Threshold House is one of several record labels created by Coil

Coil (band)

Coil were an English cross-genre, experimental music group formed in 1982 by John Balance—later credited as "Jhonn Balance"—and his partner Peter Christopherson, aka "Sleazy". The duo worked together on a series of releases before Balance chose the name Coil, which he claimed to be...

 to release their own work and that of affiliated projects. Associated labels include Eskaton

Eskaton

Eskaton is a defunct vanity record label created by Coil, exclusively for albums put out by the group and their friends. Its brother labels are Threshold House and Chalice....

 and Chalice

Chalice (record label)

Chalice is a defunct Britain vanity record label created by Coil, exclusively for albums put out by the group. Its brother labels are Threshold House and Eskaton....

. It is also the name for the official Coil website.

The label was initially a vanity label

Vanity label

A vanity label is an informal name given sometimes to a record label founded as a wholly or partially owned subsidiary of another, larger and better established record label, where the subsidiary label is controlled by a successful recording artist, designed to allow this artist...

 of sorts, as all releases were manufactured and distributed by other labels, most prominently World Serpent Distribution

World Serpent Distribution

World Serpent Distribution was a British record label and music distribution house formed in the 1990s by David Gibson, Alan Trench and Alison Webster...

. Following the bankruptcy of World Serpent, the label continued independently.

The logo for Threshold House is a castle-like building, possibly what Coil have referred to as "The East Tower" in past interviews, and a moon. It is also very similar to artist recreations of the buildings at Catalhoyuk

Çatalhöyük

Çatalhöyük was a very large Neolithic and Chalcolithic settlement in southern Anatolia, which existed from approximately 7500 BCE to 5700 BCE...

.

After the death of John Balance

John Balance

John Balance , born in Mansfield, England, was the founder of the experimental music group Coil, along with his partner Peter Christopherson...

 and the disbanding of Coil, Peter Christopherson

Peter Christopherson

Peter Martin Christopherson, a.k.a. Sleazy was a musician, video director and designer, and former member of the influential British design agency Hipgnosis....

 started a solo effort, The Threshold HouseBoys Choir, based on the name Threshold House.

LOCI

The series of "LOCI" were released when Coil resided in England.

Catalogue number	Release title	Format	Release date
LOCI 1	Gold Is The Metal With The Broadest Shoulders Gold Is The Metal With The Broadest Shoulders Gold Is the Metal with the Broadest Shoulders was the third album released by Coil in the year 1987. It is not a proper follow-up to 1986's Horse Rotorvator, but more a collection of outtakes and demos from the Scatology, Horse Rotorvator and Hellraiser soundtrack sessions...	12" vinyl	1987
LOCI S1	Themes For Derek Jarman's Blue	7" vinyl	1993
LOCI 2	The Wheel/The Wheal	7" vinyl	1987
LOCI CD2	Unnatural History Unnatural History Unnatural History is a compilation album produced by Coil. Including tracks that originally appeared on various compilations and limited edition releases along with some previously unreleased material...	CD	1990
LOCI 3	Windowpane Windowpane (album) Windowpane was a single released by the band Coil in 1990. It was released on 12" vinyl and CD. A video was created by Peter Christopherson for this song. "Windowpane" appears here truncated, missing the backwards vocals as they appear on the end of the song on Love's Secret Domain. The "Astral...	12" vinyl	1990
LOCI CD4	Stolen & Contaminated Songs Stolen & Contaminated Songs Stolen & Contaminated Songs was the first of two albums recorded and produced by the band Coil in 1992. This CD includes outtakes and unreleased songs from Love's Secret Domain album....	CD	1992
LOCI 5	How To Destroy Angels	CD	1992
LOCI CD 6	The Angelic Conversation	CD	1994
LOCI CD 7	Windowpane & The Snow Windowpane & The Snow Windowpane & The Snow was a CD released by the band Coil. This release compiles the two EPs, Windowpane and The Snow. The original versions of the songs "Windowpane" and "The Snow" appear on the album Love's Secret Domain....	CD	1995
LOCI 8	(none)
LOCI 9	(none)
LOCI CD 10	Unnatural History II Unnatural History II Unnatural History II was the second in a series of three compilation albums by Coil. Unlike Stolen & Contaminated Songs and Gold Is The Metal With The Broadest Shoulders, Unnatural History II collects songs from more than a single era of Coil's work.-Compilation origins:"Red Weather" originally...	CD	1995
LOCI CD 11	Gold Is The Metal With The Broadest Shoulders	CD	1996
LOCI CD 12	Unnatural History III Unnatural History III Unnatural History III was the third in a series of three compilation albums by Coil. Unlike Stolen & Contaminated Songs and Gold Is the Metal with the Broadest Shoulders, Unnatural History III collects songs from more than a single era of Coil's work...	CD	1997
LOCI CD 13	Transparent Transparent (album) Transparent is the first release by the band Coil. It was a collaboration with Zos Kia and credited to "Zos Kia/Coil".The cassette version was released in 1984 on Nekrophile Rekords with catalogue number NRC 05. The CD version was released in 1997 on the label "Threshold House" with catalogue...	CD	1998
LOCI 14	Astral Disaster Astral Disaster Astral Disaster is an album by Coil, which has been released in two distinct versions.The original pressing of the album was released in an edition of 99 copies on 12" vinyl via the record label Acme/Prescription with catalogue number Drug 8...	12" vinyl	2000
LOCI CD 14	Astral Disaster	CD	2000
LOCI CD 15	Scatology Scatology (album) Scatology is the first LP and a second album produced by Coil.Scatology was released in three different formats with two different covers...	CD	2001
LOCI CD 16	Horse Rotorvator Horse Rotorvator Horse Rotorvator is the second LP released by the British industrial group Coil. It was named one of the Top 100 Albums of the 1980s by Pitchfork Media who ranked it 73rd.-Editions:...	CD	2001
LOCI CD 17	Love's Secret Domain Love's Secret Domain Love's Secret Domain is the third album by Coil and was released in 1991. The album marked a departure from the brooding synthesizers and melodies of their first two albums, focusing more on acid house sampling. The singles released from the album were "Windowpane" and "The Snow"...	CD	2001
LOCI CD 18	Live One	2XCD	2003
LOCI CD 19	Live Two Live Two Live Two was a CD by Coil which documents their live performance on 15 September 2001 at DK Gorbunova in Moscow, Russia. This CD was one of four releases in a series. Its counterparts are Live Four, Live Three and Live One...	CD	2003
LOCI CD 20	Live Three Live Three Live Three was a CD by Coil which documents their live performance on 6 April 2002 at Teatro delle Celebrazioni in Bologna, Italy. This CD was one of four releases in a series. Its counterparts are Live Four, Live Two and Live One...	CD	2003
LOCI CD 21	Live Four Live Four Live Four was a compilation CD of live Coil songs. This CD was the first of four releases in a series. Its counterparts are Live Three, Live Two and Live One. This album was later released as part of Coil's box set The Key To Joy Is Disobedience.The performance dates for "Bang Bang" and "An...	CD	2003

