Fields Of The Nephilim – 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 record debuted at number 12 in the UK album charts.

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.

2LP, GATEFOLD, PRESSED ON GOLD VINYL