Plastic Planet is the debut studio album by GZR (known at the time as g//z/r), a heavy metal band featuring Geezer Butler of Black Sabbath.
The album also features Fear Factory vocalist Burton C. Bell.
The song "Giving Up the Ghost" was lyrically directed at Tony Iommi and his continuation of the Black Sabbath name at the time.
Samples from the British TV movie The Woman in Black can be heard on "Séance Fiction".
The live tracks were recorded at Majestic Theater in Detroit in February 1996.