Opus Dei

Kind of depressing, not for me

The first half of the album sounds like Village People if they were Slovenian, into metal, and the lead singer was a bullfrog. The second half of the album is less fun but still an interesting listen. 8/10 would blast this in my garage while hitting something with a hammer.

weird, but absolutely an unexpected delight. there's this flavor of like, hypey old jrpg boss battle OST with interjections of throaty german that really does something. favorite is Geburt Einer Nation or the title track. strong 3

Rating: 7/10 As a piece of art, it’s crazy, bold, subversive, confrontational. Reading about the band and the album is a truly wild ride. It’s a satirical presentation of the feeling of being at a European white nationalist rally. The repetitive grand arrangements really work for the militaristic tone they were striving for. The repetition is by design but as a result it’s not the most engaging on a moment to moment basis. It would have been better if I realized before that the last four tracks are in fact not part of the original album. Still, despite that repetition pretty much every track just works and Laibach really achieve the idea they’re going for here.

Not the worst thing of all time but also not great. "Bad" in a proud kind of way that I respect a little bit, and it only got annoying towards the second half. It's what I imagine Revolution 9 sounds like to people who haven't heard it before. Was waiting for it to be over towards the end but again, there are way worse albums out there than this 2.4/10

not my vibe

Meh

wow. I can see listening to this once...

Horrible

Two tracks in, I hate this Four tracks in, and I cannot wait for it to end It’s finally over and I still hate it

YOU HAVE BEEN HUGGER MUGGERED INTO THIS WAR

I can see it is well produced and intense. But I found it soulless. Fav. Track: This Apparatus Must Be Unearthed

Pure fucking Garbage.

Not the type of music I listen to, but I can appreciate the cultural and radical meanings behind their band and music.So, between the music and meaning I would give it a 3.

Interesting but exhausting. Never heard any Slovenian band but the voice was cool, even if the music is not truly incredible, it has personnality.

This is one of those albums (and bands) that needs context. This album borrows from far right symbolism but deliberately tries to sow confusion. Interestingly, they were allowed to perform live in North Korea - what a joke and I'd say, mission totally accomplished for Laibach! It is very clear to me hat their "act" is effective and make people reflect. They grew under an authoritarian regime in the 1980's and now in the 2020's, such regimes seem to be making a come-back. So, this music stays relevant. Can they be misunderstood? Sure. Is there a message that exceeds just the music? Sure. I believe this is art. Does it sound great? That's another question altogether and not actually that relevant - I don't believe they set out to make commercial, easy-on-the-ears music. That being said, some songs are quite catchy and the vocals work. The often military orchestration sounds awful to me but that's exactly the point. Glad I discovered this. It's interesting.

Not my favorite album ever, but certainly interesting! It hits me enough for me to view it favorably. I loved "leben heißt leben", so I certainly thought it started off strong, PLUS I think this album cover is so cool.

Tengo sentimientos encontrados, me gustó. Lo guardé para seguir escuchandolo e indagando en el artista.

there's no way i am listening to this whole thign it is garbage

That was strange, not necessarily in a bad way though

Slovenian industrial rock in German from the 80s. No way I would have heard of this if not for the list :-) Includes a lot of covers of popular songs from queen, etc Favorite track: Opus Dei other picks: Geburt einer Nation, life is life

Laibach has a taste for grandiose, militaristic imagery, and Opus Dei leans hard into that. The result is bombastic 80s rock with a cinematic flavor. There are trumpets, swelling arrangements, the kind of thing that wouldn't sound out of place in a rock national anthem. It's a bit theatrical. The problem is that theatrics without strong melody is just noise with a costume on. The melodies here are generic at best, and no track does enough to justify the bombast. Industrial rock is worth exploring, but there are better entry points than this. Two stars.

This was really difficult to rate. Purely sonically, it's always at least intriguing - the more abrasive textures are abrasive in a way that mostly works, and for a bunch of late Iron Curtain-era industrial it's surprisingly funky in places. But the other half of the equation is the *Triumph of the Will*-style vocals and, arguably, lyrics - somehow these guys made a Queen song sound like an honest-to-God fascist anthem. And yeah, maybe they're joking or trying to be satirical, but if they are it's *bad* satire in that it's not clearly readable as satire. And if they're joking then that joke is in poor taste given the neo-fascist hellscape into which we're all actually, rapidly backsliding. Call me uptight but I got no patience for that particular flavor of edgelord shit anymore.

Awesome. Really reminded me of Andrew WK of all people.

pretentious art stuff. their "spiel" gets old really fast. I started skipping through songs after song no.6 on the album. These people think they are so clever and insightful. Their wikipedia page has the length of the new testament. And then there is this quote from them: “We are as much fascists as Hitler was a painter.” But Hitler was actually a painter. Not a very successful, skillful one though. So they are fascists but not skilled ones?!

unique and funny , provocative , even if repetitive ,

I don't dislike this as much as the general users evidently. I don't think it's brilliant, but it's clever. And I usually hate anything in the metal territory.

some insane music from an insane band

I first heard Laibach in an art museum and that's where they belong

Not for me

Album #68, Laibach, Opus Dei, ⭐⭐⭐⭐ This was a serious change of pace. When I first put it on, I thought, oh my God, is this going to be an hour of fascist-sounding military march music? I figured it couldn’t actually be that, or it wouldn’t be on the list, and reading into it as it went on, it’s clearly anti-fascist, anti-authoritarian and anti-nationalistic. I’ve never had an album win me over like this one. At the start, it sounds like Eurovision music. Not my thing at all. It’s got that big, trashy synth sound, and I was thinking this would absolutely clean up at Eurovision. I wasn’t really enjoying it, but there were moments that stood out, like on the opening track where this distorted, scratching guitar comes in. It felt like a strange choice that didn’t fit, but I really liked it. Then there’s their version of One Vision by Queen, which is my favourite Queen song. I liked that, but I was still leaning towards a two-star review at that point because that Euro synth sound just wasn’t landing with me. But when the title track comes in, that’s where it started to click. It’s in the same style, but it felt powerful and uplifting. After that, the album shifts. It gets more industrial, more avant-garde. Tracks like Trans-National and How the West Was Won are much heavier, more aggressive, more distorted, and it starts to move away from that euro-pop feel. From there it just gets weirder and weirder. By the end it’s deep into sample-based territory, almost like a Steve Reich kind of approach. The last couple of tracks are genuinely creepy and I love music that scares me. It’s eerie and unsettling. Even though it’s about an hour long, it never felt boring. It moves through so many moods and ideas that I actually ended up stopping what I was doing just to sit and listen properly. I know this is one of the lowest-rated albums on the list, and I get why. And I’m not trying to be contrarian here, because this isn’t the kind of music I’d usually even admit to liking. But I found it really interesting, and I genuinely enjoyed it. It reminded me a bit of Scott Walker’s Bish Bosch, another album I love but wouldn’t exactly throw on in front of anyone. But, when World War III comes around, this is definitely going on the playlist.

i can see why it’s on the lists because of that one song, but this wasn’t very good in my opinion

Listening to an angry Slovenian man yell “Life is Life” in my ears are the moments I started going this list for

Honestly - brainwashing, that is how I experience this repetitions in those songs and really don't recognize any artistic value of this type of music... 🤷🏻‍♀️

“german metal” is a dog whistle of course

felt like I was in a haunted house

Zig zagged between really good songs and boring repetitive songs

German music just isn’t very pleasant.

