Coil
Coil began in London in 1983 as John Balance's side project from Psychic TV and became a full group the next year when Peter "Sleazy" Christopherson, a founder of Throbbing Gristle, joined him. Scatology (1984), Horse Rotorvator (1986) and Love's Secret Domain (1991) took industrial music somewhere baroque and sensual, mixing tape collage, orchestral samples, acid house and ritual. Later the pair moved to the coast and turned inward: the drone experiments of Time Machines (1998), the two volumes of Musick to Play in the Dark, and the ecstatic live sets of the early 2000s with Thighpaulsandra.
City of Light
Bill Laswell music true legend, “man with the golden ears“ – 2013, he has been involved in hundreds of recordings with many collaborators from all over the world. Bassist, composer and music producer - enough to say that he was the producer for such …
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Black Light District: A Thousand Lights In A Darkened Room
*2026 stock* ...At Last, it's here! During the transitional period in which Coil’s primary leadership (Peter “Sleazy” Christopherson and John Balance) reorganized their creative direction by taking on new membership in the group through their inclus…
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How To Destroy Angels
Ritual music for the accumulation of male sexual energy Throughout history man has made and used music for two distinct and separate purposes. In recent years, particularly since the advent of sound recording, the most popular use of music has been f…
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Collaberrations (2CD + 1DVD)
For a group founded on refusal, The New Blockaders have collaborated a great deal. It is less a contradiction than it looks. Where most collaborations in music amount to two recognisable personalities meeting and reinforcing each other, TNB's have al…
Viva Negativa! The New Blockaders: The Noise of Art and Nothing (Book)
Few gestures in the history of recorded sound have been as absolute as the one Richard and Philip Rupenus made in a garden shed in rural Newcastle in 1982, when – as The New Blockaders – they committed Changez Les Blockeurs to tape and, with it, drew…
Viva Negativa! The New Blockaders: The Noise of Art and Nothing
Few gestures in the history of recorded sound have been as absolute as the one Richard and Philip Rupenus made in a garden shed in rural Newcastle in 1982, when – as The New Blockaders – they committed Changez Les Blockeurs to tape and, with it, drew…
Gold Is The Metal With The Broadest Shoulders
The "Gold Is The Metal With The Broadest Shoulders" LP by Coil is released on Mute. Originally issued in 1987, the album is not a conventional studio album but a collection of outtakes, demos, and interim versions from the sessions for "Scatology," "…
Astral Disaster (Prescription versions)
3LP triple set featuring all the Prescription versions and the newly created AD II artworks by Steven Stapleton. The booklet features all lyrics, extensive liner notes and sheds light on the interesting circumstances of the creation of this Coil rele…
Astral Disaster
At the turn of the millenium the original „Astral Disaster“ subcription-only vinyl release was somewhat of an Unholy Grail for Coil collectors!
Virtually unobtainable in its original fiercely limited format of only 99 copies, it is the only album apa…
Backwards
A decade after its long-awaited release, Coil's landmark album Backwards returns in a special 10 year anniversary vinyl reissue. The black vinyl edition comes in a gatefold matt-laminate sleeve with silver detail, honoring the album's elusive, mercur…
The Unreleased Themes For Hellraiser
Nearly four decades after the fact, the full story of Coil's aborted commission for Clive Barker's Hellraiser can finally be heard - and it is every bit as extraordinary as the legend suggested. The Unreleased Themes for Hellraiser [expanded ritual],…
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Astral Disaster
At the turn of the millennium the original „Astral Disaster“ subcription-only vinyl release was somewhat of an Unholy Grail for Coil collectors! Virtually unobtainable in its original fiercely limited format of only 99 copies, it is the only album ap…
Sara Dale's Sensual Massage
Sara Dale's Sensual Massage was a delightful erotic video with a mystic soundtrack by Coil. Quite unusual for the band dreamy ambient, almost spa-relaxed soft harmonies, bland tribal rhythms, chimes, and birdsong but still with dark mysterious and in…
Silence and Secrecy
Zos Kia’s music is an essential insight and archival piece into the early work of the industrial scene and particularly of Coil in their formative stages. Their recordings are even darker and more industrial-rooted than much of the Coil material tha…
Horse Rotorvator (LP)
Rare original 1986 first black vinyl edition on Force & Form / K.422 of Coil's beautiful second full album. With insert.
Panic / Tainted Love (12"EP)
First 1985 edition with textured sleeve on Force & Form of Coil's second EP with a remixed track from their first album b/w their Foetus-produced moving version of Gloria Jones' (but also Soft Cell's) classic.
The Remote Viewer + concert card (CD+card)
Rare genuine tour-CDr limited to 500 copies available mainly at performances on Coil's 2002 European tour, here with the addition of an even rarer postcard announcing their concert in Bologna on April 6, 2002 as a bonus.
The gay man's guide to safer sex (VHS)
Ultra-rare 1992 VHS released by Simitar / The Terrence-Higgins Trust with the first uncensored version of David Lewis's explicit film with music by Coil.
(Sticker)
1992 round sticker originally enclosed with the original mail-order version of "Stolen and Contaminated Songs" CD limited to 2000 copies.
