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

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

Wonder if there will be anywhere to get this in the states. Increasingly reluctant to spend $30 (accounting for shipping) on a single CD

yeah I mean you could just get an original Force & Form CD for $45 from a US seller

Also worth noting Thighpaulsandra's site has three more live sets available for free:

https://www.thighpaulsandra.co.uk/store/c5/FLAC_%2F_MP3.html

thank you!

the Russians keep going:
https://www.kontaktaudio.com/shop/coil-astral-disaster-prescription-versions-3lp/
https://www.kontaktaudio.com/shop/coil-astral-disaster-tth-edition/

A supposedly expanded edition of the Hellraiser release per Danny Hyde

https://mentalgroove.bandcamp.com/album/the-unreleased-themes-for-hellraiser-expanded-ritual

There's some drama over this on the Coil subreddit; I'm not a member but found it while I was trying to reconcile the tracklist with previous releases on other formats (10" and CD). They're upset about the text completely omitting any mention of Stephen Thrower, and and the last track ("Unearthly Hell") being a much later remix by Hyde putting some of the original tracks over "An Unearthly Red," a weird inclusion that's kind of padding out the LP.

I knew he was pulling some shit like that here

instrumental set (without Jhonn Balance) at 2003's Supersonic festival

https://www.thighpaulsandra.co.uk/store/p256/Coil_-_Supersonic.html

Okay, looks like Mute is on board with some forthcoming reissues now, going back to earlier days:

https://muterecords.bandcamp.com/album/gold-is-the-metal-with-the-broadest-shoulders

Per PR guff, this is done in coordination with Thrower and Ossian Brown -- one D. Hyde nowhere mentioned:

Mute - in conjunction with Threshold House - have announced a partnership that launches with four early, often overlooked, works by Coil - remastered and released with restored artwork, previously unseen imagery and new sleeve notes.

Originally conceived by John Balance, Coil swiftly became a duo with Peter 'Sleazy' Christopherson (Throbbing Gristle) and after their 1984 debut release, the one-sided 12” single How to Destroy Angels, they were joined by a young Stephen Thrower. On the recordings in the series, Coil are John Balance (1962-2004), Peter Christopherson (1955-2010) and Stephen Thrower.

The series launches with 1987’s Gold is the Metal (With the Broadest Shoulders), the third in a trilogy that began with Scatology and Horse Rotorvator. Where Scatology and Horse Rotorvator are revered, the period immediately after is sometimes skipped over, but these years were enormously potent moments in their history, ones where sex and sexuality, as core engines of their work, were cast under increasing shadow by homophobia and the fear of AIDS, both of which were deliberately fanned and propagated by the mainstream media.

Gold is the Metal (With the Broadest Shoulders) draws on work that had been sidelined during Horse Rotovator’s sequencing. It takes textural and instrumental pieces and shapes them into a fully-formed album. Thrower explains that this is much more than “a round-up of wraiths and strays”, describing it as “the culmination of a ‘magnum opus’ in the artistic sense, the closure of a trilogy – Scatology, Horse Rotorvator and Gold is the Metal – rounding up even our most jagged, cryptic, frictional, intemperate materials into a final balanced form”.

It honed what Thrower calls “electro-erotics of sound”, with a collage structure inspired by The Faust Tapes. Notable are its field recordings – a drunken brass band captured in Mexico, a snippet of a TV documentary about young British boxers, and a Thai boxing arena recorded by Christopherson. There is also accident and serendipity at play: ‘Metal in the Head’ contains the sound of their hired Fairlight sampler malfunctioning, when it began to randomly rearrange and distort the music. Words become less important for this record: it is instead about the creation of an enveloping continuity, atmospheres where barbarism lurks, unspoken but detected, alongside the euphoria of intoxication and the Rites of Spring.

For this reissue its artwork has been painstakingly reconstructed by Thrower and his partner Ossian Brown (a member of Coil from 1999-2004), expanding upon its original concept with additional archive material, including artefacts, photographs, artworks, and personal notes made by John Balance.

Gold is the Metal (With the Broadest Shoulders) will be followed by Coil’s soundtrack for Derek Jarman's The Angelic Conversation, the unreleased music for Clive Barker's Hellraiser, and the compilation Unnatural History.

Threshold House was Coil’s own imprint, set to release Gold is the Metal (With the Broadest Shoulders) and now reactivated by Stephen Thrower and Ossian Brown as a vehicle to release the early Coil albums in partnership with Mute, and in association with the estates of John Balance and Peter Christopherson.

More I think about it I actually might get this; my copy of the original CD has a heavily water-damaged booklet, a little frustrating.

what, no disc rot? ;)

this is very good news

There is disc rot I'm sure but I was able to rip it without a worry so that's less of an issue at this point!

Nice nice - I thought I was done re-buying the same Coil releases over and over again, but I guess I'm not :-)

Hopefully a Horse Rotorvator reissue is now a possibility

I think I already own three different versions of both HORSE ROTORVATOR and LOVE'S SECRET DOMAIN.

...that's not a complaint, by the way.