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John Balance was the moth in God's oscilloscope, drunk on voltage and revelation.

He didn't sing, he conducted hauntings.

#JohnBalance

October 25, 2025 at 9:51 PM Everybody can reply

Pretty Gnostic Machine

@prettygothmachine.bsky.social

Blood-scarred hymn from a dying empire -
I return its unholy red to the abyss,
where truth rises like a black sun.

#coil
#JohnBalance

youtu.be/ru35mZm_ISo?...

August 18, 2025 at 11:02 PM Everybody can reply

Juan D. ¡VIVA LA RAZA!

@jhulud.bsky.social

Get in loser, we’re going candle diaper dancing…

#COIL #BlackAntlers @daisrecords.bsky.social #DaisRecords
#JohnBalance #JhonnBalance #PeterChristopherson #PeterSleazyChristopherson #TomEdwards #CliffStapleton #Thighpaulsandra #MikeYork #DannyHyde #IndustrialMusic #PostIndustrialMusic

July 10, 2025 at 2:39 AM Everybody can reply

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African Paper

@africanpaper.bsky.social

africanpaper.com/2025/07/05/c...
#coil #blackantlers #reissue #daisrecords #johnbalance #peterchristopherson #thighpaulsandra #cliffstapleton #dannyhyde #mikeyork #tomedwards

July 5, 2025 at 8:18 AM Everybody can reply

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Pretty Gnostic Machine

@prettygothmachine.bsky.social

youtu.be/ZlPbIfXNmBY?...

Unreal to see this surface:

#ZosKia
#JohnBalance
#Coil

ZosKia - Berlin Atonal, 3.XII.1983

YouTube video by thujone23

youtu.be

June 19, 2025 at 1:20 AM Everybody can reply

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Pretty Gnostic Machine

@prettygothmachine.bsky.social

For a deeper understanding, you can listen to the full manifesto read by John Balance here: youtu.be/-ATcKtibxOk?...

#coil
#JohnBalance
#PeterChristopherson

Coil Manifesto read by John Balance in 2001

YouTube video by Arno Peeters

youtu.be

June 1, 2025 at 5:08 PM Everybody can reply

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Pretty Gnostic Machine

@prettygothmachine.bsky.social

This is what you hear when the feedback loop between your trauma and your kink reaches transcendence..

#coil
#JohnBalance

youtu.be/l4q9yLePk7Q?...

Coil - FJ Nettlefold - All Versions (October/November 2004)

YouTube video by Live Coil Archive

youtu.be

May 17, 2025 at 3:45 PM Everybody can reply

Pretty Gnostic Machine

@prettygothmachine.bsky.social

Ode To Jhonn Balance (of Coil)

I am a cursed mirror-
God’s typo.
Carved in cartilage

Plato called me shadow.
I call him a coward
With cave fetish!

I reflect Perfection
A ghost in bad signal
Draped in static and omen.

Don't judge me.
Embrace me.

#coil
#JohnBalance

May 16, 2025 at 5:25 PM Everybody can reply

Pretty Gnostic Machine

@prettygothmachine.bsky.social

ex nihilo nihil, in nihilum posse reverti!

#Gnosticism
#JohnBalance
#DavidTibet
#TrentReznor
#JimMorrison
#FrankZappa

May 11, 2025 at 4:06 PM Everybody can reply

Pretty Gnostic Machine

@prettygothmachine.bsky.social

Gnostics in varying degrees of alignment:

#JohnBalance
#DavidTibet
#TrentReznor
#JimMorrison
#FrankZappa
#PrettyGnosticMachine

May 11, 2025 at 12:30 AM Everybody can reply

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FeldGrau Music

@ervani.bsky.social

Working on setlist for the FeldGrau live project. Inspired by early and mid 80’s music. storytelling by music, video and soundFX #LaDusseldorf #Neu #KlausDinger #Rheingold #BodoStaiger #NewWave #PostWave #Kraut #NeueDeutscheWelle #Coil #JohnBalance #PostWave #Dutch #music #band #PinkFloyd

May 8, 2025 at 6:15 PM Everybody can reply

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Hermes237

@hermes237.bsky.social

"At the heart of it all" by #coil
The liner notes say regarding this song "concerning silence"
Haunting and creepy.

#scatologyalbum #forceandform #1stpress #vinyl #experimental #johnbalance #jhonnbalance #peterchristophrrson #sleazy
#esotericmusic

May 8, 2025 at 11:39 AM Everybody can reply

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brett

@darkfunk.com

Coil
Love's Secret Domain (1991)

The Snow
youtu.be/rELqs5B75eI

#nowplaying #vinylsky #coil #johnbalance #peterchristopherson #electronicmusic

The photo shows a vinyl record, "Love's Secret Domain" by Coil, displayed on a wooden stand. The artwork features a dark, textured background with an intricate, psychedelic design. It includes a central emblem or crest that seems weathered and aged, with a stylized ribbon below it bearing the words "Out of Light Cometh Darkness." The surrounding environment includes decorative pottery and a green glass lamp, set against a backdrop of rustic brick walls.

April 10, 2025 at 1:26 AM Everybody can reply

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Dawn Vespero

@dawnvespero.bsky.social

For anyone interested in exploring Coil's discography, Bandcamp just published a very nice article on this topic:
daily.bandcamp.com/lists/coil-a...

#music #coilmusic #peterchristopherson #johnbalance

Dark Dreams and Bright Nightmares: The Mortal’s Guide to Coil

Where to begin with one of the most sinister, subversive bands in the history of heavy music.

daily.bandcamp.com

March 26, 2025 at 3:22 PM Everybody can reply

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Kim

@kimmoliver23.bsky.social

@simonhollins.bsky.social has put together a fantastic 'zine of his photography from 1982! Plenty of fashion moments and counter-culture illuminaries: #GavinFriday #JohnBalance & beyond.Proceeds will go to The Survivors Trust: bit.ly/raven-zine
Donate & contact Simon
[email protected]

February 25, 2025 at 7:15 PM Everybody can reply

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jeanseb66.bsky.social

@jeanseb66.bsky.social

Rendez-vous vendredi 28 février à Nancy pour la soirée de lancement du livre Everything Keeps Dissolving, une anthologie écrite consacrée à COIL ! Toutes les infos sur les réseaux ! #coil #johnbalance #peterchristopherson #postindustrial #camionblanc #nicksoulsby #strangeattractor #Nancyville #nancy

February 18, 2025 at 4:42 PM Everybody can reply

Jamie Roxx Artist

@jamieroxxartist.bsky.social

👉 🎶 If you Want to touch the Sky,
Then just put a window in your eye 🎶

Birthday Remembrances. Today, Feb 16, 1962 – #JohnBalance, English singer-songwriter ( #Coil ) (d. 2004) was born.

youtu.be/GRYMbIuil8c