Audio CD review:
Fields of the Nephilim - Mourning Sun

Fields of the Nephilim - Mourning Sun

Band: Fields of the Nephilim Title: Mourning Sun Rating: Release Date: 23 January, 2006 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: Shroud (Exordium) 2: Straight to the Light 3: New Gold Dawn 4: Requiem (Le Veilleur Silencieux) 5: Xiberia (Seasons in the Ice Cage) 6: She 7: Mourning Sun

Customer Reviews Very different Gothic music...... It's hard to litsen to in one sitting because it is so heavy, but you will never hear anything quite like this ever again. Although I am still unsure about this cd, I find it to be brilliant and very intriguing. . "In the Year 2525'" I like the original Zager and Evans version up till a point, but Carl's is really kickass. Carl's cover of "In the Year 2525" is my favorite thing on the album (it's leagues better than FotN's cover of Roxy Music's "In Every Dreamhome a Heartache"). At first, I found it out of place, but now prefer it to the rest of the album. If you read interviews with Carl, it is the astrological and prognosticative aspects of the song that appealed to him. Real gothic rock returns courtesy of Mr. McCoy of course!!! I still have everything they ever released on vinyl for God's sake! I only flirted with the goth lifestyle (if there is such a thing) back in high school and freshman year of college, but FotN has been there all along the way. I've been a Fields of the Nephilim fan since a friend exposed me to their Buring the Fields EP just before Dawnrazor was released in 1986 or 87. To say that this music has staying power is an understatement! That said, Mourning Sun is so incredibly refreshing and reassuring in an era when the music press tells us that corporate packaged pap like Evanascence, Marilyn Manson, and various death metal bands or pop in black mascara are gothic rock. Beyond comparisons to the wannabe-goth of today, it is simply a great album! For anyone who hasn't heard Fields of the Nephilim's "Dawnrazor," "The Nephilim," and "Elizium" albums (not to mention Sisters of Mercy's "First and Last and Always" and "Floodland," and The Mission's "The First Chapter" and "God's Own Medicine"), first buy those! Then, buy Mouring Sun!!! It is by far the finest true gothic rock album released since Elizium, what?, 16 years ago? By the way, I like McCoy's "Zoon" too, though the only pure gothic rock track on it is "Shine. " However, that one track alone is well worth the price of the album. . . It is really an ULTRA-classic. Oh, and a comment for those who bemoan the absence of the original band members. . . I'd love to see a reunion too, but only if it would make the end result stronger. The original FotN was wonderful then, and Carl and Co. is cranking out wonderful work now, so who's to complain?!? Come on Carl! Do it at least one more time! Preferably before 2021!. . You can see a complete list of all Fields of the Nephilim discography, or go back to the Fields of the Nephilim tabs