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Coil

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2018 - Astral Disaster Sessions Un/Finished Musics

2015 - Backwards

2014 - Recoiled

2008 - The New Backwards

2006 - Animal Are You?

2005 - The Ape of Naples

2005 - …And the Ambulance Died in His Arms

2004 - Black Antlers

2003 - ANS

2003 - The Restitution of Decayed Intelligence

2003 - Megalithomania!

2003 - Live One

2002 - The Remote Viewer

2001 - A Guide for Finishers: A Golden Hair

2001 - A Guide for Beginners: A Silver Voice

2000 - Constant Shallowness Leads to Evil

2000 - Musick to Play in the Dark, Volume 2

2000 - Queens of the Circulating Library

1999 - Astral Disaster

1999 - Musick to Play in the Dark, Volume 1

1998 - Summer Solstice: Bee Stings

1995 - Worship the Glitch

1994 - Born Again Pagans

1994 - The Angelic Conversation

1992 - Stolen and Contaminated Songs

1991 - Love's Secret Domain

1987 - Gold Is the Metal (With the Broadest Shoulders)

1986 - Horse Rotorvator

1985 - The Melancholy Mad Tenant

1984 - Scatology

1984 - Transparent

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Avant-Garde

Style
Electronic

Mood
Intense

Born

1982

Active
1982 to 2004

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Coil - Fire of the Mind
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Coil - Tattooed Man
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Coil - Triple Sun
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Coil - The Last Amethyst Deceiver

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Coil was an English cross-genre, experimental music group formed in 1982 by John Balance—later credited as "Jhonn Balance"—and his partner Peter Christopherson, aka "Sleazy". The duo worked together on a series of releases before Balance chose the name Coil, which he claimed to be inspired by the omnipresence of the coil's shape in nature. Today, Coil remains one of the most influential and best known industrial music groups.

The group's first official release as Coil was a 1984 12" titled How to Destroy Angels released on the Belgian Les Disques du Crepuscule's sublabel LAYLAH Antirecords. Following the 12"s success, Coil produced a series of three albums, Scatology, Horse Rotorvator and Love's Secret Domain, which met with little commercial success, but were praised as innovative due to their blend of industrial music and acid house.

In 1985, the group began working on a series of soundtracks, amongst them music for the first Hellraiser movie based on the novel The Hellbound Heart by their acquaintance at that time, Clive Barker. In 1999 the group gave their first live performance in sixteen years, and began a series of mini-tours which would last until 2004. Following the death of John Balance on 13 November 2004, Peter Christopherson announced via their official record label website Threshold House that Coil as an entity had ceased to exist.