01011001 Review

"01011001" is the seventh studio album by Arjen Anthony Lucassen's long-running Ayreon project. 17 singers in total (including Arjen himself) contribute to the album.

On Planet Y, the seafaring 'Forever' have long ago forgone their emotions as well as becoming dependent on machines, in order to become immortal. Longing to rediscover emotions, Forever sends their DNA to planet Earth using a comet as vessel. The vessel reaches earth seeding humanity, but not before causing the extinction of the dinosaurs. Human rise and through them, Forever is able to relive lost emotions. However, Forever's continued meddling with humanity in order to make them evolve faster have disastrous consequence when their physical and mental evolution goes faster than their moral development : humanity starts becoming dependent on machines, they start slowly losing their emotions and worst of all heads toward the path to their own extinction. Forever must then orchestrate a way to help humanity save themselves, or should they even bother...is the experiment over?