“Faintly ludicrous and simplistic – but Humankind should enjoy it while it still can”: Arjen Anthony Lucassen has fun counting down to Armageddon on Songs No One Will Hear

Arjen Anthony Lucassen – Songs No One Will Hear.

We frequently encounter colourful visions of post-apocalyptic futures – but a less documented scenario is the time immediately preceding the end of the world as we know it.

Step forward, then, Arjen Lucassen, Dutch veteran of many a fantastical concept set via his chief creative vehicle, prog-metal juggernaut Ayreon. On his third solo album, Lucassen presents a War Of The Worlds-meets-Armageddon tale in which terror spreads as a giant asteroid is reported to be on a collision course with Earth.