Fields of the Nephilim

In the mid-80's, just after moving to England, Stanley came in touch with an aspiring goth rock band Fields of the Nephilim. He did the art directing on their album Dawnrazor and directed at least two of their videos, Preacher Man and Blue Water. After that he began working under the Wicked Films banner.

"[Nephilim] had a spaghetti western/post nuke image. Sort of a goth/horror thing. The first video we did, and then the first album cover, second album cover, second video. And then I had a chance to invent the look of the band which was very exciting. I met them before they were signed, and had a big influence on how they actually looked. I did the album covers, and influenced them across the board."
 
[Richard Stanley in Sex & Guts Magazine #3, 2001.]

"'Those early videos were very tongue in cheek,' Carl can admit today. 'Neither of them had a big budget - "Preacher Man", for instance, was £500 - so we were limited by what we could do. Therefore the finished product had to be primarily for entertainment value.'"
 
[Carl McCoy on the first two Nephilim videos on the band's official site.]

According to the FotN vocalist Carl McCoy, Stanley was also in talks to direct some videos for his new band - Nefilim - after the production of Hardware had been wrapped.

In April 2006, it was announced that Stanley would direct a video for FOTN's latest studio album, Mourning Sun. The track was later confirmed as Straight To the Light.

Other videos

In early 2005, Stanley accompanied composer Simon Boswell to a trip to Rome, where they shot promotional footage for Boswell's upcoming album Open Your Eyes. The material featured the Italian horror filmmaker Dario Argento, to whom Boswell composed several films in the late 1980's. The resulting promo video, Dripping the Dark Fantastic, signifies Stanley's life-long admiration towards Argento's work, being a homage to the giallo films the latter is known of.

Contrary to popular belief, Stanley never worked with the group Pop Will Eat Itself.