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| The Nephilim | 
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| Artist: Fields Of The Nephilim
Label: Beggars UK - Ada
Category: Music
List Price: $11.98
Buy New: $8.54
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Avg. Customer Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 53290
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
UPC: 607618002220
EAN: 0607618002220
ASIN: B00000189D
Release Date: December 9, 1997
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Doomsday's my kinda day! March 17, 2000
2 out of 11 found this review helpful
It's 1983 and I'm totally into this gothic thang. Black clothes, long dirty hair, you know the works.... Now it's 2000, the start of a new Millennium (Robbie Williams! Robbie Williams!) and I'm still totally goth, man. I mean, I pulled my teeth and had 'em replaced by steel razorblades... And then just the other day I picked up this FOTN album, Nephilim, which is totally awesome. Takes me wwooossh... right back to 1983, like a back to the future ride in Universal Studios, man. Awesome. Endemoniada, I mean how great can a 4+ minute intro get? Not better than this, I tell you, although the 12" version of Prince's Scandalous comes close. You remember Prince right? This Gothic hero of the '80's? You remember the 80's right? I mean, I'm sooooo 80's, unlike Katja Schuurman who is so90's on MTV Europe. Anybody been watchin' her, this Gothic princess of darkness? She's totally awesome, too bad they fired her at MTV. Goth rules forever OK!
creating their own mythology... February 19, 2000
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I had first read about Nephilim in Thrasher, back in the late eighties. When the album, "Nephilim," had come out a few years later, I was eager to hear what changes they had made from "Dawnrazor." I was not disappointed. Fields of the Nephilim had and continued to create an awesome view of several mythologies rolled into "spaghetti western"-like epics serving as songs. The combining of pseudo-religious material with a haunting western sound, gives the listener a sense of foreshadowing and premonition, even though you might not have a clue as to what is being forecast...I derive immense inspiration from all of the Fields of the Nephilim catalog when I'm painting, but this disc has the most plays in my studio...
A Timeless masterpiece that will forever remain August 23, 2005
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Back in 1988 was when I first heard this album I became instantly addicted to the soundscape & atmosphere that the Nephilim created on this record. I still love it now in 2005 and can honestly say that the album sounds just as good now as it did back in 1988!. The originality of the songs and sounds on this awesome record make it so unique and I do not think any other band will come along in my life time and make such an impression as did the nephilim. A Classic on it's own!
A hell of a good universe next door October 23, 1998
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I have owned this album since its release those many moons ago. It is still my all-time favourite musical work. Godlike, engulfing, beautiful and bestial...this is snarling guitars, demonic vocals bass-baritone and divine with a growl that sets this apart from most Goth, and magick, pure magick. I was spellbound from the second I heard this, and have not yet escaped. A brilliant band, and this, I think, their best album. And the singer is quite shockingly attractive, too. I know that's irrelevant, but it can't hurt, right?
Original, Creative, Challenging & Ultimately Inspiring November 16, 1998
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
It's very simple. This is NOT a SISTERS OF MERCY (or ANY other) rip-off band. They are: ORIGINAL, CREATIVE, BRILLIANT, and always INTERESTING. These are things that are VERY tough things to find in today's "dime-a-dozen" music market, where too many bands sound the same. The tracks that caught my ear (and brain) are: ENDEMONIADA, MOONCHILD and LAST EXIT FOR THE LOST. Each song has it's own MYSTIQUE, and FLAVOUR.ENDEMONIADA (track 1) has 4 1/2 minutes of "intro," a definite rarity. It creeps under your skin, and doesn't leave. Nothing is overdone, the guitars, drums, bass, and vocals all share an equal portion of the song, with no stepping on eachother's toes. MOONCHILD (track 4) has a rather EERIE beginning, that reminds me of laying in a grave yard, and having the fog glide over my eyes, but that soon goes away as the trees begin to collapse upon you. LAST EXIT FOR THE LOST (track 9) is simply MAGNIFICENT. Being nearly 10 minutes ISN'T LONG ENOUGH. It's haunting overtones are unforgetable, and his [Carl McCoy] vocals are soft spoken rather eliquently. I LITERALLY could go on about each song, but I won't. Carl McCoy's lyrics are VERY well thought out, and MUST be payed attention to. If you don't listen to the lyrics, you are missing 70% of the experience of this piece. Although it was released back in 1988, no other album I have heard has stood the test of time so well. It's ageless, utterly graceful, and blindingly beautiful.
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