Also Sprach Zarathustra | ||||
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Released | 2017 | |||
Genre | Electronic | |||
Label | Mute Records | |||
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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, [1] [2] [3] by director Matjaz Berger, which premiered in March 2016. [4] The single "Vor Sonnen-Aufgang" was released from the album. [5]
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Source | Rating |
Metacritic | 80/100 [6] |
Review scores | |
Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [7] |
Mladina | [8] |
Sputnikmusic | [9] |
PopMatters | [10] |
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 and wrote: "[...] 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. [11] [12]