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Music : Dawnrazor
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- Not a review, but...
Hi everyone. This is not a review, as I have far too much wine in my system for that, but I'm just listening to some old Neph and came on here to see if I had possibly missed something over the years that could provide me with a new fix. However, I have to take issue with the person who said;
"....But then PLEASE don't cry out that Carl couldn't sing - we all knew he couldnt sing a note but with such a tense musical atmosphere so what?! Think of Carl's voice as 'vocals' in the true sense of the word!"
Now, no offence, but... Mr. McCoy's singing is perfect for the band and always was. Listen again to this album and tell me again that Mr.McCoy can't sing. He has more passion in his bottom lip than Wayne Hussey, et al have in their souls. Singing is surely more about expression of the soul and deliverance of said, rather than the ability to hold a note for ten seconds. No-one else, not even one of my personal gods, Mr Andrew Taylor, (nay Eldritch), could have carried this album and made it the classic it was, and is.
One of the highlights of my teens was seeing TFOTN play at Leeds Uni somewhere arounf 1990 and promoting this album. I was around 18 at the time and have seen hundreds of gigs since, but this still holds a special place in both my heart and soul.
Rating: - The Voice Of Darkness Rising - A Jolt For Mr Jealousy
Until the Fields Of The Nephilim entered the forum, Sisters Of Mercy stood alone as the flag bearer of the deepest, darkest and most intense style of music ever; Dawnrazor is a magnificent album for so many reasons, not the least because it proved the Fields' were no pretenders to the throne, but the new voice of a movement that was becoming susceptible to stagnation and decay, after so short a time. The album rips open the gates of Hell with it's cruel, followed by the equally chilling Slow Kill, like steel nails on a blackboard; Laura II (well... Laura) cries tears of blood into a pool of apathy and stirs the soul with empathy for defeated hope. Conversely, the vitality of such songs as Preacher Man, Volcane, Power and Reanimator are all-consuming; this album is lyrically terrifying and musically haunting, tormenting and so delightfully different to anything that went before.
Carl McCoy presents himself as the Pale Rider and the voice of absolution, to the accompaniment of grating, churning guitars and the slow, insistence of a relentless drum beat, to create an entirely unique sound, especially with such sudden death classics as Power and, of course Dawnrazor itself. Debut albums either make or break a band - Dawnrazor made Fields Of The Nephilim one of the most imposing and innovative Goth bands of all time.
Rating: - Classic Goth
Fields of the Nephilim will forever be remembered for being one of the last great English Goth bands of the 80s/90s. They had already been releasing EPs before they finally managed to get signed up to Beggars Banquet and release a studio album.
Although this is their first album it was already a slight change of direction. Their sax played was gone and a second guitarist had been drafted in. The world was ready for The Nephilims domination...only it wasn't was it! However for me this album defines my early teenage years (I was 15 when it was released and it joined my collection of other classic 80s goth instantly).
The opening strains of The Harmonica Man (taken from Once Upon a Time in the West) still make me think back to over half a lifetime to sitting in my bed room listening to this on LP - which didn't even have half of the tracks on here.
The music drifts in and out of raw industrial goth and nice happy clean 80s goth - the power of tracks like Preacher Man has rearly been repeated in goth music over the last 20 years.
Everyone who knows the Nephilim knows that the vocals are excatly that - they are vocal noise. However they juxtapose the quality of the musical backing perfectly and we wouldn't have had it any other way (which explains the demise of Rubicon really).
If you like 80s goth (or the harder end of the new wave modern goth stuff) then this is essential listening. I'm giving it 10/10 as I am hopelessly biased, as this music is part of who I am!
Rating:
- "Black, black, black, black, blacker still..."
I was given this album (on cassette) second hand, a few weeks after its UK release: my friend (who lived in the woods in the middle of nowhere) said that it made him feel too scared to listen at night. Clearly a rather over- sensitive soul himself, he felt that I might like it better.
I did. This is the Nephilim in their most goth-rock phase, with a guitar-dominated sound and a rough edge that had almost wholly disappeared from their studio work by the time the excellent "Elyzium" was released.
There is no doubting the highlight of the album for the neophyte Nephilim listener: track 4, "Preacher Man". With a driving, stomping pace and instrumentation and scoring that lets you know what Goth contry music would sound like, you can be sure "Hank didn'never done it this way". An anti-anthem for the scene at the time, it was shamelessly crowd-pleasing, but has kept its edge wonderfully. Even New Musical Express gave it a good review at the time, and they were notoriously dismissive of this band.
Other tracks vary, and the band is clearly finding their feet in the album medium, after dalliances with releasing EPs. Dawnrazor is as gloriously overblown a track as they produced, and stands alongside "This Corrosion" as a monument to wonderful excess. Laura II sits at the other extreme, and there is no point hiding the fact that some songs can be harder work than others. Your mileage may vary.
In general, though, if atmospheric rock from the "High Goth" period of the second half of the 80's is your thing, then you will love this track. For comparison, it stands closest in feel to the Sisters' "First and Last and Always": some instantly catchy, accessible tracks and others which repay effort.
Rating: - Classic opening
The first time I heard this was on vinyl when first released (1987/8?) - the opening sequence pulled me in and another Sisters addict became a follower of the Nephilim ( as well as the Mish and continuing love affairs with Souxsie and NMA)
Buy it, put on your headphones and close your eyes and experience this music...
....But then PLEASE don't cry out that Carl couldn't sing - we all knew he couldnt sing a note but with such a tense musical atmosphere so what?! Think of Carl's voice as 'vocals' in the true sense of the word!
