Horse Rotorvator

by Coil

Horse Rotorvator cover art

On 'Horse Rotorvator', Coil refines its experimental industrial sound into a form of modern psychedelia, constructing a tense and unnerving atmosphere through a collage of tribal drumming, funereal horns, and disquieting samples. The album's grand, sweeping compositions explore themes of death, betrayal, and apocalypse, notably meditating on the murder of filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini and featuring a stark cover of Leonard Cohen’s “Who by Fire”. Its fusion of brute noise and creepily serene arrangements established the work as a frightening and unique landmark of 1980s avant-garde music.

Genres

  • Industrial

Tracklist

  1. The Anal Staircase
  2. Slur
  3. Babylero
  4. Ostia (The Death Of Pasolini)
  5. Herald
  6. Penetralia
  7. Circles Of Mania
  8. Blood From The Air
  9. Who By Fire
  10. The Golden Section
  11. The First Five Minutes After Death