Fields of the Nephilim

I talk with guests who have made haunting sound into music and sound effects.

Nod Wright of Last Rites Band and formerly drummer of Fields of the Nephilim is renowned for creating otherworldly music, which you and I might label as goth.

Whilst Joel Morris, alongside Will McLean, has created the fantastically creepy podcast Broken Veil.

And I chat with Joel about how and why sound is so important when creating a tense and unsettling atmosphere.

It's in this part of the episode that we're going to hear from my guests, Nod Wright, Joel Morris and Olie Campbell.

Now, you already know Olly, who has composed beautiful music for the show and chatted with us about urban exploring.

But here's an introduction to Nod Wright, legendary former drummer with Fields of the Nephilim and now of Last Rites alongside his brother.

Nod, thank you

Phil to

Nephilim.

Yeah, a proper 80s goth band.

Phil to Nephilim.

The Mission.

yeah i'm lost i don't know what yeah you're

Why?

I mean, I'm familiar with, you know, Fields of the Nephilim, Sisters of Mercy, and The Mission, stuff like that, but, but I have never really kinda dug into it.

Why?

Um, I do not know, but here's an interesting...

That's a mistake, okay? Um, so anyway, so let's do some of the back- the background stuff.

Uh, the Nomad who unearths the Mark XIII robot is played by Carl McCoy, lead singer of the goth rock band Fields of the Nephilim, for whom Richard Stanley had previously directed two music videos and designed an album cover.

According to him, McCoy's character in Hardware is basically the same as it was in a Nephilim work.

The character, then titled Preacher Man, had a prosthetic hand, yellow contact lenses, and wore an old black coat with a cowboy hat.

The band that Jill watches on TV while she makes a sculpture is Gwar, though the music is Ministry's Stigmata.

Just that opening is fucking outstanding.

You can hear some elements of I hear a bit of Fields of the Nephilim there.

I hear a bit of Paradise Lost.

And of course, we didn't get to vocal parts, but when the vocals kick in, i i absolutely agree with you it's it's the kind of band that that can easily cut across the the proper black metal crowd and you know appeal to the emo black metal crowd

Well, Britt, you were going to rank them for us.

Fields of Nephilim.

They're like a goth band from the 80s.

Oh, yeah, we get into music.

Oh, nice.

Yeah, Fields of the Nephilim are in the first one.

Dude, so is Motley Crue's...

What's that song from Theater of Pain? Save Our Souls, I think?