Omg worst thing ever

Sounds like 1940s German propaganda set over industrial metal, but yet, sometimes jazz. Ugh

If they played this in the bierkeller I'd raise the roof

I tried not to be a hater, BUT WTF

Heavy Du-Hast influencers...but from Yugoslavia.

3/10

In the "Vacation" movie series, Clark Griswold had moments when he made his voice deeper, and sang tunes. Now, imagine listening to tunes with that voice, along with Industrial Rock playing in the background for about a half hour; that's this album in a nutshell. On another note, I have nothing against the closing track being a national anthem. Favorite Track: "Opus Dei".

Tedious

WHAT IN THE WORLD WAS THIS???? 0 stars if that was an option.

this was a fun album to get from this list. really intriguing band. is it my favorite? no! but did i enjoy learning of their existence? absolutely!

Wow that was just awful. I mean really bad.

en medio de una batalla campal en la época medieval. Esa es la sensación que me dio escuchar este álbum. No sé determinar si me gustó o no, lo volvería a escuchar? No. pero como dije, armoniza a la perfección con un escenario de película de época. Hasta en algunos momentos me resultó medio creepy, la voz grave, los bajos, medio oscuro y con aspiración a música de secta. Fuera de lo que estoy acostumbrada a escuchar.

No me gusta, música en alemán.

I haven't really mentioned this before, but I usually listen to these albums in the morning with my son. It's a great setup because I usually have enough time between making us breakfast, eating and (sometimes) driving to get through a 30-60 minute LP before it's sitter time. Arthur enjoys pretty much anything I put on, which makes sense because he's much too young to comprehend the concept of "bad" music. He just loves music at large and often does these little baby dances with a big smile on his face – it's very cute. That said, this album was so bad that even he couldn't wait for it to be over. My 13-month-old literally crawled over to the stereo and put on Spanish children's music to drown out the unsavory sounds of Laibach coming out of my Bluetooth speaker. No, I'm not joking. Thing is, there's almost a "so bad it's good" quality to Opus Dei. Between the goofy German vocals, random guitar solo and out-of-key organ sounds, the opening track had me gearing up for some delicious garbage. Unfortunately, the rest of the album isn't bad and fun, it's bad and boring. I was so relieved when I realized that I didn't have to listen to the last four songs on Opus Dei, since they are bonus tracks taken from a soundtrack album Laibach put out later that same year. Ironically, I think I enjoyed the couple I accidentally listened to more than the core Book Album. How this album somehow didn't end up in the global bottom 20 is beyond me (though it's pretty close, to be fair). As far as industrial albums go, I'd say Opus Dei is handily worse than the Throbbing Gristle album that is currently sitting at the very bottom. If nothing else, the experience of listening through Opus Dei sparked enough curiosity in me to check out the lead single from Laibach's upcoming MUSICK album ("Allgorhythm"). Still not my thing, but I can at least somewhat understand the appeal. I wish I could say the same for this LP. Highlights: N/A

The first time through, I wasn't sure for the first few tracks. Then Trans-National happened, and I love it and everything that came after it. So I started back over from the beginning, and it all seemed to work better. I think the first few tracks are a smidge uneven, but man I just loved this.

Das spiel ist aus

Love me some Laibach! ★★★★

This rules it's like what if Wagner was somehow more evil. I need to go back in time and have these guys do the score for a Piotr Szulkin movie I think that collab would be transcendent.

3.5, I actually enjoyed it a lot more than I thought i would but it was a bit too arty in places

Certainly something, not for me. Title track was uplifting. 3.1/10

Not for me.

Sounds like an intense cartoon and seems like it would be fun to watch.

What a weird fuckin album. Fairly intense German-language industrial music, but often using keys/samples of fairly happy and triumphant sounding horns, organs, and orchestra. But it’s also dark with cold, pounding drums and a cold, brassy gruff vocal over it all. It’s just a unique sound that’s pretty unlike much of anything I’ve heard before. I honestly have no idea if I like it…it’s off-putting on first but memorable and I think could grow on one.

This is capital "A" Art. Unfortunately that doesn't always translate into listenable music.

Not a fan of this at all. I do like some industrial, but this just doesn’t do it for me.

Gothic rock. Instrumentals are fine. Vocals are weird.

I've been waiting for this album for a while now. I love how weird it is. Also, apparently very popular in Slovenia.

Laibach are an interesting band, to say the least. Their name appears to be a reference to a planned Nazi take over of their city. Their music and imagery depict fascism and militarism, mixed with a goth industrial style. But it's incredibly unclear how much is tribute and how much is satire, which makes people understandably uncomfortable. But a bit of exploration really do point to satire, given the frequent silliness of the album (albeit delivered in a grimly serious manner). The blurred lines about their real beliefs probably contributed to their invitation to be the only Western band to date to play a concert in North Korea. They performed a heavy metal rendition of the Sound of Music soundtrack. You can imagine the audience, cut off from any Western cultural references and the storyline of the movie, trying to make sense of these Slovenian cultural ambassadors. Love this band or hate them, they're definitely interesting. They may make your head spin trying to figure them out though. It's absolutely not one that I'd return to often, but it's been an interesting one to think about, so it gets some points for that.

nope

No thank you.

La wea loca

As strange as this album is, it's actually a really fun listen. It's just a bunch of policitally charged musicians making music that inspires them to be more politically charged. I know nothing of this culture or of the group but as an ignorant outsider, it feels like an homage to perhaps their culture while also fighting the current culture. It's masculine, vocal, and almost a call to arms. When I learned its song "Opus Dei" is a national anthem for an art project country whose visas are literally classified as art projects, I fell in love with it. It's a wild industrial album that's reminiscent of Rammstein and has some catchy tracks. I would use the term "avant garde" to describe this album. 6/10

This was awesome and hilarious (unintentionally). Some cool repetitive chants and this album was headed for a 4 but fell off

Ugh that's a quick no for me, couldn't make it thru a single track

First few songs were corny enough to be fun, but then it got more boring

This is the kind of album I have to Google first to make sure it isn't secretly for Nazis. If it isn't secretly for Nazis, then I kind of weirdly like it. Though I will never listen to it again, Nazi or no Nazi. And now I will stop saying Nazi.

Well that was far more interesting than I expected. That deep gravely voice against that sparse electronic backdrop was fascinating. I definitely hear the influence on bands like Rammstein and Swans.

