DRED/DUB ROOTS ???

"The space in the songs is good though," continues the bassist. "That's what I used to like about the old dub reggae music ... a lot of the heavy stuff... Big Youth."

Carl now says something astounding: "That's how I met him years ago, in a reggae band."

Say again?

"We both came from reggae bands," says Tony. "Carl came up to rehearsal with a vibraslap - he hit it and it exploded. I'll always remember him for that."

CARL ON LIFE, AFTERLIFE, DEATH AND RELIGION

I like to look on my songs as a diary. It sums up different emotions and feelings. I just find life an experiment. I treat it as an experiment."

What happens if this goes wrong, do you ask for another?

"Another life? I don't want to. This one's got to work."

What do you think happens to you when you die?

"When you die ... that's a bit heavy isn't it? I think different things happen to different people to be honest. I don't believe in heaven and hell."

Do you believe in an afterlife?

"Yeah I do, but I don't believe you come back as something else, that seems too unlikely. I've got quite strong beliefs but they're hard to sum up here."

But when you die, what happens to your soul, does it just wander off?

"It'll end up somewhere, but I don't think it matters, because I don't think anyone else will be around either."

That sounds ominous.

"I don't like religion," he continues, "because it relies on other people - you shouldn't need to rely on others for knowledge. I think the only thing you need to believe is in yourself. I think people are weak if they need something to worship."

PETE & PAUL ON HOW THE BAND FORMED

Paul: What started it was I met Tony; Tony was playing for a band called... oh I can't remember
what, it's years ago, they'd just come back from somewhere and they said would you like to join
our band, I said Yeah, next thing we knew the
year later we lost a drummer so my brother Nod started playing; he'd been playing guitar and
sax up until then, he'd come along, then there
was the three of us we left that band because
they didn't like what we was doing together,
we was like under a sort of dictatorship, not particularly dictatorship but it was somebody
else's band, it weren't ours, we weren't part
of it we joined it. So then we'd finished with
that we joined another one called the Mission...

Pete: That's Gospel

Paul: Yeah we finished with that cos we didn't
like what we were doing with the people we'd
joined with. Then we met Carl straight away,
straight after that, Carl's been with us ever since.

CARL ON ZOON/NEFILIM RELATED TOPICS

"Though I've retained most of the dark elements that were involved with the original Nephilim," says Carl, "I've added more focus and definition to the new material. It's a lot tighter. After seven years of Fields Of The Nephilim, I felt it was time to shake things up. We were stagnating and we needed radical change. The rest of the band wasn't receptive to this idea, so we parted company. When you hear the new album, you'll understand why I had to leave. The approach to writing and recording is totally different now than what it was. It took me a long time to find the right musicians to undertake this task. I didn't take this change of course lightly. It wasn't done on some fickle whim. The album was supposed to have come out months ago, but me and the new members are such perfectionists with the songs, that we've had to record several of them a second time. To hold all our fans over until the LP comes out, we released a song on the Beggars Banquet compilation sampler, DEAFENING DIVINITIES WITH AURAL AFFINITIES. The song, 'Chaocracy,' deals with the theory of entropy - how the natural tendency of the universe is to head towards disorder and chaos. Musically, however, it's not really where the Nefilim is right now. It was recorded about a year ago, and our style of writing has changed since then.

McCOY TALKS ABOUT THE 5th AEON

Right now, we're approaching the fifth aeon. The first aeon is the shamanistic aeon,
where man had to survive by using his
psychic powers. In this aeon, man was
at one with Nature. In the second aeon,
man was able to build himself up and
then he moved on, getting more satisfied. There was the monastic phase when the churches formed and man basically started worshipping himself. Man has built himself
up only to regress more with each aeon.
But as I said, this will all change around
again. Man was closer to nature before
he got comfortable.