Late September 2006, Arjen Lucassen\'s new studio was finished and ready to use. The very next day, Arjen went in with his trusted little tape recorder, and papers with dozens of song ideas that he\'d been working on for the past year. Comments Lucassen:

\"[I have] been in the studio nearly every day (and night) since then, getting the ideas translated into songs. The musical ideas are so extremely varied that only one project could possibly hold them all: Ayreon.\"

Arjen Lucassen has already been in contact with some interesting musicians to help create a new dimension of the Ayreon Universe, though no names haven been mentioned yet.

Ayreon\'s last release, \"Ayreon: The Human Equation\", was released in 2004. It contained guest appearances by a number of acclaimed vocalists, including James LaBrie (Dream Theater), Mike Baker (Shadow Gallery), Mikael Åkerfeldt (Opeth), Eric Clayton (Saviour Machine), Devon Graves (Dead Soul Tribe, ex-Psychotic Waltz) and Devin Townsend (Strapping Young Lad).

Once again the album featured Gorefest sticksman Ed Warby (photo) on drums, who also played on the albums \"Flight of the Migrator (Universal Migrator - part 2)\", issued in 2000, \"Into The Electric Castle\" (1998) and on Arjen Anthony Lucassen\'s Star One releases.