THRESH & THBKK

The "THRESH" and "THBKK" series began with Peter Christopherson

Peter Christopherson

Peter Martin Christopherson, a.k.a. Sleazy was a musician, video director and designer, and former member of the influential British design agency Hipgnosis....

's relocation to Bangkok

Bangkok

Bangkok is the capital and largest urban area city in Thailand. It is known in Thai as Krung Thep Maha Nakhon or simply Krung Thep , meaning "city of angels." The full name of Bangkok is Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahintharayutthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom...

.

Artist	Catalogue number	Release title	Format	Release date
Coil	THRESH1	...And the Ambulance Died in His Arms ...And the Ambulance Died in His Arms ...And the Ambulance Died in His Arms was an album recorded live during Coil's performance at All Tomorrow's Parties on April 4, 2003. This album was the last planned release by Coil before the death of John Balance...	CD	4 April 2003
Coil	THRESH2	The Ape Of Naples The Ape Of Naples The Ape of Naples is the final album from Coil. It was released after the death of lead vocalist John Balance, who died on 13 November 2004. The title of this album was originally intended to be "Fire of the Mind"....	CD, 2x12" vinyl	2 December 2005
Coil	THBKK1	The Remote Viewer The Remote Viewer The Remote Viewer was originally released in CD-R format by Coil. The three track album was released in 2002 May in an edition of 500 copies. The initial three copies were signed and numbered, then auctioned off. The album was later re-edited by Peter Christopherson and expanded to include a second...  (remastered edition)	2xCD	2006 August
Coil	THBKK2	Black Antlers Black Antlers Black Antlers was originally released in CD-R format by Coil in 2004 in a limited edition. The album was later re-edited by Peter Christopherson and expanded to include a second CD of two new tracks, as well as a new track on the first disc. The second edition was released in 2006 August on the...  (remastered edition)	2xCD	2006 August
The Threshold HouseBoys Choir	THBKK3	Form Grows Rampant Form Grows Rampant Form Grows Rampant is the debut release by Peter Christopherson's solo project The Threshold HouseBoys Choir. The set is a CD + DVD. The album was originally announced in the X-Rated: The Dark Files as Rampant. The set was originally planned to be released in Blu-Ray format...	CD + DVD	2007
Coil	THBKK4	The New Backwards The New Backwards Backwards was a studio bootleg recording by Coil. The origin of the source of "Backwards" is believed to have been a leak of the studio demo, in the form of a cassette . However, the entire demo was broadcast when Dutch Radio4, a radio station in Amsterdam, had Coil as in studio guests to coincide...	12" vinyl, CD	2008