Engineers of Human Souls | a/political Introduction to Laibach

a/political Introduction to @LaibachOrg is the forth episode in the series. Laibach is amongst the most notorious and misunderstood music and artistic groups that have ever existed. A founding member of NSK (Neue Slowenische Kunst, 1984-1992), Laibach was established in a coal mining town of Trbovlje, Yugoslavia in 1980, today on the territory of Slovenia. The band was founded shortly after the death of Josip Broz Tito, an event that triggered a wave of separatist and nationalist tensions that led to the bloody Yugoslav Wars (1991-2001). The name of the band references the historical German toponym for the Slovenian capital Ljubljana, used also during the occupation of Slovenia by Nazi Germany in the Second World War. The place and time of Laibach’s origin defined their characteristic industrial sound. In 2015, Laibach became the first-ever rock band to play in North Korea, a country seen as one of the contemporary dictatorships, in a venture captured in the documentary Liberation Day. The