Coil s/d c/d etc

Search: Most everything else, but I happen to like early/mid 90's coil best: Love's Secret Domain, Stolen & Contaminated Songs, Black Light Distict, Worship the Glitch, Unnatural History 3.

Classic, obviously.

Destroy: Tainted Love (lasts for 3 hours and goths like it)

"where are you? no one has seen you in years" is a great line, and should be used more often...people who fall off the radar have been a romantic staple of pop for years of course, but this captures it well

Are they available as a domestic release in the U.S.?

can't believe i missed this for so long...coil are def one of my favorite bands, although i rarely think of them as such. love the early stuff, get iffy on the wax traxian phase, love love LOVE the last four-five years. if 1999/2000 hadn't been such overwhelming years for albums, both vols of musick to play in the dark would have been high placers in my top 10s.

Search: the twisted sound collages, the idiosyncratic approach to house, the chilly ambience.

Destroy: the crypto-sexual conspiracy theorizing, the gothic growling, the big gated eighties drum sounds.

Coil's disco steps and Ministry's distorted barre chords weaned a lot of listeners from industrial dance's cold and wizened teet. All the A students started sneaking out of the Wax Trax School of Spooky Chain Rattling.
Some fled to a more cheerful dance floor, while others turned to Am Rep and/or Earache for more guitar-based ugliness.

That being said, there are still plenty of clubs which function as industrio-gothic Greenfield Villages, and I'm sure they're very meaningful to their black-clad regulars.

this inspired me to check out the recent stuff & jesus christ it's good. i can't stop playing "batwings" (off musick... vol 2). it's going to take an age to listen to all the mp3s i've just downloaded (sometimes slsk just give you too much), but i'm loving it all so far.

It all makes sense when you see the video -- best cameo ever in that too, BTW.

Al was bending the brim of his cowboy hat, and Coil were putting on their boogie shoes, so second-string tin pounders like Meat Beat Manifesto and MC 900 Foot Jesus were left with the thankless task of recording hip hop records for white guys in black clothes.

You could have finished your routine by doing the robot with Kraftwerk. Those androids were burning up every dancefloor, cardboard or otherwise. It's no good trying to explain musical genres to dancing robots. They'll just stare blankly at you as they continue to shake their mechanical booties.

also i heard a track off "plastic spider thing" and it's fantastic, much to my surprise. i might have to check the rest of the album out.

yes, it is a bit oh dear. i'm sure i'll have gone off coil again in a few days, don't worry.

(I just said Oh Dear because I've had two days worth of gossip about Coil from two different people in the past week. Oh dear on all levels, really.)

Yeah, the four EPs were collected as 'Moon's Milk', which I recommend if you've got time to focus on them, as they move pretty slowly. I like to listen to them while I go to sleep, although there are extremely nutty and frightening tracks at the end and start of the two CDs, so if you're not asleep by them it's pretty fucked.

Other than that I only have 'ove's Secret Domain' which is awesome. I'm always loking for more Coil.

Has anyone heard that track they made featuring a guy's phone message whose boyfriend was a huge Coil fan and topped himself by jumping off a cliff? What's it called?

Also what's with them throwing half their releases off cliffs and things?

So, like, I've been entirely steeping myself in COIL these days, trying to catch up. I picked up the re-mastered Horse Rotorvator (though I had the Some Bizarre edition -- which the band has since renounced). I also picked up the Unnatural History II disc in order to finally hear the aborted tracks from Hellraiser (I really wanted them to be scarier, truthfully, but there's a lot of other great stuff on the disc). The stuff I was really looking for but couldn't seem to find, however, was Love's Secret Domain and Musick to Play in the Dark Vol.1. I'd looked all around the likely shops in NYC, but came up empty, and their official site (Threshold House) has closed the shop for now. Failing everything else, I went to eBay, and won a used copy of L's.S.D (at no great savings to me), figuring I'd never find it anywhere else. It hasn't arrived yet.

