Check out this EXCELLENT interview with lead singer and guitarist Matt Tluchowski from the GREAT and HEAVY - Doctor Smoke!

Ayreon's third album - the 1998 release Into the Electric Castle really separated Ayreon and Arjen Lucassen from the pack. Take a journey with Phil and Alex as they walk through the brilliance that is Ayreon!

Actual Fantasy

Get ready for an onslaught of GREAT HEAVY MUSIC for your listening ears!

What are definitively the BEST heavy albums of Q4 2021 you ask? Listen and find out!! A quick-hitter episode so jump in and get some new jams for the New Year!

The boys are splintering off - taking a detour down the trail that was blazed by the AMAZING Arjen Lucassen. The Ayreon Chronicles will force the fellas to review ALL of the amazing Ayreon catalog and see how all the albums stack up against each other. Where to start you ask? How about - the beginning! With "The Final Experiment"

Two heavy but VERY different offerings - which one do you prefer? Jorn Lande & Tronde Holter's album - Dracula Swing of Death or the debut album by A Perfect Circule - Mer de Noms?

Check out this AWESOME interview with Denny Blake, vocalist and guitarist of the Australian Black Metal Studs STARGAZER! Their 2021 release Psychic Secretions is OUTSTANDING! Learn something from Denny you'd NEVER know from anywhere else!

Q3 started out slow for Alex to find some jams, but eventually, with patience, did the 'smoke' ultimately rise to the top? Or was it the golden rule, of do 'unto others' which made the top spot for his list?

Phil is improving in his quality of music because there was so crossover between the two lists - see who ranks where!

Two "L" albums comin at ya today! Lux by Gemini Syndrome and Legend by Witchcraft. All clean singing on this episode - so feel free to actually listen with your friends and family around.