in both a joking and/or mocking fashion, as for years he and Gjalt have had a rocky relationship and haven't always gotten along. He was married to Jolanda Verduijn, who appeared as bassist on The Final Experiment, until they divorced in 2006/2007. Lucassen is currently in a relationship with American guitarist and lyricist Lori Linstruth, who left Sweden to move in with him. She is his former bandmate from both Stream of Passion and Guilt Machine, and was featured in several Ayreon albums. Despite retiring as an active performer in 2010, she still acts as his manager, a role she has held since 2007, and is responsible for various other tasks on his albums; she notably co-wrote the story and lyrics of the Ayreon album The Theory of Everything. According to Lucassen, Linstruth supervises the making of all his works, notably his lyrics as English is her native language, and she is also an English teacher. Health issues During the recordings of The Human Equation from 2003 to 2004, Lucassen suffered from "increasing lower back problems". The Doctors gave him an MRI examination revealing he was suffering from a hernia; he had his examination filmed in order to use it for a video shoot, "as the 'Me' character [from The Human Equation] would also have needed a scan after his car accident". Lucassen has suffered from permanent anosmia since 2007. The same year, he sank into a depression which required medical help, due to the disease, his constant work over the last years, and his recent divorce with Verduijn resulting in him living on his own. On 3 September 2012, he revealed on his Facebook page that he has been suffering from an incurable tinnitus for the past two months. Discography Solo Pools of Sorrow, Waves of Joy (1994) Lost in the New Real (2012) Ambeon Fate of a Dreamer (2001) Ayreon The Final Experiment (1995) Actual Fantasy (1996) Into the Electric Castle (1998) Universal Migrator Part 1: The Dream Sequencer (2000) Universal Migrator Part 2: Flight of the Migrator (2000) The Human Equation (2004) 01011001 (2008) The Theory of Everything (2013) The Source (2017) Transitus (2020) Bodine Bold as Brass (1982) Three Times Running (1983) The Gentle Storm The Diary (2015) Guilt Machine On This Perfect Day (2009) Star One Space Metal (2002) Victims of the Modern Age (2010) Revel in Time (2022) Stream of Passion Embrace the Storm