COIL – The Unreleased Themes for Hellraiser [expanded ritual]

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PRE-ORDER ITEM — TO BE RELEASED MAY 29, 2026. 

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Back in 1987, Clive Barker’s supernatural body-horror classic Hellraiser hit 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.

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 defnitive and strangely beautiful nightmare suite. Play it in the dark and experience the consequences of raising hell…

TRACK LIST
1. Attack Of The Sennapods 01:53
2. The Box Theme (Mix 2) 05:30
3. Main Title 03:23
4. Zither Theme 01:04
5. Hellbound Heart (Mix 1) 02:20
6. No New World 03:53
7. The Box Theme (Mix 1) 03:02
8. Arcade sounds 03:56
9. Cardinal Points 04:19
10. Atmospheric Stuff 02:51
11. Hellraiser Theme (Mix 2) 02:46
12. Flutey Theme 01:08
13. Unearthly Hell 07:14

Notes by Danny Hyde
Original artwork by Trevor Brown