Laibach Timeline
1980
Jun 01
Formation
Formation
Laibach was established on the 1st of June, 1980 in Trbovlje. The name Laibach is the historic German version of the name for Slovenia’s capital Ljubljana.
1982
Jan 21
First Concert – Disco VF 112/15, Ljubljana
First Concert – Disco VF 112/15, Ljubljana
Part of Victims of a Plane Crash event.
Sep 10
Novi Rock Festival Concert
“Novi Rock” Festival Concert
Dressed in stark black and grey (mainly Yugoslav army) uniforms, Laibach performed ferocious noise assaults before a backdrop of totalitarian regalia and wartime... More Info
1983
Apr 21
Ausstelung – Laibach Kunst
Ausstelung – Laibach Kunst
Galerija ŠKUC, Ljubljana
Jun 23
First Video Interview – TV Tednik
First Video Interview – TV Tednik (TV Weekly)
In June 23rd 1983, the group made their first television appearance in an interview on the current affairs programme TV Tednik (TV Weekly) (10).... More Info
1985
Apr 27
"LAIBACH" album release
Label: ŠKUC/R.o.p.o.t / NIKA
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album / CD, Album, Reissue
Cat. nr.: ULP 1600 / CD 13132 26 / CD 111
Country: Yugoslavia / Slovenia
Released: 1985 (vinyl)
Reissued: 1991, 1995... More Info
1986
Feb 08
"NOVA AKROPOLA" album release
Title: Nova Akropola
Label: Cherry Red
Release: 1985, London
1987
Mar 23
"OPUS DEI" album release
Label: Mute –
Cat nr.: STUMM 44
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: UK
Released: 1987
The first Laibach album for the Mute label. Featuring the classic Laibach remakes Opus Dei/Leben... More Info
Jul 20
"LIFE IS LIFE" album release
Single: Life Is Life
Cat.No: MUTE 62
Formats: 7″/12″
Release Date: 20th July 1987
1988
Oct 24
"LET IT BE" album release
Laibach’s controversial remake of the Beatles historic album.
Nov 11
"KRST POD TRIGLAVOM – BAPTISM" album release
Title: Krst pod Triglavom – Baptism
Label: Walter Ulbricht Schallfolien/Sub Rosa
Release: 1987/1988, Hamburg/Brussels
1990
Mar 19
"SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL" album release
Mute Rec., 1990, London
1992
Apr 21
"KAPITAL" album release
This experimental and electronic album was recorded in Ljubljana in 1991, during the time of the declaration of independence and war in Slovenia.
1993
Jun 07
"NATO" album release
Product code: CDSTUMM121
Format: CD Album
Number of Discs: 1
Label: Mute
Originally released: October 11, 1994
Re-released: 2003
NATO is the seventh in a sequence of official Laibach LP releases that... More Info
1996
Oct 28
"JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTARS" album release
Label: Mute
Cat. nr.: CDStumm136
Format: CD, Album
Country: Europe
Released: 1996
Laibach announce the Second Coming of Jesus Christ Superstars with their new album “Jesus Christ... More Info
2003
Sep 08
"WAT" album release
Label: Mute
Cat nr.: CDStumm223, Mute – 0724358441802
Format: CD, Album, Enhanced, Slipcase
Country: UK
Released: 08 Sep 2003
Achtung! Laibach, the spectre that has haunted Europe and beyond... More Info
2004
Oct 04
"ANTHEMS" album release
Label: Mute
Cat#: ACDMUTEL12
Format: 2 × CD, Compilation, Promo
Country: UK
Released: 4 October 2004
Laibach Anthems was released on the 4th October as a 2 x CD hardbook package. CD1 of the album... More Info
2006
Oct 23
"VOLK" album release
Title: Volk
Label: Mute Records LTD
Country: UK, Europe & US
Release: 2006
Versions:
Volk – CD, album / Mute Records LTD / Cat#: CD STUMM 276 / UK / 2006
Volk – CD, album, LTD... More Info
2008
May 05
"LAIBACHKUNSTDERFUGE" album release
Title: LAIBACHKUNSTDERFUGE (CD, album)
Label: Dallas Records
Cat#: CD DALLAS 506
Label 2: Mute Records LTD
Cat# 2: iSTUMM297
Country: Slovenia
Year: 2008
About LAIBACHKUNSTDERFUGE:
Album is the... More Info
2009
Apr 18
Volkswagner
On 18th April 2009 Laibach, in collaboration with the RTV Slovenia Symphonic orchestra and composer Izidor Leitinger presented another spectacular event, this time called VOLKSWAGNER. Based on... More Info
2012
Apr 14
Laibach performance at Tate Modern, London
Laibach performed sold out show ‘Monumental Retro-avant-guarde’ at Tate Modern – Turbine Hall on April 14th.
Apr 30
"IRON SKY" album release
Title: Iron Sky (The Original Film Soundtrack)
Label: Mute
Cat #: CDSTUMM344
Country: UK
Release: 2012
More info:
About Iron Sky film:
In the last moments of World War II, a secret Nazi space... More Info
Sep 03
"REPRODUCTION PROHIBITED" album release
Title: An Introduction to… Laibach / Reproduction Prohibited
Label: Mute
Cat#: CDMUTEL23
Country: UK & Europe
Release: 03. September 2012
The album release follows their recent Iron... More Info
Oct 19
KOHLE IST BROT – INDUSTRIAL SUITE 200m beneath the surface of the Earth!
