Coil - The Unreleased Themes From Hellraiser / The Consequences of Raising Hell [Tape]

Cassette edition.
Released by Soleilmoon (SOL206C) and Musique Pour La Danse (MPD57C)

Coil’s experimental soundtrack work for Clive Barker’s 1987 film “Hellraiser” will return on May 29, 2026 as “The Unreleased Themes for Hellraiser” in its “Expanded Ritual” edition so Audioglobe reports. Out via Musique Pour La Danse the release comes as a limited clear-vinyl LP and digiCD.

Barker originally wanted Coil to work on the film because he was a fan of the group. Their music was ultimately rejected in favor of Christopher Young’s more conventional orchestral score. Barker once said Coil were the only band he had ever heard whose records he had to remove because “they made his bowels churn.” Ideal for a horror OST apparently.

The new edition expands the long-circulating Coil material from those abandoned sessions. Longtime collaborator Danny Hyde found the original studio tapes and rebuilt the newly recovered material into a standalone suite. Hyde also supplied the new text, while Trevor Brown’s artwork is used for the release.