Lovingly pinched from Dazed Digital: The Italian prog rock band, who architected the soundtrack of Dario Argento’s films is back with a run of live shows (including a very rare live appearance at the Supersonic Festival in Birmingham on Sunday, July 26th) and a new album.
Goblin
The soundtracks of Italian horror films of the 1970s’ are epic examples of filthy, psychedelic, synthy, lucid prog rock. Teamed with gratuitous nudity, bad dubbing, excessive violence and lurid fake blood, it’s a recipe for a golden age of cult cinema. One band synonymous with this type of music is Goblin.
Dazed Digital caught up with keyboardist Maurizio Guarini to see where he and the other Goblins have been lurking.
Dazed Digital: Goblin has just begun playing live again after a 32 years absence – why now?
Maurizio Guarini: It just happened. After spending more than one year gigging together in the mid seventies, each of us started playing live with other bands/singers as session men. It happened that some of us played together live over the years, but not the whole band and not as Goblin. Since, we just didn’t have a chance to put the band together until now…
Please read the full interview at: Dazed Digital | The Return of Goblin.
Tags: Dario Argento, George A. Romero, goblin, psychedelica, supersonic festival
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that’s fantastic!