Artist: Arjen Anthony Lucassen’s Star One
Title: Revel In Time
Genre: Progressive Rock, Progressive Metal
Label: © Inside Out Music
Release Date: 2018
Quality: Blu-ray Audio
Length: 02:13:23+01:12:19+01:06:43+00:17:17
Video: MPEG-4 AVC Video 9190 kbps 1080p / 23,976 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio: English / LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 48 kHz / 1536 kbps / 16-bit
Audio: English / LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 48 kHz / 2304 kbps / 24-bit
Audio: English / Dolby Digital Audio / 5.1 / 48 kHz / 448 kbps / DN -4dB
Size: 42.39 GB
“Revel in Time” (2022) is the third album from ARJEN ANTHONY LUCASSEN’S STAR ONE. It’s both a reaction to and contrast with Arjen’s most recent Ayreon album “Transitus.” While “Transitus” is a cinematic experience that could even be classified as a musical, “Revel in Time” is a heavy album that is massively riff driven with more emphasis on virtuoso musicianship.
Similar to its predecessors, “Revel In Time” is based on an overall concept. Each track is inspired by a movie that that deals with some kind of manipulation of time. One key difference this time around is the casting of vocalists. The first two Star One albums had the same cast of four singers: Floor Jansen, Russell Allen, Damian Wilson and Dan Swano. But for Revel in Time, Arjen aimed to feature one singer per track, that is, a different main singer for almost every track.
This is especially evident on CD 2, the “Same Songs, Different Singers”-CD as Arjen likes to call it. As he explains it, the guide vocals that were recorded (for the other singers) were far too good to never see the light of day (which is the fate of most guide vocal recordings). So he decided to release a second CD with alternate versions of the songs with the guide vocals.
At some point he started spontaneously inviting other singers to sing some of these tracks, because he was curious how the songs would sound with their voices. Ultimately CD-2 ended up with no less than 9 different singers, all equally as good as the ones on CD1. A total of about 30 different musicians contributed to the new album, not all of them being singers though. The core of STAR ONE remains Ed Warby’s powerful drums as well as Arjen’s guitar and bass work that hold it all together and give it that typical STAR ONE sound. The icing on the cake is the front cover art that was created by Arjen’s trusted favorite artist Jef Bertels. “Revel in Time” is available as Ltd. Deluxe 3CD+Blu-Ray Artbook & Poster, Ltd. 2CD Digipak, Gatefold 2LP+CD & LP-Booklet, Digital album (2CD).
Cover painting by Jef Bertels
Tracklist
5.1 Audio Mix CD I
BD-2 Fate Of Man
BD-3 28 Days (Till The End Of Time)
BD-4 Prescient
BD-5 Back From The Past
BD6 Revel In Time
BD-7 The Year Of ’41
BD-8 Bridge Of Life
BD-9 Today Is Yesterday
BD-10 A Hand On The Clock
BD-11 Beyond The Edge Of It All
BD-12 Lost Children Of The Universe
2.0 Hi Res 24 Bit Audio Mix CD I And CD II
BD-13 Fate Of Man
BD-14 28 Days (Till The End Of Time)
BD-15 Prescient
BD-16 Back From The Past
BD-17 Revel In Time
BD-18 The Year Of ’41
BD-19 Bridge Of Life
BD-20 Today Is Yesterday
BD-21 A Hand On The Clock
BD-22 Beyond The Edge Of It All
BD-23 Lost Children Of The Universe
BD-24 Fate Of Man
BD-25 28 Days (Till The End Of Time)
BD-26 Prescient
BD-27 Back From The Past
BD-28 Revel In Time
BD-29 The Year Of ’41
BD-30 Bridge Of Life
BD-31 Today Is Yesterday
BD-32 A Hand On The Clock
BD-33 Beyond The Edge Of It All
BD-34 Lost Children Of The Universe
Videoclips
BD-35 Lost Children Of The Universe
BD-33 Fate Of Man
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