Released September 1988 Genre Gothic rock Producer Fields of the Nephilim | Recorded 1988 Length 55:23 | |
Label Situation Two/Beggars Banquet | ||
The Nephilim is the second studio album by Fields of the Nephilim, was 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 “penitentziagitae!,” 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. The lyrics for "Moonchild" and "Last Exit for the Lost" reference H. P. Lovecraft's character Cthulhu.
Track listing
- "Endemoniada" – 7:15
- "The Watchmen" – 5:31
- "Phobia" – 3:37
- "Moonchild" – 5:40
- "Chord of Souls" – 5:08
- "Shiva" – 4:50
- "Celebrate" – 6:23
- "Love Under Will" – 7:08
- "Last Exit for the Lost" – 9:42