THE HUMAN EQUATION

Ona Ayreon Album can be separated in two parts: 1)the music, and 2) the lyrics... One of the greatest things of Lucassen, is that he can find the best singers and instrumentalists of the world for one album, and in the next one, he finds another group that sounds as great as the first one (J. Alrund is not on that list). The cahnge of voices on each song makes the music much more interesting to hear, and the female voice is not used by any other group, and WOW!!! I mean wake up... it sounds ten times better than the male voice... Now talking about The Human E. The Wife's voice is amazing, is by far the best singer of Ayreon in this 10 years! Passion and Love didn't amaze that much. This time, the male voice, wasn't good... The only one that really sounds good is Fear, and only we he doesn't scream, the rest, doesn't sound good, because is too much screaming, and when they dont, they doesn't sound good, because they are made to scream. I find this album, much heavier than the ones he made before, but, like it doesnt happen in the U. Migrator, the songs are constantly chanching the sound, from heavy, to really slow and pretty melodic parts, folk and prog parts. I thing than Lucassen is getting much more experience on his music, but also is taking different ways that the ones i'd like him to take, his music is becoming much heavier, and stranger, far away from the Electric Castle, his best release by far... The story, this time, at least, doesnt talk about alliens, castles, migrators, planets,and magic things... this time the story is the best one, and is more conected to the men fealings, soul and life. This time is a much better idea, that doesn´t come from Arjen's illusions and that doesn't feel close to a story that you would enjoy in a movie or a book... What a bad thing that I dont have money for buying the original Cd, because i'd loved to read the lyrics on a leaflet, not on the computer while im listening to the album, and that here in Bolivia you dont get this kind of cd easy, so i spend months downloading good mp3 songs, but I think it was a good thing, I thing that the one that likes prog rock, should definitly get this album