The Key to Joy Is Disobedience
Box set by Coil
Released	July 2003
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."

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:^[1]

• lipstick eyes meat
• arse doctor lense haircut
• spilt guilt
• decadent + symmetrical
• fear of the bee means the honey is for me
• why is a mouse when it spins
• it just is
• lake big nay ions lays
• feral evidence animal reverence
• jhonn balance
• when sycophancy was in its infancy
• we cure the unacceptable
• animals dream differently in winter
• offending team north division
• the word that light unites is space
• a bigger bucket
• sipping birdsong through bedsprings
• they all told lies beautifully
• a murder of crows
• extraterrestrial antelope
• the one yew bury

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

In 2022, indie rock artist Ariel Pink released an album entitled "The Key of Joy Is Disobedience" with the project Ariel Pink's Dark Side.

• Live Box at Discogs (list of releases)
• Live Box at MusicBrainz (list of releases)
• Live Box at Brainwashed