COIL is a hidden universal. A code. A key for which the WHOLE does not exist. Is NONEXISTENT, in silence and secrecy. A spell. A spiral. A serpents SHt round a female cycle. A whirlwind. A double helix. DNA. Electricity and elementals. Atonal noise, and brutal poetry.
COIL is amorphous. Luminous and constant change. Inbuilt obSOLescence. Inbuilt Disobedience.
A vehicle for obsessions. Dreamcycles in perpetual motion. We are cutthroats. Infantile. Immaculately Conceived. Dis-eased. The Virus is Khaos. The cure is Delirium.
COIL are Archangels of KHAOS. The price we pay for existence is eternal Warfare. There is a hidden coil of strength, dormant beneath the sediment of convention. Dreams lead us under the surface, over the edge, to the Delerium state. UNCHAINED. Past impositions and false universals. Reassembling into OUR order.
COIL. Who has the nerve to dream, create and kill, while the whole moves every part stands still. Our rationale is the irrationAL. Hallucination is the truth our graves are dug with. COIL is compulsion. URGE and construction. Dead letters fall from our shedding skins. Kabbala and KHAOS. Thanatos and Thelema. Archangels and Antichrists. Open and Close. Truth and Deliberation. Traps and Disorientation.
Coil exist between Here and Here. We are Janus Headed. Plural. Out of time. Out of place. Out of Spite. An antidote for when people become poisons.
COIL know how to destroy Angels. How to paralyse. Imagine the world in a bottle. We take the bottle, smash it, and open your throat with it. I warn you we are Murderous. We massacre the logical revolts. We know everything! We know one thing only. Absolute existence, absolute motion, absolute direction, absolute Truth. NOW, HERE, US.
"Not Knowing What Is And Is Not Knowing, I Knew Not" - Hassan i Sabbah.
Coil's 1983 Manifesto.
John Balance (first name also spelled Jhon and Jhonn; born Geff Rushton/Geoffrey Laurence Burton), 16 February 1962 – 13 November 2004 & Peter Martin Christopherson, a.k.a. Sleazy, 27 February 1955 – 24 November 2010.
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COIL still hold a very special place in my heart. I discovered them through members of an old band I was in in 1985 shortly before getting kicked out. Scatology and Horse Rotorvator were a revelation at the time, and I followed them ardently up until the death of Jhonn Balance in 2004.
ReplyDeleteI love their esoteric world view, they really did take me places, not only musically, but metaphysically as well. They introduced me to the world of'occult' knowledge as well as informing me and inadvertently colouring my literary tastes and world view. There has been a huge COIL shaped hole in my being since their demise, and the sad death of Peter last year really was too soon. Great post by the way. Love those 'Time Machine' costumes, what people forget is that COIL had a great sense of the absurd too.