Title: The Unreleased Themes For Hellraiser (Expanded Ritual)
Artist: Coil
Label: Musique Pour Danse
Product Type: VINYL LP
UPC: 5414166691333
Genre: Electronic
Release Date: 2026-05-29
Number of Discs: 1
Key long-term collaborators and Coil’s “secret third member” Danny Hyde located the original Hellraiser studio session tapes, and the bonus material recovered from them is presented here as an “expanded ritual” edition. Back in 1987, Clive Barker’s supernatural body-horror classic Hellraiser hitted cinemas worldwide and introduced audiences to the demonic Cenobites. Barker was a devoted Coil fan (Peter Christopherson and John Balance), and he famously said they were the only band he’d ever heard on record whose music he’d had to take off because, in his words, “they made his bowels churn.”. He initially invited them to compose the film’s music, and the group began recording cues. But the producers at New World Pictures ultimately rejected the material in favor of a more traditional approach, bringing in Christopher Young, whose final score remains excellent, if less experimental. What remains from Coil is an unfinished soundtrack with surviving fragments and rough ideas, abruptly left behind mid-process, a glimpse into an alternate Hellraiser movie, one we can only fantasize into existence. Nearly 40 years later, key long-term collaborators and Coil’s “secret third member” Danny Hyde located the original Hellraiser studio session tapes, and the bonus material recovered from them is presented here as an “expanded ritual” edition, reassembled into a standalone, possibly definitive and strangely beautiful nightmare suite. Play it in the dark and experience the consequences of raising hell
Tracks:
1.1 Attack of the Senmapods
1.2 Box Theme [Mix 2]
1.3 Main Title
1.4 Zither Theme
1.5 Hellbound Heart [Mix 1]
1.6 No New World
1.7 Box Theme [Mix 1]
1.8 Arcade Sound
1.9 Cardinal Points
1.10 Atmospheric Stuff
1.11 Hellraiser Theme [Mix 2]
1.12 Flutey Theme
1.13 Unearthly Hell
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