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Also Sprach Zarathustra (album)

{{short description|2017 album by Laibach}}

{{Infobox album

| name = Also Sprach Zarathustra

| type = Album

| artist = Laibach

| cover = Also Sprach Zarathustra (album).jpg

| alt =

| released = 2017

| recorded =

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| studio =

| genre = Electronic

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| label = Mute Records

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| prev_title = Spectre

| prev_year = 2014

| next_title = The Sound of Music

|next_year = 2018

}}

Also Sprach Zarathustra is an album by NSK industrial group Laibach originally produced for a theatrical production of Thus Spoke Zarathustra, based on Friedrich Nietzsche’s philosophical novel of the same name,{{cite web|url=http://thequietus.com/articles/22588-laibach-new-track|title=The Quietus - News - LISTEN: New Laibach Track|publisher=}}{{cite web|url=http://mute.com/mute/also-sprach-zarathustra|title=MUTE • Laibach • ALSO SPRACH ZARATHUSTRA|date=27 April 2017 |publisher=}}{{cite web|url=https://www.popmatters.com/laibach-also-sprach-zarathustra-2495386070.html|title=Laibach: Also Sprach Zarathustra|date=25 July 2017|publisher=}} by director Matjaz Berger, which premiered in March 2016.{{cite web|url=http://www.delo.si/kultura/glasba/album-tedna-laibach-also-sprach-zarathustra.html|title=Album tedna: Laibach, Also Sprach Zarathustra|first=Zdenko|last=Matoz|date=19 July 2017 |publisher=}} The single "Vor Sonnen-Aufgang" was released from the album.{{YouTube|b39CfCN2bNE}}

Track listing

  1. Vor Sonnen-Untergang
  2. Ein Untergang
  3. Die Unschuld I
  4. Ein Verkündiger
  5. Von Gipfel Zu Gipfel
  6. Das Glück
  7. Das Nachtlied I
  8. Das Nachtlied II
  9. Die Unschuld II
  10. Als Geist
  11. Vor Sonnen-Aufgang
  12. Von Den Drei Verwandlungen

Critical reception

{{Album ratings

| MC = 80/100{{cite web|url=http://www.metacritic.com/music/also-sprach-zarathustra/laibach |title=Reviews for Also Sprach Zarathustra by Laibach |website=Metacritic|publisher=CBS Interactive|date=14 July 2017 |access-date=31 July 2017}}

|rev1 = AllMusic

|rev1score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/also-sprach-zarathustra-mw0003050644 |title=Laibach: Also Sprach Zarathustra |author=Simpson, Paul |date=|work=AllMusic|accessdate=31 July 2017}}

|rev2 = Mladina

|rev2score = {{Rating|5|5}}{{cite web|url=http://www.mladina.si/181198/laibach-also-sprach-zarathustra/ |title=Laibach: Also sprach Zarathustra |author=Njegovan, Veljko |date=28 July 2017|work=Mladina|accessdate=31 July 2017}}

|rev3 = Sputnikmusic

|rev3score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite web|url=http://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/74290/Laibach-Also-Sprach-Zarathustra/|title=Laibach: Also Sprach Zarathustra|author=Stanciu, Raul|date=16 July 2017|work=Sputnikmusic|accessdate=31 July 2017}}

|rev4 = PopMatters

|rev4score = {{Rating|7|10}}{{cite web|url=http://www.popmatters.com/review/laibach-also-sprach-zarathustra/ |title=Laibach – Spectre|author=Ezell, Brice|date=25 July 2017|work=PopMatters|accessdate=31 July 2017}}

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The album was well received by critics. On the website of the collected reviews, Metacritic has an 81 ratings rating of 100 based on 9 reviews, which means "general recognition". For Mladino, Veljko Njegovan rated the album with 5 stars, writing: "Laibach undoubtedly proves that on the symbolic level" has broken "many iron curtains, which lasts since the beginning of the eighties."

On Radio Študent, the album was ranked 8th, while on 24ur.com, it was ranked 2nd in the best Slovenian albums of the year.{{cite web|url=https://www.24ur.com/ekskluziv/glasba/izbor-naj-albumov-in-koncertov-leta-2017.html|title=Vsak dan prvi - 24ur.com|website=www.24ur.com}}{{cite web|url=https://radiostudent.si/glasba/dj-grafiti/naj-tolpe-bumov-leta-2017|title=Naj Tolpe bumov leta 2017|date=30 December 2017|publisher=}}

References

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{{Laibach}}

{{Thus Spoke Zarathustra}}

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Category:Laibach (band) albums

Category:2017 albums

Category:Mute Records albums

Category:2010s covers albums

Category:Music based on Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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