What is this? Krautrock? Industrial rock? Some militaristic feel there too. Ooh Geburt Einer Nation has dark feel with strings and horns. Oh also it's a cover of Queen's One Vision! But subversive callback to Nazism?, eine volk, eine blut etc. Clearly influential on later bands like Rammstein. Dramatic strings and drums in FIAT Album has some WWII theme with quoting Churchill etc Trans-National is a bit too avant-garde for me but still interesting. Ah, it gets more avant-garde from there. Trans-national is then a transition from old (military, industrial) to new (avant-garde) Germany? Best track - Geburt Einer Nation, Leben - Tod 4 stars - 2nd half is heavy going, but the genre-defining 1st half makes up for it.

Other than the fact that I much prefer the live one hit wonder version of "Live is Life" from 1985 by Opus, I don't even know what to say about this album. I almost want to give it a five for leaving me speechless. Incredible madness. 3.4

You know what, I liked it. Not a britpop album and quite different

Proto-Rammstein

Here we've got some unadulterated cheese mixed with some harder industrial. Kind of the purest answer to the question: What were drugs like in the 80s in Yugoslavia? Or the answer to the question: Why did Yugoslavia break up? Anyway, not sure this is the best album to listen to the day after daylight's saving. I was surprised that I actually recognized a hit here in the title track after the first few songs. A super clever one on lyrics too: Life is life. Hmmmmm.... Certainly a relic of a certain time and place. 2/5

No idea what this album’s deal is but it sounds like if a country’s national anthem was an evil rock opera which is pretty cool

Perfect for those times when I'm both cookie monster and a Latvian political dissenter living in Germany before the fall of the wall which is never

I like F.I.A.T and herz-felde but apart from that some of the songs are jarring and slightly scary ima be honest

I had been consistently listening to my album a day for weeks (months?) until I got to this album. there is never a good time to have this in the background and I kept just quitting and telling myself I would try again later. I get that not all music is for everyone but why does this even get a place on the list.....

My rating 3.2. German industrial prog rock. I’m here for it.

Fun and just sub metal. The first German album I’ve gotten, although it got progressively less German throughout

the random generator is on a terrible run. who the fuck wants to listen to this shit?

After reading a bit about them I begin to see the outlines of the joke, but it's about as funny as Monty Python in Dutch.

Seriously???

More ridiculous than awful. It helps to imagine it being performed by Muppets (primarily Sweetums).

Out of the entire 1089 albums this list comprises there is only one Slovenian band. As the lone group, Laibach is carrying the weight of their fellow countrymen on their shoulders. I've never heard these cats before. It's very anthemic. I did several searches of the best Slovenian albums and this one popped every time. I dig what they're doing and I listened to a few other things from them. Weird but solid.

This one was weird man. Very strange. It's on the edge of being good I think... just not quite there for me. The vocalizations are interesting and some of the instrumentation is cool too. Anyway it just didn't do it for me personally.

This was a strange mix of industrial and metal with medieval-esque trumpets. I kinda loved it.

Why is German Cookie Monster so angry?

It's unlikely that fans of this music are in any way friendly.

I couldn’t understand a word he said

What the actual fuck I can’t my ears there going to fall off, I got to trans-national and I’m done with this bullshit

I actually really liked this album, strange as it was! It was a fun listen, and I liked the high energy, theatrical flare, and the lead singer’s awesome voice. Some of orchestration sounded fantastic- someone should lift some of these sounds for a sample for a new pop song. Borrowed that horn sting from Life is Life and make a number one hit!

This made me laugh, I had no idea it was when it hit play. A couple tunes were legit catchy (the opening track in particular somehow stuck in my head for days). Big chunks of the album were pretty meh, and didnt really like it when they switched in english. I was entertained at least. Laibach walked so Rammstein could run?

3/5 Algumas músicas são JA, outras são NEIN e umas poucas LIGHT BEER. Mas a banda te faz ler Zizek pra tentar entender o que está acontecendo, o que é bom e ruim.

What is happening?

5/10… industrial / metal / *1987

weird but I liked it

Oh dear. Tough one to listen to, honestly. They clearly had an influence on Rammstein (Laibach for kids, basically), and given this is an album from Yugoslavia from 1987, it's significant because it had such a big influence. And covering Queen's One Vision the way they did and laying bare that the lyrics could be construed quite differently from the way they were intended... Deserves some form of reocgnition. Beyond the gimmicky songs, though, there's some substance, too. Some more clever Queen quotes from the Kind of Magic album, as well. But. It sort of lends itself to making you want to pull some grand nationalist/communist/ideologically charged moves, and immediately feel dirty and manipulated about that. Maybe that's exactly the intent, we can't be sure. So... 3/5 because it's certainly significant, but not a single star more because I want to take a shower and never listen to this again.

Ah shit yeah!! Laibach!! wow, did not expect to see this on here. Awesome. Don't think I've listened to any of their albums front to back. Holy shit that album rocks!! 5 stars.

Laibach, a band with an intentional approach to art that's meant to make people deeply uncomfortable with human nature. Fascism does lie deep within the hearts of many people, as we've seen demonstrated VERY clearly over the past year, and Laibach's artistic style has been shining a light on that uglier side of humanity for decades. So I'm not going to judge them for the ambiguous political message. I'm going to judge them for the music. The music is deep growly industrial! The core of my music taste formed in 1997-98, and one of the artists I was listening to the most at that time was Rammstein. Laibach sounds similar enough that I enjoyed the hell out of this listen. Judge me if you want!

I’m sure I’m not alone in thinking the Germanic tongue does not lend itself well to a tuneful ditty. However this album is so adorably bonkers that none of that matters! I listened to this whilst working and it made me smile and even laugh out loud with joy, so much fun. I will play this for other people who will probably just think I’m a lunatic!

Blind album and artist. I fucking loved the eagle screech opening the 2nd track. Kinda funny it covers the Queen One Vision too where I can't unhear 1 Dump, 1 Turd, 2 Tits, John Deacon. Immediate 3 at minimum.

I was surprised by how much I liked it

Idk. 2.5

7 - GOOD

So weird but so good. As a longtime Rammstein fan, it was hard not to see where they got their shtick from. Ja!

Nope. Sounds like germanic military propaganda in musical form. Nope nope nope.

Definitely a weird one again.

Mostly not for me, though I see what they were going for. Definitely hear Rammstein in this, as pointed out by many others. I get that it's parody music in essence, I just don't really see myself playing this record again.

Very unique album from the progenitors of martial industrial music. The political juxtapositioning of fascism through these martialized pop songs is an interesting and meritorious one. The deep-seated relationship between music and politics is fully unveiled with this record. While the pop and rally inspired songs provide a strong opening, the latter half also features these experimental and krautrock-esque passages that serve to depict this totalitarian sound in a more avant-garde and subtle way. One really feels like they are sneaking through a military dystopia. The band's style helps these very obscure feelings come to life without engaging with ideology itself.

Okay...... So two different covers of the same song by Swiss band Opus, that had a moderate hit in the late 80s called, "Life is Life". These versions sound like the singer is belching all of the lyrics as part of a bar bet as the jackboots march on Stalingrad. This album is wall-to-wall WTF.

