Item details

Date

Monday, May 27, 2024 7:00PM

Description

The 50th Annual Paramount Summer Classic Film Series presents

Goblin

Performs the score from "Dawn of the Dead"

The Paramount Theatre
Monday, May 27, 2024

Doors: 6pm
Show: 7pm

Goblin are an Italian progressive rock band known for their soundtracks for Dario Argento films (including Deep Red of 1975, also known as Profondo Rosso, and Suspiria of 1977).

They were initially named Cherry Five and were influenced by Genesis and King Crimson. Their early work spawned one eponymous progressive rock record. The band were then called in as replacements for composer Giorgio Gaslini, who had left the film Profondo Rosso after a conflict with director Dario Argento. They changed their name to Goblin and rewrote most of the score, including the famous main theme. The film, and the soundtrack album, were huge hits.

A reshuffle in their line-up followed, and they put out an instrumental progressive rock album Roller, before they got the chance to work with Argento again for Suspiria. The score's nerve-jangling experimental sounds and bizarre vocals have since become legendary. Other film soundtracks and a concept album (Il Fantastico Viaggio Del Bagarozzo Mark) followed, then the score for the European version of George A. Romero's Dawn of the Dead (1978) (credited as "The Goblins").

Dawn Of The Dead cemented Romero’s reputation as a horror great, and part of that achievement was due to Goblin’s seminal music score, which will be performed live by the band themselves on May 27th at the Paramount Theatre.