The long-awaited, frequently delayed, and increasingly mythical 50th Anniversary box set of Genesis’ The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway finally has a release date: September 26, 2025.
This lavish reissue, which has seen more false starts than a comeback tour plagued by dodgy knees and stubborn egos, was originally slated for March. Then it got nudged to June. Then silence. Until now.
Genesis posted a cheeky update for fans who have spent months “Counting Out Time”: they’re finally ready to deliver. And this isn’t just a slapped-together cash grab. What’s arriving in September is a painstakingly restored, Atmos-mixed, fully remastered celebration of one of prog’s most ambitious records, and it comes with the kind of extras that demand respect.
Peter Gabriel, who left Genesis shortly after The Lamb first landed in 1974, re-entered that strange and slippery sonic world alongside Tony Banks and engineer Bob Mackenzie at Gabriel’s Real World Studios to oversee the new Dolby Atmos mix. According to Gabriel, “It was an interesting experience to be back again inside the world we built 50 years ago.”
He added, in classic, self-aware fashion “Bob did a brilliant job bringing it into ATMOS… we were still wearing our ‘More Me’ T-shirts, however, we have both matured enough to (very) occasionally ask for ‘Less Me’ – would never have happened 50 years ago.”
Tony Banks was similarly nostalgic: “Great to have a chance to work with my old friend on something from our youth… still sounds fresh to me!”
This super deluxe edition is not phoned in. Expect five LPs and a Blu-ray, a four-CD plus Blu-ray edition, digital formats, a full live show from 1975 (complete with encores Watcher of the Skies and The Musical Box), and three previously unreleased demos from the Headley Grange sessions. The 96kHz/24-bit high-res audio has been remastered at Abbey Road by Miles Showell using the original analogue tapes. Yes, it’s that serious.
And there’s a 60-page hardcover book, not a pamphlet, featuring liner notes by Alexis Petridis and the rarest of things: all five band members interviewed, giving what’s believed to be the first collective retrospective since the album's original release. Photographs by Armando Gallo and Richard Haines round out what’s genuinely shaping up to be one of the definitive archival reissues of any classic prog record.
Yes, it took far too long. But for something this meticulous, that’s almost fitting.
