The Key to Joy Is Disobedience

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The Key To Joy Is Disobedience
Box set by Coil
Released 2003 July
Genre Experimental
Length 7:07:57
Label Threshold House
Producer Coil
Coil chronology

Live One
(2003)		 The Key To Joy Is Disobedience
(2003)		 Megalithomania!
(2003)

The Key To Joy Is Disobedience was a box set released by the group Coil. It contains the following releases: Live Four, Live Three, Live Two, Live One, ANS and Megalithomania!. The set is often incorrectly referred to as "Live Box". Upon its release, the set cost just under $200. Other than CDs, the set contains four art prints, one of which is signed and one of which contains an actual drawing. A list of beast boxes is included as well. A black glass disc and a clear glass disc are also included, supposedly for scrying use. The set is sealed with a sticker that must be broken in order to access its contents.

The box set's title is based on a line from Aleister Crowley's "Hymn to Lucifer": "The Key of Joy is disobedience."

Edition

This box set is limited to an edition of 100 normal copies and 23 special copies, which are subtitled "Beast Box". These so-called "beast boxes" each have their own individual titles. The titles are as follows:

The "beast boxes" were hand decorated by John Balance as well as a few other known Coil acquaintances.