Unnatural History: Compilation Tracks Compiled

by Coil

Unnatural History: Compilation Tracks Compiled cover art
  • Type: Compilation
  • Released: 1990
  • Label: Threshold House
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 57:16
  • Community rating: 3.65/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Gathering rare cassette tracks and obscure compilation appearances from the esoteric industrial group's early years, this release provides a fascinating alternate history. The recordings are heavily steeped in occult themes and unsettling, ritualistic drone soundscapes. It highlights the group's mastery of deeply disturbing, highly conceptual dark ambient music.

Genres

Descriptors: repetitive, sampling, avant-garde, atmospheric

Tracklist

  1. Various Hands (3:26)
  2. The Swelling Of Leeches (3:05)
  3. The Pope Held Upside Down (3:41)
  4. His Body Was A Playground For The Nazi Elite (3:29)
  5. Homage To Sewage (2:23)
  6. Here To Here (Double Headed Secret) (4:51)
  7. S Is For Sleep (3:26)
  8. Dream Photography (3:23)
  9. Comfortable (1:41)
  10. Never (4:37)
  11. Penetralia II (3:10)
  12. Sicktone (3:23)
  13. How To Destroy Angels (16:41)

Credits

  • Coil - primary artist
  • Boyd Rice - featuring

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