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Fields of the Nephilim – Chord of Souls
Lasciamo che il solstizio ci saluti con la sua immane potenza buia.
Fields Of The Nephilim – 1986 concert – Croydon Underground Club
Un concerto dei primi giorni dei Nephilim, non primissimi ma certo antecedenti al successo di culto che hanno avuto poi. Impressiona la potenza, la chiarezza esecutiva, il buio che già sapevano perfettamente evocare, prima che uscisse il loro primo album…
Sumerland: Press: McCoy on Austin Osman Spare from “AOS: A Celebration”
Dal web spunta una vecchia intervista di Andrew Collins a Carl McCoy dei FieldsNephilim, in cui racconta della genesi occulta dei suoi lavori, in particolare di Elizium, in cui le idee dell’occultista Austin Osman Spare hanno guidato la realizzazione dei capolavori oscuri e ipnotici della band. Un significativo estratto (in inglese):
For me, the love affair with Fields of the Nephilim goes back to one night in 1988. I recall watching Top of the Pops and seeing the promo video for Moonchild, which had just entered the Top 30. The snarling jaws of hell-hounds, combined with shimmering scenes in black and white showing shrouded spirits, ritual paraphernalia and occult invocation, left me transfixed. I didn’t know who these people were, but felt I needed to listen to their records, find out what made them tick. I became acquainted with the Nephilim’s front man and composer Carl McCoy, unquestionably the driving force behind this fascinating musical phenomenon. Carl subsequently read and was impressed by my book The Black Alchemist, released that same year, and since then we have remained friends.
How did this affinity begin?
“I found Spare by chance — It was mainly through references to William Blake, John Dee, the chaos current and, of course, art.”
Was it the art that captivated you, or the man himself?
“Somehow, the symbolism struck. We were of a like mind. His writings and interpretation of evocation were something I understood totally, and there are not many people that I have found who really shine. Spare used a language that is very old — partly words of phonetic emotions, but more than anything it was his symbolism, which balanced it out to fill in the gaps of what he attempted to explain.
“Spare needed the sigils and the art to come together as a magical language. His style was able to help me in what I did as far as understanding and interpreting the whole current, and the spiritual instinct that surrounds us. He tried to explain that which is not dimensional, and he did it perfectly.”Are you saying that it was through loneliness that Spare achieved his goals?
“No, he was a person that lived a solitary lifestyle. He wasn’t lonely because of the whole spiritual entity that surrounded him. He never felt lonely, he didn’t need help.”
The Rise Of The Black Legion [Climactic Mix 2020] – XII
Il nuovo lavoro – non è nuovo, in realtà, perché è un excpert di un disco di un lustro fa – di John ‘Capachino’ Carter, ex testa pensante dei FieldsNephilim e dei Nefilim. Niente male, no?
Fields of the Nephilim website intro, 2003
Una vecchia videointro al sito dei FieldsNephilim, creepy e in linea con il mood della band.
Fields Of The Nephilim – Live NACA, Washington 20.02.88
Dal continuo riemergere del tempo, una vecchia ospitata dei Nephilim alla TV USA, con tutto lo splendore oscuro e ruvido, potente, che evocavano.
Fields Of The Nephilim – Trivia – Metal Storm
Alcune curiosità su Carl McCoy e Fields Nephilim. Su MetalStorm.
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.
Fields of the Nephilim – At The Gates… (live at DarkMad Festival, Madrid 26 Oct 2019)
Di un anno fa, questa splendida versione di At the gates of silent memory, al momento ultima esecuzione live anche dei Fields of the Nephilim. Splendore oscuro…
Fields of the Nephilim – Autumn Moon festival 12102018 Equinox – Earthbound – YouTube
Quando l’oscurità prende le redini e ti porta irresistibilmente via, sulle ali di un’ipnosi siderale.
