Opus Dei

Guy has a good voice but the music is depressing. Sounds like something that would be played at a Nazi rally!

I am definitely never listening to this album again. Not the worst thing ever, it had some moments worthy of redemption, but not good. 2/5

Gar nicht meine mucke. Rammstein bevor es Rammstein gab

Very interesting aesthetic to say the least

Yikes. This is a band that has clearly spent all of their time thinking about power structures. The sounds blur the lines between music and an anti-political movement. My hope is that they are making a mockery of power structures of all kinds and sort of forcing listeners to question their own relationship with nationalism and power structures of all kinds. Obviously, that's not clear and may be be too hopeful. Also, it would seem, part of their point. The industrial sound pairs perfectly and is relentless and cold. The song 'Great Seal' is especially problematic as it's really inviting and attractive. You're listening along and like oh this is somewhat pleasant. Then you're like oh shit, I'm humming along. And then, oh wait, am I liking this? And I hope, I really hope that's their main desire. Make us question ourselves. How do we relate to power structures? How do we associate or further the cold and calculated sources of power to be inhuman? If that is the case, I would call the music important. In fact, self-reflection is certainly needed now, at this moment in history around the world.

Okay, who had Slovenian art rock in today's sweepstakes? Some great (deliberately) comic highlights (somehow Leben heisst Leben is funnier in Geman). The (age retricted) video to the English version is something to behold, though. Apart from those covers there's not much in the way of tunes (or music), and it gets a bit tiresome to listen to. But hey, at least they're having fun. 2.5 🌟 Gib mir ein leicht bier!

The was way out there

FIAT actually really interesting

Inte riktigt min smak men det finns ju nåt där. Cover på queen är bättre än originalet

Man blir glad

Det här var ju kul. Originellt och åtminstone delvis rätt bra. Dock är det ju deras covers som är bäst (Leben heisst leben och Geburt einer nation, Opus dei var inte lika bra), vilket för mig drar ned intrycket lite. Svår att betygsätta då det är så spretigt, men landar efter en sammanvägning i en stark tvåa.

WTF did I just listen to? I can't decide if I liked it or not. Either way, it was really intense

dark and orchestral. grandiose. elements of industrial music. some lyrics are in german, some are in english, sung in a distinct and harsh style. an obvious influence on current day european bands such as rammstein. wasn’t necessarily my thing, but i can understand the allure.

This was ein Schinderei

Lol

Ludicrous, sometimes humorously so, other times testing. Some cool flourishes of experimentation but it couldn't elevate the whole experience. Two and a half. Fave track: Opus Dei

I guess you don't have to understand the music to enjoy it. OK. This is a dark album, though.

Rammstein + Fantasma de la ópera, wierdddd

Interesting but to the end the album was not as interesting as it started. Liked few Songs tho

Wow… that was a lot

If Grima Wormtongue was given the job of DJing the Uruk-Hai Christmas Party I think would be perfect. It has the innate anger of a pack of Orcs but adds enough wimsy and jauntyness to appeal to murdering half-men celebrating a nice time of the year. I'm sure the Orcs would give this album five stars. However for all the same reasons this gets a 2 from me.

I really don't understand what I just listened to. It's like... it's like the sound track to a b-level Bond movie rip off produced in pre-unification, East Germany. The whole thing is needlessly and dramatically gothic... but without the artistry. It's incredibly stiff and regimented. Why is this on the list, again? Oh, right. "Cultural importance" or something. Alright, you get a star for that.

Meh auf deutsch

Not sure if this was How The West Was Won, but it was something

Rart, men hatet det ikke

Leben Heisst Leben - 8/10 Geburt einer Nation - 8/10 Leben-Tod - 7.5/10 F.I.A.T. - 7.5/10 Opus Dei - 7/10 Trans-National - 7/10 How the West Was Won - 7/10 The Great Seal - 7/10 Herz-Felde - 6/10 Jägerspiel - 5/10 Koza (Skin) - 6/10 Krst (Baptism) - 5/10 TOTAL - 81/120

This is goofy as hell. Just some LARPers that are physically unable to come across as cool or intimidating. 3/10

Despite a high score for the cult factor and two appreciable covers of a great song, I cannot justify more than two stars for this bombastic pastiche.

