Discography for the experimental music group Coil and their aliases.
Albums attributed solely to Coil Scatology (LP/cassette/CD) (1985) Horse Rotorvator (LP/cassette/CD) (1986) Gold Is the Metal (With the Broadest Shoulders) (LP/CD) (1987) Love's Secret Domain (LP/cassette/CD) (1991 July) Stolen & Contaminated Songs (CD) (1992) Time Machines (1998) Astral Disaster (LP/CD) (1999 January/2000 January) Musick to Play in the Dark Vol. 1 (CD/LP) (1999 September) Queens of the Circulating Library (CD) (2000 April) Musick to Play in the Dark Vol. 2 (CD/2×LP) (2000 September) Constant Shallowness Leads to Evil (CD) (2000 September) The Remote Viewer (CD-R/2×CD) (2002 April) ANS (CD) (2003 May) Black Antlers (CD-R/2×CD) (2004 May) The Ape of Naples (CD/3×LP) (2 December 2005) The New Backwards (CD/LP) (2008)
Extended plays How to Destroy Angels (12″) (1984) The Unreleased Themes for Hellraiser (10″/cassette/CD) (1987) The Solstice and Equinox series Spring Equinox: Moon's Milk or Under an Unquiet Skull (7″/CD) (1998 March) Summer Solstice: Bee Stings (7″/CD) (1998 June) Autumn Equinox: Amethyst Deceivers (7″/CD) (1998 September) Winter Solstice: North (7″/CD) (1999 January)
Singles "Panic/Tainted Love" (12″/CD) (1985) "The Anal Staircase" (12″) (1986) "The Wheel / The Wheal" (7″) (1987) "The Wheal / Keelhauler" (7″) (1987) "Wrong Eye/Scope" (7″) (1990) "Windowpane" (12″/CD) (1990) "The Snow" (12″/cassette/CD) (1991) "Airborne Bells/Is Suicide a Solution?" (7″) (1993 November) "Themes for Derek Jarman's Blue" (7″) (1993) "Animal Are You?" (box set) (2006 December)
Live albums Coil Presents Time Machines (CD) (2000 September) Live Four (CD) (2003 March) Live Three (CD) (2003 March) Live Two (CD) (2003 May) Live One (2×CD) (2003 June) Megalithomania! (CD-R) (2003 July) Selvaggina, Go Back into the Woods (CD-R) (2004 July) ...And the Ambulance Died in His Arms (CD) (2005 April)
Compilation albums Unnatural History (CD) (1990) Unnatural History II (CD) (1995 January) Windowpane & the Snow (CD) (1995) Unnatural History III (CD) (1997 June) A Guide for Beginners: The Voice of Silver (CD) (2001 September) A Guide for Finishers: Golden Hair (CD) (2001 September) Moon's Milk (In Four Phases) (2×CD) (2002 January) The Golden Hare with a Voice of Silver (2×CD) (2002) The Key to Joy Is Disobedience (box set) (2003 July) The Art & Audio, Works & Writings of Geoffrey Rushton Alias John Balance: The Years 1979-1986 (Early work of Balance, early work of Coil, 8xLP box set, book) (2024 June)
Aliases and side-project releases Zos Kia / Coil – Transparent (cassette/CD/LP) (1984) Vortex Campaign / Coil / The New Blockaders – Dolbied (cassette) (1984) Sickness of Snakes – Nightmare Culture (12″) (1985) Coil vs The Eskaton – Nasa-Arab (12″) (1994) Coil vs ELpH – Born Again Pagans (CD) (1994) ELpH – pHILM #1 (10″) (1994) ELpH vs. Coil – Worship the Glitch (CD/2×10″) (1995) Black Light District – A Thousand Lights in a Darkened Room (CD/2×LP) (1996) Time Machines – Time Machines (CD/2×LP/2×CD) (1998/2001/2007) ELpH – elph.zwölf (CD) (1999)
Other releases How to Destroy Angels (Remixes and Re-Recordings) (CD) (1992) The Angelic Conversation (CD) (1994) Songs of the Week (download series) (1998–99) The Remote Viewer (CD-R/2×CD) (2002 May) Spoiler Talks DVD Series: Coil (DVD) (2003) Moons Milk (In Four Phases) Bonus Disc (CD-R) (2003 July) Colour Sound Oblivion (16×DVD) (2010)
