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Album: Lost in the New Real

Old Rating: 5/5

Verdict: I haven't quite finished the current listen to this since it's been going as a chunk at a time in various car trips for several days, but I've played Lost in the New Real so much that it's unlikely anything will change how I view the album. I actually have more logged Last.fm scrobbles of it than I do for all but two Ayreon albums (and one of those is The Theory of Everything which seems destined to become my top Last.fm album by virtue of the amount of tracks). It's an album that is very much in two parts, the first disc being the concept album and what I've played the most of the album (over twenty times for the first disc) and the second disc being deleted scenes and covers, which I haven't played as often but still contains some excellent material. Not as metal as Lucassen's main body of work (though it has its moments including a metal cover of Pink Floyd's Welcome to the Machine), instead drawing on practically everything that has ever defined him as a musician, this has stood the test of time since it's 2012 release and become one of my favourite Arjen Lucassen albums. 

New Rating: No Change.