Coil discography

Discography for the experimental music group Coil and their aliases.

Coil discography
Studio albums	18
EPs	7
Live albums	9
Compilation albums	10
Singles	10
Music videos	5

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 on
1979	Standard Response	"Blue Funk (Scar for E)"	Murderwerkers		cassette	track is exclusive to compilation
1980	Deleted Funtime	"Thin Veil of Blood"	Stabmental	3:03	cassette	track is exclusive to compilation
1983	The Beast 666	"Here to Here (Double Headed Secret)"	Coil	4:22	CD	Unnatural History, Transparent
1983	The Elephant Table Album	"S Is for Sleep"	Coil	3:31	CD, 2×LP	Unnatural History
1984	Bethel	"Red Weather"	Coil		cassette	Unnatural History II
1984	Life at the Top	"Homage to Sewage"	Coil	2:13	LP	Unnatural History
1985	Devastate to Liberate	"Restless Day"	Coil	4:24	cassette, LP	Scatology (CD pressing)
1985	The Fight Is On	"Sicktone"	Coil	3:21	LP	Unnatural History
1985	If You Can't Please Yourself, You Can't Please Your Soul	"The Wheel"	Coil	2:41	CD, LP	The Wheel
1985	U.K. Buzz#006	"The Wheel"	Coil	2:42	LP	The Wheel
1985	A Diamond Hidden in the Mouth of a Corpse	"Neither His Nor Yours"	Coil	2:48	CD, LP	Unnatural History III
1986	Peyrere	"Dream Photography"	Coil	3:24	cassette	Unnatural History
1986	Ohrensausen	"His Body Was a Playground for the Nazi Elite"	Coil	3:22	LP	Unnatural History
1987	Raw Like Sewage	"Comfortable"	Coil			Unnatural History
1987	Less Than Angels	"Never"	Coil		cassette	Unnatural History, The Angelic Conversation
1988	Core: A Conspiracy International Project	"Feeder"	CTI with Coil	8:43	CD, LP	Unnatural History III
1989	Myths 4: Sinople Twilight in Catal Hüyük	"Another Brown World"	Coil	12:09	CD, LP	Unnatural History II
1989	Pathological Compilation	"Contains a Disclaimer"	Coil	7:34	CD, LP, cassette	Unnatural History II
1990	Total Volume 1	"The Anal Staircase (Relentless mix)"	Coil	4:00	CD	track is exclusive to compilation
1991	The Portable Altamont	"Wrong Eye"	Coil	5:59	CD	Wrong Eye, Unnatural History III
1991	The Portable Altamont	"Scope"	Coil	6:36	CD	Wrong Eye, Unnatural History III
1991	The Portable Altamont	"Meaning What Exactly?"	Coil	3:45	CD	Unnatural History III
1991	Wax Trax! Sampler#2	"Love's Secret Domain (demo version)"	Coil		cassette	Stolen & Contaminated Songs
1991	Order to the Galaxy Vol. 1	"The Snow (Driftmix)"	Coil	2:35	CD, cassette	The Snow
1993	Electrocity Vol. 3	"Windowpane"	Coil	5:43	CD	Love's Secret Domain
1993	Cash Cow: The Best of Giorno Poetry Systems 1965–1993	"Neither His Nor Yours"	Coil	2:48	CD	Unnatural History III
1994	Chaos in Expansion	"Baby Food"	Coil	12:03	CD	Unnatural History III
1994	Black Box – Wax Trax! Records: The First 13 Years	"Love's Secret Domain"	Coil	3:54	3×CD	Love's Secret Domain
1994	Black Box – Wax Trax! Records: The First 13 Years	"The Snow (Answers Come in Dreams II)"	Coil	5:56	3×CD	The Snow
1994	Space Daze	"Nasa Arab"	Coil	11:00	2×CD	Stolen & Contaminated Songs
1994	Out There: A Thread in Time	"Nasa Arab"	Coil vs The Eskaton	10:59	2×CD, 4×LP	Stolen & Contaminated Songs
1994	El Mondo Ambiente	"The Snow (Driftmix)"	Coil	2:35	2×CD	The Snow
1995	Macro Dub Infection	"The Hills Are Alive"	Coil	7:16	2×CD, 3×LP	Unnatural History II
1996	Succour	"Lost Rivers of London"	Coil	7:38	2×CD	Unnatural History III
1996	Treat the Gods as If They Exist	"It If Wasn't Wolves, What Was It?"	ELpH vs. Coil	2:58	CD	Protection (2019)
1997	Terra Serpentes	"Heartworms"	Coil	7:14	2×CD	alternate version on Foxtrot
