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| 1. Intro |
| 2. Slow Kill |
| 3. Volcane |
| 4. Vet For The Insane |
| 5. Dust |
| 6. Reanimator |
| 7. Dawnrazor |
| 8. Sequel |
| 9. Power |
| 10. Preacher Man |
| 11. Secrets |
| 12. Tower |
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I did. This is the Nephilim in their most goth-rock phase, with a guitar-dominated sound and a rough edge that had almost wholly disappeared from their studio work by the time the excellent "Elyzium" was released.
There is no doubting the highlight of the album for the neophyte Nephilim listener: track 4, "Preacher Man". With a driving, stomping pace and instrumentation and scoring that lets you know what Goth contry music would sound like, you can be sure "Hank didn'never done it this way". An anti-anthem for the scene at the time, it was shamelessly crowd-pleasing, but has kept its edge wonderfully. Even New Musical Express gave it a good review at the time, and they were notoriously dismissive of this band.
Other tracks vary, and the band is clearly finding their feet in the album medium, after dalliances with releasing EPs. Dawnrazor is as gloriously overblown a track as they produced, and stands alongside "This Corrosion" as a monument to wonderful excess. Laura II sits at the other extreme, and there is no point hiding the fact that some songs can be harder work than others. Your mileage may vary.
In general, though, if atmospheric rock from the "High Goth" period of the second half of the 80's is your thing, then you will love this track. For comparison, it stands closest in feel to the Sisters' "First and Last and Always": some instantly catchy, accessible tracks and others which repay effort.
Although this is their first album it was already a slight change of direction. Their sax played was gone and a second guitarist had been drafted in. The world was ready for The Nephilims domination...only it wasn't was it! However for me this album defines my early teenage years (I was 15 when it was released and it joined my collection of other classic 80s goth instantly).
The opening strains of The Harmonica Man (taken from Once Upon a Time in the West) still make me think back to over half a lifetime to sitting in my bed room listening to this on LP - which didn't even have half of the tracks on here.
The music drifts in and out of raw industrial goth and nice happy clean 80s goth - the power of tracks like Preacher Man has rearly been repeated in goth music over the last 20 years.
Everyone who knows the Nephilim knows that the vocals are excatly that - they are vocal noise. However they juxtapose the quality of the musical backing perfectly and we wouldn't have had it any other way (which explains the demise of Rubicon really).
If you like 80s goth (or the harder end of the new wave modern goth stuff) then this is essential listening. I'm giving it 10/10 as I am hopelessly biased, as this music is part of who I am!
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