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The Great Deceiver is a 4-CD box set by the band King Crimson, consisting of live recordings from 1973 and 1974, released on Virgin Records in 1992. In 2007, it was reissued on Fripp's Discipline Global Mobile label as two separate 2-CD sets, each featuring new artwork.
Only four tracks on the album have lyrics; as with Larks' Tongues in Aspic, these were written by John Wetton's friend Richard Palmer-James. "The Great Deceiver" refers to Satan and is an ironic comment on commercialism; Fripp contributed the line "cigarettes, ice cream, figurines of the Virgin Mary" after seeing souvenirs being marketed in Vatican City. [11] "
The album features several members of Kansas, along with Ambrosia singer David Pack and noted heavy-metal singer Ronnie James Dio, who sang on the tracks "To Live for the King" and "Mask of the Great Deceiver". Livgren recorded three more albums with Kansas.
His religious beliefs began to be reflected in the song lyrics of Kansas album Vinyl Confessions as well as Seeds of Change. This eventually would cause tension within the band. The inclusion of Ronnie James Dio, who was Black Sabbath's lead vocalist at the time, caused controversy, as Black Sabbath is considered satanic by some Christians.
More live recordings from the 1972–1974 era would be issued as The Night Watch in 1997, and as part of the box sets The Great Deceiver (1992), Larks' Tongues in Aspic (1972–1973) (2012), The Road to Red (1974), and Starless (1973–1974) (both 2014). Between 1975 and 1981, King Crimson were completely inactive.
The Great Deceiver (Single Edit) 1974: 2019: Previously unreleased single edit of "The Great Deceiver" with an early fadeout. 44: Industrial Zone C (Edit) 1983: 2019: Previously unreleased edit of the original recording from Three Of A Perfect Pair (40th Anniversary Edition). 45: Indiscipline: 2017: 2017: Taken from a live performance on June ...
Peter Sinfield – lyrics, illumination, sound and vision on discs 1–2 & disc 4, track 11; Peter Giles – bass guitar on disc 1, tracks 6–10; Keith Tippett – piano on disc 1, tracks 7–15; Mel Collins – saxes, flute, and mellotron on disc 1, tracks 9 & 11–15 and disc 2, tracks 6–10
The Great Deceiver may refer to: Satan, an embodiment of antagonism in Abrahamic beliefs; The Great Deceiver (band), a Swedish hardcore/metal band; The Great Deceiver (King Crimson album), a 1992 box set; The Great Deceiver (Mortiis album) a forthcoming album by Mortiis; The Great Deceiver, a Mexican film