I guess this is the case with many genius albums. At first glance you dont like it, but it has something that you cannot describe, that pulls you into it more and more. And the more you listen, the more you enjoy and appreciate it, to the moment you cant live without it.
@The V word I m sure he means that if you were a devoted FotN fan back then, this would seem very different, very raw, very "metal" (we re talking for goth (although the term was nonexistend back then) /post punk fans). But this album is so much more, and McCoy here deliberately uses this sound to tell the story. Its a story of total darkness, betrayal, destruction and godly vengeance.
@@mitsmann8024 I heard this before I ever heard of FOTN.. so when I bought my first FOTN album.. I hated it.. cause I expected something similar to this album.
Thank you so much for keeping this alive on your channel. I have lost the physical CD of this that I had as a teenager and it means a lot that I can listen to it here after so long. Very grateful.
That crafty Carl snuck this up on me. I already knew over half of it, like Shine, Xodus, Penetration, even '3'Wake World is very familiar. Searched for Shine, convinced it was somewhere other than Ceromonies. Surprise Surprise. Yeh and it already hurts to be me, am old and decrepid, this is Hell, disguised as a dying world. Love you too Carl and Neph.
This album is in my top 5 of best albums ever and when I first heard it I thought "whaaaaaat Fields ?" then it grew on me and with this one album they defined an entire genre.
I heard this album in its entirety on the radio when it was first released, at a time when thrash metal had long fallen out of fashion, death metal had been done to death, and the second-wave Norwegian black metal was descending into cartoon territory. I was transfixed the moment this song started in with a brief bit of ambient noise, and then faded into that rolling, turbulent thunder of drums and strange, mechanical riffs. Perhaps a strange listening experience for Fields of the Nephilim fans (who I've sometimes heard accusing this album of being "too metal"), and metal fans, who seem to find the gothic metal-made-by-gothic-rockers approach to gothic metal a bit weird and off-kilter at first - this album draws from a very different side of the gothic metal equation that the usual gothic metal approach that deconstructs a European death or black metal base and draws from Celtic Frost and maybe Candlemass with hints of Pink Floyd and Sisters of Mercy and Christian Death: Nefilim's gothic metal sounds like it builds from a Fields of the Nephilim base, and incorporates elements of perhaps Ministry and Nine Inch Nails, and maybe Slayer, for a layer of industrial and thrash metal on top of a gloomy gothic skeleton. Nothing else out there, other than later Fields of the Nephilim, quite sounds like this, and even then, Fields of the Nephilim never sounded this angry, direct, and defiant. But, it didn't take long to sell me on this album: I almost never recorded anything from the radio in those days, but for some reason I recorded this album, and realized before the first song "Xodus" ended that I had found something special: I listened and relistened to the album a few times that night, then immediately ran out to buy the album right afterward, recommending it to everyone who would listen. It's brilliant stuff, and playlists well with Tiamat, Cemetary, Green Carnation, My Dying Bride, Theatre of Tragedy, Emperor, Ghe Gathering, and other great European and British gothic metal and gothic doom bands from the mid '90s, plus the likes of the Quake video game soundtrack by Nine Inch Nails. Highly recommended for Fields of the Nephilim fans who might not have quite gotten this albumin the '90s and are willing to give it a second chance, and to adventurous gothic metal fans who are looking for something off the beaten gothic metal track. This is a brilliant, well-crafted album, and surprisingly different from anything else out there, and quite diverse by any standards, with songs that range in sound from something like gloomy Fields of the Nephilim gothic/psychedelic rock fare that could appeal to fans of the Doors and Pink Floyd alike, to bizarre experimental/prog metal with complicated, epic-length songs (the title track in its multiple parts), to furious industrial/death/thrash metal tracks like the closely-linked "Still Life"/"Xodus" opener! Try to track down the singles from this album, if you like what you hear in "Still Life"/"Xodus": the singles consist of a couple industrial remixes of these songs, and a longer ambient noise track built from the same textures as the album's interludes... they're as bizarre as anything on this album, but sound great alongside the album, and ought to make quite nice bonus tracks on some future special edition re-release....
No matter what year this is heard, Carl McCoy's mastermind will always be a bit overwhelming ... Simply brilliant.
Yeah it's Timeless!" 👍🎶🔑
Saw them on tour at Leeds in 96 whilst I was heavily pregnant my unborn son as kicking away as I listened to this xxx
I hated this album at first but the more I listened to it the more it convinced me it's an absolute work of genius.
Soo me two, took me five years to appreciate it and seeing the genius, guess i was disapointed that it wasn't FOTM any more.
I guess this is the case with many genius albums. At first glance you dont like it, but it has something that you cannot describe, that pulls you into it more and more. And the more you listen, the more you enjoy and appreciate it, to the moment you cant live without it.
It's indeed a masterpiece of alluring darkness.
@The V word I m sure he means that if you were a devoted FotN fan back then, this would seem very different, very raw, very "metal" (we re talking for goth (although the term was nonexistend back then) /post punk fans). But this album is so much more, and McCoy here deliberately uses this sound to tell the story. Its a story of total darkness, betrayal, destruction and godly vengeance.