New material released after the death of Peter Christopherson Uncoiled, remixes of Nine Inch Nails (digital) (2012 November 4) Recoiled, remixes of Nine Inch Nails (CD/LP) (2014 February 24) Expansión Naranja (12″) (2015 June) The Angelic Conversation (Instrumental) (CD) (2015 October 9) Panic (CD) (2015 October 9) The Wheel (CD) (2015 October 9) The Anal Staircase (CD) (2015 October 9) The Consequences of Raising Hell (CD) (2015 October 9) Wrong Eye (CD) (2015 October 9) Windowpane (CD) (2015 October 9) The Snow (CD) (2015 October 9) Backwards (CD/LP) (2015 October 29) A Cold Cell in Bangkok (12″) (2017 August) Another Brown World / Baby Food (12″) (2017 September) Astral Disaster Sessions Un/Finished Musics (CD/LP) (2018 February 7) How to Destroy Angels, live and rehearsal (CD/LP) (2018 August 3) Live Five – Gdańsk Autumn 2002 (CD-R) (2019 April 19) Airborne Bells (CD) (2019 May 15) The Sound of Musick (CD) (2019 May 15) First Dark Ride (CD) (2019 May 15) Protection (CD) (2019 May 15) Heartworms (CD) (2019 May 15) I Don't Want to Be the One (CD) (2019 May 15) Copal (CD) (2019 May 15) The Restitution of Decayed Intelligence (CD) (2019 May 15) Swanyard (3×LP/2×CD) (2019 May 25) The Gay Man's Guide to Safer Sex + 2 (CD/LP) (2019 June 28) Live – Copenhagen 2002 (digital) (2019 July 28) A Prison of Measured Time (CD/12″) (2020 February) Astral Disaster Sessions Un/finished Musics Vol. 2 (LP) (2020 July 25) Sara Dale's Sensual Massage (CD/2×LP/digital) (2020 September 23) Live – Limoges 2002 (digital) (2022 July 31) Live – Lódz 2002 (digital) (2022 October 19) Persistence Is All: Live at Royal Festival Hall (CD) (2022 11 13)
Compilation appearances Year Compilation title Song title Alias Track length Format Also appears on1979Standard Response"Blue Funk (Scar for E)"Murderwerkerscassettetrack is exclusive to compilation1980Deleted Funtime"Thin Veil of Blood"Stabmental3:03cassettetrack is exclusive to compilation1983The Beast 666"Here to Here (Double Headed Secret)"Coil4:22CDUnnatural History, Transparent1983The Elephant Table Album"S Is for Sleep"Coil3:31CD, 2×LPUnnatural History1984Bethel"Red Weather"CoilcassetteUnnatural History II1984Life at the Top"Homage to Sewage"Coil2:13LPUnnatural History1985Devastate to Liberate"Restless Day"Coil4:24cassette, LPScatology (CD pressing)1985The Fight Is On"Sicktone"Coil3:21LPUnnatural History1985If You Can't Please Yourself, You Can't Please Your Soul"The Wheel"Coil2:41CD, LPThe Wheel1985U.K. Buzz#006"The Wheel"Coil2:42LPThe Wheel1985A Diamond Hidden in the Mouth of a Corpse"Neither His Nor Yours"Coil2:48CD, LPUnnatural History III1986Peyrere"Dream Photography"Coil3:24cassetteUnnatural History1986Ohrensausen"His Body Was a Playground for the Nazi Elite"Coil3:22LPUnnatural History1987Raw Like Sewage"Comfortable"CoilUnnatural History1987Less Than Angels"Never"CoilcassetteUnnatural History, The Angelic Conversation1988Core: A Conspiracy International Project"Feeder"CTI with Coil8:43CD, LPUnnatural History III1989Myths 4: Sinople Twilight in Catal Hüyük"Another Brown World"Coil12:09CD, LPUnnatural History II1989Pathological Compilation"Contains a Disclaimer"Coil7:34CD, LP, cassetteUnnatural History II1990Total Volume 1"The Anal Staircase (Relentless mix)"Coil4:00CDtrack is exclusive to compilation1991The Portable Altamont"Wrong Eye"Coil5:59CDWrong Eye, Unnatural History III1991The Portable Altamont"Scope"Coil6:36CDWrong Eye, Unnatural History III1991The Portable Altamont"Meaning What Exactly?"Coil3:45CDUnnatural History III1991Wax Trax! Sampler#2"Love's Secret Domain (demo version)"CoilcassetteStolen & Contaminated Songs1991Order to the Galaxy Vol. 1"The Snow (Driftmix)"Coil2:35CD, cassetteThe Snow1993Electrocity Vol. 3"Windowpane"Coil5:43CDLove's Secret Domain1993Cash Cow: The Best of Giorno Poetry Systems 1965–1993"Neither His Nor Yours"Coil2:48CDUnnatural History III1994Chaos in Expansion"Baby Food"Coil12:03CDUnnatural History III1994Black Box – Wax Trax! Records: The First 13 Years"Love's Secret Domain"Coil3:543×CDLove's Secret Domain1994Black Box – Wax Trax! Records: The First 13 Years"The Snow (Answers Come in Dreams