Coil
How To Destroy Angels (Remixes And Re-Recordings)

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"How to Destroy Angels (Remixes and Re-Recordings)", released in 1992, contains new remixes and recordings of the rare 1984 EP Coil. This spell collection is a portal to the unfathomable depths of Coil's sonic evolution. The original EP, "How to Destroy Angels," was conceived as ritual music for the accumulation of male sexual energy, an offering to the divine woven into a sinister dance of sounds. In tune with the works of contemporaries Current 93, this esoteric creation intertwined ritual environments with industrial textures. In the new expanded edition, we have a variety of studio manipulations that surpass the previous version in imagination and atmosphere. The vital breath of "The Sleeper," with its two solitary minutes, manifests as an echo of unknown sounds, a beat like that of a dark heart. "Dismal Orb," stripped of its garments, propels itself into the ether like an incorporeal entity, an essence floating in the marshes of the unknown. "Tectonic Plates," majestic and gloomy, roars with the collision of primordial rocks, the liquid magma flowing beneath the surface. The magical touch of Steven Stapleton (Nurse With Wound) reverberates in the abyss, a titanic remix that embraces and reforms the primordial mantra of "How To Destroy Angels" in a sixteen-minute journey into cosmic darkness. And at the end, a whispered silence, "Absolute Elsewhere," an echo of the infinite, a tribute to the unfathomable void that envelops every creation. This work extends over fifty minutes of pure immersion into the unknown. An experience not only satisfying but transformative, traversing the very fabric of sonic existence.