# How to Destroy Angels | | | | --- | --- | | __Title__: | How to Destroy Angels | | __Featured on__: | [[Releases/How To Destroy Angels|How To Destroy Angels]] | | __Original__: | | | __Derivative__: | How To Destroy Angels (Mono) | | __Previous Version__: | | | __Next Version__: | | | __Interpolated in:__ | [[The Sewage Worker’s Birthday Party]] | | __Interpolates:__ | | --- *__How to Destroy Angels__* is a song originally released on Coil’s [[Releases/How To Destroy Angels|1984 debut single of the same name]]. The song was recorded at the same time as the [[Scatology]] track [[The Sewage Worker’s Birthday Party]], resulting in both songs using some of the same samples. Most noticeably, the same sounds of clashing swords are found prominently in both songs. The song’s title was intentionally chosen to be ambiguous: It could refer either to the ritual nature of the music allowing the listener to accumulate enough energy to destroy angels, or to a loss of innocence.[^1] The former implication, however, seems to be more heavily evidenced, as seen by the cover of the corresponding single referring to it as “Music for the accumulation of Male Sexual Energy” and by [[Jhonn Balance]] describing it as “an aid to sexual magick”.[^2] ## Lyrics > *[Instrumental]* ## Versions ## Personnel |Name|Credit| |---|---| ||| ||| ## References [^1]: Nick Soulsby: *Everything Keeps Dissolving*, p. 95 [^2]: Nick Soulsby: *Everything Keeps Dissolving*, p. 85