Motorslug

Wiseblood was J.G. Thirlwell (Foetus) and Roli Mosimann — two of the more aggressively experimental figures in the mid-1980s industrial underground — collaborating under a name taken from Flannery O'Connor's novel. Their one album, Dirtdish (1987), is a monument of industrial aggression.

Motorslug is among its most powerful tracks: a rhythm section like factory machinery given a pulse, guitars processed beyond recognition, a vocal delivery somewhere between preaching and threatening. The production by Mosimann is massive in a way very few records of this period achieved.

Both Thirlwell and Mosimann went on to long solo careers. Wiseblood made one record and stopped. It was enough.