Mute announces new series of Coil reissues
Mute Records has announced a new series of reissues from the catalog of industrial pioneers Coil. First up in the series is Gold Is the Metal (With the Broadest Shoulders), the band’s collection of outtakes from 1987. It’ll be released on October 30, fittingly just in time for Halloween. Hear “Cardinal Points” below.
Coil alum Stephen Thrower said in a statement that the album’s more than “a round-up of wraiths and strays,” and that it’s “the culmination of a ‘magnum opus’ in the artistic sense, the closure of a trilogy – Scatology, Horse Rotorvator and Gold is the Metal – rounding up even our most jagged, cryptic, frictional, intemperate materials into a final balanced form”
The reissue of Gold Is the Metal will be followed by soundtrack for Derek Jarman’s The Angelic Conversation, the unreleased music for Clive Barker’s Hellraiser and the compilation Unnatural History.
Read our Beginner’s Guide to the music of Coil.
Coil Gold Is the Metal (With the Broadest Shoulders) tracklist:
The Last Rites of Spring (2026 Remaster)
Paradisiac (2026 Remaster)
Thump (2026 Remaster)
For Us They Will (2026 Remaster)
The Broken Wheel (2026 Remaster)
Boy in a Suitcase (2026 Remaster)
Golden Hole (2026 Remaster)
Cardinal Points (2026 Remaster)
Red Slur (2026 Remaster)
…Of Free Enterprise (2026 Remaster)
Aqua Regalia (2026 Remaster)
Metal in the Head (2026 Remaster)
Either His, or Yours (2026 Remaster)
Chickenskin (2026 Remaster)
Soundtrap (2026 Remaster)
The First Five Minutes after Violent Death (2026 Remaster)
