When Love And Death Embrace

As you knwo both Albums Avantasia's Scarecrow and Ayreon's 01011001 were released the same day in January, and the media become this event in a particulary versus(ok me included), and they called as "Clash of the Titans". Well both albums were ver succesfull in diferent countries, so there were nothing to claim about it.

When Arjen was questioned about Tobias he answered: : "I'd not yet even heard Tobias's album, but when I found out he'd managed to get my all-time favourite artist Alice Cooper to guest on The Scarecrow, I totally freaked out and sent a hate-mail to Tobias's MySpace. Fortunately, he never received it".

Coincidentally however, Tobias, who was fed up with having to talk about Arjen in interviews, grudgingly decided it was time to get acquainted. He emailed Arjen, and in the stream of email and insults that followed "it turned out that Tobias hated me just as much for having got Bruce Dickinson to guest on an Ayreon album, haha!" Arjen explains. Despite their mutual hatred, the two musicians eventually hatched a plan to put some fuel on the fire created by the press by doing the unthinkable: recording a song together. The result is a mind-blowing over-the-top cover version of Elected, the original version of which was a big hit for Alice Cooper back in 1973.

Believe it or not, this will be the cover for the EP

The song Elected will be featured on a 4-track EP released by Inside Out Music/SPV (release dates: 25 April for Germany/Austria/Switzerland; 28 April for Europe). The 3 other tracks featured on the EP are an acoustic live radio session of the 01011001 track E=mc2 with Marjan Welman on vocals, Ride the Comet taken from the album 01011001, and a touching piano-only version of the Human Equation track Day Six: Childhood featuring Joost van den Broek and Marjan Welman.

The next was said by Lori Linstruth manager of Ayreon

"At the end of April, Arjen will be releasing an EP with something rather special: A (funny!) cover version of Alice Cooper’s Elected in which Arjen shares vocal duties with arch rival Tobias Sammet (Ed Guy, Avantasia). There will also be two other non-album tracks on the EP, as well as a track from 01011001 but I don’t want to spill all the beans at once "

We can deny it,  Arjen is a real genius, an orginal person and this was very intelligent he used this media rivalry to make something creative, so ill be waiting for this realease