If you read the line up above you may be wondering, what's the deal with the Earth, Fire, Air & Water?  Well, it seems they were personas the members of the band adopted and apparently dressed up as while performing, as many Glam Bands did.  Their music, however, was anything but glam.  They considered themselves, deservedly so I may add, as "amongst the pioneers of black metal."  “Cloven Hoof had outlandish costumes, but we had prodigious musical ability for mere eighteen-year-olds,” says Payne, “and an outrageous image did not cover up shoddy music either, as is the case for most bands of that ilk. Hoof songs were multi-time change tours-de-force and the European rock media understood that from day one. Some say you are never a prophet in your own land, and maybe that’s true, but we certainly had an amazing hardcore following throughout the rest of the world. Now we have a type of legendary status and that is humbling and very flattering to say the least.”