Sorry to "reanimate" an old topic but this seemed appropriate.
I am really in searching and understanding stuff that the artist wants to say, so I am always looking beyond the lyrics, on artists I appreciate. Most times I am dissapointed, as there are no inner meanings and stuff I didn't got from the start. With the Nephilim at times I think I've got it, other times I am torn if I can't understand the guy, or if he is saying whatever, cloaked under mystical references.
I read this guy's article, and some others I found online and I think that Zoon's concept is not the story of the nephilim, rather than well the apocalypse. There are other stuff too and I am not sure I am getting everything, I know I am not getting everything, but I think there are several stuff showing what I am saying. At times I also think that we are not talking about the destruction of the old world and the creation of the new one, but for a finite... end.
In my mind this is evident in the following examples:
Still life is like watchers describing their fate, that they were immitating man in another life but now they are imprisoned until armagedon. And Xodus is probably refering to their exodus from their prison. In general there is much hell on earth backdrop and all this it feels like end times. In penetration he says "Armageddon", plus there are the two quotes. The first is "What's happening is real. You can't stop them. What do you think, we just go on forever?" and the second is "Repeat: we have confirmed angel touchdown. The place is completely ablaze of fire. It's like hell down here. I think we're going straight for the fcuking light." Because this sounds like a report from a hellicopter observer or whatever, it brings me in my mind war zone, and in general modern times, which is more in synch with the end times. Also the quotation in Pazuzu is "This generation shall not pass. This is the last man." In this song also there is a man made god, as I understand it, corrupted priest and "Ressurection day an anti-christ" and this may be a reference to the second coming? Zoon 3 also has the lyrics "As we begin the end
Let us close the womb this time" (and this is one reason I am thinking the definitive end of everything) and "This is hell this is
End of time", which is pretty much what I am babling about all this time.
In Zoon 3 there are several points like "I will live again" and stuff which do not go with the absolute end, but also the album ends with Coma, that brings me to my mind all those plots that "it was actually a dream". Maybe it was a vision from a man in a coma or something like that? Maybe coma is refering to the state of life as it is, and after the end of everything our protagonist wakes from it (does he actually? I am not sure) and enters a higher level of existence.
In any case everything means to the listener what they mean for him/her. I can say that the lyrics mean this or that and or I can thing of a thousand philosophies because of the lyrics, and mr. Nephilim only wanted to make some $$$ and dressed his intentions with shamanistic mambo jumbo and all that. Maybe he does not have any idea what he is saying. But I would like to know if anyone has any idea about Zoon's concept in general. Next, I'll pick up Mourning Sun...