A little late for Halloween, but perfect for the horror-show reality we’re in for the duration!
Musical magus Claudio Simonetti brings the latest iteration of his legendary electronic-rock group Goblin to Orlando, as part of a tour paying tribute to his pioneering horror scores.
Back in the 1970s, Goblin made their nefarious name soundtracking Dario Argento frights like Deep Red, Suspiria and Zombi. But this wasn’t the only horror maestro Simonetti’s outfit worked with.
Tuesday sees the group revisiting their 1985 soundtrack to Lamberto Bava’s Demons, playing while the movie screens in its entirety. Demons is a creative high point for Bava — with Argento along for the ride as producer — a rivetingly gore-soaked tale of theatergoers invited to a clandestine screening and then beset by horrifying demons, mirroring the film they were watching.
Simonetti’s soundtrack matched the dread, but one with a surprisingly funky and proto-industrial undercurrent. These more metallic flourishes augment the film’s frights with disorientation and claustrophobic unease. And the band will, indeed, play some of the Mötley Crüe, Saxon and Accept songs in the OG soundtrack.
“The music is quite the same, because I don’t like to change,” Simonetti told Bloody-Disgusting last year. “I use more or less the same original instruments. Maybe sometimes we play a little more heavy, more rock. Demons was played with a drum machine. I played most of the instruments just with keyboards, so I have
to adapt the original sound to the live band with drums and guitar.”
Goblin reconvenes post-film to play a greatest-hits set. So you will hear the title theme to Suspiria, and your head may well fall off — this is visionary sonic nightmare fuel without peer.
7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 26, The Abbey, $40.
The Abbey
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This article appears in Nov 13-19, 2024.