 Unlike press releases suggest, Laibach was not the first western rock band to perform in North Korea.On 8 June 2017, Laibach announced new album "Also Sprach Zarathustra" to be released on 14 July 2017 along with the lead single "Das Nachtlied I" and an accompanying tour.The songs on the album were originally composed for a theatrical production of Thus Spoke Zarathustra, based on Friedrich Nietzsche's novel of the same name.