The band "upgraded" to Beggars Banquet in 1986 to release "Power" and "Preacher Man", and their first album, Dawnrazor, which topped the Indie chart in 1987.

[3] Psychonaut was released in May 1989 and peaked at number 35;[2] the ten-minute track indicated a slight shift for the band toward a more experimental and intense sound.

The final releases of this era are the live CD Earth Inferno and the video Visionary Heads, followed by the compilation Revelations.

It contained newly worked versions of "Trees Come Down" and "Darkcell," both originally released on the Burning the Fields EP in 1984.

The release was not authorized by the band and consists of unfinished recordings from 1997–2001, the 2000 reworkings of "Trees Come Down" and "Darkcell," and a previously unreleased demo by The Nefilim.

Fifteen years after Elizium, McCoy released Mourning Sun, his fourth full-length studio album under the name Fields of the Nephilim.

The album had seven original songs, with a cover version of Zager and Evans's "In the Year 2525" included as a bonus track on the first 5,000 copies.

Ceromonies was the culmination of a two-night event sponsored by Metal Hammer magazine in which the band played material spanning their career.

Highlights of this period included the band's biggest-ever headline show to date at the 2008 M'era Luna Festival, where the 'Ceromonies' line-up performed in front of over 23,000 people.

[16] On 1 July 2014, Carl McCoy announced that the band was back in the studio "...recording and compiling the most important elements created and gathered.

News reports said that a release on both CD and vinyl, containing exclusive artwork and bonus material, would follow,[19] though this did not happen.

[citation needed] M'era Luna organizers [21] announced in July of 2023 via social media that Fields of the Nephilim would not be performing at that year’s festival.

[22] The band had a "dust and death" image, associated with characters from Sergio Leone's Spaghetti Westerns and often wore cowboy dusters with a weather-beaten look during photoshoots.

[25] Fields of the Nephilim have been cited as an influence by musicians including Watain, Katatonia,[26] Gatecreeper,[27] Enslaved,[28] Harald Nævdal of Immortal and Old Funeral,[29] Nergal of Behemoth[30] and Mille Petrozza of Kreator.