II)"Coil5:563×CDThe Snow1994Space Daze"Nasa Arab"Coil11:002×CDStolen & Contaminated Songs1994Out There: A Thread in Time"Nasa Arab"Coil vs The Eskaton10:592×CD, 4×LPStolen & Contaminated Songs1994El Mondo Ambiente"The Snow (Driftmix)"Coil2:352×CDThe Snow1995Macro Dub Infection"The Hills Are Alive"Coil7:162×CD, 3×LPUnnatural History II1996Succour"Lost Rivers of London"Coil7:382×CDUnnatural History III1996Treat the Gods as If They Exist"It If Wasn't Wolves, What Was It?"ELpH vs. Coil2:58CDProtection (2019)1997Terra Serpentes"Heartworms"Coil7:142×CDalternate version on Foxtrot1997Narcosis"Stoned Circular II"Black Light District6:412×CDA Thousand Lights in a Darkened Room1998Foxtrot"Blue Rats (Blue Cheese mix)"Coil4:08CD, 2×10″Heartworms (2019)1998Foxtrot"Heartworms"Coil7:16CD, 2×10″Heartworms (2019); alternate version on Terra Serpentes1998Interiors"Gnomic Verses"ELpH5:05CDI Don't Want to Be the One (2019)1999Industrial Strength Music"Panic"Coil4:19CDScatology1999The Torture Garden"Blue Rats"Black Light District3:11CDA Thousand Lights in a Darkened Room2000Cornucopea"Time Machines (excerpt)"Coil5:20CDpartial version of track found on Time Machines2000The Wire Tapper 6"A Cold Cell"Coil6:242×CDalternate version found on A Guide for Beginners: The Voice of Silver2000Emre (Dark Matter)"Broken Aura"Coil8:05CDI Don't Want to Be the One (2019)2000Computer Music Journal Sound Anthology Volume 24"Glisten #2"Coil1:05CDI Don't Want to Be the One (2019)2001Rough Trade Shops: 25 Years"Further Back and Faster"Coil7:584×CDLove's Secret Domain2001''sR:Ample''"Broken Aura (excerpt)"Coil3:41CDpartial version of track found on Emre (Dark Matter)2001Lichttaufe 2"Are You Shivering?"Coil9:38CDMusick to Play in the Dark Vol. 12002Light + Kraft"Love's Secret Domain"CoilLove's Secret Domain2002Rough Trade Shops: Electronic 01"Ended"ELpH vs. Coil1:132×CDWorship the Glitch2002Brain NOT in the Wire"Mayhem Accelerator Part 1"Coil12:17CDpartial version of a track found on Airborne Bells (2019)2002Beta-Beat 01"The Restitution of Decayed Intelligence II (excerpt)"Coil2×CD-Rpartial version of a track found on The Restitution of Decayed Intelligence2002X-Rated: The Electronic Files"Remote Viewing 1 (excerpt)"Coil12:022×CDpartial version of a track found on The Remote Viewer2002The Wire 20: 1982-2002"Wrong Eye"Coil5:543×CDWrong Eye, Unnatural History III2003Mutek 03"The Test"Coil5:40CDBackwards (2015)2003England's Hidden Reverse"Are You Shivering?"Coil9:37CDMusick to Play in the Dark Vol. 12003England's Hidden Reverse"Chaostrophy"Coil5:39CDLove's Secret Domain2003England's Hidden Reverse"Amethyst Deceivers"Coil6:33CDAutumn Equinox: Amethyst Deceivers2003England's Hidden Reverse"The Lost Rivers of London"Black Light District7:41CDA Thousand Lights in a Darkened Room2003Lactamase Bonus Compilation"Bad Message"Coil2:0910″The Restitution of Decayed Intelligence (2019)2003The Lactamase 10″ Sampler"The Restitution of Decayed Intelligence II (extract)"Coil5:01CD-Rpartial version of track found on The Restitution of Decayed Intelligence2005X-Rated: The Dark Files"Coppice Meat"Coil10:47CDMoons Milk (In Four Phases) Bonus Disc2005OperettAmorale"A List of Wishes"Coil7:37CD, 2×LPThe Restitution of Decayed Intelligence (2019)2006Not Alone"Broccoli" (live 25 July 2004)Coil6:545×CDThe Restitution of Decayed Intelligence (2019)2006Brainwaves"Journey to Avebury"Coil13:133×CDThe Sound of Musick (2019)2006 NovemberBrainwaves"Stoned Circular III"Black Light District5:293×CDHeartworms (2019)2008 OctoberSleepwalk: A Selection by Optimo (Espacio)"A Cold Cell in Bangkok"Coil4:12CDA Cold Cell in Bangkok2010 OctoberWhy Be Blake When You Can Be Bleak?"Manifesto"Coil4:203×CD-Rexclusive, originally broadcast on Dutch national radio
Mixes, remixes & production by Coil