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1* CreatorCouple: Even after their breakup, John and Peter continued to work together until John's death.
2* DiedDuringProduction: They were working on an album when Balance died--it was eventually released as-is under the name ''Black Antlers.''
3* HostilityOnTheSet[=/=]TroubledProduction: ''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.
4* LimitedSpecialCollectorsUltimateEdition: While Coil had released limited edition pressings in the past, this practice really took off in the late '90s. The limited editions could contain one-off paintings, art objects, and artifacts or, in the case of ''Musick to Play in the Dark 2,'' plain white vinyl sleeves ''smeared with John's blood.''
5* 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 recorded the unintended sounds their equipment made.
6* TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment: ''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".
7* 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.

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