So, today, on a lark, I pop into Tower Records on Broadway looking for nothing in particular. Once upon a time (in the days of vinyl), if you were looking for a record and Tower didn't have it, there was a good chance that said record simply didn't exist. But, that was then. In the ensuing years, Tower has fallen into a decline that recalls the fall of the Roman Empire. They're a lost cause teetering on the edge of bankruptcy. But sure enough -- push me down the anal staircase! Their in the import section are more COIL releases than I've ever spotted in any locale...including Musick to Play in the Dark Vol.1 (which I instantly snapped up) and....rotorvate my damn horse...Love's Secret Domain...WRAPPED, PRISTINE AND FACTORY SEALED...unlike the used version I'm waiting to arrive in the mail, which -- for all I know -- may have been used as a coaster. I suck.

I really dig the first vol. of Unnatural History, some really strange sounds on there.

Only got it today, so haven't had a chance to listen to it (it's tough with a little person in the house....I've ripped it to my iPod, so shall listen intently to it soon enough).

I'm well into Musick to Play in the Dark 1, though I'm not wild about "The Dreamer is Still Asleep". Love's Secret Domain isn't what I expected at all, but I'm quite enjoying it. I love the title track and the two "Teenage Lightning" tracks. Been downloading some of their other stuff (and oof is there a lot of it). I agree with whomever said it above that much of it is just far too abstract (notably the stuff fom the COIL-ANS box), but none of it is dull, at the very least.

Secondly, the General Store at the Threshold House site is back open...czech it out! http://www.thresholdhouse.com/

http://www.brainwashed.com/common/images/covers/loci15_traycard.jpg

Maybe it's because I have yet to have ny coffee, but the VOD website is maybe the most frustrating label site I've ever visited

I'm assuming this is already sold out, because there is a graphic of this release on the site but no active links

correct (and remember, this could only be ordered directly, by previous VOD customers), Soundohm will have some copies

https://www.soundohm.com/

i'm starting to worry my copy has got lost as if copies are reaching the US i feel mine should have been here by now. not even had any tracking notifications. will give it another week before panicking.

I never got any tracking info, fwiw - did you get the bundle with the New Wilderness box? those were shipping later.

ah ok. that's a wee bit reassuring. no, just the Balance box on its own.

Finally able to share something major I’ve been working on for a while!

https://theshfl.com/guide/Coil

Thank you, Ned! Mainly admittedly as a result of in recent yrs loving CS + Kreme-->then getting into The Ape Of Naples, have been looking for a guide further down (uh, up?) the a___ staircase

what a great and fitting tribute to my all time favorite project, thank you, Ned!

You’re welcome! Credit to stirmonster for reading an early draft too!

Such great work, Ned.

Thanks again to everyone for all their lovely comments and shares! A quick note that there’s a small update; an earlier review of _Horse Rotorvator_ has been replaced by one specifically written for the guide, giving it its deserved due!

Echoing the sentiments re. the Coil guide. Found it recently just by chance and didn't realize it was by Ned - great piece of information and assessment!

Thanks so much! Glad it’s out there in the wild.

a couple of things that weren't mentioned here at the time I think?

- physical copies are sold out (2022) but the digital album - great remastered version of The Threshold HouseBoys Choir's Form Grows Rampant album: https://mentalgroove.bandcamp.com/album/form-grows-rampant

- and this, the first release by Soisong, has been released digitally in 2022 as well - I can't hear any difference except the last track is 90 seconds longer - https://soisong.bandcamp.com/album/qxn948s

https://infinitefog.bandcamp.com/album/born-again-pagans-30th-anniversary-extended-edition

(probably extras from the TARCH releases)

Succumbed.

Going with the CD for this one. Money's tight and this isn't totally essential Coil for me

I'm going for the download option. I already have all of this, twice. Maybe the remaster will help some but it didn't really sound bad originally.

https://daily.bandcamp.com/lists/coil-artist-guide

Wait, wait... what?

Was just browsing through Ned's link above, and what's this?!

https://theshfl.com/album/The-Angelic-Conversation

Sorry, I've only really started getting into Coil in the past few years so I had not seen this before. I'm trying to make the timelines add up, but I'm wondering if this links back to my current obsession. Who have already revealed themselves to have multiple Coil links so it would not surprise me to find another.

quite a few of inessential releases on a list that inexplicably excludes Horse Rotorvator, but a nice little primer all the same

i think it excludes Horse Rotorvator as it's not available.

i'm glad that primer exists bc it got me to listen to the gay man's guide to safer sex which is totally an essential release :)

