I freaking love damian, his voice is so powerful. The original singer is amazing, but this is just 🤯 ❤ gonna see him with his solo /family show later this year.

Arjen Lucassen is a genuine God. His pace of producing gorgeous music is mindblowing. I only have to listen to it and I can't keep up with him. How does he do that? And the one song after the other hits you like a brick. If the goosebumps production of Arjen ever goes to the stock market, I will buy a lot of shares 😂. But no kidding. The guy is something special. And Damian is a super Gentle Giant with a voice from the heavens. And Joost, the genius guy behind the keyboards, is a topnotch producer from bands like Epica. Together with Arjen they guarantee that the sound quality is more than outstanding. These artists ( all of them in this video) make your life worthwhile and a happy place.

Hi Ginx , the backing vocals are Jan Willem Ketelaers , Marcela Bovio (center) and Dianne van Gierbergen . If you ever get the idea to visit an Ayreon concert , you will have to make your way to the Netherlands , more precisely to Tilburg . The venue there is 013 Poppodium . I was there myself last year and can only recommend it to you . Greetings from Germany

Prog masterpiece. The melodic composition of the music and vocals are sublime and sophisticated.

This one never gets old. Damian is perfect for Arjen's live shows with his musical theatre background. He is such a versatile vocalist, actor and storyteller. I could listen to him telling stories from his life on the road for hours. Regarding the audio mix: For the last show I am able to compare, and at least next to FOH the live mix was almost as good as the recording. Just a bit more ambience noise for obvious reasons. It was amazing how well the live surround mix worked.

Such powerfull lyrics. As i understand and read somewhere, written by Arjen`s partner. The entire performance is epic. Feels like Damien is outperforming himself.

Enjoyed your reaction ! The Electric Castle Live and Other Tales were 4 concerts performed between 13-15 September 2019 and mainly consisted of a full playthrough of the 1998 Ayreon Into the Electric Castle album followed by a number of other songs from Arjen's other projects including The Gentle Storm, Ambeon, Stream of Passion, Guilt Machine, Star One, and his solo projects. This particular song is from his Guilt Machine project and features songs about "the destructive psychology of guilt, regret and the darkest form of secret -- the secrets we hide from ourselves." The ladies on the balcony are Diane van Giersbergen (ex Xandria and Ex Libris) and Marcela Bovio. I am a big fan of both ladies, especially Marcela. She is incredibly talented and versatile and like Floor can sing in many different styles. I consider her a close second to Floor in singing ability. Another great song from this concert with Marcela is Out in the Real World from Stream of Passion. Arjen created Stream of Passion as a project specifically to feature Marcela as the lead singer and co wrote the music with her. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/iNqintOp1pnIf3U.htmlsi=3B2_u4w0y10VLf-_. In addition to being the lead singer in Stream of Passion, she was the lead singer in Dark Horse White Horse, one of multiple lead singers in Mayan (side project of Epica founder Mark Jansen), backing vocals for multiple Epica albums, backing vocals for The Gentle Storm, and backing vocals for Vuur. Checkout Mayan's song Rebirth from Despair live from Master's of Rock in 2019 to hear all the different sides of her voice. In one song she sings in a classical soprano voice, powerful head voice, and death metal growls.

you need to listen to the sixth extinction live next, it is amazing as well

"This Dude" at 3:15 For me, I find it very interesting how they put the cello through a low pass active filter (maybe with a little distortion) and the result is a cello that sounds like a synth... such a great way to break down the walls of how we think about an instrument. "Play the microphone" at 7:00 Agreed. It keeps the compressors off the vocals, and saves the dynamics. ... and of course it leaves the post-processor more flexibility in adding their touches without having to work around a heavy-handed FOH compressor (which of course you wouldn't have to do if they'd remember to stem off the RAW VOCALS on their own recoding buss, but who am I to tell someone how to do their job, lol... after all, they do it for a living, not me... I'm just an armchair mixicologist.)

Gina thank you for replying back to me it means a lot to me and freya. When she sees your face on the reaction she gets so excited in my tent its been quiet a experience going through the hurricane and trying to put ones life back together but with good friends in my town and watching you and listening to wintersun nightwish epica and ensiferum makes my day better Gina. And if you don't know who ensiferum is its jariof wintersun former band before he left and formed wintersun. After your wintersun time live rehearsal video at Sonic pump studio ill make a request for a ensiferum song for you and i will notify the wintersun and ensiferum KZfaq fan community that you are analyzing wintersun and ensiferum hopefully becoming subcribers in helping your channel grow that way. Thank you so much you are awesome. Ill have some crown and a gummie for you since you aren't here. Cheers Wintersun Alex in Texas ❄️🍻❤️

Such a powerful performance!

Hi Gina a song from areyon I haven't heard from before but neverless a great song at that. And I'm doing well as well as Freya after the hurricane in tent enjoying me some gummies and Gina reacts now that's how you spend some chill time. Wintersun Alex in Texas ❄️👋❤️