Coil (band)

Coil is an experimental music group that has worked in several forms of music (electronic and otherwise) such as industrial, noise, ambient and dark ambient, neo-folk, spoken word, and minimalism.

Discography

Coil releases

• How to Destroy Angels (12") (1984)
• Scatology (LP/CS/CD) (1984)
• Panic/Tainted Love (12"/CD-EP) (1985) (limited 1000 copies)
• The Anal Staircase (12") (1986) (limited 1000 copies)
• Horse Rotorvator (LP/CS/CD) (1987)
• Gold is the Metal (LP/CD) (1987)
• The Wheel / The Wheal (7") (1987) (limited 500 copies)
• The Unreleased Themes For Hellraiser (10"/CS/CD-EP) (1987)
• The Wheal / Keelhauler (7") (1990) (limited ??? copies)
• Wrong Eye / Scope (7") (1990) (limited 3000 copies)
• Unnatural History (CD) (1990) (collection)
• Windowpane (12"/CDEP) (1990)
• Love's Secret Domain (LP/CS/CD) (1991)
• The Snow (12"/CS/CD) (1991)
• Stolen and Contaminated Songs (CD) (1992)
• How to Destroy Angels (Remixes And Re-Recordings) (CD) (1992)
• Airborne Bells / Is Suicide a Solution? (7") (1993) (limited 1400 copies)
• Themes from Blue (7") (1993) (limited 1023 copies)
• The Angelic Conversation (CD) (1994)
• Unnatural History II (CD) (1995) (collection reprinting "Themes For Hellraiser", "Themes from Blue", and more)
• Windowpane / The Snow (CD) (1996)
• Unnatural History III (CD) (1997) (collection)
• The Seasons Releases:
• ' (7"/CD) (1998) (limited printing only during the Spring 1998 season)
• ' (7"/CD) (1998) (limited printing only during the Summer 1998 season)
• ' (7"/CD) (1998) (limited printing only during the Autumn 1998 season)
• Winter Solstice: North (7"/CD) (1998) (limited printing only during the Winter 1998/1999 season)
• Astral Disaster (LP) (1999) (limited 99 copies)
• Musick to Play in the Dark Volume I (LP/CD) (1999)
• Astral Disaster (remixed and extended) (CD) (2000)
• Queens of the Circulating Library (CD) (2000)
• Musick to Play in the Dark Volume II (2xLP/CD) (2000)
• Coil Presents Time Machines CD (2000) (limited, rereleased as Live One)
• Constant Shallowness Leads to Evil (CD) (2000)
• A Guide for Beginners: A Silver Voice (CD) (2001) (Russian-market compilation of ambient work)
• A Guide for Finishers: A Golden Hair (CD) (2001) (Russian-market compilation of industrial work)
• Live in New York City (VHS/CD-R) (2001)
• Moons Milk (In Four Phases) (2xCD) (2001) (re-printing of the Seasons releases)
• Moons Milk (In Four Phases) Bonus Disc (CD-R) (2002) (limited 333 copies)
• The Remote Viewer (CD-R) (2002) (limited 500 copies)
• Plastic Spider Thing (CD) (2002) (remix album, cf. note in Remixes section)
• The Golden Hare With A Voice Of Silver (2xCD) (2002) (The two Russian "Guides" releases combined for world market)
• Live in Moscow 2001 (VHS) (2001) (limited 35 copies)
• Spoiler Talks DVD Series: Coil (DVD) (2003) (limited 1 copy)
• Live Four (CD) (2003)
• Live Three (CD) (2003)
• Live Two (CD) (2003)
• Live One (2xCD) (2003)
• ANS (CD) (2003) (limited edition, part of Live boxed set)
• Megalithomania! (CD-R) (2003) (limited edition, part of Live boxed set)
• The Restitution of Decayed Intelligence (10") (2003) (limited 600 copies)
• ANS (3xCD & 1 DVD) (2004)
• Black Antlers (CD-R) (2004) (album in progress sold during their Even An Evil Fatigue mini-tour)

Side-project releases

• Coil/Zos Kia: Transparent (CS/CD/LP) (1984)
• Coil vs The Eskaton: Nasa Arab (12") (1994)
• Coil vs ELpH: Protection (CDEP) (1994)
• ELpH: pHILM #1 (10") (1994)
• ELpH vs. Coil: Worship the Glitch (CD/2x10") (1995)
• Black Light District: A Thousand Lights in a Darkened Room (CD/2xLP) (1996)
• Time Machines: Time Machines (CD/2xLP) (1998)
• ELpH: elph.zwölf (CDEP) (1999) (limited 1000 copies)

Remixes by others

• Coil - Plastic Spider Thing (This Coil release was not written by the band, but instead by the art-performance group Black Sun Productions, who created the album out of remixed and reworked Coil material. Upon hearing the work, Coil was so impressed by it that they released as an official Coil work.)
• The track At The Heart Of It All (found on Scatology and two compilations) may have been reflected/"remixed" the Aphex Twin way into his track of the same name (details in the notes for 26 Mixes for Cash).
• Some have wondered if Coil's dark cover of Gloria Jones' Tainted Love (1984, on Scatology) hasn't been the basis for the piano-and-bells background for the Gilmour-led Pink Floyd's hit High Hopes (1994, on The Division Bell).