When Tomaz Hostnik, the front man of Slovenian avant-garde group Laibach
committed ritual suicide by hanging himself from a Slovenian hayrack in 1982,
the group expressed their disapproval by posthumously expelling him from the
band. This and other bizarre incidents have defined Laibach's long and
controversial career. At first glance the band's use of neo-Nazi imagery, their
penchant for writing rousing martial music (albeit with an electronic backbeat)
and their strangely ambiguous press releases might suggest to the casual
observer that Laibach have questionable political lean...