Laibach : S/D/C/D?

New video for "Sound of Music" - album of the same name coming in November:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oD0W6SSBUA

This might be the most...fun thing they've ever released. The moment when Milan takes over on vocals is really something.

Huh.

outstanding video.

A live album containing a performance from 1987 has just been released. Apparently it was broadcast on German radio at the time, so it's been bootlegged a bunch, but they've remastered it to be LOUD AS FUCK and it's absolutely head-crushing, somewhere between Foetus's Rife and Swans' Public Castration Is A Good Idea. There are audible instruments (guitar, bass, horns!) and the performance is absolutely on fire. Essential if you're a fan.

Loving how they enforce thee genre continuum on this here new thing while playing me fun music

https://open.spotify.com/album/5ppGhLjssYxZeLjKbJFjcl?si=FQhaTuHFQC2pIFQ6-sXcEw

Opus Dei is being reissued as a 2CD set in May, but frankly the bonus content is a little disappointing:

Disc 1
Leben heisst Leben (Opus Dei)
Geburt einer Nation (One Vision)
Leben – Tod
F.I.A.T. (Let It Be)
Transnational
How the West Was Won
Opus Dei (Life is Life)
The Great Seal

Bonus tracks:

Geburt einer Nation (Eine Richtung und ein Volk Version)
Leben heisst Leben (Marche Funèbre Version)
Geburt einer Nation (3. Oktober – Kraftbach – Version)

Disc 2
Leben heisst Leben (London, Queen Elizabeth Hall, 1987)
Geburt einer Nation (Somewhere in Europe/US, 1987-1989)
Leben-Tod (Somewhere in Europe/US, 1987-1989)
F.I.A.T. (Paris, Espace Ornano, 1992)
Transnational (Somewhere in Europe/US, 1987-1989)
How the West Was Won (Somewhere in Europe/US, 1987-1989)
Opus Dei (Somewhere in Europe/US, 1987-1989)
Leben heisst Leben (Berlin, Quartier Latin, 1987)
Geburt einer Nation (Berlin, Quartier Latin, 1987)
Leben – Tod (Berlin, Quartier Latin, 1987)
How the West Was Won (Berlin, Quartier Latin, 1987)
Geburt einer Nation (Vienna, Messepalast, Kaiser Franz Josef Reitschule, 1988)
Leben – Tod (San Francisco, The I Beam, 1989)
Transnational (San Francisco, The I Beam, 1989)
How the West Was Won (San Francisco, The I Beam, 1989)
Opus Dei (San Francisco, The I Beam, 1989)

Two and even three live versions of the same songs? Who needs that?

Especially as most of the music seemed to be coming from backing tracks when I saw them during that era.

Right? It's not like their shows were jammed with wild improvisational tangents.

I recently unearthed my Through The Occupied Netherlands tape which still sounds SO good. I really wish I'd seen them live in this era, touring with Last Few Days.

Oh, I see they reissued it!

https://staalplaatlabel.bandcamp.com/album/through-the-occupied-netherlands