Listening to LAIBACH seems a laborious thing, both on record and in concert, and this scribe isn’t ashamed to admit the Slovenian ensemble’s performance back in the mid-’90s remains about the only show he’s ever walked out of, but there many people who are very much invested in the group’s totalitarian-sounding oeuvre. Their discography started four decades ago with the issue of an album titled “Nebo žari” which arrived without the band’s name on the cover, because Yugoslavian authorities had banned them. Restored in its originally intended place, the word “Laibach” will now appear as an element of the disc’s artwork – and the artwork of a box set built around that platter.

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