1997	Narcosis	"Stoned Circular II"	Black Light District	6:41	2×CD	A Thousand Lights in a Darkened Room
1998	Foxtrot	"Blue Rats (Blue Cheese mix)"	Coil	4:08	CD, 2×10″	Heartworms (2019)
1998	Foxtrot	"Heartworms"	Coil	7:16	CD, 2×10″	Heartworms (2019); alternate version on Terra Serpentes
1998	Interiors	"Gnomic Verses"	ELpH	5:05	CD	I Don't Want to Be the One (2019)
1999	Industrial Strength Music	"Panic"	Coil	4:19	CD	Scatology
1999	The Torture Garden	"Blue Rats"	Black Light District	3:11	CD	A Thousand Lights in a Darkened Room
2000	Cornucopea	"Time Machines (excerpt)"	Coil	5:20	CD	partial version of track found on Time Machines
2000	The Wire Tapper 6	"A Cold Cell"	Coil	6:24	2×CD	alternate version found on A Guide for Beginners: The Voice of Silver
2000	Emre (Dark Matter)	"Broken Aura"	Coil	8:05	CD	I Don't Want to Be the One (2019)
2000	Computer Music Journal Sound Anthology Volume 24	"Glisten #2"	Coil	1:05	CD	I Don't Want to Be the One (2019)
2001	Rough Trade Shops: 25 Years	"Further Back and Faster"	Coil	7:58	4×CD	Love's Secret Domain
2001	''sR:Ample''	"Broken Aura (excerpt)"	Coil	3:41	CD	partial version of track found on Emre (Dark Matter)
2001	Lichttaufe 2	"Are You Shivering?"	Coil	9:38	CD	Musick to Play in the Dark Vol. 1
2002	Light + Kraft	"Love's Secret Domain"	Coil			Love's Secret Domain
2002	Rough Trade Shops: Electronic 01	"Ended"	ELpH vs. Coil	1:13	2×CD	Worship the Glitch
2002	Brain NOT in the Wire	"Mayhem Accelerator Part 1"	Coil	12:17	CD	partial version of a track found on Airborne Bells (2019)
2002	Beta-Beat 01	"The Restitution of Decayed Intelligence II (excerpt)"	Coil		2×CD-R	partial version of a track found on The Restitution of Decayed Intelligence
2002	X-Rated: The Electronic Files	"Remote Viewing 1 (excerpt)"	Coil	12:02	2×CD	partial version of a track found on The Remote Viewer
2002	The Wire 20: 1982-2002	"Wrong Eye"	Coil	5:54	3×CD	Wrong Eye, Unnatural History III
2003	Mutek 03	"The Test"	Coil	5:40	CD	Backwards (2015)
2003	England's Hidden Reverse	"Are You Shivering?"	Coil	9:37	CD	Musick to Play in the Dark Vol. 1
2003	England's Hidden Reverse	"Chaostrophy"	Coil	5:39	CD	Love's Secret Domain
2003	England's Hidden Reverse	"Amethyst Deceivers"	Coil	6:33	CD	Autumn Equinox: Amethyst Deceivers
2003	England's Hidden Reverse	"The Lost Rivers of London"	Black Light District	7:41	CD	A Thousand Lights in a Darkened Room
2003	Lactamase Bonus Compilation	"Bad Message"	Coil	2:09	10″	The Restitution of Decayed Intelligence (2019)
2003	The Lactamase 10″ Sampler	"The Restitution of Decayed Intelligence II (extract)"	Coil	5:01	CD-R	partial version of track found on The Restitution of Decayed Intelligence
2005	X-Rated: The Dark Files	"Coppice Meat"	Coil	10:47	CD	Moons Milk (In Four Phases) Bonus Disc
2005	OperettAmorale	"A List of Wishes"	Coil	7:37	CD, 2×LP	The Restitution of Decayed Intelligence (2019)
2006	Not Alone	"Broccoli" (live 25 July 2004)	Coil	6:54	5×CD	The Restitution of Decayed Intelligence (2019)
2006	Brainwaves	"Journey to Avebury"	Coil	13:13	3×CD	The Sound of Musick (2019)
2006 November	Brainwaves	"Stoned Circular III"	Black Light District	5:29	3×CD	Heartworms (2019)
2008 October	Sleepwalk: A Selection by Optimo (Espacio)	"A Cold Cell in Bangkok"	Coil	4:12	CD	A Cold Cell in Bangkok
2010 October	Why Be Blake When You Can Be Bleak?	"Manifesto"	Coil	4:20	3×CD-R	exclusive, originally broadcast on Dutch national radio

