Photo by Cristel Brouwer

Music Theories Recordings/Mascot Label Group will be releasing ‘Ayreon Universe – The Best of Ayreon Live’ on 30 March and are proud to present the second full live video for ‘Valley of the Queens’. Watch it below.

On 15, 16, 17 September 2017, AYREON played live for the first time ever, bringing together 16 guest singers and 11 Musicians, playing 28 songs with performances by Floor Jansen (Nightwish), Damian Wilson (Headspace), Hansi Kursch (Blind Guardian), Tommy Karevik (Kamelot), Anneke Van Giersbergen (Vuur), Marco Hietala (Nightwish), Jonas Renkse (Katatonia), Edward Reekers (Kayak) and many more.

Arjen Lucassen is thrilled to reveal the new live video for ‘Valley of the Queens’ which features Floor Jansen (Nightwish), Marcela Bovio (MaYaN )and Anneke Van Giersbergen (Vuur) on vocals as well as Jeroen Goossens on flute, Maaike Peterse on Cello, Ferry Duijsens (Guitar) and Joost van den Broek (Keyboards)

Talking about the song he says. “Here is the second full video track of the upcoming Ayreon Universe DVD/BD. The first track we showed you was the bombastic ‘Everybody Dies’, so as a contrast here is a very intimate ballad called Valley of the Queens. Man… even though I’ve seen this a million times by now, I still get goosebumps hearing these lovely three ladies sing… enjoy!”

‘Ayreon Universe – The Best of Ayreon Live’ will be available on 3LP + MP3, 3LP + MP3 (Limited Colored Vinyl), 2CD, 5 disc Earbook, plus 2DVD and Blu-ray with 90 minutes of exclusive behind the scenes footage and interviews with the whole cast.