30th Anniversary Vinyl
Reissue Dark Green 180g Vinyl
Mastering by Geoff Pesche at Abbey Road
Limited Edition
Fields of the Nephilim mit ihrer besten Platte aus ihrer Hochphase 1990!
Die wurden ja immer gerne als Gothic Rock eingeordnet und mit Sisters of Mercy in einem Atemzug genannt, das ist aber nur die halbe Wahrheit und eigentlich nicht ganz richtig: bei den Fields hört man schon viele Elemente, die heute im sogenannten Post-Rock absolute Standards sind, cleane Picking Gitarren und weite Flächen in langen, mäandernden Songs oder die sparsam, aber effektiv eingesetzten Keyboards und eben auch diese dunkle, dichte Atmosphäre, ohne die moderner Black Metal heute völlig undenkbar wäre. Das alles bereits 1990! Fields of the Nephilim waren immer einzigartig und gerade diese Platte ist sehr gut gealtert, vielen Post-Rock oder Black Metal-Bands ist es heutzutage vermutlich nicht einmal bewusst, dass sie sich ästhetisch auf genau diese Platte beziehen.
Absoluter Meilenstein mit zeitlosen Hits für die Ewigkeit wie "For Her Light", "At the Gates of Silent Memory", "Sumerland (What Dreams May Come)" oder das wirklich unglaubliche "And There Will Your Heart Be Also".
Müsste ich eine TOP 25 Liste meiner Lieblingsplatten machen: diese wäre ziemlich sicher dabei.
Formed in 1984, Fields of the Nephilim is the creation of vocalist and front man Carl McCoy. Highly influential, especially in the world of goth, but also within the metal and electronic genres, their legacy endures to this day. You can hear their influence on bands like Swans, Godspeed! You Black Emperor, Explosions In The Sky, Wolves in The Throne Room, Behemoth and more. Carl McCoy has even been called the "Uncle" of black metal.
Beggars Arkive is happy to announce a 30th anniversary vinyl reissue of their third highly acclaimed album Elizium, out on December 11th, and originally released by Beggars Banquet in 1990. Recorded and produced by Pink Floyd engineer Andy Jackson, the audio is via analogue transfer to 96khz/24 bit by John Dent at Loud, with vinyl mastering by Geoff Pesche at Abbey Road. It's pressed on dark green vinyl.
The band's unique sound, an apocalyptic fusion of Victorian underworld meets Sergio Leone Spaghetti Western, had an appearance to match (wide-brimmed hats, long duster coats and cowboy boots, usually black and smothered in white flour as a substitute for dust), and set them apart from their contemporaries.
“When everything else failed me the Nephilim inspired me and gave me light in the darkness. As a musical vessel, we have never sold our soul or changed our tune to achieve major recognition. We always stood apart from everything else that was going on around us. The goth scene embraced us, but then so did many other scenes and subcultures. In the early days the audiences didn't know how to take us but that is why we did what we wanted to do and certainly were not interested in doing what other bands were doing.” - Carl McCoy
In a recent article on them, Popmatters wrote, “Named for a Biblical race of destructive giants born of human women and rebel angels, Fields of the Nephilim instead offered tightly forged cinematic vignettes crowded with graveyard atmosphere and crackling with analogue warmth. Their sound welded goth's flair for delicacy and theatrics with an undercurrent of metal's menace, crowned by frontman Carl McCoy's serrated baritone.”
Elizium is one of their most beautiful albums and considered by many to be their best. As The Quietus wrote, “it was both their most accessible and their most experimental work, concluding and consolidating the Nephilim's five-year shamanic journey. Lead-off single and opening track 'For Her Light' featured a lengthy mid-section that anticipated the apocalyptic post-rock of Godspeed! You Black Emperor (unsurprisingly, it failed to chart), and the album featured some of the band's hardest rock in the wah-overload of 'Submission,' as well as further incorporating dance elements - more successfully and organically than many of their peers, it must be said - on second single 'Sumerland'." Louder Sound also called "Sumerland" their "greatest ever track".