The eastern block just did it differently.

Um no. All in German but even the beats were not something I could get into.

GET ME A LIGHT BEER! Um fato muito engraçado é que esse álbum foi "popular" no brasil ao ponto de ter uma prensagem nacional. 5 exclusivamente para aumentar a nota geral, que está terrivelmente baixa.

I'm only familiar with Laibach from Rather Good (Laibach Kittens)

Interesting, wears a bit thin over the course of an album it has to be said. Borderline 2.

Heb het echt een kans gegeven. Niks voor mij. Snap ook niet waarom het hier in staat, want het meest beluisterde nummer is 1.5 miljoen keer beluisterd. Da's ja niks. Vind het wel erg grappig dat het eerste nummer de Duitse versie is van Life is life. En later kwam ook nog de Engelse versie langs. Zal wel het origineel zijn? Correctie: het is niet het origineel. Dat vind ik erg jammer. DNF

Friday night. A couple weeks since I cracked a beer, so I cracked a couple. Made some pizza for the fam. Smoked a jay after bedtime and watched Reservoir Dogs. It was as wonderful as the first time. Hit the sack, but wanted to play some tunes in my headphones. Opus Dei was a dream come true.

If it were up to me, 63% of this list would be albums like this. Just the most fucked up music you’ve ever heard from countries that no longer exist with straight-up awesome album covers. Music that will drive you insane if you play it too loud or too long. Bravo.

This album does one thing and it does that thing really well. That thing gets a 3. Unfortunately that's all the album does and that thing gets old after a few tracks. Overall a 2.5

Triple blind, and wow. What a journey. At times a cool listen. At other times redundant. And at other times a little fascistic, If we’re being honest. Overall, I’m left dumbfounded. Not sure what to say about an album like this…

Glory to Yugoslavia! This started strong with the orchestral like songs and national anthem sounding tunes but I didnt dig the later electronica songs

Listened while at work. Had no idea what to expect and was pleasantly surprised. It was like if you had the producer for Owner of a Lonely Heart do a Rammstein album. Enjoyed my time with it.

I enjoy industrial music but, for me, this is not it. The concept is interesting but over forty minutes the vocal affect becomes extremely irritating.

It's kinda funny they bust out fascist iconography for what essentially sounds like edgy Bowser music.

Well, I don’t even know what to say or what to think about Opus Dei by Laibach, because it’s so different from anything I’ve ever heard. Of the 12 tracks, I only saved two, Trans-National and The Great Seal. I had a lot of difficulty with the album, and it took me over three days to finish it because it’s very complex, very dense, and very challenging, especially if you’re not drawn to that style. The language barrier was also something I struggled to overcome. I can recognize what’s there. I can tell there’s a lot of intention behind it, and that it was crafted with great care. But it’s not for me, and I don’t see myself returning to it. Still, I think there’s value in having experienced it. In that sense, it feels like a small victory. In the end, I’m giving this album two stars.

The first half is so good. Like a mix of Rammstein, Dethklok and Andrew WK if we’re thinking of modern groups. Then the second half goes crazy with the experimental crap.

2.5 stars. Some weird, chanty, avante-garde industrial stuff by a Slovenian band and a lot of it is in German. It's different, but not something I'll come back to.

German pop hard rock. Started off awesome and then kinda petered out near the end. Shame.

Nope.

While I think that Laibach's shtick has gotten a bit tiring and formulaic over the years, this album still sounds fresh nearly forty years later. The layers of the various interpretations that are found on this album of both military and pop music makes this album stick out from the rest of the burgeoning industrial records that were coming out at the time. There's a simplicity to the arrangements that gives each song here a unique sound, and this is an album I can see myself revisiting many times.

Give me 80s industrial rock fever dream for 300. I don't remember any Benadryl being in my recent past but the hat man got me here.

1 song in. I already hate it. Not much more to say after somehow getting through the album. It's awful in every sense of the word.

bruh. german metal 😭😭

Not heard or heard of before (although I feel I have seen the album cover before), it's like proto-Rammstein, "it's okay ja"⭐⭐⭐, not sure I'd rush and buy a copy, a bit too Euro-cheese-rock for my liking, they should cover "C is for Cookie"😆, couple of interesting experimental tracks, probably a 3.5 really

Who knew that today I was going to get pumped up for repelling against Yugoslavia, this is one of the reasons to do this project. This album is fantastic I love it start to finish has a massive feeling the whole way through and has several grate tunes Gebut Einer Nation is just awesome.

Life is life! Opus Dei! Slovenia anthem

I've seen this compared to **Rammstein** which makes sense given it's both largely industrial in flavour and sung in (I think) German, or at least a similar language. I'd be astonished if Rammstein hadn't heard this before coming up with what it is that they do, but I'd take this over anything I've heard from them all day. I had the feeling there's more of a story behind this and in fact a simple Google led me to find that _'Laibach became renowned in the early 1980s for their cultural resistance to censorship and totalitarian tendencies in socialist Yugoslavia.'_ So this is protest music that on the outside doesn't seem to take itself too seriously but I suspect there's some deep satire going on here. Perhaps anti-establishmentarianism was frowned upon in Yugoslavia back then! Musically it was quite interesting, I like the industrial aspects played through a lens of a nationalistic anthem. The cover of **Queen's** _One Vision_ and two covers of **Opus'** _Live Is Life_ were a surprise and an example of the humour. It fell off a bit with the last 4 songs although the constant chant in _Jägerspiel_ did remind me of _Addams Groove_. Those 4 tracks apparently weren't on the original vinyl which makes that the preferable version for me but on the whole, this was quite entertaining. *

Interesting album. There were a few tracks I was really sold on...but then there were a few too many tracks that were just German speech over some noise. I wanted a little more thumping in this industrial album.

**An ok album

Wow! Here's an album that raised lots of questions in my mind, not least What cheese did I eat last night? After the first two songs, I was hoping that it was going to be a covers album with apocalyptic introductions before Death Troll came out and sang Like A Virgin or Careless Whisper, but alas, it wasn't to be. However, there's a lot to enjoy about it still. There's an 80s Terminatoresque soundtrack quality up to a point, probably up until the last 2 or 3 songs where it gets a bit too repetitive. Highlights are Trans National and The Great Seal, as well as the 2 covers which had a high entertainment value - I'll feel a bit let down if they were taking themselves really seriously when they recorded them. My first exposure to industrial music was enjoyable - it's a high 4☆ from me.

German operatic hair rock left me cold.

That cookie monster review rewired my brain and made me enjoy this weird satanic bullshit twice as much.

Not my favorite. Too heavy for my tastes.

Didn’t finish

Yeh nah

No thanks, I'm good.

eeruuugghh

Really really not for me

Far better than I expected it to be, but why do albums like this always have to drag out the song lengths? Cut down each one by 30 seconds/1 minute and they'd be better.

Starts out stronger than it ends.

