Here is a review of a Slovenian band by Jim Knipfel that I saw in a NY paper, the New York Press.
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I haven’t listened to a Laibach album since 1988’s Let It Be. But after hearing WAT, their first release in seven years, I’m happy to report that everyone’s favorite quasi-fascist gay Slovenian disco band hasn’t changed a whit.

The same three elements that seem to make up most any Laibach recording are present and accounted for. You have your cheap electronic dance track overlayed with martial beats. You have your chorus sounding like the mutant church service in Beneath the Planet of the Apes. And, most importantly, you have your gravelly voiced lead singer with his comical Eastern-European accent, intoning (in both English and German) bad poetry about, y’know, war and death and honor and what have you. Over the past quarter-century, they’ve clearly learned what’s expected of them.

"They’ll come out of nowhere/They’ll enter your states/The nation of losers/The tribes full of hate," the singer growls on "Now You Will Pay." "With knives in their pockets/And bombs in their hands/They’ll burn down your cities/And your Disneylands." Meanwhile behind him, the mutant chorus is singing something about barbarians.

Yes, it’s all pretty goofy, and trying to guess what the next rhyme will be always makes for a pleasant diversion. The fact that the band members clearly don’t think any of this is goofy at all, well, that just makes it all the funnier.
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Odd, for fans of Disneyland, to point at any others as barbarians. I had thought that Laibach's fascistic outbursts were just pretense, just trying to tick off Dad, but I guess they meant it. Those "tribes full of hate with knives in their packets", what are they? They must be Moslems. No, no one could view Saudi Arabia as a "nation of losers." These must be Kurds and Gypsies, today's "barbarians at the gates", the Huns pressing at the Empire's borders, entering Europe to pillage.

That's the standard view of the current migrations that you hear from neofascists, that's how they win elections, they brag of their intent to sink the boats carrying refugees. The funny thing is that it was earnest, thoughtful, dedicated European leftists, the Blairs, Shroders, Mitterands, and D'Alemas, who gave this opportunity to the right, when they went and torched the good homes the refugees used to have in their own countries.

I just hope Mr. Knipfel has listened to their previous work as well. Because if he did, he would know that Laibach have always maintained a distance towards any totalitarism and have made fun out of both fascism, communism and capitalism. Bun even if I never listened to their music I would since I know them a little more then Mr. Knipfel. Most of them were born in a Slovenian town called Trbovlje, like my dad who happens to know them and their families, and if anything they are not fascists. I won't say that some people might get misleaded by the images, but that would speak about the lack of intelectual depth and understanding of terms like sarcasm, irony, and mockery. Funny because when I listened to WAT, the first thing to come upon my mind is this must be one of the best examples of anti-war records of the year. The Tanz Nach Baghdad part in the song Tanz Mit Laibach. Luckily I understand German very well, so the lyrics were quite revealing.

All in all,it's not one of their best records they have made in the musical sense, that's for sure, but lyrically they have done it again. Well that's my take on the record, and I am sure others may interpret it differently.

...that you are right, Blaz. As for my direct knowledge about Laibach songs, "Nato" is the only song i know. But i talked about Laibach with a friend of mine from Koper, who didn't seem to consider them quasi-fascist.
I'll ask him for a more specific opinion and write back as soon as possible.
Ras

Interesting enough, the last song on WAT is called anti-semitism (it's also the only song in Slovenian on the particular album)

OK, you must be right, you know them, but who then are those "nations of losers"? And do they worry about anyone burning Disneyland, or are they putting us on?

As for antisemitism, while Jews were excluded from l'Ordine Nuovo, or Neue Ordnung, they have been welcomed into the 21st century New Order, introduced by Bush as the New World Order.

I agree there's quite a few of ambiguous things in their lyrics. I just told you what I know about them personally. It depends on if you take everything they say (sing to be exact) seriously or not. Or what they really ment by it. The "We" part especially that they use in the songs talking about things that others have done mostly imperialists and the likes, since they sing "Wir tanzen nach Baghdad" (we dance to Baghdad), it can only mean the Americans, as it's not Laibach rolling through Iraq. That kind of things. There is a lot of irony in the songs not only in this last record, but from the very beggining that I started to comprehend them.

As I said, they might mislead a lot of people (probably even by intention those devils But they won't fool me, I know where they're really at.