Watchers and Nephilim

When it was released in 1996, 30 years ago, Zoon found me at a point of real darkness, not wandering through the forest darkness, but displaced from my self darkness. It was a bandage pressing against a raw and open wound. And it held that broken part of me when nothing else would. The lyrics spoke to something in me, saying I know this territory, you are not alone in it. Zoon became more than just my salve, it became my sanctuary.

I wanted to reimagine the Biblical Watchers as Kami. It's fascinating how the Watchers, when viewed through a Shinto lens, take on characteristics that feel quite natural within Japanese spiritual tradition. The Watchers' role as teachers of forbidden knowledge transforms into something closer to the Kami's role as guardians and embodiments of natural forces and human endeavours.

There is a quality that some art possesses - you recognise it immediately. Not transgression as performance, but work that demonstrates actual sacrifice. Art that explores the conjunction of sex and death – symbolic immortality that can only be achieved through the unification of opposites.

I'll forgive you follow me, you said, and I followed, through the tunnels of Set, a trail of blood and bones. The tower burns, as do I. Chains breaking, I am free.