Live, the group, in uniform black, performed ferocious noise assaults before a backdrop of totalitarian regalia and wartime slides. Ragout political speeches from Tito and others were spliced into the mix. Bans followed and, with them, notoriety. In 1983, a TV commentator concluded a live interview with a call to viewers to crush the group. If it became difficult to play in homeland Slovenia, opportunities were still open to them in other Yugoslav republics.
War is here.
You have got what you always wanted. In the West they were met with a different kind of confusion. Rock audiences weren't used to seeing music as a theatre for ideas rather than rock as a simplistic rallying call for those who share the same beliefs. Such comparisons hardly endeared them to a rock fraternity who posited rock as the embodiment of freedom. If the rock fraternity were unnerved by Laibach, other media took them more seriously.