Ayreon masterpiece re-issued on vinyl

AYREON - 01011001 : FINALLY AVAILABLE ON VINYL AGAIN!
OUT ON BLUE AND LIMITED MARBLE VINYL ON MAY 19, 2023

PRE-ORDERS WILL BE SIGNED BY ARJEN
Purchase from the Mascot Webstore includes an album download, to be sent when your order is shipped

With the upcoming Ayreon live shows in the Netherlands, themed around a full album performance of 01011001, the time has come to make this album available on vinyl again.

01011001 is the seventh studio album by Arjen Anthony Lucassen's long-running Ayreon project. "01011001" is the binary representation of the ASCII value of the letter Y.

01011001 is a concept album that tells the story of aliens called the "Forever", who create humanity, only to later endanger it by providing it with technology.

Seventeen singers in total, including Lucassen himself, contributed to the album, more than any other Ayreon album. Apart from Lucassen, only Anneke van Giersbergen (Vuur) and Floor Jansen (Nightwish) had sung on previous Ayreon albums, on Into the Electric Castle and Universal Migrator Part 1: The Dream Sequencer respectively.