Italian progressive rock band best known for the 1973 album Zarathustra, noted for its epic, Mellotron-heavy sound and a controversial cover that limited its early exposure.

Zarathustra (1973) is a concept album whose lyrics are inspired by Nietzsche; its original cover featuring a collage including a photo of Mussolini generated controversy and a RAI boycott, contributing to the band's early obscurity. Giancarlo Golzi (drummer) is noted in reviews as later joining Matia Bazar. The band returned to recording around 2000 (Exit) and released/reissued material in the 2010s, including Barbarica (2013).

Museo Rosenbach are presented in the reviews as a seminal Italian progressive rock group best known for 1973's Zarathustra. Reviews highlight the album's Wagnerian, epic sound, Nietzschean lyrics, and the controversy over its cover. Later activity includes a return to recording (Exit, reissues, Barbarica).

For:Fans of 1970s progressive rock, collectors of Italian prog, readers interested in controversial album art and concept albums.

 Open your heart and ears... this is an album from 1973, a time when a genre of rock was emerging that would become successful in Italy and around the world, a genre that would influence the illustrious - and somewhat overrated - Dream Theater: progressive, whose "canons" – if they can be called that – had been defined a few years earlier by fundamental albums such as "In The Court Of Crimson King" by the great King Crimson, but also – I mention randomly – Banco del Mutuo Soccorso’s "salvadanaio" and the very early works of PFM.

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 the album was poorly advertised precisely because of that cover, and the band disbanded within a few years; the advent of the internet, however, brought this gem back to light, prompting the band to resume their work at the dawn of the new millennium.

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