Star One

With a career spanning more than three decades, composer and multi-instrumentalist Arjen Lucassen has firmly established himself worldwide as driving force in progressive rock. While best known for his rock opera project Ayreon, the multi-talented Dutchman also regularly embarks onmusical side projects such as Ambeon, Guilt Machine and Star One. These projects all exploredifferent aspects of Lucassen's musical personality, with each new release being a creativereaction to the style of... Meer »

With a career spanning more than three decades, composer and multi-instrumentalist Arjen Lucassen has firmly established himself worldwide as driving force in progressive rock. While best known for his rock opera project Ayreon, the multi-talented Dutchman also regularly embarks onmusical side projects such as Ambeon, Guilt Machine and Star One. These projects all exploredifferent aspects of Lucassen's musical personality, with each new release being a creativereaction to the style of its predecessor. As his previous project (Guilt Machine's "On This PerfectDay" 2009) was a relatively relaxed and subtle affair, Lucassen's muses responded by urging him torecord something loud, heavy and anything but subtle for this new release. Thus it was a perfectopportunity to launch his musical spacecraft towards the galaxy of bombastic sci-fi rock byrevisiting his Star One project. The result is the album "Victims of the Modern Age," the follow-upto the Star One debut album, "Space Metal" (2002). « Minder