Nightwish's Floor Jansen To Guest On Ayreon Album

(Prog) Nightwish singer Floor Jansen has been confirmed as a guest vocalist on the upcoming Ayreon album. Ayreon mastermind Arjen Lucassen has also announced Blind Guardian vocalist Hansi Kursch as a guest singer on the as-yet-untitled sci-fi follow-up to 2013 record The Theory Of Everything.

Jansen - who has worked with Ayreon in the past - and Kursch join the previously announced Dream Theater frontman James LaBrie and Between The Buried And Me singer Tommy Rogers on the record. The Nightwish singer's voice appears on a track called The Biologist, while Kursch appears on The Astronomer.

The album will be released next year via Mascot Label Group. Lucassen has released teaser clips of some of the guest singers and asked fans to try identify them. Read more here.