Arjen Anthony Lucassen Biography
Dutch multi-instrumentalist Arjen Anthony Lucassen has been involved in a number of different projects in his two-decade plus career. Most notable among these have been heavy metal band Vengeance in the 1980's, and in the ‘90's, the progressively experimental Ayeron, whose every album featured guest vocalists like Kingdom Come's Lenny Wolfe, Marillion's Fish and The Gathering's Anneke van Giersbergen - usually enacting different characters in virtual art rock operas. Somewhere in between lies his latest new millennium project, Arjen Anthony Lucassen's Star One whose grandiose ambitions were pretty much described by 2002's Space Metal, and its live companion piece of a year later Live on Earth. Both also counted with a revolving cast of guest performers, including Rising Force and Stratovarious alum Jens Johansson, Edge of Sanity singer /guitarist Dan Swano and Shadow Gallery guitarist Gary Wehrkamp.Biography by allmusic.com