My reaction to the record depended a lot on my inability to understand the most of the language used throughout. The wide variety of eerie, industrial, and national anthem-like sounds meshed well with the incomprehensible German such that if this was a more bland rock record I would have been bored for an hour. It will be pretty funny to come across these on shuffle in my playlists, but will be among the albums I'm least likely to go back to. Overall glad to be introduced to it though, was enjoyable in an atypical way. 4/10

Proto-Rammstein with a Slovenian guy burp-singing into the mic. As a fellow Eastern European, it's great to see some Slavic representation on this list, but surely there are better examples? If the reason why this was included is the massive influence these guys had on Rammstein, then why isn't there any Rammstein album on this list? Kind of boring in a really goofy way. Didn't enjoy it that much.

Trökig. Life is life-covern var väl lite skoj men annars lät det som Rammstein eller något sånt.

Kinda like a Rammstein parody band. I can see the appeal but it's hard to get into. 2 stars.

Not for me

Nah.The only Laibach track that’s ever moved me was their amazing cover of The Beatles’ Across The Universe, which was really the work of the vocal choir (Germania?) This album really does nothing for me.

One applauds the political commitment and insights (now long outdated). But musically this isn't really worth the time, even by the standards of Eastern European absurdism or socially conscious performance art. Vocals are a joke – a scary movie joke, one supposes. "F.I.A.T." is vaguely interesting, but mostly sounds like a soundtrack for a low-budget thriller of political espionage (to which end all this creative energy might have more productively been channelled). "How the West" has a semi-engaging moment where the strings intersect with the thumping metal beat, but then the laughable, cartoon villain vocals kick back in. There is some variation in styles and a general sense of unpredictability, with a tendency toward the darker/heavier and more martial the longer the record goes on, with an overemphasis on repetition (and repetition). One doesn't feel one really gets anywhere, at least anywhere recognizable for one lacking a deep knowledge of Balkan politics circa late '80s or the various languages at play here. Might belong on a list of 1,001 Political Satire or Protest Albums, but certainly does not belong on this list. Potential bonus points for including "hugger-mugger" in the lyrics.

hmm wonder what that means

i didn't really enjoy this but i did appreciate that it was something different. however i cannot see myself listening again, so to the 2 star shadow realm it goes

At first I thought this would be the kind of weird shit I can get behind, but alas, the longer it went on I realised it was a little too weird, even for me. The blend of industrial noise, tribal chanting and what sounds like nationalist propaganda anthems (EDIT - just read the wiki and it seems that's exactly what it is) is like nothing I've heard before. I'm kind of glad it exists, but I'm not sure I'd want to listen to it again. EDIT #2 - Now I know that tracks 9-12 don't really belong on the album I have to give this a bump up - there's too much chutzpah in tracks 1-8 to give it just 1 star.

Best Song: Opus Dei. Sometimes a song can be so bad it's good, and I think that might be what's going on here. Worst Song: The Great Seal. Sounds like it should run over the end credits to a late 90s computer game. Overall: 95% cheesy pomp, 5% substance. I like that it's weird, but I just don't like this flavour of theatrical weird. It's difficult to tell what, if any of it, is tongue-in-cheek, so it all comes off as a bit goofy.

Weird album of industrial nationalist sounds, not for me.

Ramstein for the gen x crowd

I…I… Don't know what I just listened to but I feel agitated. Why is this album here? It's not UK 90's pop. 2/5

This is completely mad. I can't see myself ever listening to it again, but I'm kind of glad that I've heard it once. It's mostly in German, combination of a bit of metal, some creepy spoken word, and some orchestral pieces. The guttural German cover of Queen's One Vision is a highlight. 2/5, knocking on the door for a 3 but it's just too weird.

