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Gold Is the Metal (With the Broadest Shoulders)
The First Five Minutes After Violent Death

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The First Five Minutes After Violent Death

Release date: 1987

From Gold Is the Metal (With the Broadest Shoulders)

About This Track

"The First Five Minutes After Violent Death" is a track by Coil, from the album Gold Is the Metal (With the Broadest Shoulders), released 1987.

About the Artist

Coil

Coil

Track details

From Gold Is the Metal (With the Broadest Shoulders)

1987

Album

Gold Is the Metal (With the Broadest Shoulders)

Release year

1987

—Thump
—Last Rites of Spring
—For Us They Will
—Boy In A Suitcase
—Aqua Regalia
—Cardinal Points
—Either His, or Yours
—Metal in the Head
—Paradisiac
—Red Slur
—Golden Hole
—Soundtap
—...of Free Enterprise
—Chickenskin
—The Broken Wheel
—The First Five Minutes After Violent Death

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Credited: John Balance, Peter Christopherson, Stephen Thrower