Fields of the Nephilim: Classic or Dud?

SEIZE HIM!

http://justforaday.blogspot.com/2005/05/earth-inferno.html

Fields Of The Nephilim (well probably just Carl but he's using the old moniker) released a new album in November! No-one noticed! It's called, wait for it, Mourning Sun - quality play on words there (though I'd have gone with "Son"...).

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B000BR6FCE.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Anyway, it sounds like Fields Of The Nephilim! Only not as good, but still! Probably closer to Elizium than any of the earlier stuff. There's a limited edition that comes with a cover of In The Year 2525 that I've sadly yet to hear.

Anyway, if only for fond memories of them BLASTING MY FUCKING EARS OFF at the Mayfair - CLASSIC

Xiberia (Seasons in the ice cage)

So does the audience at a Fields of the Nephilim concert chant "Fields! Fields! Fields! Fields! Fields!" before the band steps on stage?

Good question. On another topic though, I was watching the video for Blue Water and wondering whether or not it puts paid to the idea that The Nef were never ironic or humourous. I mean, it begins with him hanging from a noose AND SINGING. Shortly afterwards he's in a big cannibal pot with some skull-masked chaps prnancing around him wildly - yet he's still singing the backing vocals. Then Jesus seems to be nailed up on the drumkit and ....etc etc. Sorry, can't take it seriously.

I'd imagine it's more along the lines of "Nephs! Nephs! Nephs.."

Better than the Mission, not as good as the Sisters of Mercy.

they are a lot better than the Mission (who, in retrospect, are near total rubbish). They were really hardcore about the doominess, which is of course a good thing.

I work with one of their daughters.

mr mccoy's daughter no less.

The one who had an album dedicated to her or the other one?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_McCoy

Listening to Earth Inferno again for the first time in 150 years, getting to Sumerland: oh god, THIS is where I recognized great post rock outfit Maserati's bass sound from!

yes that one... haha, didn't know about Zoon being dedicated to her. I know her fella fairly well too.

What I thought in '91 about Earth Inferno still stands: that 16 minute intro to Earth Inferno is ultra classic. The rest is also classic, but not that ultra :-)

I still love the whole thing. It's really kinda great.

I didn't say the rest was bad at all, just that I really really really like that intro.

They rock. You don't.

Sorry. I was just told I was overqualified for a job, so I'm intensely unpleasant to be around (more so than usual) at the moment.

No problem, you're right about them rocking and me not. And sorry to hear that.

"I've been around since Mooooses!" They don't write 'em like that these days, huh. hahaha I've never actually paid attention their lyrics until now. (and that's an elongated "Moses", not "mooses", btw. Great line regardless...)

I'm on such a weird goth kick this week. I dig The Nephilim out once every year or two, it seems, in a "lol high school goth fascination phase", and am surprised every time by how oddly affecting these guys are.

Take their haaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwses,
let em CRRAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWLLLLLL!!!

Go listen to the live version of "Dawnrazor" on Earth Inferno right now. DO IT!

Can't. Watching Sparks live show in London.

DON'T QUESTION MY DIRECTIVE, RAGGETT!

Just saying!

"FIELDS OF THE NEPHILIM will play special London shows at the Shepherds Bush Empire on July 12th and 13th. The shows will be themed; the first billed as 'Ad mortem' the second as 'Ad Vitam', and each will present a different take on the band's musical journey from the point of view of mood and setting. The shows will both be filmed for a forthcoming live DVD release."

hahahahah

baaderonixx otm

Depends on "mood and setting" I suppose - if one of the moods is "club singer" then I'd want to see the results

alright, i've stopped laughing. I heard a few songs off that "new" album of theirs and it is .. pretty good!

BigLurks OTM up there - this band is so weird. They should be hilarious failures and everything about them is so embarassing and yet so many of their songs are quite simply amazing

"LET US BEAR WITNESS!"

The stuff on A Life Less Lived is great!

You should really get Revelations, Dan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7F6AhVj7lHI

Can anyone explain what the heck they're doing on a North American Campus Activities Promo Tape?

lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHSgQpgNOO0

I see they are touring the US next year, but unclear who is in the band? I was never really a fan, I wrote them off as bad Sisters with a worse vocalist (based off only partly listening to these albums via a friend), but giving them a listen last night...I'm not sure my opinion was wrong, but I enjoyed it more than I expected to.

Did you see this poll from just a week back? Some good talk in there

Fields of the Nephilim - Revelations (a compilation album) poll

I did not, thank you