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01. Coil - Attack Of The Senmapods
02. Coil - The Box Theme (Mix 2)
03. Coil - The Main Title
04. Coil - Zither Theme
05. Coil - The Hellbound Heart (Mix 1)
06. Coil - No New World
07. Coil - The Box Theme (Mix 1)
08. Coil - Arcade Sound
09. Coil - Cardinal Points
10. Coil - Atmospheric Stuff
11. Coil - Hellraiser Theme (Mix 2)
12. Coil - Flutey Theme
13. Coil - Unearthly Hell
ARTIST
TITLE
The Unreleased Themes For Hellraiser (Expanded Ritual)
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
MPD 057CD MPD 057CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
5/29/2026

Musique Pour La Danse presents The Unreleased Themes From Hellraiser (Expanded Ritual) by Coil. 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. 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. Notes by Danny Hyde. Original artwork by Trevor Brown. For fans of pain and pleasure, Throbbing Gristle, lost horror soundtracks and haunted electronics.