History Trivia / Coil

* CreatorCouple: Even after their breakup, they continued to work together until John's death.

* TheShelfLifeOfMovieLanguishment: ''Backwards'' was completed some time between ''Love's Secret Domain'' and ''Musick to Play in the Dark'', but was not released at all until 2015. The closest to an explanation came from session musician Danny Hyde, who cited "issues with grey men".

* ShelfLifeOfMovieLanguishment: ''Backwards'' was completed some time between ''Love's Secret Domain'' and ''Musick to Play in the Dark'', but was not released at all until 2015. The closest to an explanation came from session musician Danny Hyde, who cited "issues with grey men".

* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** Coil was tapped to do the soundtrack for ''{{Film/Hellraiser}}'', but they eventually turned it down after being worried that the studio wouldn't use their songs and keep them locked up. Tracks they did for the soundtrack were eventually released as bonus tracks years later.
** ''Backwards'' was ready for release as early as the late '90s, and was even slated to appear on Nothing Records before it was suddenly withdrawn. The closest to an explanation came from session musician Danny Hyde, who cited "issues with grey men" as why it didn't see release until 2015.

* DiedDuringProduction: They were working on an album when Balance died--it was eventually released as it was under the name ''Black Antlers.''

* ThrowItIn: Were very interested in the role of chance in composion, to the point where they would even consider sounds produced by their gear malfunctioning for release. This became the basis for their side project [=ELpH=], in which they simply let their equipment run without interfering themselves.

* AuthorExistenceFailure: They were working on an album when Balance died--it was eventually released as it was under the name ''Black Antlers.''

* AuthorExistenceFailure: Jhonn Balance died in 2004 from an accidental fall. Peter Christopherson died in his sleep six years later, putting an end to any possibility of restarting the band.

* CreatorBreakdown: ''Love's Secret Domain'' was a rather bad recording experience for the band; With the band heavily on drugs and working constantly, it led to insane, almost dreamlike confrontations (Peter claimed that Balance and Stapleton once had an argument that lasted over ''40 straight hours''), as well as influential hallucinations of "ten foot tall amazon warriors in the recording studio". Not only that, but John almost died as well filming the music video for "Windowpane", as he found out later on he was standing in quicksand that he was slowly sinking in near the end. After it was finished they didn't release another new full-length album for eight years, and only one song off of it, "Titan Arch", ever got play live.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Coil was tapped to do the soundtrack for ''{{Film/Hellraiser}}'', but they eventually turned it down after being worried that the studio wouldn't use their songs and keep them locked up. Tracks they did for the soundtrack were eventually released as bonus tracks years later.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Coil was tapped to do the soundtrack for ''{{Film/Hellraiser}}'', but they eventually turned it down after being worried that the studio wouldn't use their songs and keep them locked up.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: ''Everything that the band has ever recorded.'' Between John's passing in 2004 and Peter's in 2010, an estate for Coil's work was never set up to allow their recordings to be remastered and re-issued in the future. Despite this, Peter set forward plans to have many pieces of music archived and re-released in the future, and in 2015, eight albums of material from 1982-1992 were released in semi-official form through Brainwashed under the banner Threshold Archives.
** Coil also experienced problems with distributors that have contributed to tape (re-)circulation, such as when distributor World Serpent folded.

** Coil also experienced problems with distributors that have contributed to tape (re-)circulation, such as when distributor World Serpent folded.

* CreatorCouple: Even after their breakup, they continued to work together until John's death.