COIL - The Unreleased Themes for Hellraiser (Expanded) (lieferbar Juni)

label: Musiour La Danse, May 2026,

“Expanded Ritual” including previously unissued bonus material, reassembled as a standalone suite, with new text by Danny Hyde and original artwork by Trevor Brown.

Key long-term collaborator and Coil's "secret third member" Danny Hyde located the original Hellraiser studio session tapes, and the bonus material recovered from them is presented here as an "expanded ritual" edition.

Back in 1987, Clive Barker's supernatural body-horror classic “Hellraiser” hitted cinemas worldwide and introduced audiences to the demonic Cenobites. Barker was a devoted COIL fan (Peter Christopherson and John Balance), and he famously said they were the only band he'd ever heard on record whose music he'd had to take off because, in his words, "they made his bowels churn.". He initially invited them to compose the film's music, and the group began recording cues. But the producers at New World Pictures ultimately rejected the material in favor of a more traditional approach, bringing in Christopher Young, whose final score remains excellent, if less experimental. What remains from Coil is an unfinished soundtrack with surviving fragments and rough ideas, abruptly left behind mid-process, a glimpse into an alternate “Hellraiser” movie, one we can only fantasize into existence.

For fans of pain & pleasure, Throbbing Gristle, lost horror soundtracks & haunted electronics.