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The Number of the Beast is 666 by Simon Hanes
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Album Title: Gargantua
Label: Pyroclastic Records
Released: 2026
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About the Album
One of the most audacious but rewarding large-ensemble projects of the year so far is “GARGANTUA,” a genre-free epic by composer/arranger Simon Hanes, featuring a large ensemble consisting of three drum sets, three electric basses, three trombones, three french horns, and three voices. Inspired by 16th-century novelist François Rabelais, the album was produced by David Breskin. An example of the barely-controlled creative chaos Hanes can produce is “Number of the Beast is 666,” a delightfully unhinged concoction that sounds like a renaissance dance gone wonderfully awry.
Tracks
A Series of Waves Tremble in a Sea of Blood; Gigantes; Knockandrow; Lacerated by a Flying Shard; The Number of the Beast Is 666; Submit to the Fabulosity; Moirai; Lucifer / Aurem Chaos; I Am; Hekla 1970.
Personnel
Simon Hanes
guitar
Anna Abondolo
bassJesse Heasly
bass, electric
Trevor Dunn
bass
Jonathan Starks
drumsMatt Bent
drums
Kevin Murray
drumsJen Baker
trombone
Jacob Garchik
tromboneColin Babcock
tromboneKevin Newton
french hornNoah Fotis
french hornBlair Hamrick
french hornPriya Carlberg
vocals
isabel crespo pardo
authorJolee Gordon
vocalsReviews
Date featured
August 5, 2026
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