Fields Of The Nephilim – ‘The Nephilim’ CD

Fields of the Nephilim is an English gothic rock band formed in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, in 1984. The band’s name refers to a Biblical race of angel-human hybrids known as the Nephilim.

‘The Nephilim’ is the second studio album by Fields of the Nephilim, released in September 1988 by Situation Two/Beggars Banquet Records.

The album was recorded in The Justice Rooms, a former courthouse in England’s Somerset countryside where defendants who were sentenced to death were hanged on site. “The place had a really cool vibe,” recalls bassist Tony Pettitt.

The Nephilim’s opening track, ‘Endemoniada,’ shares its name with a 1968 Mexican horror film and features a man growling “penitenziagite!”, sampled from Ron Perlman’s hunchback character, Salvatore, in ‘The Name of the Rose.’

The album’s top-charting single, ‘Moonchild,’ shares its name with Aleister Crowley’s novel, while ‘Love Under Will’ is a phrase from Crowley’s ‘Book of the Law.’ The lyrics for ‘The Watchman’ and ‘Last Exit for the Lost’ reference H. P. Lovecraft’s character Cthulhu.