The Nephilim (album)
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| Studio album by Fields of the Nephilim | ||||
| Released | September 1988 | |||
| Recorded | 1988 | |||
| Genre | Gothic rock | |||
| Length | 55:23 | |||
| Label | Situation Two/Beggars Banquet | |||
| Producer | Fields of the Nephilim | |||
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| Allmusic |   |
| Pitchfork Media | (6.4/10.0) |
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 "The Watchman" and "Last Exit for the Lost" reference H. P. Lovecraft's character Cthulhu.
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