Vanskelig å plassere, vet ikke helt hvor seriøst jeg skal ta denne musikken. Var uten tvil morsomt 🙃

Litt artig, nokre seige deler på slutten. Veit verkeleg ikkje kva dette er. Tenkte umiddelbart at desse prøvde å vere Rammstein, men litt research tyder på at inspirasjonen kanskje gjekk andre vegen? Veit ikkje heilt. Blir nok ikkje gjenlytt, men eg hadde det gøy medan det varte.

Kind of boring. Very industrial. Do not like the singing on the first song Reminds me of a garage band or a friend group that's bored. Stupid Drunk Project

This officially takes over from Now I Got Worry(album #20) as my album with the lowest global rating of the project. It is also my first album to be in the global bottom 20. It's industrial metal made by a bunch of Slovenians impersonating Nazis. So, naturally, I get it on Holocaust Remembrance Day. That can't be a coincidence, right? RIGHT? Anyway, onto the actual album; it's very militaristic and industrial in a way very different from anything the project has thrown me so far. Liberal use of militant soundscapes and lyrics being German chants creates a feeling of fear, like we're being exposed to the bad guys in a war movie(THIS is how you make a fake movie soundtrack, Barry Adamson). Eventually, the album throws in an English-language reprise of the opener, which is less effective than the German-language opening version simply because of meter issues with the English version as compared to the German. Overall, this is a very interesting album that sounds like nothing else, for better or worse.

Late 80s metal. Slovenian band. Strange, ominous ‘Life is live’ cover, German chanting. Quuen inspirations. 80s pop rock with growled German vocals, very weird but kind of funny. Industrial, influenced Rammstein. Second half nightmareish industrial.

Industrial! But also poetic. Dark! But also ironic.

Latvian avant-garde/industrial/experimental band, never heard of them but it should be right up my street, right? Diving in. Sounds like they influenced Rammstein and Saviour Machine, they seem to be making a political statement, but what is it...?

Why?

Not for me lol

10/10 album cover. Very Saturn eating his kids. Well I wasn’t expecting this today. You gotta respect the hustle of the sample heavy Eastern European marching album. I even found Opus Dei and The Great Seal almost stirring. Still didn’t like it but excited to read reviews from the weirdos who do.

Not for me. Thanks though.

6/10

In between zoning out and overstimulation I actively wanted to die while listening- nein from me

Laibachs Opus Dei ist ein monumentales Werk – martialisch, ironisch, provokant. Mit ihrer Mischung aus Industrial, orchestralen Bombast-Elementen und totalitärer Ästhetik schufen Laibach ein Klangbild, das seiner Zeit weit voraus war. Wer Rammstein liebt, findet hier die Blaupause: donnernde Rhythmen, düstere Chöre, verzerrte Stimmen – ein Sound, der wie ein Panzer rollt. Tracks wie „Geburt einer Nation“ (eine radikale Coverversion von Queen’s „One Vision“) oder „Leben heißt Leben“ (Falco durch den Filter einer Diktatur) zeigen Laibachs Fähigkeit, Popkultur zu dekonstruieren und in ein bedrohliches Klangtheater zu verwandeln. Opus Dei ist keine leichte Kost – es ist ein Statement, ein Kunstwerk, ein musikalischer Schock. Fazit: Die Rammstein-Vision, bevor es Rammstein gab – kompromisslos, intellektuell und klanglich überwältigend.

Weird yet engaging and good. I can see how this has influenced Rammstein.

First song was pretty good, then the album took a nosedive into the weird.

This album has this nice big, theatrical, rich sound to it, It feels like a 100-person orchestra or something. It's just so powerful-sounding, one example would be the military march-like of "Leben heisst leben." Other aspects include this eerie group chanting like I've just came across some cult - that I really regret coming across - deep, deep in the forest somewhere in Eastern Europe. This music just has the perfect vibe to it, like my teeth are shivering and shattering with how frosty the instrumentals and atmosphere are. Highlight Song/s: "Leben heisst leben" and "F.I.A.T"

Did not like. Nein, nein!

Not bad.

No thanks!

Couldn’t get through it. One maybe two songs? Not sure the theater of it and the message quite lands for me.

When you need just the right cocktail music for your end-of-democracy themed 80s party.

I'm not sure who this appeals to besides German skinheads. I feel like I was being mind controlled to march in rhythm. Their sound still could've been used in an interesting way but this was gratingly repetitive

EPIC! Oriiginal Goth dance hits!

Walking to work during a torrential downpour listening to LIFE IS LIFE was fun

Nein danke

Unhinged soundtrack for cooking breakfast. First half sounds like a superhero movie, second half is just repetitive German rally-core and gets boring

That was just really peculiar. Feel like I’ve been at a strange propaganda rally, where the vocalists/speakers all have sore throats. Pounding drums, cheesy 80s synths and 59 minutes of weirdness. Won’t be going back to this.

Interesting 🤔, not sure if I could say I enjoyed this album. It appears the lead singer had a sore throat on some of the tracks, which is a shame. I guess this wasn't quite my thing, but it made me smile.

Incredibly strange. Loved it!

WTF did I just listen too! Absolute garbage, this album has no right to be in the 1001 list!

hmmmmmm

1/5

Well that was… something. Yah yah yah! 2 stars, though! Granted them an extra star mostly because I kept imaging how clever they must have felt and I love that for them.

Not for me

524/1001 🌕🌗🌑🌑🌑

1. leben - 0 2. nation - 1 3. tod -0 4. fiat - 0 5. opuz - 0 6. tranz- 0 7. uuezt -0 8. Seal - 0 9. ferz - 0 10. Jager - 0 11. Koza - 1 12. Baptism - 0

