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Opus Dei is the third studio album by the Slovenian and Yugoslav avant-garde music group Laibach, released on 23 March 1987 by Mute Records. It features "Geburt einer Nation", a German language cover version of Queen's "One Vision", and two reworkings of "Live Is Life" by the Austrian pop rock band Opus'. The Opus song became the German language "Leben heißt Leben" and the English language "Opus Dei". "The Great Seal" is the national anthem of the NSK State, the lyrics taken from Winston Churchill's 1940 "We shall fight on the beaches" speech. A new arrangement of the song appears on Laibach's seventh studio album Volk, with the title "NSK". On Volk, the song is credited to Laibach and Slavko Avsenik Jr. There are two further connections with Queen's A Kind of Magic studio album. Although the drum loop in "Trans-National" is nearly identical to that in Queen's "Don't Lose Your Head", it is composed in fact from samples from the introduction musical theme from the Yugoslavian epic partisan film Battle of Neretva, composed by Bernard Herrmann. The elements of "How the West Was Won" are inspired by Queen's "Gimme the Prize". From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opus_De...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)