From Genesis To Revelation - Aftermath

Aftermath

Genesis split with both Decca and Jonathan King, preferring to record and perform on their own musical terms. Although King had more experience and was aiming to present Genesis in a marketable way, they were feeling more and more constrained by King's attempts to curtail and limit their increasingly lengthy and adventurous new compositions. The band went professional in the autumn of 1969, and after replacing John Silver with John Mayhew on drums, Genesis began formulating the music that would lead to Trespass the following year and were soon signed to Charisma Records. Despite their artistic disagreements with King, Rutherford maintains that Genesis owes the producer a debt of gratitude:

Jonathan King, for all his faults - he has a funny reputation in England - did give us a fantastic opportunity. Because in those days, in England, you couldn't get in the studio. I mean, now a new group can very easily get a chance to go and record a single, just something, you know, to show there's something going for them. In those days, to get any sort of record contract, was really magical. And he gave us a chance to do a whole record. You've got a bunch of musicians who were really amateur, could barely play well, were barely a group, and were able to go in one summer holiday and make a record.

Although initially released on Decca Records, From Genesis to Revelation has since been licensed to many smaller labels, who often issue it with different artwork or different titles. It is because of these licensing reasons that the album was excluded from the 2008 box set, "Genesis 1970–1975", which covers the rest of the band's era with singer Peter Gabriel.

On 27 July 1990, the album was reissued in a two disc set. The second disc included the four tracks included on And the Word Was....., four early versions of songs on the album, and ten interviews.

On 25 October 2010, the album was released as a special edition on iTunes. It includes the bonus tracks from the 1990 reissue.