666 (Aphrodite's Child album)
| 666 (The Apocalypse of John, 13/18) | ||||
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| Studio album by Aphrodite's Child | ||||
| Released | June 1972 | |||
| Recorded | Late 1970 – early 1971 Studio Europa Sonor, Paris, France |
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| Genre | Progressive rock, psychedelic rock, experimental rock, jazz fusion, Hard Rock | |||
| Length | 77:58 43:50 (Brazilian release) 82:44 (Greek release) |
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| Label | Vertigo | |||
| Producer | Vangelis Papathanassiou | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   |
| Mojo | favorable |
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| Billboard |  |
| MetalReviews | 87/100 |
| Backseat Mafia | 6.4/10 |
| Encyclopedia of Popular Music | |
666 (The Apocalypse of John, 13/18) is a double album by psychedelic/progressive rock group Aphrodite's Child, released in 1972. Ostensibly an adaptation of Biblical passages from The Book of Revelation, the album is the most critically acclaimed Aphrodite's Child album. It was also the group's last album, due to internal tensions during the recording process and a conflict with the record company. By the time it was released, the band had already disbanded and its members begun working on solo projects.
Several tracks on this album were sampled for the first Enigma album, MCMXC a.D., namely "Seven Bowls", "The Seven Seals" and "∞".
The concept for 666 was created by Vangelis and film director Costas Ferris, who served as the project's lyricist. Ferris cited as influences the nonlinear narrative style of films Intolerance, Rashomon, Citizen Kane and The Killing, as well as The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and The Who's Tommy. The central concept is a countercultural interpretation of the Book of Revelation, in which a circus show based on the apocalypse performs for an audience at the same time that the real apocalypse takes place outside the circus tent, and at the end the two merge into one. Ferris described the result as a "concept book", and stated that he intended for the narration to be looser than Tommy, but more rigid than Sgt. Pepper.
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