I like some of the Laibach albums. This is not one of these. The songs on this record are too stupid and narrow minded for me, lacking the (not too obvious) intelligence and musical complexity the other albums have. For example "Krst Pod Triglavom - Baptism (1987)" is fantastic (even knowing it contains Nazi speeches) and "Slovenska Akropola (1987)" is great too. This album is a collection of cheap thrills and only the songs at the end (from "Krst...Baptism") show some quality.

For an album labelled as metal on here, I didn't expect something like this. It's weird. I didn't even really know what to think about it. Perhaps this needs a relisten, but I don't want to relisten to it, so it will stay at a 2. My favourite song was Geburt Einer Nation, I guess?

Starts decent but once the "shock"/"exotic" factor wore off halfway through the album, you're just not left with good music

Industrial/noise is ook een genre dat me moeilijk kan bekoren. Deze plaat heeft wel enkele luisterbare nummers, maar ook een hoop die ik eigenlijk snel wou afzetten

Kinda just wild? But also very mellow musically.

Yeah, not quite sure this even qualifies as music. Perhaps it has some artistic qualities, but I did not enjoy this.

An interesting listen, nice music to embalm to. Would not listen again

Mad

The list giveth 3 great albums in a row, the list also giveth a bottom rated follow up that completely doesn’t match the vibes of the last 3. While it sounds like I’m going to hate on the album, I’m mostly just fascinated by it. I can’t imagine that any regular person born after 1970 and/or outside of Eastern Europe would find this album even moderately comprehensible. Even if I spoke German I wouldnt have a clue what they’re going for, I feel; and short of a class in late stage Soviet era culture I’ll never understand this. It’s a mix of patriotic trumpets, heavy metal with vocals recorded by a singer with a mouthful of gravel, and samples of Winston Churchill quotes and the only thing I took away from it was that ramnstein had to have been influenced by this in some way. I was fine with it at first and excited to give it a 3, but then jagerspiel hit and that all too familiar feeling of physical discomfort came over me as I listened to something just awful. In general, I appreciate albums like this that are radically different from anything I’ve ever heard and are completely opaque to me because it makes me try to understand what the artist was trying to say with this. Unfortunately this came at a bad time at the tail end of an epic three album run so it doesn’t get quite as much slack.

This is ridiculous. I do appreciate hearing something so dramatically different than the usual on this list, but it's not really for me. I always fine music from this part of the world in the 70s and 80s interesting just because of the insular nature of that area at that time. Fun enough.

Only made it as far as the title track. Wasn’t into it

This album is really not my thing. Maybe if I understood German I’d like it more, but this was really a slog for me

This band/Art collective was an inspiration for Rammstein. I don't like either of them that much but I can at least appreciate the musical character and especially the rearrangements of pop songs of the time. I'm sure this album did lots to get music evolving. It's just not my cup of tea.

As admirable and fun as it is to mix military classical, popular middle ground rock and industrial noise along with a dose of local politiking, I'm sadly outside the joke and the culture and don't really "get" this. I'd rather actually listen to Queen or Opus, but kudos for putting it together AND getting picked for the 1001 albums book.

Tää oli vähän väärällä tavalla raskasta ja mahtipontista mulle. Varmaan ainakin Rammsteinille melko itsestäänselvä esikuva. Hurjaa musaa. 2/5

Tää vetosi jollain kummalla tavalla sen verran, että en annakaan ykköstä, kuten varmaan useimmat.

Auf die Dauer ermüdend, weil repetitiv, außerdem weder besonders unterhaltsam noch kreativ. Das machen Rammstein, allen Vorwürfen des Abkupferns zum Trotz, einfach tausendmal besser. Ich bin allenfalls müde amüsiert.

A little bit Invasion of Poland, a little bit Eurovision. Hilarious in parts but the schtick wears a bit thin after about 30 mins, so fucked off the bonus tracks.

Well it was interesting and different that's for sure. So they can a bonus star for effort.

This is a very oppressive album. I quite like how weird it is, with the rhythmic drums, layered synths, guitars and trumpets. It definitely has a unique atmosphere to it, it's just a real slog. Very repetitive and very hard going.

