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Key long-term collaborators 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 favour 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 fantasise into existence.
Nearly 40 years later, key long-term collaborators 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, reassembled into a standalone, possibly definitive and strangely beautiful nightmare suite. Play it in the dark and experience the consequences of raising hell…
Tracklist
A1. Coil - Attack Of The Senmapods
A2. Coil - The Box Theme (Mix 2)
A3. Coil - The Main Title
A4. Coil - Zither Theme
A5. Coil - The Hellbound Heart (Mix 1)
A6. Coil - No New World
A7. Coil - The Box Theme (Mix 1)
B1. Coil - Arcade Sound
B2. Coil - Cardinal Points
B3. Coil - Atmospheric Stuff
B4. Coil - Hellraiser Theme (Mix 2)
B5. Coil - Flutey Theme
B6. Coil - Unearthly Hell