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For anybody who may have missed it Zoon is being rerealesed on vinyl .. with extra tracks:

https://shop.beggarsarkive.com/format/1 ... ed-edition

Fields of the Nephilim will also be appearing at Tomorrow's Ghost Festival Whitby in 2025..... after a long wait.

Hopefully some euro dates will follow.
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The extra tracks are underwhelming, I have the original cd and I'll buy the reissue but not interested in getting it on vinyl . Good news about potencial new gigs though.
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I love Zoon - it's my all-time favourite record.

I'd love to get this new set as my OG album and 12" are buggered. Sigh.
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Have the original cd. Btw, is there active FotN forum? or is THIS it? Love the band.
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Phobia wrote: ↑04 Nov 2024, 14:51 Have the original cd. Btw, is there active FotN forum? or is THIS it? Love the band.
There used to be Dawnrazor... it was 'active" last year but since then it seems to have closed down. Shame.

Incidentally I'm looking for bootlegs from more recent shows. Anybody any info and I'd be very gratefull.
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I am also looking for live bootlegs. I lost my archive in a crash and would love to get it back.

sadly, the Dawnrazor forum is indeed MIA
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Gaijin wrote: ↑08 Nov 2024, 14:29 I am also looking for live bootlegs. I lost my archive in a crash and would love to get it back.

sadly, the Dawnrazor forum is indeed MIA
I have a few.... up to 2011. If you want send me your email via messages and I can Wetransfer them.
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Shame they didn’t include Chaocracy from the Beggars Banquet ’Deafening Divinities’ compilation. A solid track imho and was a glimpse into how the ‘ph’ was hardening into an ‘f’.
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hellboy69 wrote: ↑09 Nov 2024, 11:11 Shame they didn’t include Chaocracy from the Beggars Banquet ’Deafening Divinities’ compilation. A solid track imho and was a glimpse into how the ‘ph’ was hardening into an ‘f’.
I believe Subsanity from Fallen is also a Nefilim out-take.

There are also demos of some of the album tracks in the wild which include alternate takes: Chaos, Sensorium and a very metal Zoon. There is the unreleased track Red 777 too.
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Gaijin wrote: ↑08 Nov 2024, 14:29 I am also looking for live bootlegs. I lost my archive in a crash and would love to get it back.

sadly, the Dawnrazor forum is indeed MIA
Wot, no backups ?
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https://web.archive.org/web/20230831005 ... .uk/forum/ ... :wink: ...
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Gaijin wrote: ↑09 Nov 2024, 14:45
hellboy69 wrote: ↑09 Nov 2024, 11:11 Shame they didn’t include Chaocracy from the Beggars Banquet ’Deafening Divinities’ compilation. A solid track imho and was a glimpse into how the ‘ph’ was hardening into an ‘f’.
I believe Subsanity from Fallen is also a Nefilim out-take.

There are also demos of some of the album tracks in the wild which include alternate takes: Chaos, Sensorium and a very metal Zoon. There is the unreleased track Red 777 too.
Absolutely bang on, i used to have Nef demos on a cd-r. Was lucky to see the London Astoria show, Simon Rippin is a great drummer.

And thanks for the webarchive link @Being645
Still got my Threads of the Nephilim forum t-shirt somewhere! :D
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A question ... Chord Of Souls - is it eyes, eyes, eyes eyes - or ice, ice, ice, ice .... ????
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Andy W wrote: ↑10 Nov 2024, 21:20 A question ... Chord Of Souls - is it eyes, eyes, eyes eyes - or ice, ice, ice, ice .... ????
Ice -
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seeing those pages again reminded me that I lost my XII files too.
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The Zoon remaster sounds fantastic. I've been listening to it on my commute since it came out. Xodus sounds like what I assume a heart attack feels like. It is relentless, and the bass just pounds in my chest at high volume. Glorious.
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sultan2075 wrote: ↑17 Dec 2024, 16:51 The Zoon remaster sounds fantastic. I've been listening to it on my commute since it came out. Xodus sounds like what I assume a heart attack feels like. It is relentless, and the bass just pounds in my chest at high volume. Glorious.
Thanks for reminding me, I need to pick this up. My original cd has always been on the quiet side.
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Is this actually remastered? Is Penetration incomplete as per the OG CD?

I can see the files on a p2p network and they are the same size as the originals.

It would be unlikely that the album gets a remaster and is not brickwalled; said process would increase their file size noticeably . So I am inclined to believe these are original masters.

I'll download Penetration and the 12" bsides and compare.

Edit: Penetration is complete as per the original vinyl release. Nice.
The digital release is not brickwalled and I suspect the release is not remastered. No mention is made of this on the Beggars Arkive site either.
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Gaijin wrote: ↑18 Dec 2024, 13:16 Is this actually remastered? Is Penetration incomplete as per the OG CD?

I can see the files on a p2p network and they are the same size as the originals.

It would be unlikely that the album gets a remaster and is not brickwalled; said process would increase their file size noticeably . So I am inclined to believe these are original masters.

I'll download Penetration and the 12" bsides and compare.

Edit: Penetration is complete as per the original vinyl release. Nice.
The digital release is not brickwalled and I suspect the release is not remastered. No mention is made of this on the Beggars Arkive site either.
For what it's worth, it sounds vastly better to my ears than the old version; vocals seem more prominent, for instance, and there seems to be a more pronounced bottom-end, but maybe that's just my car. Apple Music claims it is remastered - it's titled Zoon [Expanded Edition] but every track has the words "(2024 Remaster)" added to the title.
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sultan2075 wrote: ↑18 Dec 2024, 15:07
Gaijin wrote: ↑18 Dec 2024, 13:16 Is this actually remastered? Is Penetration incomplete as per the OG CD?

I can see the files on a p2p network and they are the same size as the originals.

It would be unlikely that the album gets a remaster and is not brickwalled; said process would increase their file size noticeably . So I am inclined to believe these are original masters.

I'll download Penetration and the 12" bsides and compare.

Edit: Penetration is complete as per the original vinyl release. Nice.
The digital release is not brickwalled and I suspect the release is not remastered. No mention is made of this on the Beggars Arkive site either.
For what it's worth, it sounds vastly better to my ears than the old version; vocals seem more prominent, for instance, and there seems to be a more pronounced bottom-end, but maybe that's just my car. Apple Music claims it is remastered - it's titled Zoon [Expanded Edition] but every track has the words "(2024 Remaster)" added to the title.
At least it is available again. 😎
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Never owned it on vinyl back in the day, so it was nice to get the re-issue this time around.
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I finally got around to a comparison. I dropped Shine into a wave editor and both CD pressings are identical.

This is good news for those that don't own the original media.
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Another FOTN question. I have the old 2LP 45 album The Nephilim. Has anybody compared this to the reissue (Gold) vinyl?
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You lucky chap. I have always wanted one of the 45rpm remasters.

Instead, I went for the US 33rpm version.
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I have the gold reissue but not the original 2x45. The reissue includes Shiva and the Psychonaut tracks, so they're clearly different sources.
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