Bon, installez-vous confortablement, versez-vous un truc fort – de préférence une eau-de-vie de prune qui décape les tuyaux ou un schnaps frelaté ramené de l'Est – parce qu'aujourd'hui, on ne va pas parler de la dernière bluette pop qui passe en boucle à la radio. Non, aujourd'hui, on plonge dans le dur, le lourd, le martial. On s'attaque à un monument de l'incompréhension massive et du génie subversif. On parle de Laibach et de leur pavé jeté dans la mare (ou plutôt le rocher lancé dans le pare-brise) de 1987 : "Opus Dei". Moi qui suis né en 1970, j'en ai vu passer des trucs. J'ai grandi avec le post-punk, j'ai vu l'émergence de l'indus, j'ai vu le grunge exploser et retomber comme un soufflé. Et franchement, mon âme de vieux briscard du neofolk ne peut pas refuser du Laibach. La filiation entre le neofolk et le martial-industrial est si fine que l'on pourrait s'y perdre, et c'est exactement là que j'aime traîner mes guêtres. Pour être tout à fait honnête, j'aurais pu claquer un 5 sur 5 sans trembler des genoux. Pourquoi ? Parce qu'"Opus Dei" est probablement l'un des albums de cette foutue liste des "1001 albums" qui a le plus de personnalité. Il a une gueule, une vraie. Pas comme ces productions lisses et aseptisées qu'on nous vend au kilo aujourd'hui. Mais quand je vois les notes qu'il se prend dans la gueule ça me rend dingue. C'est le même tarif pour mon petit Current 93 chéri que j'ai glissé dans la "User List". J'ai l'impression que les gens sont devenus trop formatés, trop mous du cerveau pour apprécier la créativité quand elle ne porte pas un petit nœud rose. Je me souviens de l'époque où je bossais chez ce disquaire indé, entre 96 et 2000. Une autre vie. Je portais mes t-shirts de Sonic Youth ou de The The (Matt Johnson, quel génie, on n'en parle pas assez), et je voyais débarquer des clients paumés. Imaginez la scène : le mec tombe sur la pochette d'"Opus Dei". Le graphisme du NSK (Neue Slowenische Kunst), les croix de Malevitch, les haches, l'esthétique totalitaire assumée... Le gars me regardait avec des yeux ronds comme des soucoupes, se demandant s'il était tombé dans une amicale d'anciens nazis. C'est là que je devais faire de la pédagogie. Leur expliquer que non, bordel, ce ne sont pas des fachos. C'est de l'art, c'est de la "rétro-garde". Laibach, c'est le miroir déformant tendu à la gueule de l'Europe. Ils adoptent les codes du totalitarisme – les hymnes pompiers, les rythmiques martiales, les poses statuaires – non pas pour les célébrer, mais pour les vider de leur sens par une "sur-identification". Ils sont plus totalitaires que les dictateurs eux-mêmes, et c'est ça qui est drôle. Enfin, "drôle" façon humour noir slovène, faut suivre. Prenez l'ouverture de l'album, "Leben heißt Leben". Si vous avez une oreille un peu fonctionnelle, vous reconnaissez "Live is Life" du groupe autrichien Opus. Vous savez, cette merde euro-disco qu'on chante bourré au camping en tapant dans ses mains ? "Na na na na na !" Laibach prend ce truc niais et joyeux, et le transforme en hymne wagnérien apocalyptique. Les trompettes sonnent le glas, la batterie pilonne comme une marche vers le front de l'Est, et la voix de Milan Fras... Ah, cette voix ! Un grognement d'outre-tombe qui ferait passer Barry White pour un castrat. Soudain, "La vie c'est la vie" ne sonne plus comme une célébration de l'été, mais comme un ordre aboyé par un général sous amphétamines. C'est du génie pur. Ils nous montrent qu'avec un arrangement différent, n'importe quelle chansonnette peut devenir un outil de propagande terrifiant. Et ils remettent ça avec "Geburt einer Nation" (Naissance d'une Nation). Cette fois, c'est Queen qui y passe avec "One Vision". Freddie Mercury chantait l'unité et la vision commune ? Laibach te le traduit en allemand, ralentit le tempo, ajoute des percussions industrielles lourdes, et d'un coup, l'unité dont on parle n'est plus celle d'un concert humanitaire, mais celle d'un rassemblement de masse un peu trop organisé. C'est effrayant, c'est brillant, et ça me fait marrer à chaque écoute. C'est sûr, si tu n'as pas les codes, si tu ne vois pas le second degré (qui est parfois un troisième degré), tu fuis en courant. C'est dommage, parce que musicalement, c'est d'une richesse folle. La production est massive. C'est le "Wall of Sound" de Phil Spector qui aurait été racheté par une usine sidérurgique soviétique. Et il faut rendre à César ce qui est à César : sans Laibach, pas de Rammstein. Les Allemands ont tout piqué aux Slovènes : la voix grave, les 'R' roulés, les riffs saccadés, l'esthétique martiale. Sauf que Rammstein en a fait un show pyrotechnique pour stades remplis d'ados en rut, alors que Laibach a gardé cette aura mystique, intellectuelle et froide. Rammstein, c'est Laibach pour ceux qui n'ont pas envie de réfléchir à la géopolitique de l'Europe centrale. Je dis ça, j'aime bien Rammstein pour déconner, mais les patrons, c'est Laibach. Point barre. Alors, pourquoi je me limite à un 4 sur 5 ? Parce que je ne vais pas vous mentir, même avec mes goûts de chiottes assumés, je ne vais pas écouter "Opus Dei" tous les jours. Ce n'est pas l'album que je mets pour me détendre en rentrant du boulot ou pour un dîner aux chandelles (à moins de vouloir larguer la personne en face de manière spectaculaire). C'est une œuvre exigeante, c'est dense, c'est oppressant par moments. Il y a des instrumentaux au milieu de l'album ("F.I.A.T.", "The Great Seal") qui sont magnifiques, très cinématographiques, mais qui demandent une attention particulière. On ne siffle pas ça sous la douche. Je mets 5/5 aux albums que j'emmènerais sur une île déserte, "Opus Dei" lui, je l'emmènerais plutôt dans un bunker anti-atomique. C'est une nuance importante. Mais bon sang, que cet album a bien vieilli ! Presque 40 ans dans les dents et il sonne toujours aussi puissant, aussi pertinent. Peut-être parce que le monde n'a pas tant changé que ça. Les populismes montent, les discours se durcissent, et la pop culture est toujours aussi vide de sens qu'à l'époque de "Live is Life". Laibach nous tend toujours ce miroir dérangeant. C'est un disque qui a des "couilles", pardonnez-moi l'expression et il ne s'excuse pas d'exister. Il te regarde droit dans les yeux et te défie de baisser le regard. Alors tant pis pour les pisse-froids qui mettent des 1/5 parce que "ça fait peur" ou "c'est répétitif". Laissez-les écouter leur soupe tiède. Nous, on sait, on sait que derrière la façade de marbre et d'acier, il y a plus d'humanité, d'humour et d'intelligence politique que dans tout le catalogue des majors actuelles. Bref, un bon 4/5 mérité car c'est un album nécessaire. Pas "fun", pas "agréable" au sens premier du terme, mais nécessaire. Il nous rappelle que la musique peut être une arme, un outil de réflexion, et pas seulement un bruit de fond pour ascenseur ou pour pub de bagnole. Et n'oubliez jamais : l'art est un fanatisme qui exige la diplomatie... ou un truc du genre. Avec Laibach, on ne sait jamais si on doit rire ou se mettre au garde-à-vous, et c'est pour ça que je les aime.

German industrial is not my usual go to atyle but i dont mind this. There is a fair bit of tounge in cheek here I suspect with their Queen cover, etc. i wish i could understand the lyrics. Could be bloody hilarious. Can hear a bit of Ramstein in the lyrics and beat. This is a bit better than average industrial techno/avant garde music.

That was unlistenable

...

I would say I get Rammstein vibes from this, but then it would just be that Boss Baby meme IRL (something like, Guy who has only seen Boss Baby watching another movie: "I'm getting a lot of Boss Baby vibes from this"). This did have more of a military march quality, I guess. Honestly, I don't know what to make of it. It was imposing and harsh a lot of the time. I did like the Life Is Life song, but the German foreign language version was better to me. The rest of the songs didn't really engage me that much. They also were much quieter for me that both Life Is Life versions, which may have been a problem with my own speakers but caused some uneven listening. I appreciate getting something different, so that gains it some points. I can't really say I thought it was all that good, though. Overall: 1.9/5

Bold and unique, maybe a bit of a novelty album though but I enjoyed! 3.3

I had heard of this band a long time ago, and forgotten about them. This is an interesting album.

