Fields Of The Nephilim
|
2012-03-03
|
|
Titel / Title |
Ceremonies |
Label |
EMI |
Web |
www.fields-of-the-nephilim.com |
Gesamtspielzeit Total run time | CD1 53:00, CD2 55:00 | Vö/Release | 5.3.2012 |
Many fans have been waiting for this one - Fields of the Nephilim live, and from an era that begins with the numbers "20-" ... all those other releases do have their status in music history already, not only because of their release dates. The real “living legend” in the Goth/Dark Wave / Dark Rock genre has always been this formation around mastermind/singer Carl McCoy, and not “those others”, ya know...
And to make one thing clear right away – here you get indeed value for money. A double CD plus DVD (which will be reviewed later) for the price of a “normal” CD. The other aspect is the song selection, a Best-Of that brings tears of joy into the eyes of fans - "Psychonaut" and – hold-your-breath - "Celebrate", the most brilliant and evil “ballad” on this planet/in this universe, in my opinion, for the first time in live-version... what can I say, it´s X-mas, Eastern, birthday and Vappu celebrated all at once :D
Apropos celebration – for those who want to become fans and/or make up for the huge mistake not to know the band yet: the title of this package is no coincidence... CD1 features younger songs and introduces with the sinister “Shroud”a certain mystic-mysterious atmosphere (which also works nicely even in bright daylight, as witnessed at M´era Luna and Tuska-Festival), and even summer heat does not prevent you from gooseflesh attacks when hearing From The Fire or Shine. It´s a pity that Penetration and Trees Come Down are a bit weak on the riff-side, but that is probably the price to pay for getting this clear brilliant sound, you can even understand the lyrics. However, it´s exactly those songs that underline Carl´s charisma as magic singer / master of ceremonies, who displays this raw power no matter if clear /clean, extremely low register (Pete Steele and others might have learned from him) or growls. Moreover, he still looks pretty much the same as “back then” - incredible... One big flaw of the ancient “Visionary Heads” live release - the vocals way too distorted + “in the background” - was not repeated. Wail of Sumer, And There Will Your Heart be have this ceremony appeal, songs that beam you to the Cthulhu parallel universe – just like the already mentioned classic Psychonaut as final track.
Which is a nice transition to CD2, which focuses on old stuff, introduced by the legendary Ennio Morricone Harmonica Man. Preacher Man, Moonchild are the classics not to be missed at Fields-gigs, but the following tracks with e.g. Requiem or Xiberia come as surprise – well, it´s high time that such a great song like Mourning Sun received a proper live-treatment. As well as Celebrate – mentioned above... Zoon also features some disharmonics, but that shows it´s indeed a live recording and not studio-magic – which makes this release even more appealing.
In short: epic, brilliant, important, a MUST-HAVE.
CD 1: Ad Mortem
1 Shroud
2 Straight To The Light
3 From The Fire
4 Penetration
5 Shine
6 Wail Of Sumer
7 And There Will Your Heart Be Also
8 Trees Come Down
9 Psychonaut
CD 2: Ad Vitam
1 Intro (Harmonica Man)
2 Preacher Man
3 Moonchild
4 Requiem
5 Xiberia
6 Zoon (Wakeworld)
7 Mourning Sun
8 Celebrate
DVD:
1 Shroud
2 Straight To The Light
3 From The Fire
4 Penetration
5 Wail Of Sumer
6 And There Will Your Heart Be Also
7 Trees Come Down
8 Moonchild
9 Psychonaut
10 Mourning Sun
Klaudia Weber
Read comments:
Warning: count(): Parameter must be an array or an object that implements Countable in /var/customers/webs/stalker/www.stalker.cd/inc/kommentar.inc.php on line 8
0
Write comments |
|
|
|