LPCDreissues: Looking forward to the past

Official, digitally remastered double CD reissue.

By the time Vangelis starts working on the third Aphrodite's Child album his friend Argyris Koulouris joins the band after fulfilling his army duty in Greece. At the end of 1970 a conceptual album, based on the a part of the New Testament, The Apocalypse of St. John is conceived by Vangelis and Costas Ferris. The entire album takes over a year to complete, and when it is finally ready for release, the band has already split up, with all members working on solo albums...

Production problems for the album are numerous, as the band members were not on very good terms during the recording sessions. Then Mercury, the band's record label adds to the troubles by objecting to the specific content of the album, and although Vangelis refuses to remove offending tracks (such as 'oo' Infinity), the album is brought back to the released issue of 80 minutes.

One single makes it off the album, "Break/Babylon" is released in November 1972, but that can not turn the album into a commercial success at the time. Today however the experimental "666" has received widespread acknowledgement and is regarded as a classic work and milestone in progressive rock!

Track Listing

• 1-1 The System 0:23
• 1-2 Babylon 2:47
• 1-3 Loud, Loud, Loud 2:42
• 1-4 The Four Horsemen 5:54
• 1-5 The Lamb 4:33
• 1-6 The Seventh Seal 1:30
• 1-7 Aegian Sea 5:22
• 1-8 Seven Bowls 1:29
• 1-9 The Wakening Beast 1:11
• 1-10 Lament 2:45
• 1-11 The Marching Beast 2:00
• 1-12 The Battle Of The Locusts 0:56
• 1-13 Do It 1:44
• 1-14 Tribulation 0:32
• 1-15 The Beast 2:26
• 1-16 Ofis 0:14
• 2-1 Seven Trumpets 0:35
• 2-2 Altamont 4:33
• 2-3 The Wedding Of The Lamb 3:38
• 2-4 The Capture Of The Beast 2:17
• 2-5 ∞ 5:15
• 2-6 Hic And Nunc 2:55
• 2-7 All The Seats Were Occupied 19:19
• 2-8 Break 2:58