Great some Industrial, well almost I was thinking that starting of an album with what sounds like a goth on Prozac covering life is life was bold but no just a homage or an overture- the full on cover comes later Starts of slow and somewhat understated. But Leben TOD changes all that with definite tones of Feotus or Neubauten.. I’m all in. 2 -3 songs done and I’m liking it but not loving it - they are to industrial what Ghost are to metal . For some reason I’m reminded of the Punks in Terminator… cos playing danger with no real menace. I do like how the singer sing/talking over the music sounding a lot like Christophe Lee in his two excellent metal albums. I just want more oomph, not to mention angle grinders … Compare the orchestral parts of Opes Dei to Scraping Feouts off the Wheel’s Thrones of agony - where fetus soar these merely plod along . I’m loving this but am left wanting more Oh wait Trans national brings it … somehow industrial yet Christmassy . I’m loving it Can I give this 5 when it just makes want to listen to Hole or wheel by fetus - or anything by JD Thirwel ? As I doubt Scraping fetus off the wheel are in this list I’ll keep listening by encourage anyone reading this to check out the fetus Oeuvre.

I didn't know what to expect. Judging by the cover, it could be death metal, noise, or... well, whatever. But, for sure, I wasn't expecting this. It's pretty unique and original. That's for sure. And I value a lot originality, even if almost a half of the album consists of covers. There are many layers in the songs, it's strange but haunting. But... was I expecting to like it? I thought so at the beginning. And maybe expectations killed the experience at some point because it's not "that" much of my like, to be honest. And I don't even know if I like it or not. But it's a quite epic album, with so many orchestrations, and many industrial parts too. Like... there's place for everything! So, I guess I like this one. But I'm very confused and amazed and delighted and aghast at the same time!

Never heard this before. It's very different, like European industrial music. I thought it was pretty good and the singer reminds me of the Ramstein singer. The music kind of has a similar vibe. It's pretty good and after reading about them it sounds like they have a great live show with a whole act they do. Interesting but I'm not sure I will listen again.

Überassend gut bissen Rammstein furlaufer

First listen Saved 0/8

I think this is super cool. It's kinda weird too but I respect it

This album is fucking incredible. I’m not sure if I’m supposed to be a fascist or a communist or whatever when listening to this album but sign me up. Haven’t heard anything like this really. Bit of filler here and there but I can get down with. Unconventional weird shit. I love it. The use of samples, synthesisers, everything. I’d charge the enemy to these tunes

A classic

Did I expect to hear a Slovenian metal band covering Queen when I signed up to this list? No. Did I enjoy it? Also no. Still leagues better than Metallica though.

Inte för mig

Jävligt konstigt men jag är svag för det industriella, tunga, syntiga soundet. Mycket coolt!

Mysigt med tyska

Härligt pampigt som bäst! Men riktigt svagt slut.

2.6 2x catch up 2/27... a lighter hearted rammstein. defiinitely see their roots here.

Not my cup of tea

I feel as if I am not in on a joke when listening to this admittedly interesting album. The avant-garde can be awe inspiring at times, and at other times it sounds something like this. Laibach curate these quasi-industrial vignettes backed by chants and the ramblings of a madman. It wouldn’t be bad if the vocals weren’t so unbearable at times.

Yikes! I would have been quite happy getting to my deathbed having never listened to this. Truly, truly awful.

Weird, but good.

Trash

I feel like this is what vikings sounded like.

Jeg ville ønske Rammstein lød mere som dem her

Shit det var mærkeligt! Godt fund af bogen, må være temmelig obskurt. Ofte når der er en obskur plade fra et lille land har det været noget pis, men det her virkede reelt unikt (varierede dog lidt om det faktisk lød godt)

More interesting than 90% of the other albums. Pre-rammstein industrial

It sounds like Richard Wagner was born in 1963 (instead of 1813), behind the Iron Curtain instead of the Rhine Confederation, and got really into Kraftwerk in his teen years.

Meh

Some moments were interesting, but a lot of repetitiveness that started to annoy me.

😬

I mean kind of hilarous, but not enough to put myself through it haha I lasted 1.5 songs.

Tis a hella bunch of chanting 🗣️

Several various styles and sounds in one album and with somethings reminded me of Prince, Nine Inch Nails, or Rammstein. There were some repetitive anthems I could imagine crowds would sing and I might look into some of the lyrics if they have any reference to Slovenian history and struggles.

One I have never heard before. Don't know much Industrial. Interesting, could be harsher. Better than other stuff on here for sure but not exactly Swans. 3 Heard before? No Owned: No: 37/144 (25%) Will I get? No

This was a good album, I'm going to relisten, I think it's shareable

After the first two songs, I was ready to write this off as Music for Skinheads. Then I noticed the subtle skewing of the message, the tongue slowly inching towards the cheek. This does have touches of Kraftwerk, The Art of Noise and other bands I do enjoy. However, as a whole I cannot recommend this.

This is the most dog shit thing I’ve listened to

weirde shit

Unos bestias!

oh laibach!!! rääächts. c

Laibach walked so Rammstin could run

Opus Dei sounds like military marching music that's meant more for dancing, having kinky sex to or just relaxing under a cozy blanket on the 13th of December at 5:50 AM desperately wishing someone was spanking your bare bottom until both cheeks glowed in muted shades of candy apple red.

So committed to their pofaced satire of totalitarianism that almost 30 years after this album they were invited to play songs from The Sound of Music in North Korea. That's a bigger achievement than getting to number one. I've always had a soft spot for their ability to personify the latent fascism in popular music. Other great cover versions include Sympathy for the Devil, the whole of Let It Be (even Maggie Mae), You're In The Army Now and Final Countdown. Having lived through the original Life Is Life being a big hit the addition of the lyric "We gazed at the power, we gazed at the best and everyone lost everything and died with the rest" has always been hilarious to me from the first time I saw it on Channel 4's The Chart Show. My only real concern over the years has been that irony isn't really a defence against totalitarianism but they probably know that and their career is secretly one big comfort rocking session.

could not get thru the first song im sorry i cant do it

Meh

Weird and crazy. Scary vocals.

Not a fan

lowky overhated

I have no idea what to think about this record. I love experimental music so I certainly appreciate it for that but this is incredibly avant garde. I did really enjoy the album title track Opus Dei - very industrial.

didn't care for the concept, didn't enjoy the hour-long anthem music, never want to hear these vocals again

German (pejorative). Turns out it's actually Slovenian but I stand by my original - and correct - take.

