Macbeth is a Laibach album released in 1990. Like Baptism it is the soundtrack to a play, this time Shakespeare's Macbeth. The music was originally written for a staging of Macbeth by Wilfried Minks at Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg, Germany, in 1987. Laibach as a band were also included in the staging. Read more on Last.fm.
Laibach is an industrial project that started in Trbovlje, Slovenia, in 1980. Their name is taken from the German name for Slovenia’s capital Ljubljana, and this reference to World War II occupation was the first of many provocative and ambiguous statements in their long and chameleonic career. Laibach were founding members of the art movement NSK (Neue Slowenische Kunst — “New Slovenian Art”) and are one of the few musical groups able to claim real influence on the history of their home country. Read more on Last.fm
