Ayreon vs. Avantasia-Elected (2008)


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Idioma: English
Genero: Rock


Tracklist

01.Elected 03:37
02.E=mc2 (Acoustic Live Version) 03:32
03.Ride the Comet 03:33
04.Day Six- Childhood (Piano Version) 03:04



Release comments

On January 25, 2008 the rock operas of Lucassen and
Sammet, respectively AYREON´s "01011001" and
AVANTASIA´s "The Scarecrow", were released
simultaneously. The music press, always eager for a
story, called this event the "Clash of the Titans,"
gleefully portraying the two musicians as bitter rivals
and urging each to comment on the other in countless
interviews. There was much speculation about which
album would be more successful, but upon release both
albums immediately charted in several countries around
the world. When asked about the so-called rivalry,
Arjen explains: "I´d not yet even heard Tobias´s album,
but when I found out he´d managed to get my all-time
favourite artist Alice Cooper to guest on ´The
Scarecrow´, I totally freaked out and sent a hate-mail
to Tobias´s MySpace. Fortunately, he never received
it".

Coincidentally however, Tobias, who was fed up with
having to talk about Arjen in interviews, grudgingly
decided it was time to get acquainted. He e-mailed
Arjen, and in the stream of email and insults that
followed "it turned out that Tobias hated me just as
much for having got Bruce Dickinson to guest on an
AYREON album, haha!" Arjen explains. Despite their
mutual hatred, the two musicians eventually hatched a
plan to put some fuel on the fire created by the press
by doing the unthinkable: recording a song together.
The result is a mind-blowing over-the-top cover version
of "Elected", the original version of which was a big
hit for ALICE COOPE back in 1973.

The song "Elected" is featured on a four-track EP
released by InsideOut Music/SPV (release dates: April
25 for Germany, Austria and Switzerland; April 28 for
the rest of Europe). The three other tracks featured on
the EP are an acoustic live radio session of the
"01011001" track "E=mc2" with Marjan Welman on vocals,
"Ride the Comet" taken from the album "01011001", and a
touching piano-only version of the "Human Equation"
track "Day Six: Childhood" featuring Joost van den
Broek and Marjan Welman.

Enjoy!