Shadow Of The Hierophant (track)
by Steve Hackett
Year: 1975
From the album Voyage Of The Acolyte (track #8)
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Shadow Of The Hierophant appears on the following album(s) by Steve Hackett:
- Voyage Of The Acolyte (track #8) (this album) (1975)
- Genesis Revisited II (track #21) (2012)
- The Tokyo Tapes (track #13) (1998)
- Genesis Revisited: Live At Hammersmith (track #8) (2013)
- Live Archive 70s, 80s, 90's (track #18) (2001)
- The Total Experience Live In Liverpool (track #14) (2016)
- Genesis Revisited Live: Seconds Out & More (track #6) (2022)
- Wuthering Nights: Live In Birmingham (track #8) (2018)
- Foxtrot At Fifty + Hackett Highlights: Live In Brighton (track #8) (2023)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| ! | 12/07/2025 04:34 | Exist-en-ciel | 61,453 | 71/100 |
| ! | 11/12/2025 18:35 | 1,281 | 89/100 | |
| ! | 11/02/2025 18:38 | 842 | 80/100 | |
| ! | 10/12/2025 19:20 | FrancK | 4,460 | 83/100 |
| ! | 07/26/2024 10:05 | 12,598 | 74/100 |
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This track is rated in the top 3% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 83.0/100, a mean average of 85.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 85.6/100. The standard deviation for this track is 10.8.
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All great prog albums have to have a song over 10 minutes right..?
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