LAIBACH, who mark their fourth decade of operation this year, launch the digital release of the 12-track album
REVISITED via
Mute. The 12-track album features recent interpretations of tracks from the first half of the ‘80s plus live recordings of two tracks that were featured in the band’s recent touring: “SMRT ZA SMRT” and “TI, KI IZZIVAŠ”, recorded with the RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra and the Lviv Philharmonic Orchestra respectively. Listen
here.
Watch the video for a live version of “TI, KI IZZIVAŠ”,
here.
The band has also shared details of a vinyl and CD box set release featuring a remastered and expanded edition of their 1985 debut album.
The deluxe box set presents three albums: a newly remastered edition of the debut,
LAIBACH – with bonus tracks –
REVISITED, and
UNDERGROUND, an unreleased live document of their 2012 concert recorded 200m below the surface of the earth in the Velenje Coal Mines of Slovenia.
The 3-CD box set and 5-piece vinyl box both come in numbered, limited editions and feature an exclusive, numbered metal badge with the original Laibach symbol. Included with the release is the
TERROR OF HISTORY, a 160-page book with 69 linocuts, an essay on Laibach written by Marcel Štefančič Jr.and additional text by the former President of Slovenia, Milan Kučan, as well as
BOOKLET, a catalog with
LAIBACH REVISITED project information and foreword by Igor Vidmar, who released the original debut on Škuc / R.o.p.o.t. The vinyl box also features a double poster with portraits of Laibach members and collaborators who have participated in this release or collaborated musically with the group in one way or another. Purchase the box set
here.
Laibach formed 40 years ago in the then-Yugoslavian industrial town Trbovlje. Founded in the year that the country’s founding father Tito died, the band rose to fame as Yugoslavia steered itself towards self-destruction to become one of the most internationally acclaimed bands to have come out of the former Communist countries of Eastern and Central Europe, recently becoming one of the first bands to perform in North Korea. Now, more than ever, Laibach can make you think, dance and march to the same music.
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