I mean... okay. It just seems to be very march-y. Is there any joy to this? Any... fun? Covering "One VIsion" from Queen. The end of the original, Mercury sings "just gimme gimme gimme FRIED CHICKEN," which goes by so quickly you miss it if you're not listening closely. The point is the band doesn't take themselves too seriously. This band seems to be doing the exact OPPOSITE of that. I mean, even on the SNL bit "Sprockets" there was a point where they danced. Lighten up, guys.

I don't know how I feel about this album. The genre tags didn't prepare me. Was that Captain Picard's voice yelling "Herz-Felde"? Is that the guy from Rammstein? Wait they're Slovenian, aren't they singing in German?

Laibach's Opus Dei is like nothing I've ever heard before. And that's not necessarily a good thing. I mean, I'm all for exploring new musical territory, but this album is like a trip to a bizarre, dystopian world where the only sound is industrial techno mixed with Gregorian chants. And don't even get me started on the two covers of "Live is Life" in German. I mean, I get it, they're trying to make a statement or something, but come on. One was more than enough. It's like they're trying to brainwash us into liking it or something. All in all, Opus Dei is definitely not my cup of tea. But hey, if you're into weird, experimental music that makes you question your sanity, give it a listen. Just don't say I didn't warn you.

Puppies and rainbows and mass graves.

Not really digging this... most likely because I don't speak a lick of German and also I don't usually like metal all that much I would give it a 1 based on personal tastes but I'm sure that's mostly ignorance and so it gets a pity 2 from me

Wiki says "martial industrial", definitely seems appropriate. Big, booming drums and mostly gutteral vocals, felt warlike and ominous

Sounds like those throat singers from Dune

Enjoyed a few songs and the experience of listening to the album, but probably won't be coming back to it anytime soon.

That was silly

I can't stop laughing, this shit is so ridiculous. Not to be taken seriously under any circumstances.

This is a refreshing genre reminding me of scifi video games. Reminiscent of bands like Rammstein, this martial industrial album is characterized by Wagnerian (metal-esque) vocals, gothic melodic structure, and industrial and military sound effects providing triumphant and emotionally charged tracks. I recognize "Opus Dei" from an industrial club I went to. There are some decent tracks, but much of it is dull and forgettable.

Har hört att de tidigare faktiskt ska vara ok. Här blir det lite väl bredbent. Gillar dock lite frågan: Driver de/driver de inte med fascismen?

I can't really take this seriously.

I liked the music well enough, but there are too many Nazi-adjacent tie-ins to make me comfortable with this at all.

Weird shit

2/5. A very interesting album. It’s not bad but it’s not unique enough to listen to again. The only that feels different is the German language. Don’t have too many feelings for this one.

One of the weirdest things I have ever listened to. It was like National Music mixed with 80s Rock, and the singer was from a Frogcore Metal Band.

Well this was an experience. Definitely not easy listening, but does have some interesting qualities. Feels like I’m listening to a parade for some Totalatarian Regime. The Wikipedia confirmed that this is intentional, as their music is parodying that style of music. Interesting album/band but I don’t think I would listen again.

no, cheap

That was unlike anything I've heard before, it just kept getting weirder as it went along. Don't think Slovenian avant garde industrial music is my thing but it was well worth listening to.

I like a bit of Rammstein and I can hear they've definitely taken inspiration from Laibach. I think the album is too long and the last third of is pretty awful. I swear it sounds like they're saying "I have not pooed" in the song "Herz-Felde". Highlight was "Leben - Tod"

This was complete madness. At first I thought it was quite interesting but half way through I found myself checking how long I had left to listen to. The last third or so was absolutely mental and verging on unlistenable imo I can imagine this appearing on an episode of Beavis and Butthead with them critiquing it. The life is life cover was interesting! I'm only giving this a 2 because it made me say "what the fuck" out loud while listening and also the fact that it was quite interesting JAH JAH.....NEIN NEIN!

