Who, with changes in the line-up, was now renamed as GOBLIN. Orchestral score." After Gaslini had quarrelled with Argento and left the project, the director turned to the band Soundtrack of his new movie, Profondo Rosso (Deep Red) the original plan being that they would merely arrangeĪnd perform the music of Italian jazz legend Giorgio Gaslini, who had already begun working on the film with an Some time later a quartet named CHERRY FIVE recorded their eponymous album (1975), andĪt this point they were suggested to film maker Dario Argento "who was looking for a rock group to augment the The legendary Italian prog band GOBLIN was born in 1973 (according to the liner notes of this 6 CD box, not in 1972Īs the band bio says) when keyboardist Claudio Simonetti and guitarist Massimo Morante recorded some demosĪt Simonetti's studio. The band is again active with more releases and touring. Highly recommended for fans of soundtrack music. Newcomers to the group will want to investigate their heralded soundtrack albums first, particularly "Profondo Rosso" and "Suspiria". Their excellent second "Roller" is a very nice album of traditional symphonic progressive rock from the Italian group. Most of their stuff is really heavy and moody, with a Floydian progressive feel, and generally pretty good.īeginning with their first "Profundo Rosso" GOBLIN were obviously better suited to soundtrack music than as a studio offering and the majority of their work was in this vein. The outstanding keyboard work performed by Claudio Simonetti is a trademark of GOBLIN.
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Symphonic band from Italy who adapted their music to the movie industry, mainly horror movies from the 70's. Founded in Rome, Italy in 1972 - Disbanded in 1982 - Regrouped in 2000, 20 - Reformed in 2010 as "NEW GOBLIN" and since 2013 also as "Claudio Simonetti's GOBLIN"