One of those "what did I just listen to?!" albums. It's hard to listen to the guttural vocals and Teutonic groove of Laibach and NOT assume that Rammstein were heavily influenced by them.
The band were musical magpies, with a reworked version of Queen's "One Vision" (as "Geburt einer Nation"). Pieces of Bernard Hermann's edgy film scores are mixed in with other pieces of Queen music, industrial rhythms and wild synthesizers on "Trans-national" to produce something that sounds like Kraftwerk on meth!
The Slovenian band courted political controversy by naming themselves with the name historically given to Slovenia's capital Ljubjana by the Germans, alluding to the Nazi occupation during WWII. In the face of socialism, they poked everyone in the eye by draping themselves in the trappings of nationalism and totalitarianism. They were the provocative musical arm of a political artistic collective called 'Neue Slowenische Kunst' (New Slovenian Art).
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