Very interesting

Just sounded like the soundtrack to an 80s action movie.

Eh.

Música marcial industrial. Estresante. Un 2.

Odd mix of industrial krautrock and 80s synth silliness. Not unpleasant but certainly nothing I will revisit.

C'était unique comme son, clairement c'était une grosse inspiration pour Rammstein, mais malgré le mélange unique de sons, ça devenait redondant plus on approchait de la fin

Probably great if you're a slovenian metalhead teenager with depression in the 80s.

Not my thing

Et forferdelig album å høre på. Unngår 1 fordi det tross alt er litt kult.

Det begynner vanvittig cringe, østtysk operarock som covrer vestlige hiter, men så møter vi forgjengeren til Rammstein og etterkommeren til Electric light orchestra i en og samme person. Albumet utvikler seg progressivt, men jeg holdt ikke hele veien ut. Morsomt å ha vært borti

This is one of those rare albums where you know exactly what it is going to sound like just by looking at the cover. I wasn't surprised by the sound of the metal/industrial/classical anthem first track, but I was surprised to discover it was a cover of "Live is Life." Anyway I quite liked the song, maybe more than the original, as well as The Queen cover after, but you know any LP with a vocalist who sounds like an angry Viking isn't going to have staying power.

If I had to imagine what German Industrial sounded like, it would be exactly like this.

Did not grab me

I cannot. This is so inaccessible to me on so many levels. I don't understand a lick of the language being sung (German?) and it makes me feel like I'm at a rally for an abhorrent political stance that I would never align with. I'm making so many generalizations that are probably so off base, but it's just the way it makes me feel. I don't want any part of this. And the album cover is totally uninviting. Not for me.

Not my bag - must've been a big inspiration for Rammstein though

Not particularly my taste.

Not for me.

Pretty sure I was being told to join or start a cult. Still not as bad as Lincoln Park.

Ok this has been a wild ride. I read into Laibach in quite fine detail haha, I even went into Reddit and it seems even a super fan cannot say with confidence whether they were trying to make people think about the Holocaust or whether they are Nazi sympathisers. I don't believe they actually are sympathisers and I think they are trying to give a very strong and clever message with their music, their name and actually the entire concept of their group it seems like it's one big art concept. BUT I cannot be certain and that means I can't give them the review to reflect my enjoyment of the music because to me you don't mess around with that, you make it bloody clear that you are not a Nazi sympathiser. I did really enjoy most of the album and aside from this bull shit I would have given it a 4, the Wagener influences are really interesting. I didn't like all the tracks but I enjoyed how camp some of them were! The danger is though, some bunch of neo-nazis may use this to glorify genocide and I that makes me mad so it's going to be a 2.

Right I don't even know what to make of this album, unexpected and bizarre. But I want to give it credit for how mad it was and that the Queen One Vision cover did make me laugh. Luke like one of the more droney ones

No es algo que volvería a escuchar, pero si algo que agradezco haber escuchado.

Um, wow. I wasn’t expecting any Slovenian albums on this list so of course it gets a ‘rule of cool’ star for that. Some VERY dark, vodka-infused humour here. I really want to give this 2.5 stars.

I read up on this band a bit, and have a lot of respect for what they were trying to do as artists. Parodying totalitarian states, poking the Soviet bear, all pretty interesting. That said, the music is somewhat hard to listen to and I didn't make it through the album.

could not get into it

Different 2.5

I see a lot of influence on some metal bands, like Rammstein, but the album isn't very enjoyable. Most songs are long and nothing happens there, 5/10

It's interesting but not my jam. Lots of cool samples and melodies, and when reading into the background of the band it was interesting to learn that a lot of their material is satire of totalitarianism. However it's not really anything I'd seek out on my own

First couple of songs were cool but the album really tailed off after that I struggled to keep going 4/10

Can see the influence they had on Rammstein. The reworked songs are interesting but overall this album wasn’t for me.