What the hell

Never been more disinterested in an album from the very start

Good fun

2.7/5 Stars Top Songs: Leben Heisst, Opus Dei, Trans-National

If they ever have the Nuremberg rallies again, this will be the soundtrack. Glorious 80s pomp, but ultimately a bit shit.

Utterly bonkers but remarkably enjoyable. I never knew I needed to hear two synth-metal retellings of Opus’ ‘Life is Life’ in German and sung by the Cookie Monster, but I’m glad I now have. Throw in some reworking of Queen’s contributions to the Highlander soundtrack and you have yourself a surprisingly enjoyable, if entirely mental, album. How is this in the lowest rated selection?!

Nah. Didn't really like this. Didn't hate it. But just not into. It was quite repetitive at times.

5.8

At first, I just wanted to go listen to The Young Gods, but as the album went on I got more and more into it. Really fucking cool, dark, unwelcoming

It was poopoo. It was clearly referencing political ideas and assumingly criticizing things but it was German so had no way to understand them. Besides that, the music aspect was atrocious and all over the place. I had to quit halfway through since it became so much of a background noise rather than a listening experience. 1/5

What a bizarre listening experience. This is what you get when you mix Industrial German Metal with 80s pop and I'm still not sure how I feel about it... I didn't exactly find it to be an enjoyable listen, but it was definitely interesting.

6.5

Not sure how I feel about this. I love metal and hard rock, they're my most listened to genre, but I just couldn't get into it. It's like Rammstein from the 80s with Arnold Scwarzenegger providing vocals. It's interesting, but I don't think I'll listen again.

Completing it was quite challenging. Strange album.

An intersection album for sure, perhaps a bit performative. The orchestration was well done but the vocals just kept sounding like Cookie Monster to me

thought i was being pranked

People on this site hate industrial music for some reason. This is good!

It's great, truly. This is a work of art, or anti-art, if you'd like. But, some statements on this, though powerful, are sometimes bordering on annoying (2-3 tracks near the end). The rest is great, both covers and originals. The title track is my prefered version of Live is Life and always has been. Laibach are different from anything you'll ever see or hear and they are worth your every second. 4/5

0 stars

Interesting. Appropriate soundtrack for a movie depicting a soldier's post-WW2 delirium.

They got real weird with it.

Interesting

Not my thing at all. The entire thing is sang in German! How am i supposed to enjoy this???

Ákveðinn húmor í þessu sem ég fílaði

Virkilega erfitt. Fyrri hlutinn spennandi og öðruvísi en sá seinni alger steypa. Gef þessu tvær stjörnur fyrir tvær útgáfur af life is life (og queen cover).

What the hell is this...? To covere av "Life is life"? Bare møl. Gadd ikke høre ferdig.

A bit out there, just a bit

Look, at least it was interesting which is more than can be said for a lot of albums on this list. I appreciate what the band is doing with the political satire. This album is truly something I've never experienced before. This is the kind of stuff I was hoping the list would introduce me to. Thank you.

really strange, theatrical, industrial sound.

Not my thing. Maybe with additional listens & translation of lyrics. 2/5

Bizarre. Interesting. Completely different.

Got an extra star for the album cover.

Sounds like German rock.

Found this really weird.

I was not previously familiar with the artist or album. This is an industrial album in German. At first, I did not care for this at all and couldn't wait for it to be over, but I stuck it out and it grew on me a little bit. It is still a bit harsh and unmelodic for me, and the vocals are rougher than I like. I would not listen again but I am fine to have heard it once.

I liked the parts that were inspired by Queen. The rest of it was a bit too noisy noise for me. Waffling between 2 and 3 stars but the beginning of the album was a good time.

Theatrical Slovenian great

interesting...

3/5

these two things are true: 1. i thoroughly enjoyed every track on this album; 2. i skipped every track after about 2.5 mins

Strangely cathartic goofiness

These edgelords have constructed a series of noises that starts weak and goes downhill from there. They managed to work themselves down from a 3 to a 2 to a 1. An album to be endured and nothing more. Jagerspiel might be one of the worst creative works ever devised by the hand of man like a toddler was set loose on a soundboard of the most irritating noises imaginable. I never thought I would prefer to be listening to the tinny noises of other people's phone calls and Tiktoks on public transport. I need some Tay Tay now to cleanse my brain.

This band is a bigass rabbit hole that I have no time to explain. The music is comfortably weird. I would have 0 idea how to recommend this album unless they knew industrial music. If you like 80s uhhh martial (think of like if John Phillips Sousa had synthesizers) industrial music. The whole Yugoslavia thing was before I was born. I like weird shit, so it works. Before this album I had A Rush of Blood To The Head by Coldplay, and this is definitely cooler. Check out that time they played in North Korea

Meh

Álbum experimental/industrial interessante. É bem musical e bem feito. Celest Pandamon.

Ah, finally, I get Laibach’s Opus Dei. I’d never heard of this band or album before I started this project, but I know this album has quite the reputation amongst other users on this project. I know this list isn’t exactly flush with industrial albums, but I’ve mostly enjoyed the ones that are on here. However, I have no clue about what to expect from a Slovenian album. Whether I love this or hate this, I’m sure Opus Dei is sure to be a unique and interesting experience. As with most of the lowest rated albums on this list, I didn’t find Opus Dei to be that bad, and I thought it was a pretty fun album. I thought Laibach’s approach to industrial music was really unique, and I really enjoyed how they utilized synthesizers in their music. I tend to enjoy when music can have contrasts between light and dark, and this album really capitalized on that technique. Even though I found Opus Dei pretty enjoyable, this album was pretty uneven in its sound. This album felt more like a greatest hits compilation than an LP, with some songs sounding really stripped down or much heavier than the rest of the album. Some songs were pretty repetitive lyrically, even though the music changed and evolved over the course of the song. Some notes on the songs that stood out to me: “Leben Heißt Leben” hit really hard for an opening track. The pouding drums, the booming vocals, and the horns all sounded great together, and did a great job of establishing this album’s sound. I loved the bright synthesizers too. This song made me feel like I was attending Catholic mass in Carlsbad Caverns. “Geburt Einer Nation” was really good too. Like the first track, this song did a great job of using both lighter and darker sounds to create a really unique environment. Fourth track is cool too. I liked that intro, and I like the spoken vocals. Everything that's made this album click so far is still here: dark atmosphere, unique arrangements “Trans-National” felt like a more traditional industrial song, like something off of Kollaps. The song itself was good, but it stuck out like a sore thumb compared to the rest of the album. I liked the horns on “The Great Seal,” and this song had a really epic sound to it that made it the perfect closing track. While Opus Dei was an uneven experience, it was fun and interesting to listen to, and I could see myself checking out some more Opus Dei music in the future.

Did not care for this album. Not my cup of tea!!!!

Interesting kraut rock.

Avant-garde industrial, but infinitely almost easy listening to compared to Einstürzende Neubauten. Honestly not sure how serious this was meant to be taken, but it’s certainly out there, and I think it’s hard to argue this was not influential.

Bonus star for sounding like if Strong Bad had an industrial band

I do not enjoy this.