''Once and Future King Part I'' is the fourth studio album released by

Gary Hughes Gary Hughes (born 5 July 1964) is an English singer. Apart from his work as a solo artist, he is the frontman and main songwriter of hard rock/melodic rock band Ten. He has also worked as a producer and songwriter on Bob Catley's first three ...

Track listing

All songs written by

. # "Excalibur" – 6:22 # "Dragon Island Cathedral" – 6:03 # "At the End of Day" – 4:30 # "The Reason Why" – 4:36 # "Shapeshifter" – 4:45 # "King for a Day" – 4:47 # "Avalon" – 4:00 # "Sinner" – 5:01 # "In Flames" – 5:03 # "Lies" – 5:31

Personnel

Singers-The Cast

Damian Wilson Damian Wilson (born 11 October 1969) is an English singer-songwriter and musician. Wilson works in the progressive metal genre and was the lead singer of Headspace (band), Headspace and Threshold (band), Threshold. He sang and toured with ban ...

– (Track 1) *

– King Arthur (Tracks 2, 3 and 10) *

Lana Lane Lana Lane is an American rock singer. She sings lead in her eponymous band, and has sung backing vocals for the band Rocket Scientists and guest sung on Ayreon and Erik Norlander albums. She is married to music producer Erik Norlander, who co- ...

– Queen Guinevere (Track 3) *

Danny Vaughn Danny Vaughn (born Daniel Himler; July 18, 1961) is an American singer. Vaughn has performed with Waysted, Tyketto and Vaughn and now performs and releases under his own name. He was also a lead singer in the Ultimate Eagles. Danny Vaughn is ...

– Lancelot (Tracks 4 and 7) *

Irene Jansen Irene Jansen is a Dutch singer. She sang on the Ayreon album '' The Human Equation'', portraying the character Passion. She was also the live backing vocalist of Star One during their tour in 2003, and played the character Morgana in two Gary H ...

– Morgana (Track 5) *

Bob Catley Robert Adrian Catley (born 11 September 1947) is an English singer. He is the lead singer of the hard rock band Magnum and is also active as a solo artist. Biography Early years (1947–1972) Born in Aldershot on 11 September 1947, Catl ...

– Merlin (Tracks 6 and 9) *

Sean Harris Sean Harris (born 1 June 1966) is an English actor. He played Ian Curtis in '' 24 Hour Party People'' (2002), Micheletto Corella in '' The Borgias'' (2011–2013), Fifield in ''Prometheus'' (2012), Solomon Lane in '' Mission: Impossible – R ...

– Sir Galahad (Track 8)

Musicians-The Players

–

guitar The guitar is a stringed musical instrument that is usually fretted (with Fretless guitar, some exceptions) and typically has six or Twelve-string guitar, twelve strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming ...

piano A piano is a keyboard instrument that produces sound when its keys are depressed, activating an Action (music), action mechanism where hammers strike String (music), strings. Modern pianos have a row of 88 black and white keys, tuned to a c ...

, keyboards,

backing vocals A backing vocalist is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists. A backing vocalist may also sing alone as a lead-in to the main vocalist's entry or to sing a counter-melody. Backing vocalists are us ...

and programming *Chris Francis – guitars *John Halliwell – guitars *Steve McKenna –

Bass guitar The bass guitar (), also known as the electric bass guitar, electric bass, or simply the bass, is the lowest-pitched member of the guitar family. It is similar in appearance and construction to an Electric guitar, electric but with a longer nec ...

s *Greg Morgan –

drums The drum is a member of the percussion instrument, percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, it is a membranophones, membranophone. Drums consist of at least one Acoustic membrane, membrane, c ...

and

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a percussion mallet, beater including attached or enclosed beaters or Rattle (percussion beater), rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or ...

Arjen Lucassen Arjen Anthony Lucassen (born 3 April 1960) is a Dutch singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist musician and record producer, best known for his long-running progressive metal/rock opera project Ayreon. Lucassen started his career in 1980 as th ...

– keyboards (Track 1) *Paul Hodson – piano and keyboards (Track 6) *Graham Woodcock – keyboards (Track 8) *Jason Thanos – backing vocals *

– backing vocals

Production

*Mixing – Pete Coleman *Engineer – Gary Hughes *Additional Engineering – Pete Coleman, Audu Obaje, Arjen Lucassen,

Erik Norlander Erik Norlander (born 26 July 1967) is an American musician known for his work in the progressive rock genre. From 2007 to 2014, he was the touring and recording keyboardist for Asia Featuring John Payne. History Starting in 1993, Norlander's ...

, Billy Churchill and Jason Thanos

External links

Heavy Harmonies page
2003 albums Arthurian music Music based on works Gary Hughes albums Albums produced by Gary Hughes Frontiers Records albums {{2003-rock-album-stub