The Slovenian music and art collective Laibach offer a multi-media experience that is equal parts agit-prop political rally, Wagnerian Gesamtkunstwerk, and stomping industrial-rock show. The band, which was founded under Communism in the early 1980s, is notorious for appropriating controversial images--including both fascist and Christian iconography--to confront and challenge complacency in society. Although Laibach's music is most easily categorized as industrial, they are also considered one of the originators of "martial," a stomping hybrid of rock, classical, traditional marches and other European folk forms. The highly innovative band continued to record, perform, and provoke well into the new millennium.
































