Written by frontman Al Jourgensen, it is the opening track and the only single released from their third studio album, 1988’s The Land of Rape and Honey.

The song features distorted vocals, guitars and compressed drum machine loops.

[3] The music video—which was said to get a regular airing on MTV[4]—features gritty black and white machinery, gears, symbols, the band playing live, Paul Barker on a motorcycle, strobe-like montages of eyes (which are the only elements presented in color), and what appear to be neo-Nazi skinheads.

The 2017 action movie Atomic Blonde (taking place in 1989) features a cover of the song by Marilyn Manson.

The 12-inch single remix of the song was featured in the 2006 video game, Tony Hawk's Project 8.