Mixes, remixes & production by Coil

Year	Title	Released on	Original artist	Length	Format
1992	"Gave Up"	Fixed	Nine Inch Nails	5:25	CD
1994	"Closer (Precursor)"	Closer to God	Nine Inch Nails	7:16	CD, 12″, cassette
1994	"Olive"	Switchblade	Schaft	5:03	CD
1994	"Visual Cortex"	Switchblade	Schaft	8:01	CD
1995	"Dreamspace (Coil - "Shadow vs Executioner" mix)"	Ellipsis	Scorn	11:30	CD, 5×12″
1995	"Dreamscape (Unstable Sidereal Oneiroscopic mix)"	Ellipsis	Scorn	4:45	5×12″
1995	"The Downward Spiral (The Bottom)"	Further Down the Spiral	Nine Inch Nails	7:28	CD
1995	"Eraser (Denial; Realization)"	Further Down the Spiral	Nine Inch Nails	6:33	CD
1995	"Eraser (Polite)"	Further Down the Spiral (US version only)	Nine Inch Nails	1:15	CD
1995	"Erased, Over, Out"	Further Down the Spiral (US version only)	Nine Inch Nails	6:00	CD
1995	"Cowboys in Bangkok (Coil vs ELpH mix)"	Twist	Chris & Cosey	5:53	CD
1996	"Kraak (Coil mix)"	Kraak Remixes	Psychick Warriors ov Gaia	10:05	CD, 2×12″
1996	"Kraak (Coil mix)"	History of Psychick Phenomenon	Psychick Warriors ov Gaia	10:05	2×CD
1996	"Tactile vs Coil"	Outside the Circles of Time	Tactile	5:29	12″
1996	"Intervention 1 - Tactile vs Coil"	Recurrence & Intervention	Tactile	5:32	CD
1997	"Kála"	City of Light	Bill Laswell	13:06	CD
1998	"Villa Esplendor (Coil - Troglodyte mix)"	En-Co-D-Esplendor	Esplendor Geométrico	9:01	CD
1999	"Dreamscape (Unstable Sidereal Oneiroscopic mix)"	Anamnesis - Rarities 1994–1997	Scorn	5:08	CD
1999	"The Gimp/Sometimes"	Hate People Like Us	People Like Us	6:25	CD, 2×CD
2001	"Fallen Angels Entering Pandemonium (Coil remix)"	So Soon	Slag Boom Van Loon	9:42	CD
2001	"Hobgoblins (Coil remix)"	The Séance at Hobs Lane	Mount Vernon Arts Lab	5:48	CD
2004	"I Wanna Be Your Dog (Coil Mogadog mix)"	I Wanna Be Your Dog	Futon	6:18	CD
2004	"Rush (Black Sun mix)"	Remixes 81–04 Rare Tracks	Depeche Mode	5:57	MP3
2004	"Closer (Precursor)"	The Downward Spiral (Deluxe Edition)	Nine Inch Nails	7:16	CD
2004	"The Downward Spiral (The Bottom)"	The Downward Spiral (Deluxe Edition)	Nine Inch Nails	7:32	CD
2004	"Hobgoblins (Coil remix)"	The Electronic Bible Chapter 1	Mount Vernon Arts Lab	5:48	CD

Remixes of Coil by others

• The album Pontifex Maximus by Phallus Dei includes a track called "Rule Again". The music for this track is credited to Coil and lyrics to Death in June, however it is merely the song "Here to Here" with the lyrics of the Death in June song "Rule Again" sung over top of the track. This track was neither authorized by Coil or Death in June. (1991)
• The album Pure by The Golden Palominos features a song called "No Skin" which samples "Nasa Arab" heavily. (1994)
• The album No Thought, No Breath, No Eyes, No Heart (Pure Mixes) by The Golden Palominos includes several versions of the song "No Skin" which heavily features "Nasa Arab". One of these tracks was included as part of the Songs of the Week series. (1995)
• The single Obsidian Monarch by Thread is a two track 7″ vinyl with a remix of "Glowworm/Waveform" and "Dark River". (1999)
• The album Москве by CoH features a remix of the ELpH vs. Coil track "pHILM". (2002)

Music videos

Song title	Album song is on	Music video released on	Directed by	Year
"The Wheel"	If You Can't Please Yourself, You Can't Please Your Soul	n/a	Peter Christopherson	1985
"Tainted Love"	Panic/Tainted Love, Scatology (CD version)	Black Box (A Video Retrospect) Volume 2 (VHS)	Peter Christopherson	1985
"Windowpane"	Love's Secret Domain	Black Box (A Video Retrospect) Volume 1 (VHS)	Peter Christopherson	1990
"The Snow (Answers Come in Dreams II)"	The Snow	n/a	Peter Christopherson	1991
"Love's Secret Domain"	Love's Secret Domain	n/a	Peter Christopherson	1991
"Ostia (The Death of Pasolini)"	Horse Rotorvator	Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (DVD)[1]	Peter Christopherson	2008