While the original B-side of this 12" single,
"Hey Asshole," isn't exactly much -- consisting of little more than a shouted loop of the song title and a crunching rhythm as background for an extended rant by a character playing, indeed, an asshole of a cop -- the title track is something else again, one of
Al Jourgensen's best efforts at creating completely over-the-top
industrial death
disco. While it doesn't do much in the way of reinterpreting the original
Black Sabbath number -- no lyric changes, same basic pace -- the amped-up guitars, huge drum fills, dancefloor-oriented pounding, and distorted lyrical screaming (originally done by
Trent Reznor, supposedly re-recorded by
Jourgensen after problems with
Reznor's then record company, but later revealed to have apparently been
Reznor's original vocal with slight changes) turn it into a massive, exhilarating crunch. The CD version adds the tracks from an earlier single: the
industrial-by-numbers fuzz of
"Apathy" and the similarly nondescript
"Better Ways." ~ Ned Raggett