WATCH: New Laibach Video

Slovenian band mark North Korea shows with video for recent album track; watch it below

Last week Laibach became the first Western group to play a full live show in North Korea with two shows in Pyongyang as part of their Liberation Day Tour. To mark the event, the band have released a brand new video for โ€˜We Are Millions And Millions Are Oneโ€™ from recent album, SPECTRE, which you can watch above.

The video was directed by RรTNEEK and features animations taken from Vuk Jevremovic’s โ€˜La Isla De Los Muertosโ€™. The tour itself of two venues in Pyongyang was documented by Norwegian artist Morten Traavik, who created the video for the bandโ€™s single โ€˜The Whistleblowersโ€™, and will be collected as part of a documentary. In a Rolling Stone interview about their time in the country, the groupโ€™s Ivo Saliger spoke of what surprised him most. โ€œThey produce excellent beer. It is actually considered a soft drink and microbreweries there are popular. You can also drink beer freely from an open container outside on the street and smoke inside hotels and bars without a risk of prison. Pyongyang, with the rest of the country, is also probably the safest place in the world to walk around โ€”ย if they let you walk around, of course. And for those who are into cannabis, North Korea is a very liberal place, where possession of cannabis is in fact essentially legal.โ€ Choe Jong Hwan, one attendee of the shows, said: โ€œI didnโ€™t know that such music existed in the World and now I knowโ€.


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