Coil The Halliwell Hammers (2) Coil can potentially destroy your life
Speaking of Coil s Worship The Glitsch (released as ELpH vs Coil) the time when I first listened to it coincided with a period of acute depression and anxiety disorder with psychosomatic symptoms that plagued my everyday life for many months and nearly destroyed my relationship with my thengirlfriend (and now wife) as well as my stomach. So, the threepart track Halliwell Hammers from that album, which refers to the murder of controversial British playwright Joe Orton who wrote the influential play Loot at the hands of his boyfriend Kenneth Halliwell with a hammer. I don t know if I subconsciously related the sounds of that particular song, and especially its second and third part, with the actual murder there is a percussive sound throughout, not a violent hammering bang but from the first time I heard it I got instantly scared and anxious, and I don t remember ever having managed to listen to it through, though it lasts only 2. 30 and 3. 30 minutes respectively. Its cold
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