Colossal Spin
Modern Resurrection EP
Press Kit
Industrial Rock / Gothic / Alternative Metal
Release Date: October 15, 2025
Label: Theory & Product
Location: Vancouver, Canada (origin: Philadelphia, USA)
Colossal Spin completes a 1998 industrial rock song in 2025—a dialogue between two versions of the same artist who no longer recognize each other
Bio
Colossal Spin formed in Philadelphia in 1994, becoming part of the East Coast underground industrial circuit with shows across NYC, PA, and NJ. The debut v2.1.7 EP was released in 1996. Principal songwriter and producer Wil Arndt—performing as Zurich—moved to Vancouver in 1997, continuing to write and record until 2000 before shelving the Colossal Spin project for nearly 25 years.
In 2024, Arndt remastered v2.1.7 and began excavating unfinished work from the late 90s, leading to Modern Resurrection EP—the first release from that period. More remastered material from the Vancouver era is planned, including the 2000 album Dueling Suzis.
As Zurich, Arndt writes from the space between extremes: lyrics that reject certainty, mock hollow gods, and refuse easy answers. The voice doesn't preach or choose sides—it observes, questions, and lets contradictions breathe.
Influences: Soundgarden · Nine Inch Nails · Killing Joke
Short Description
Modern Resurrection EP is what happens when you excavate your own unfinished work and discover you're collaborating with a stranger who happens to be you. Written and recorded in 1998, the song sat incomplete for 27 years—not because it failed, but because Wil Arndt wasn't ready to understand what his younger self was trying to say. In 2025, he returned to finish it, stripping away the overproduced excess of the late-90s digital revolution and confronting a song that mocked both sacred foundations and their chrome replacements with eerie prescience. Four versions trace the evolution from raw 1998 demo to reimagined 2025 reanimation, each one testing whether the song has soul—whether it can survive across incarnations and still mean something. It does. Soaring goth harmonies rise over grinding riffs and thundering bass, capturing the disorientation of being caught between abandoned faith and hollow modernity—a state that feels more urgent in 2025 than it did in 1998.
Album Notes
Modern Resurrection EP began as unfinished business. After remastering 1996's v2.1.7 EP in 2024, Wil Arndt realized he couldn't move forward without addressing the creative interregnum between Philadelphia and Vancouver—the years when unlimited studio possibilities replaced the forced minimalism of hardware samplers like the Ensoniq ASR-10 that shaped v2.1.7. "Modern Resurrection" was recorded in 1998 on early digital workstations, where limitless tracks and processing encouraged excess where constraints once sharpened focus. Returning to it in 2025 meant collaborating with a younger self Arndt could no longer fully understand—decoding lyrics he'd forgotten writing, salvaging dissonant vocal harmonies he couldn't recreate, and stripping away the overproduction that late-90s digital freedom encouraged.
The EP presents four versions of the same song spanning 1998 to 2025: the raw 1998 demo, the 2025 reanimation that completes what 1998 started, a bass-forward remix that amplifies grief and drift, and a spare guitar-and-shuffle rendition from 2000's Dueling Suzis. Together they test whether a song has soul—whether it can survive transformation and still mean something. Lyrically, it rejects both the sacred and its gleaming replacements, caught between the void where faith used to be and the cold comfort of modernity's chrome gods. In an era when hollow religion is weaponized to justify power and oppression, a 1998 song mocking slack-jawed saints and calculated resurrections sounds less like nostalgia than warning.
Tracklist
- Modern Resurrection (27th Anniversary Reanimation)
- Modern Resurrection (Fluidity Remix)
- Mo_Res_Revis
- Resurrection (1998 Demo Mix)
Stream
Unlisted YouTube playlist — advance stream for press
Please do not distribute or share publicly until October 15, 2025
Credits
Vocals: Zurich
Guitars, Bass, Drums, Percussion, Synths, Keys, Samples, Programming: Wil Arndt
Produced, Engineered, and Mastered by: Wil Arndt
Label: Theory & Product
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Press Contact
Wil Arndt / Colossal Spin
📧 press@colossalspin.com
📍 Vancouver, Canada