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The band has been influenced by the imagery and soundtrack of the spaghetti westerns of Sergio Leone. The band even uses Ennio Morricone‘s “Harmonica” as an intro for the album Dawnrazor. The inclusion of elements from Morricone‘s music has prompted Carl McCoy to jokingly refer to his band’s music as “Spaghetti Metal”.The song Psychonaut shares its title with the famous bible of Chaos Magick by Peter Carroll. A psychonaut is a person who uses intentionally induced altered states of consciousness to explore reality, consciousness and faith. Gnosis, the state that a psychonaut tries to achieve, can be induced using meditation, lucid dreaming or sensory deprivation. It can also be induced using psychedelic drugs, in which case it is called chemognosis.The infamous occult writer and magician Alisteir Crowley is sampled in the song “At The Gates Of Silent Memory” from the album Elizium. The recording comes from a wax cylinder recording done while Crowley was still alive.Sheer Faith, the graphics company responsible for all art associated with the Nephilim, is owned and supervised by Carl McCoy himself. Sheer Faith also works independently of the band and produces CGI effects for film and television, as well as online content.Robert Plant, of Led Zeppelin, has been quoted as saying that he is a big fan of the Fields Of The Nephilim.
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