Fields of the nephilim :mourning sun review

Silence is platinum · 21 Oct 2005, 08:50

Just got a copy of the promo edition, so let s see what s on it

1 shroud : deep synths a bit distorded vocals, good opening track
2 straight to the light : this is definitely the single of the album, fast pace without sounding too heavy, the bass line comes straight from psychonaut though, one for the dancefloor
3 new gold dream :another fast pace song but somehow i found it not very interesting, sounds like somehting you already heard a dozen times before(and not only by the nephs)
4requiem :"at the gates of silent memory" guitar but very nice vocals and very nice synthes towards the end, an excelent track
5 xiberia :fast pace again, almost a bit industrial, distorted vocals, the nephs go electro!! another dancefloor filler, great stuff
6 she : this is worth all the years of waiting alone, Mc Coy at his absolute best ,can t stop listening to it, A MASTERPIECE and nothing less, 9:24 of heaven
7 mourning sun : another great track , ends up the album perfectly, after
"she" my favourite track

So was it worth the wait ? Y E S!!!!

canon docre · 21 Oct 2005, 09:02

maybe you're right, but the production is utterly bad. Never heard a thinner sound on something which isn't supposed to be a demo tape. (as I stated elswhere already)

Norman Hunter · 21 Oct 2005, 10:10

What about "In The Year 2525", or the video clip? Or have you not got that version?

...Roll on November 11

Silence is platinum · 21 Oct 2005, 11:02

i only got a cd r of the promo, the original promo in a few days

, but i think it dosent include those two

Erudite · 21 Oct 2005, 13:15

canon docre wrote:maybe you're right, but the production is utterly bad. Never heard a thinner sound on something which isn't supposed to be a demo tape. (as I stated elswhere already)

I thought the production was pretty good...

As an album I have to say I like it as a whole.
She is definitely the standout track.

I'm curious as to what the live incarnation of the band will sound like.

Silence is platinum · 21 Oct 2005, 16:50

i think too that the production is pretty good

DeWinter · 21 Oct 2005, 22:32

Ugh..I'm afraid I found it a little disappointing.A hell of a lot of cut/copy/paste from past work going on here,and yes,the production is very bad indeed.
"Straight into the light" and "New God Dawn" sound a lot like the sound NFD do,but the clearly sampled guitars,bad vocoder.and amateur drum machine just don't sound right.
Xiberia is ultra-cheesy industrial.I expect it to be a big hit in German Goth-clubs therefore,despite being appallingly bad.
Requiem is good,but if you bear in mind that it's "At the gates of silent memory" with different vocals and added thunderstorm,it looses a lot of that attraction.
"She and "Mourning Sun" are stunning however,and that's so frustrating.It COULD have been the awe-inspiring album Neff fans have waited nearly a decade for,but it falls way short of what I was expecting.=(

Delilah · 25 Oct 2005, 12:30

DeWinter wrote: "Straight into the light" and "New God Dawn" sound a lot like the sound NFD do,

Carl said he hasn't heard NFD yet., So it may be a coincidence.

25 Oct 2005, 12:42

i think that "sound" (the neff one for those 2 tracks and the one nfd have) is a fairly obvious evolution of the elyzium sound.

being as nfd have the orignal neff bassist/songwriter amongst their number, and a singer who vocally may as well be carl, it isnt no surprise that they sound like each other

and i'm sure that with nfd its entrirly deliberate.

whilst the neff stuff is slightly more involved as far as ambient fx and sytnh pads go, the nfd album benefits from better production and better drums (real ones suit "the nephilim sound" more and are bigger & more spontaneous than carl's sequenced and looped sampled drums...)

who'd have thought 10 years ago that we woudl have twice as much nephilim stuff to listen too from 2 diff sources