- Not a review, but...Hi everyone. This is not a review, as I have far too much wine in my system for that, but I'm just listening to some old Neph and came on here to see if I had possibly missed something over the years that could provide me with a new fix. However, I have to take issue with the person who said;
"....But then PLEASE don't cry out that Carl couldn't sing - we all knew he couldnt sing a note but with such a tense musical atmosphere so what?! Think of Carl's voice as 'vocals' in the true sense of the word!"
Now, no offence, but... Mr. McCoy's singing is perfect for the band and always was. Listen again to this album and tell me again that Mr.McCoy can't sing. He has more passion in his bottom lip than Wayne Hussey, et al have in their souls. Singing is surely more about expression of the soul and deliverance of said, rather than the ability to hold a note for ten seconds. No-one else, not even one of my personal gods, Mr Andrew Taylor, (nay Eldritch), could have carried this album and made it the classic it was, and is.
One of the highlights of my teens was seeing TFOTN play at Leeds Uni somewhere arounf 1990 and promoting this album. I was around 18 at the time and have seen hundreds of gigs since, but this still holds a special place in both my heart and soul.
Rating:
- The Voice Of Darkness Rising - A Jolt For Mr JealousyUntil the Fields Of The Nephilim entered the forum, Sisters Of Mercy stood alone as the flag bearer of the deepest, darkest and most intense style of music ever; Dawnrazor is a magnificent album for so many reasons, not the least because it proved the Fields' were no pretenders to the throne, but the new voice of a movement that was becoming susceptible to stagnation and decay, after so short a time. The album rips open the gates of Hell with it's cruel, followed by the equally chilling Slow Kill, like steel nails on a blackboard; Laura II (well... Laura) cries tears of blood into a pool of apathy and stirs the soul with empathy for defeated hope. Conversely, the vitality of such songs as Preacher Man, Volcane, Power and Reanimator are all-consuming; this album is lyrically terrifying and musically haunting, tormenting and so delightfully different to anything that went before.
Carl McCoy presents himself as the Pale Rider and the voice of absolution, to the accompaniment of grating, churning guitars and the slow, insistence of a relentless drum beat, to create an entirely unique sound, especially with such sudden death classics as Power and, of course Dawnrazor itself. Debut albums either make or break a band - Dawnrazor made Fields Of The Nephilim one of the most imposing and innovative Goth bands of all time.
Rating:
- Classic GothFields of the Nephilim will forever be remembered for being one of the last great English Goth bands of the 80s/90s. They had already been releasing EPs before they finally managed to get signed up to Beggars Banquet and release a studio album.
Although this is their first album it was already a slight change of direction. Their sax played was gone and a second guitarist had been drafted in. The world was ready for The Nephilims domination...only it wasn't was it! However for me this album defines my early teenage years (I was 15 when it was released and it joined my collection of other classic 80s goth instantly).
The opening strains of The Harmonica Man (taken from Once Upon a Time in the West) still make me think back to over half a lifetime to sitting in my bed room listening to this on LP - which didn't even have half of the tracks on here.
The music drifts in and out of raw industrial goth and nice happy clean 80s goth - the power of tracks like Preacher Man has rearly been repeated in goth music over the last 20 years.
Everyone who knows the Nephilim knows that the vocals are excatly that - they are vocal noise. However they juxtapose the quality of the musical backing perfectly and we wouldn't have had it any other way (which explains the demise of Rubicon really).
If you like 80s goth (or the harder end of the new wave modern goth stuff) then this is essential listening. I'm giving it 10/10 as I am hopelessly biased, as this music is part of who I am!
Rating:
- "Black, black, black, black, blacker still..."I was given this album (on cassette) second hand, a few weeks after its UK release: my friend (who lived in the woods in the middle of nowhere) said that it made him feel too scared to listen at night. Clearly a rather over- sensitive soul himself, he felt that I might like it better.
I did. This is the Nephilim in their most goth-rock phase, with a guitar-dominated sound and a rough edge that had almost wholly disappeared from their studio work by the time the excellent "Elyzium" was released.
There is no doubting the highlight of the album for the neophyte Nephilim listener: track 4, "Preacher Man". With a driving, stomping pace and instrumentation and scoring that lets you know what Goth contry music would sound like, you can be sure "Hank didn'never done it this way". An anti-anthem for the scene at the time, it was shamelessly crowd-pleasing, but has kept its edge wonderfully. Even New Musical Express gave it a good review at the time, and they were notoriously dismissive of this band.
Other tracks vary, and the band is clearly finding their feet in the album medium, after dalliances with releasing EPs. Dawnrazor is as gloriously overblown a track as they produced, and stands alongside "This Corrosion" as a monument to wonderful excess. Laura II sits at the other extreme, and there is no point hiding the fact that some songs can be harder work than others. Your mileage may vary.
In general, though, if atmospheric rock from the "High Goth" period of the second half of the 80's is your thing, then you will love this track. For comparison, it stands closest in feel to the Sisters' "First and Last and Always": some instantly catchy, accessible tracks and others which repay effort.
Rating:
- Classic openingThe first time I heard this was on vinyl when first released (1987/8?) - the opening sequence pulled me in and another Sisters addict became a follower of the Nephilim ( as well as the Mish and continuing love affairs with Souxsie and NMA)
Buy it, put on your headphones and close your eyes and experience this music...
....But then PLEASE don't cry out that Carl couldn't sing - we all knew he couldnt sing a note but with such a tense musical atmosphere so what?! Think of Carl's voice as 'vocals' in the true sense of the word!