After being released in a limited quantity for RSD last year, it quickly sold out and became one of the hard-to-find deep-pocket releases, but the good folk at Jungle have repressed it with a green sleeve on vinyl and Red sleeve on CD as a double disc version for the reasonable sums of money you should pay fo ritems not what scalpers are asking.

When the band were formed back in 84, the debut release followed a year later, thus creating a loyal following and a near mythical release that EP has since been expanded into this double disc release and something of a must-have item of Goth history and a seminal genre-defining release.

Joined with the second EP and some Demos and remixes, ‘Burning The Fields’ is also completed with new sleeve notes and excellent pictures, making up a really impressive package you’d expect from Jungle. If you’ve kept up with releases, the band’s ‘Fallen’ also saw an RSD release this year, but due to rules, there may be a re-release on CD later down the line, but that’s for another day. Let’s look at the ‘Fields’ EP.

Burning the Fields was originally a four-track EP; ‘Returning to Gehenna’ mixes then-current singles and B-sides, most of them later appended to the UK CD of the quintet’s first full-length album, and to be fair these haven’t been available for over two decades, so a much welcome gem from the vault. The package comes in a gatefold sleeve and has new sleeve notes, interviews and unseen early photos by gothic commentator Mick Mercer to draw you in. I’m sure that they were both surprised and pleased with the demand for the early material since RSD released this originally and played loudly, it’s lost none of the drama and tension it had when it first hit the streets. The real gems here have to be the remixes and demos on the second disc, which are a must for fans old and new and with its release now on CD as well, it’s thanks to Jungle for this. To cap it all off, the band are back in the live circuit later this year with shows already announced for October and November 25 in the UK. Don your leather trench coat and hat and get out there, the Goths are back and taking no prisoners, and with this, you can learn the words to the likes of ‘Darkcell’ and the epic ‘Trees Come Down’ it’s like the 21st century had never begun.

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