Agreed! That one's excellent, and as with Patrick Cowley's soundtracks for porn, it's surreal trying to imagine them being utilized for their intended purpose

cryptic message on dais' FB page suggests a black antlers reissue out soon

https://www.facebook.com/100064117689228/posts/pfbid028PDDnDwe1FvKAwJX4c3U5FkusPfRcRZWAn4LwjKaHQFpo3fS2o4H1FavrdcfTJHql/?app=fbl

https://boomkat.com/products/black-antlers

this is terrific news!

it's out today - 10 track version of Black Antlers, remastered again

low key my favorite coil record that isn't lsd

in my top 4 or 5, absolutely

my (CD) copy just arrived!

the vinyl is sounding so nice! in particular 'things we never had', what a track!

i would very much like a reissue of the remote viewer next!

Thighpaulsandra releases:

COIL LIVE ONE - The legendary performance in April of 2000 at London's Royal Festival Hall.​ Released 8th August 2025, available for pre-order on vinyl & CD now!

vinyl: https://www.thighpaulsandra.co.uk/store/p247/COIL_LIVE_ONE.html
CD: https://www.thighpaulsandra.co.uk/store/p245/COIL_LIVE_ONE.html

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Free download:

COIL LIVE - Coil's performance at the Sonar Festival, Barcelona, June 17th 2000. Newly remastered and available as a free download!
https://www.thighpaulsandra.co.uk/store/p231/COIL_LIVE_-_Barcelona_2000.html

Weird, wonder why he didn't just go and rerelease the double CD with Barcelona on it.

^^^

I have a perhaps silly question. Is it possible the gimp (sometimes) was inspired by Michael hutchence’s chorus here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEAnP9T7ASw

wasn't it a remix (cover?) of a People Like Us track originally? From the "Hate People Like Us" album:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icXhcrzmLdg

the vinyl is sounding so nice! in particular 'things we never had', what a track!

this has honestly become one of my favourite coil tunes over the last week, it's just superb

Oct 30th:

https://infinitefog.bandcamp.com/album/astral-disaster-definitive-edition

The usual arguments are raging (see the Vinyl on Demand page on facebook) as to whether this release is authorised, or what authorised even means these days in relation to Coil. The principal charge seems to be that Infinite Fog have not cleared the rights with the Balance and Christopherson estates, which are then not being paid.

it's all previously available material too

Perhaps right this thread should be revived the day stirmonster’s passing was announced. It won’t be the same without him here.

A WAY TO DIE: THE SHORT-FILMS OF COIL

After paying tribute to and introducing the photographic and pictorial work of Peter Christopherson (1955-2010) and John Balance (1962-2004) to a larger audience, founding members of the cult formation COIL, Timeless editions have had the duo’s filmed archives restored, from their early films in adolescence in the early 1970s to the more accomplished works of the 1980s/90s, uncovering a first-rate cinematic body of work. Alternating between medical art, homoerotic performances, and body horror, these short films and other moments immortalized on 8mm and 16mm film are firmly rooted within an aesthetic sense that resonates with the concerns of the emerging industrial scene in England. At the intersections of Eros and Thanatos, these images assembled by Maxime Lachaud and Reivaks Timeless into a raw, hallucinatory, and immersive film evoke the spectres of Georges Bataille, J.G. Ballard, Jean Genet, Derek Jarman as well as the Viennese Actionists. Underpinned by a number of previously unpublished compositions by the duo, A WAY TO DIE is a unique document, sensual, disturbing, and profoundly haunted.

https://www.docnrollfestival.com/films/a-way-to-die-the-short-films-of-coil/

Gee, I'd love to see this. Unfortunately I live nowhere near any of these screenings.

https://www.thighpaulsandra.co.uk/store/p250/Coil__...and_the_ambulance_died_in_his_arms.html
remastered, CD only (for now?)

Great news! Been wanting a copy of this for years

Some Bizzare is apparently still a thing and reissuing Scatology

https://somebizzarerecords.bandcamp.com/album/scatology

Who knows how “authorized” this is; my guess is “not especially”

They don't mention any remastering in the announcement below, only "reissue" - but the download will be in 24bit on Bandcamp?

https://www.somebizzare.com/post/scatology-reissue-announcement

Stevo might as well just go piss directly on their graves

They'd appreciate that.

lol well played