Oh, god, Slovenian too

Unsettling

Thank god that’s over

Sounds like a very early version of Rammstein which is one of my favorite bands. Despite my low rating I will give this album a couple. Ote listens to see what sticks and songs I may like.

Lol

The most niche album so far, to which I can only say - its OK if you like that sort of thing

I understand just enough German to make this album enjoyable. It is just really weird. I just don't really get the appeal of industrial music. I don't think it's a bad album just not something that I will ever consider listening to again.

I really don't think I get this one. I enjoyed it in parts but it mostly felt like it went over my head.

Really not for me, not really an industrial fan and I found it hard to get past that voice. I did appreciate the random Queen cover, though. 2/5 stars

Weird orchestral/industrial mix. Some interesting bits but obviously German singing on anything makes it too funny to take seriously

Not my style but interesting

Think Rammstein, in the 80’s, with more saxophone, a few good beats drowned out by the weird marching band / rally vibe.

A poor man's Test Dept.

Áhugavert. Þarf að skoða þetta band nánar.

Just doesnt do it for me at all, I can hear some rammstein type stuff but it just isnt for me

2/5 This metal cover of known songs started up well, but the final pieces were bad.

Opus Dei is a lonely flank of post-industrial noise, dark ambient, neo folk, dark wave and neoclassical orchestrations mixed with military marches, historical speeches and political, apolitical or metapolitical lyrics. (4/10) FT: Geburt Einer Nation

This is fucking weird. beyond novelty, it's kind of stupid. Definately some early trent reznor feel to it. I want to turn it off, I just can't bring myself to do it.

🤷‍♂️

5/10

Didn't finish. it wasn't awful, just ... not my speed at all.

Well, they can't be accused of composing outside their comfort zone. If Brutalism has a musical counterpart, this is it. Made it through the full hour without breaking!

Pretty boring Very repetitive

Scott and Bort once went to see these guys play at a Lost Prophets exhibition or something. On display they had the cover of Nevermind by Nirvana. The baby from that cover was in Laibach and also featured heavily in several Lost Prophets videos. I think that's how that story goes.

What the what? Not at all my thing, but it sure was interesting. I wouldn't completely write them off.

I think I understand the aesthetic, and I normally like a bit if industrial noise. This one really didn't do it for me, unfortunately. 2 stars.

I did not know about this band or the music. After listening I don't know much more other than that I did not like this album. There might have been some music that was reaching for "okay", but I couldn't get past the back-of-the-throat, frog-like croaking for the vocals. At least I wasn't mad that I gave the album a listen. (I'm looking at you Dr. Octagon).

German Metal, but with a touch of the decade (80's) it came from. A very unique death metal approach, with what would be a major influence on European metal of the future.

This sounds like cult music. More so the end of the album than the rest of it. It's loud, bombastic, has a lot of spoken words (as well as a weird vibe), and repeats a lot of the motifs throughout the album. Oddly enough, the beginning few songs sound great, but the rest of the album sinks after that. Favorite track: Leben Heißt Leben

nazister?

Hmmm... Vad var detta? Märkligt var det, så mycket är jag säker på. När öppningsspåret är en tysk version av "Life is life" blir man ställd. Trots att den var väldigt märklig får den ändå klassas som godkänd, kanske fick den hjälp av att man har lyssnat slut på Opus version av låten för många år sedan. Resten av albumet lämnade inga stora avtryck. Det var några sköna sounds som fick tankarna att gå till filmmusik, men annars svaga intryck. Bäst: Vet inte

Very German even though the band isn’t from Germany

Makes me want to invade Poland. Liked it at first but it just turned into chants

Still suffering from the theatricality of the 80s hair metal scene. Primarily in the vocals. Was not too into the sounds here, wasn’t as if it was abrasive it was just generic industrial production values going on.

Not in the mood for that album

What

Hmnm

This was maybe too weird. New to me, but won't be listening to more

Categorical industrial effort, kind of protoRammstein vibes. It was probably revolutionary in the communist world back in the 80s; now sounds dated and irrelevant to me. Curious covers of Queen and Opus.

