Into the Electric Castle: A Space Opera

Regarded by most as Ayreon’s best album, this medieval space odyssey encapsulates the entire Forever mythology, of which the beginning of sentient life on Earth is but one small episode. The music here is beautiful, exciting, and engaging, but because it is earnest, it is often view by more jaded listeners as cheesy. It’s not, though, instead being a sci-fi rock opera sung by eight travelers from different periods of human history and by Forever, the super-intelligent communal alien entity who orchestrates this whole adventure. This album could inspire a D&D campaign based on it.