Volk (album)

Volk
Studio album by
Released26 October 2006
RecordedDaily Girl, NSK Studio and Studio Metro (Ljubljana), The Instrument and Metropolis studios (London), Master & Servant (Hamburg)
GenreIndustrial, neoclassical dark wave
Length58:31
LabelMute
ProducerLaibach and Silence
Laibach chronology
Anthems
(2004)
Volk
(2006)
Volk Tour London CC Club 16 April 2007
(2007)
Silence chronology
Key
(2006)
Volk
(2006)
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Volk is the seventh studio album by Slovenian industrial group Laibach, released in 2006. The word "volk" means "people" or "nation" in German and "wolf" in Slovene. The album is a collection of thirteen songs inspired by national or pan-national anthems, plus the anthem of the Neue Slowenische Kunst (NSK) State, a fictional state invented by the band. The album is a collaboration with another Slovenian band, Silence.

The anthem of the NSK state is essentially the same arrangement as "The Great Seal", a song on their 1987 album Opus Dei. Like "The Great Seal", the words are based on Winston Churchill's "We shall fight on the beaches" speech.