Into The Electric Castle (A Space Opera)
by Ayreon
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Into The Electric Castle (A Space Opera) is ranked as the best album by Ayreon.
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Into The Electric Castle (A Space Opera) track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 79 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Into The Electric Castle (A Space Opera) rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 31 minutes ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | stevengnz | Top 100 Music Albums of 1998 | 3/100 | 5 |
| 2026 | tbroadhurst1 | Top 40 Greatest Music Albums | 28/40 | 31 |
| 2026 | Johnnyo | The best prog & metal albums of each year since 1983 by Loudwire | 16/42 | - |
| 2026 |  zags7000 | Top 100 Music Albums of 1998 | 42/100 | 3 |
| 2026 | Johnnyo | Albums of the year 1998 by Metal Storm | 5/20 | - |
| 2026 | steve397 | Top 7 Music Albums of 1998 | 2/7 | 4 |
| 2026 | steve397 | Top 68 Music Albums of the 1990s | 10/68 | 17 |
| 2025 |  RockyRaccoon | Top 39 Music Albums of 1998 | 21/39 | 2 |
| 2025 |  Fischman | Top 100 Music Albums of 1998 | 67/100 | 2 |
| 2024 | Steppenwolf666 | 1998 2nd chart | 26/73 | - |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 31 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 201 | |||
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 08/26/2026 13:25 | cicadelic | 13,791 | 73/100 |
| ! | 05/28/2025 15:07 | steve397 | 511 | 75/100 |
| ! | 03/07/2025 05:03 | stevengnz | 2,611 | 73/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 72.3/100, a mean average of 72.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 72.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 22.2.
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goeie-oko 10/10/2015 12:22 in The Alphabet Roster: I goeie-oko 10/03/2015 12:22 in What album are you listening to right now?Into The Electric Castle (A Space Opera) comments
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VADERBREWING 08/06/2015 02:54 | #147220 | TOP COMMENT
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Yep. This is long. Some good songs.kind of a OMD space age sound
sssvnnn 11/23/2014 23:16 | #127822 | TOP COMMENT
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Sometimes it sounds good, sometimes just the cliche´ of Progressive-Rock.
mickilennial 07/10/2013 11:29 | #80924 | TOP COMMENT
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This Heavy Metal Opera came out years before Avantasia, Avalon, and AINA put out their concept records. Arjen has a lot of great narrative chops in between progressive rock and space rock-inspired heavy metal. This is his best album for a good reason.
Brilliant album. Production wise, it was a clear step up on Actual Fantasy. Possibly the only criticism is that at 104 minutes it goes on a little too long. And it is not really an album that one can pick and choose tracks as there is commentary in between.
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