01011001 – Live Beneath the Waves

01011001 – Live Beneath the Waves is a live album by Arjen Lucassen's progressive rock/metal rock opera project Ayreon, released on 17 May 2024.^[1] It is a live version of the 2008 concept album 01011001, which was filmed during a series of five concerts performed in September 2023 in the 013 venue in Tilburg, Netherlands.^[2]

01011001 – Live Beneath the Waves
Live album by Ayreon
Released	17 May 2024
Recorded	15–17 September 2023
Genre	Progressive metal, progressive rock
Length	2:14:48
Label	Mascot Label Group / Music Theories
Producer	Arjen Anthony Lucassen
Ayreon live chronology
Electric Castle Live and Other Tales (2020) 01011001 – Live Beneath the Waves (2024)

Background and recording

After performing the previous Ayreon live album Electric Castle Live and Other Tales in 2019, plans were made for a new set of concerts to be held in 2021.^[3] These plans were delayed due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2022, unsure about post-pandemic demand for the shows, Arjen Lucassen announced three 01011001 – Live Beneath the Waves shows to be performed on 15–17 September 2023.^[4] After the initial three shows sold out in minutes, two matinée shows were added, for a total of five shows played in three days. The evening performance of the Sunday 17 September show was the main recording used for the live album.^[5]

Of the seventeen singers on the original album, twelve returned to perform the live shows. In addition, four additional guest lead vocalists and three backup singers completed the vocalist lineup. As the singers on the album do not have unique characters they perform, vocal parts were not strictly distributed based on the performers of the original album.^[6]

After performing the album in its entirety, the cast performed several songs from other Lucassen albums: "This Human Equation" from the 2020 Ayreon album Transitus, "Fate of Man" from the Star One album Revel in Time and "The Day That the World Breaks Down" from the Ayreon album The Source.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Arjen Lucassen, except melodies by Anneke van Giersbergen for "We Are Forever"^[a] and "Waking Dreams" and melodies by Jonas Renkse for "We Are Forever",^[a] "Waking Dreams", "Unnatural Selection", "2085".^[b]

No.	Title	Lead vocalists[c]	Length
1.	"March of the Machines" (from The Source)		2:45
2.	"Age of Shadows"	Tom S. Englund, Michael Mills, Daniel Gildenlöw, Hansi Kürsch, Brittney Slayes, Jonas Renkse, Anneke van Giersbergen, John Jaycee Cuijpers	10:26
3.	"Comatose"	Van Giersbergen, Damian Wilson	4:22
4.	"Liquid Eternity"	Renkse, Gildenlöw, Maggy Luyten, Wilson, Englund, Slayes	7:45
5.	"Connect the Dots"	Arjen Lucassen	4:30
6.	"Beneath the Waves"	Gildenlöw, Wilson, Van Giersbergen, Mills, Slayes, Kürsch, Englund, Cuijpers	8:25
7.	"Newborn Race"	Gildenlöw, Slayes, Englund, Renkse, Wilson, Kürsch, Cuijpers	8:03
8.	"Ride the Comet"	Renkse, Slayes, Englund, Luyten	4:45
9.	"Web of Lies"	Simone Simons, Phideaux Xavier[d]	2:47
10.	"The Fifth Extinction"	Van Giersbergen, Wilson, Mills, Cuijpers, Englund, Gildenlöw, Kürsch, Renkse, Slayes	10:43
11.	"Waking Dreams"	Renkse, Van Giersbergen	6:35
12.	"The Truth Is in Here"	Lucassen, Liselotte Hegt	5:19
13.	"Unnatural Selection"	Englund, Mills, Cuijpers, Wilson, Kürsch, Renkse, Irene Jansen, Marcela Bovio	7:23
14.	"River of Time"	Kürsch, Wilson	4:06
15.	"E=mc2"	Wudstik, Marjan Welman	5:19
16.	"The Sixth Extinction"	Englund, Mills, Kürsch, Gildenlöw, Renkse, Slayes, Wilson, Cuijpers, Van Giersbergen, Hegt, Lucassen, Luyten, Simons, Welman, Wudstik	12:12
17.	"Speech"		6:50
18.	"This Human Equation" (from Transitus)	Simons	3:54
19.	"Fate of Man" (from Revel in Time)	Slayes	5:40
20.	"The Day That the World Breaks Down" (from The Source)	Wilson, Gildenlöw, Jan Willem Ketelaers, Simons, Luyten, Cuijpers, Kürsch, Mills, Englund, Van Giersbergen, Bovio, Jansen	12:59

Personnel

Vocalists[c] Tom S. Englund (Evergrey) Daniel Gildenlöw (Pain of Salvation) Hansi Kürsch (Blind Guardian) Jonas Renkse (Katatonia) Anneke van Giersbergen (The Gentle Storm, VUUR, ex-The Gathering) Maggy Luyten (Beautiful Sin) Simone Simons (Epica) Phideaux Xavier[d] Arjen Lucassen Liselotte Hegt Marjan Welman Wudstik [nl] Guest vocalists[c] Michael Mills (Toehider) Damian Wilson (Headspace, ex-Threshold) Brittney Slayes (Unleash the Archers) John Jaycee Cuijpers (Praying Mantis)

Backing vocals Marcela Bovio (Stream of Passion, Mayan) Irene Jansen Jan Willem Ketelaers Instrumentalists Joost van den Broek – keyboards Ed Warby – drums Johan van Stratum – bass Timo Somers – electric and acoustic guitar Marcel Coenen – guitar Ben Mathot – violin Jeroen Goossens – flute Jurriaan Westerveld – cello

Charts

Chart (2024)	Peak position
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[7]	2
Scottish Albums (OCC)[8]	29
UK Rock & Metal Albums (OCC)[9]	4
UK Independent Albums (OCC)[10]	18

Notes

1. Section of "Age of Shadows"
2. Section of "The Sixth Extinction"
3. In order of appearance
4. Digital recording