On the whole very disturbing and can see why this band is controversial. Despite that two fantastic military style instrumentals : F.I.A.T and The Great Seal

Industrial. Monótono, sombrío, pesado

industrial is very tiring couldn't finish it. too repetitive

Kinda weird

Not for me

Don't know why I got this again

Don’t think I’d ever heard this outside of the title track. Seems so tame compared to industrial music that would come ten years later. Not sure I’d spin it again but might not turn it off.

Couldn’t make it through...

Interesting one vision cover

Intense German electronica ballads. This is strange, not going to lie.

2.5

This was more interesting than good.

Interesting, but I don't need to listen to it again.

2a endast för att de lär ha inspirerat många inom deras stil men det här var ingen höjdare att lyssna på.

2.5 stars. Slightly unsettling, but makes for good-ish exercise music.

Just not my style

It wasn't awful but it wasn't that good either.

Någon typ av Slovensk industriell rock. Två(!) covers på Live is Life. Eventuellt en liten inspirationskälla hos Rammstein så dom slipper undan en 1:a.

Listens: 1 Standout Tracks: No This is like, half rock opera, half industrial music, half nationalistic motherland indoctrination, and full 100% terrible. It reminds me of the Command and Conquer franchise music (or maybe it's Red Alert 2), but bad. I'll be good if I never hear this again.

yay my first 1/5 i’m so excited

some well-known peaces of music with bombasto and avantgarde modified and called as art. NOT TO LISTEN BEFORE I DIE

Okay, I've been patient with a lot of obscure LPs. But this is garbage. Do better.

first album where i really didn’t know what to expect and the wikipedia blurb does not give you any clues either. after listening to it i’m still not really sure what it is. but i don’t like it.

Opus Dei by Laibach sounds like a prototype for Rammstein, only with less industrial metal and more keyboards. I can see how this might be someone's thing, but it did absolutely nothing for me. To my ears, it was just hot-shit garbage.

Not for me

Didn't like it.

The problem with doing satire and parody is letting the audience in on the act. You need to give people a wink just to let them know you're performing, not actually being. Either these guys are furiously satirising Fascism and Totalitarianism or they actually are Fascists. But the act is so straight down the line and since many of their lyrics are in German it's not that easy to tell. And the lyrics that are in English don't help make things clear. And how much of their fan base can tell the difference is also up for debate. I felt a bit like I needed a shower after I heard it.

i tried but i couldnt

Art-fart that doesn't amuse me.

So… i get that Laibach's approach is to take elements of fascist music and turn it up to the point of satire and ridiculousness. I get it… in theory. In practice i think they do nothing for the listener to actually understand that what they are listening to is a parody. Especially the first two tracks made me incredibly uncomfortable to the point that i was considering not finishing the album. And yes, the point of art is to make the recipient uncomfortable. But this album made me uncomfortable because it felt like listening to actual fascist march-music - which made me nauseous considering the state of the world. At no point did the music reveal to me that i am listening to a parody and critique of it. That only came with reading about the album and band. So if the music itself does not manage to transport the idea of pardoy and critique, isn’t it simply reproducing what it’s trying to critique? I’m sure there are whole theses written about this out there, maybe i will go and read them when i feel like it.

I knew one song these guys did from a flash video on rathergood.com, and they did the Iron Sky soundtrack. I just assume this is the ambient sound of Slovenia, and you hear this as soon as you get off the plane.

Laibach headfirst into an oven, hope us die.

Guess I’m anti-woke cuz I hate this DEI

The 19th worst rated album on this website. What a way to start my day. The original album only has 8 songs but theres 12 on apple music. ill listen to the bonus tracks if I like it. Yeah im gona spare my ears on this one I think. Sucks abouth as much as its album cover. This album is what I thought Rammstein was before listening to them. And I dont even like Rammstein that much.

This is not a good album. Conceptual dark german cover synth rock. It was in late 80s so nothing really ground breaking just a few decent remake covers but really this shouldnt be here in top 1000 anything

I say no, to this possibility Nazi sympathizing band

Weird

Album art is really cool but I only listened to one song and will not be continuing

Could have been a 2+ if not for the vocals. Not sure who this is for?