(Postcard)
1995 postcard announcing the release of "Windowpane & The Snow" and "Unnatural History II" CD's on Threshold House, sent and with [smiling in the face of perversity] stamp on back.
Black Antlers
Dais reissues Coil's seminal Black Antlers, the group's final studio masterpiece completed by Peter "Sleazy" Christopherson after Jhonn Balance's passing. A vital document of the group's final creative surge - where live energy, poetic mysticism and …
Elph vs Coil: Worship The Glitch
2025 stock Coil’s cultishly acclaimed Worship The Glitch features the group in dialogue with the ghost in the machine, an element they named ELpH and considered as much a part of the group as any physical member. Aye, you’d probably be right in assum…
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The Melancholy Mad Tenant
The Melancholy Mad Tenant, a collaboration between Coil, The New Blockaders, and Vortex Campaign, is a remastered anthology of radical noise, drone, and experimental anti‑music. It delivers brutal textures, haunting silences, and fierce creative inte…
Love's Secret Domain
Coil's third album, from 1991, a dense and psychedelic electronic record, expanded to three LPs with ten rare and mostly unreleased tracks and alternate versions from the same period.
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Earthen - A Cold Spring Sampler
With two exclusive tracks by Coil and Psychic TV.
Constant Shallowness Leads To Evil
Coil’s year 2000 electric storm is their next legendary chapter for legit reissue, exemplifying the fathomless variegation of their vision with overproof levels of digital noise masking deeply trippy song structures. After tenderising flesh with the…
Time Machines
2025 Much-needed repress. Starting as a rough demo tape recorded solely by Coil member Drew McDowall, Time Machines started to take full form when McDowall enthusiastically delivered these demo recordings to John Balance and Peter "Sleazy" Christophe…
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Issue Four
The fourth and final issue of Man is the Animal. Dedicated to the memory and enduring influence of Jhonn and Peter.A5, perfect bound. Approx 76pp.
Contents
Wear Sensible Shoes: Cobbling Together the Coil Guided Walk of LondonBy Ben Waddington
There's…
Born Again Pagans
Double CD. Infinite Fog are delighted to present another piece of the intriguing Coil puzzle. In the mid 1990s the core team of John Balance and Peter Christopherson were continuing their exploration of the outer reaches of electronic sound productio…
The Art, Music & Writings of Geoffrey Rushton Alias John Balance / New Wilderness Audiographics
This bundle includes the two latest box sets issued by Vinyl on Demand:
John Balance – The Art, Music & Writings Of Geoffrey Rushton Alias John Balance - The Years 1979-1986.” 9LP with 282-page book in wooden box with Shirt / Slipmat / out of ed…
The Art, Music & Writings of Geoffrey Rushton Alias John Balance - The Years 1979-1986
John Balance – The Art, Music & Writings Of Geoffrey Rushton Alias John Balance - The Years 1979-1986.” 9LP with 282-page book in wooden box with Shirt / Slipmat / out of edition copies, minus certificate
Since his untimely passing in 2004, it ha…
A Diamond Hidden in the Mouth of a Corpse
** Original copies of this rarity. Factory sealed. Few copies available ** A legendary compilation with contributions from no less legendary figures/bands like William S. Burroughs, Sonic Youth, Diamanda Galas, Michael Gira, Coil and many others. "Ea…
Recoiled
“Recoiled” is a rambunctious alchemy, of magikal Coil sensibilities and hi-tech home circa 90’s mixing technique, all fused in the cave-like early studios of Danny Hyde (Coil, Electric Sewer Age) / Peter Christopherson (Coil, Throbbing Gristle). Thes…
The Snow EP
Transmigration celebrates the 20th release milestone with a repress of Coil's The Snow EP. Released as a promotional single for the 1991 album Love's Secret Domain, it marks the influential groups closest brush with the dance floor. Featuring a set o…
Moon's Milk (In Four Phases)
Clear vinyl edition. 3xLP Box Set in matte rigid-board spined slipcase with silver foil lettering and gloss overlay artwork. First compiled as a double CD in 2002, Moon’s Milk (in Four Phases) is a suite of four EPs that Coil released seasonally via …
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Black Light District: A Thousand Lights In A Darkened Room
*2023 repress of the 2018 remaster* ...At Last, it's here! During the transitional period in which Coil’s primary leadership (Peter “Sleazy” Christopherson and John Balance) reorganized their creative direction by taking on new membership in the gro…
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The Ape of Naples
2023 re-cut from original Peter Christopherson approved masters. Double LP version. Pressed using the original Ape Of Naples plates approved by Peter Christopherson. The Ape Of Naples is Coil's highly celebrated final album completed by Peter Christ…
Musick To Play In The Dark
* 2021 Ltd. repress on black vinyl * Few groups in recent history forged as confounding and alchemical a body of work as Coil, the partnership of Peter 'Sleazy' Christopherson and John Balance. From album to album and phase to phase their recordings …
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Issue 1, 2, 3 (Bundle)
All the 3 numbers in bundle. New zine dedicated to Coil: the esoteric music project pursued by Jhonn Balance and Peter Christopherson. Coil are greatly mourned and yet their project feels just as urgent now as it did when they were here. This zine w…