The title expands its initials as “Industrial Spite & Magic.” The page opposes submission to a “suicide mission” and mirrors a gesture of refusal across the image plane.

I.S.M. (Industrial Spite & Magic) liner page 28
EGOTERRORISM liner p. 28

Context

Track 18 sits inside the official 52-track sequence documented by the liner book. The streaming edition may use different numbering because the release was divided into two platform-sized parts.