Noa Gruman (Scardust), Marcela Bovio (Mayan), Caroline Westendorp (The Charm The Fury), Paul Manzi (Arena), Michael Mills (Toehider) and Amanda Somerville (Avantasia/Trilium) amongst many others. When I started this, I just had no idea that it was going to take me this long! It took about three years from start to finish, and it pushed me out of my comfort zone musically and creatively. But I always need that challenge, the harder it is, the more fun for me to work on it! comments Lucassen. Through all the extravaganzas that flow through his discography, Transitus is Lucassen’s most ambitious work yet. This is without a doubt the most cinematic and outrageous album I’ve ever done, he affirms. Continuing, he adds: I always start with finding singers first before I write the vocal parts, because I write the parts specifically for their vocal strengths. Because I was going for a theatrical feel for this album, this time I picked the singers not just because they are amazing singers, but because they had a certain charisma and were able to act. Transitus is built around an entirely new story, not connected to the Ayreon universe although as always it does have some subtle links. The sci-fi theme makes way for a gothic ghost story set (partly) in the 19th century with elements of horror and the supernatural. It’s on a dark thunderous night where our story of Abby and Daniel begins. Transitus is narrated by one of the most iconic and recognizable voices in sci-fi history, most known from his eight-year stint as Doctor Who, Tom Baker.

Track list:
1. Fatum Horrificum (A] Graveyard, B] 1884, C] Daniel And Abby, D] Fatum, E] Why?!, F] Guilty)
2. Daniel’s Descent Into Transitus
3. Listen To My Story
4. Two Worlds Now One
5. Talk Of The Town
6. Old Friend
7. Dumb Piece Of Rock
8. Get Out! Now!
9. Seven Days, Seven Nights
10. Condemned Without A Trial
11. Daniel’s Funeral
12. Hopelessly Slipping Away
13. This Human Equation
14. Henry’s Plot
15. Message From Beyond
16. Daniel’s Vision
17. She Is Innocent
18. Lavinia’s Confession
19. Inferno
20. Your Story Is Over!
21. Abby In Transitus
22. The Great Beyond