Rough listen. A few of the more orchestral tracks (like The Great Seal) were fun in a kitschy way which made it slightly bearable but not enough to raise it above 1 star.

Funny to read about, but I couldn’t.

I may have given this one two stars if not for the vocalist, who I can only assume is Satan, “singing” in German. And it is singing only in the academic sense. It’s not the worst album on this list, but it tries its best to make the case. One lowly star.

Music for white nationalists to masturbate.

Heavy Queen. I think Queen were the worst excuse of a Cabernet band, so this is a worst excuse tribute band. No

This was really bad.

Awful.

That was - maybe - the worst thing I ever listened to. Why didn't anyone during the entire production process ever think 'Wait, this is probably a bad idea'?

industrial, militaristic

I thought this album was included for some special reason but no it's just ass. I don't care if it's some Slovenian avant-garde metal album. It's a lot of noise with Slavic yelling. Unfathomable that this made the list but no Rammstein album did.

Pretentious

Not my thing. The synth was the greatest and worst thing for Germany, and this is an example of the latter. Rating: 2/10 Favorite Song: Opus Dei

Entiendo que puedieron ser un quiebre para el momento, y que pueden existir cosas por detras, pero no me gusto. osea no se tampoco el contexto asique hay mucho que de seguro no puedo apreciar (o por ahi simplemente nunca me va a gustar)

I have not heard this before. I’ve heard several of these tracks while exploring Laibach some time ago. I like a lot of industrial and goth and symphonic and generally weird music, but I do not like Laibach. I can appreciate how ridiculous they are and that they choose to make unique oddball music that is bad rather than boring bland normal music that is bad. I would appreciate if this album was less than an hour long, because I am determined to listen to each of these albums all the way though. If anything, sitting through this builds character.

Reminds me of that great Houmous & Chutney album ‘The Last Tracks The Best’ the anticipation kills you! Of course the big joke was that there wasn’t a final track. 1.2 12/12 Krst (Baptism)

Oh wow. 1/5

Oh ABSOLUTELY not

Skimmed through

At the first 2-3 songs I was like "Oh wow this is neat! Something unique. Seems like the entire point of exploring 1001 albums." By the end I was so glad it was over.

???

My German isn't good enough for this

Kind of depressing, not for me

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

Meh

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

Horrible

Pure fucking Garbage.

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

Not for me

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

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

Omg worst thing ever

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

Tedious

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

Wow that was just awful. I mean really bad.

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

Not for me.

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

nope

No thank you.

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

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.....

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

Seriously???

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

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

What is happening?

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

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

Nope.

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 😭😭

Didn’t finish

Yeh nah

No thanks, I'm good.

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

Why?

Not for me lol

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

Did not like. Nein, nein!

No thanks!

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

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

Nein danke

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.

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

1/5

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

That was unlistenable

First listen Saved 0/8

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.

Trash

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 🗣️

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

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

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

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

Completing it was quite challenging. Strange album.

thought i was being pranked

0 stars

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

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

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.

Nope

Ugh, this is the first album I didn't make it through, gave up with three tracks remaining. Can generally find some redeeming qualities from an artistic perspective but this didn't have many. The synth was cool in track two but the cool moments were far and few between. 1/5 stars

This one’s a dump Lots of marching drums, heavy industrial aesthetic, and bold ideas, but it just comes off as forced and exhausting rather than compelling.

no

This would go hard if I knew German.

If only there was a 0 stars option.

Not a fan of the 80s German rock

Ummm…no. Scary, weird, sounds repetitive.

did not like the screaming german man

No.

I'll pass. Thanks, but no thanks.

This is really something different. Don't really know what it is supposed to be. A bunch of bored teenagers trying to get attention? A bunch of grown up boys wanting to be cool but totally missed it? I'm not sure, but what I'm sure about is that it would have been better had they just stayed in their garage and played. The recording was not necessary.