On 19 October 2012 Laibach will hold two special concerts (at 18:30h and 20:30h) in the Coal Mining Museum of Slovenia in Velenje. For the first time in its history, the band will perform nearly 200... More Info
2014
Mar 03
"SPECTRE" album release
Title: SPECTRE
Label: Mute
Cat #: CDSTUMM358, STUMM358
Release: 3 Mar 2014
With SPECTRE, Laibach has once again ‘re-invented’ itself in a newly born, yet polished and solid, formation.... More Info
Mar 21
The New Cultural Revolution, Hong Kong
We are proud to present THE NEW CULTURAL REVOLUTION, a series of events which took place in the People’s Republic of China:
LAIBACH KUNST EXHIBITION, 17th January – 20th March 2014, CIA, Hong... More Info
Aug 01
"Laibach – I VIII 1944 Warszawa" album release
Title: I VIII 1944 Warszawa
Label: NCK
Format: CD-EP
Release: 1 Aug 2014
Polish National Centre for Culture released the brand new Laibach EP, titled: 1 VIII 1944. Warszawa.
Laibach was invited by... More Info
2015
Aug 19
NORTH KOREA LIBERATION DAY
In August 2015, Laibach performed in the secretive Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Tho historic concerts took place in the Main Hall of the Kim Won Gyun Music Conservatory in the capital... More Info
2017
May 01
LIBERATION DAY FOR SOUTH KOREA
Liberation Day and Laibach return to Korea for Labor Day, May 1
Asian premiere and concert at the Jeonju International Film Festival
Spring and Armageddon is in the air, as North Korean (possibly... More Info
May 11
LIBERATION DAY IN THE HOLY LAND
Israeli premiere and live Laibach concert in Tel Aviv, May 11 and 12
Turning and turning in the widening gyre, the falcon cannot hear the falconer.
Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold; mere... More Info
Jul 14
"Also Sprach Zarathustra" album release
Title: Also Sprach Zarathustra
Label: Mute
Release: 14 July 2017
ALSO SPRACH ZARATHUSTRA is a brand new album, the follow up to 2014’s SPECTRE, released on Mute on 14 July 2017.
The music for... More Info
2018
Nov 23
"The Sound Of Music" album release
Title: The Sound Of Music
Label: Mute
Release: 23 November 2018
The Sound of Music was conceived when Laibach were infamously invited to perform in North Korea in 2015. The band performed... More Info
2019
Nov 22
"Party Songs" album release
Title: Party Songs
Label:Mute
Release:November 22 2019
Six-track EP Party Songs is featuring unpublished tracks from the repertoire of the band’s 2015 performances in North Korea, documented by... More Info
2020
Apr 15
"Laibach Revisited" album release
Title: Laibach Revisited
Label: Laibach
Release: January 15 2020
Three hours of music on vinyl and CD, plus a 150-page book with an expansive essay on Laibach by the Slovenian writer and... More Info
Jun 01
LIBERTY LEADING THE PEOPLE
An exhibition of selected Laibach posters and videos in Gallery S at Ljubljana Castle. The exhibition will run from 1 July until 31 January 2021.
Sep 11
Ljubljana Castle Concerts
On Sep 11 and Sep 12 2020, Laibach held two sold-out concerts at Ljubljana Castle.
Sep 18
"Bremenmarsch, Laibach Live at Schlachthof 12.10.1987" album release
Title: Bremenmarsch, Laibach Live at Schlachthof 12.10.1987
Label: Mig Music
Release: 18th September 2020
The present recording of Laibach’s concert performance in Bremen on 12 October 1987... More Info
Sep 21
AUSTELLUNG! LAIBACH KUNST: RE:CONS:TRUCT
A reconstruction of Laibach exhibitions from 1982 and 1983, at P74 Gallery, Ljubljana, open between 21 September – 2 November 2020.
Oct 23
LAIBACH: 4.0
LAIBACH 4.0 ANNIVERSARY IS POSTPONED
We regret to announce that due to the COVID-19 situation we have had to cancel and postpone the Laibach 4.0 Anniversary event that should be happening on 23... More Info
2021
May 01
"We Forge The Future" album release
We Forge The Future (GOD records) is a document of a Laibach show, held in Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid, on November 26th, 2017. For this museum occasion, Laibach re-enacted the historic performance... More Info
2022
Mar 25
"Wir sind das Volk" album release
Wir sind das Volk is based upon the writings of Heiner Müller (1929-1995), one of the most significant German-speaking playwrights since Brecht. Laibach’s own association with the theatre began in... More Info
2023
Jan 01
"Sketches of the Red Districts" album release
This new Laibach album, through a new/fresh interpretation, examines the conflict-ridden genesis of the band’s formation in the industrial town of Trbovlje in 1980 and questions the... More Info
Jan 20
"Love Is Still Alive" album release
The EP Love is Still Alive is a 40 minute ‘hidden’ country, dance and electronic sound traveling, featuring different versions of the song Love Is Still Alive from the Iron Sky... More Info
May 20
"Nova Akropola" album release
Laibach: Nova Akropola (Re-mastered & Re-designed), Black and Silver 2LP Limited Edition Vinyl Pressing
Label: Cherry Red Records
The seminal 1986 album, long out of print, revisited, produced... More Info
Jun 30
"Laibach – Iron Sky : The Coming Race" album release
The Coming Race (dir. Timo Vuorensola, 2019), was the follow-up to the film Iron Sky(2012) in which Nazis plot to take over the world after lying dormant in a secret military base on the dark side of... More Info
2024
May 10
"Opus Dei" album release
A redesigned cover (refining the original’s artwork), plus an extensive 28-page booklet with photographs and new sleeve notes by the cultural theorist and author Alexei Monroe make this an... More Info
