Arjen Anthony Lucassen

Dutch multi-instrumentalist Arjen Anthony Lucassen has been involved in a number of different projects in his two-decade-plus career. Most notable among these was heavy metal band Vengeance in the 1980s, and in the '90s, the progressively experimental Ayreon, whose every album featured guest vocalists like Kingdom Come's Lenny Wolfe, Marillion's Fish, and the Gathering's Anneke van Giersbergen -- usually enacting different characters in virtual art rock operas. Somewhere in between lay his new millennium project Arjen Anthony Lucassen's Star One, whose grandiose ambitions were...