Macbeth (album) explained

Macbeth
Type:soundtrack
Artist:Laibach
Cover:Laibach Macbeth.jpg
Released:22 January 1990
Genre:Industrial, classical
Length:32:00
Label:Mute
Prev Title:Let It Be
Prev Year:1988
Next Title:Sympathy for the Devil
Next Year:1990

Macbeth is a 1990 album by Slovenian avant-garde music group Laibach. It consists of music composed and performed by Laibach for a 1987 production of the William Shakespeare play Macbeth by at Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg, Germany in 1987. It is the second Laibach album consisting of music written for a play, after their 1986 album Baptism.

Largely instrumental, the music is a combination of dramatic pseudo-classical themes, typically on strings and brass, and militaristic ones dominated by percussion, with musique concrete interludes. Critics have noted the album's resemblance to Laibach's earlier, more radical and experimental style, in contrast with their their, at the time, increasing incorporation of popular music elements.

Track listing

The LP editions don't list the individual track durations. The CD editions contain all music merged into a single half-hour track.