Maurizio Bianchi (born 4 December 1955 in Pomponesco[1] in the Province of Mantua) is an Italian pioneer of industrial music, originating from Milan.
The cover featured photographs of the Auschwitz Orchestra, a group of concentration camp prisoners who were forced to play classical music as people were herded into the gas chambers.
[7] By 1983 and the release of the Plain Truth LP on U.K. power electronics label Broken Flag, Bianchi had become a Jehovah's Witness.
[11] Bianchi then proceeded to work on over a hundred new projects both solo or in collaboration with other Italian and international artists[12] including Atrax Morgue, Aube, Francisco López, Mauthausen Orchestra, Merzbow, Ryan Martin and Philip Julian/Cheapmachines.
However, in 2013 Triumph of the Will and Weltanschauung were re-issued with bonus tracks as separate CDs and as part of the Teban Slide Art box set, which also contained the unofficial release Lebensraum, all under the name "M.B.