Zarathustra is the debut studio album by Italian band Museo Rosenbach released in 1973.
Controversially, the lyrics compose a concept album of Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophy, particularly his 1883–1885 novel Thus Spoke Zarathustra.
The music has been edited by bassist Alberto Moreno, texts from external collaborator Mauro La Luce.
The album was a commercial failure mainly because of the boycott of RAI, which was suspicious of the group because of the themes (the quote from Nietzsche could supposedly refer to ideologies of the far-right) and the bust of Mussolini pictured in the collage on the cover, work of the illustrator Caesar Monti.
[citation needed] The singer, Stefano Galifi, later joined an art rock band named Il Tempio delle Clessidre ("The Temple of Hourglasses"), quoting the title of the track.