@@mitsmann8024 I heard this before I ever heard of FOTN.. so when I bought my first FOTN album.. I hated it.. cause I expected something similar to this album.
This is one of my favorite albums. Fields meets Ministry
a bit of Fear Factory/Slayer too
I hear some early Pitchshifter somewhere too
So underrated album this one 🤘🤘🤘 LOVE IT !
truly amazing album. I remember first listening to this in 1999. one of my all time fave releases.
Thank you so much for keeping this alive on your channel. I have lost the physical CD of this that I had as a teenager and it means a lot that I can listen to it here after so long. Very grateful.
Love this album, McCoy's vocals are the best.
Dead carry the dead... ashes remain... dust to dust... the Goth'est of Goth bands of the old days. Aye.
This opening track is amazing Metal Industrial Goth and lots more❤❤❤❤❤
That crafty Carl snuck this up on me. I already knew over half of it, like Shine, Xodus, Penetration, even '3'Wake World is very familiar. Searched for Shine, convinced it was somewhere other than Ceromonies. Surprise Surprise. Yeh and it already hurts to be me, am old and decrepid, this is Hell, disguised as a dying world. Love you too Carl and Neph.
This album is in my top 5 of best albums ever and when I first heard it I thought "whaaaaaat Fields ?" then it grew on me and with this one album they defined an entire genre.
@The V word Nope, just a "black ever-rolling Abyss" ;o)
@@SuperChoronzon STARLESS AND BLACK!" 👍🎶🔑
My favourite album of McCoy. I'm glad that "Prophecy" sounds like this
25 Years Now !!! Love it
I brought this album years ago thinking it was a black metal band of a similar name and liked it ever since
Well, it kinda is...heheh
one of the albums in the world
2022 brothers n sisters, still powering it up on my night off!
This sounds like the end of the world is coming I always get shivers when the drums kick in
still INCREDIBLE
ZOON meetings beat ZOOM meetings every time.
Brilliant comment! Totally agree!
Thanks for the posts!
Fantastico
Excellent 👍 j'ai l'album ⭐ ⭐ 🔺👽🔺👽🔺
Yeah great album
FKN TOO RITE!" 🤘🍄🗝🧩
I heard this album in its entirety on the radio when it was first released, at a time when thrash metal had long fallen out of fashion, death metal had been done to death, and the second-wave Norwegian black metal was descending into cartoon territory. I was transfixed the moment this song started in with a brief bit of ambient noise, and then faded into that rolling, turbulent thunder of drums and strange, mechanical riffs.
Perhaps a strange listening experience for Fields of the Nephilim fans (who I've sometimes heard accusing this album of being "too metal"), and metal fans, who seem to find the gothic metal-made-by-gothic-rockers approach to gothic metal a bit weird and off-kilter at first - this album draws from a very different side of the gothic metal equation that the usual gothic metal approach that deconstructs a European death or black metal base and draws from Celtic Frost and maybe Candlemass with hints of Pink Floyd and Sisters of Mercy and Christian Death: Nefilim's gothic metal sounds like it builds from a Fields of the Nephilim base, and incorporates elements of perhaps Ministry and Nine Inch Nails, and maybe Slayer, for a layer of industrial and thrash metal on top of a gloomy gothic skeleton. Nothing else out there, other than later Fields of the Nephilim, quite sounds like this, and even then, Fields of the Nephilim never sounded this angry, direct, and defiant.
But, it didn't take long to sell me on this album: I almost never recorded anything from the radio in those days, but for some reason I recorded this album, and realized before the first song "Xodus" ended that I had found something special: I listened and relistened to the album a few times that night, then immediately ran out to buy the album right afterward, recommending it to everyone who would listen.
It's brilliant stuff, and playlists well with Tiamat, Cemetary, Green Carnation, My Dying Bride, Theatre of Tragedy, Emperor, Ghe Gathering, and other great European and British gothic metal and gothic doom bands from the mid '90s, plus the likes of the Quake video game soundtrack by Nine Inch Nails. Highly recommended for Fields of the Nephilim fans who might not have quite gotten this albumin the '90s and are willing to give it a second chance, and to adventurous gothic metal fans who are looking for something off the beaten gothic metal track. This is a brilliant, well-crafted album, and surprisingly different from anything else out there, and quite diverse by any standards, with songs that range in sound from something like gloomy Fields of the Nephilim gothic/psychedelic rock fare that could appeal to fans of the Doors and Pink Floyd alike, to bizarre experimental/prog metal with complicated, epic-length songs (the title track in its multiple parts), to furious industrial/death/thrash metal tracks like the closely-linked "Still Life"/"Xodus" opener!
Try to track down the singles from this album, if you like what you hear in "Still Life"/"Xodus": the singles consist of a couple industrial remixes of these songs, and a longer ambient noise track built from the same textures as the album's interludes... they're as bizarre as anything on this album, but sound great alongside the album, and ought to make quite nice bonus tracks on some future special edition re-release....
Goth Metal 🖤🤘
Qlippothic!!
Never in wildest dreams I will imagine that this song is from the same band that produced sumerland
Real psycho(naut) shit
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