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Wow the London gig was amazing! They actually got a good sound in the Scala, which is a first. I have to say the drummer is one of the best I've seen in a long time, superb control and power.

man on the "they couldn't have done it without Goblin but they sure are pretty great" tip there's an act called Umberto basically biting Goblin hard enough to draw blood but wow do they kick ass at it. They're one of those CDr/cassette label bands. Their From the Grave is a wonderful rainy night listen, I can attest.

I like the name.

Oh yeah. I can definitely feel that.

oh man here they are redoing "profundo rosso" live in the studio recently - if you dig this stuff like I do prepare to go ape

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEcyYuAV3mg&feature=player_embedded#!

heavy

They were really great at Supersonic last year.

Awesome.

It just kills me that I could be booking Goblin's first ever US tour, if they were realistic about their popularity in the US. They just aren't a household name here.

Not Goblin, but Black Hole - an Italian band hugely influenced by Goblin that recorded a wonderfully naive psych metal album back in 1985.
Hilarious English pronounciation, sub-basement sound quality and a couple of great horror rock songs: as good as the best Paul Chain.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edk885QCCBA

A review from the Corroseum site:

It's a common misunderstanding that BLACK HOLE play Doom Metal. They don't, they play DOOOOOOOOOHMMM! In case you don't know the difference between Doom Metal and DOOOOOOOOOHMMM!, let me explain: Doom Metal is basically a rather tastefull slow version of classic Heavy and/or Epic Metal with more or less 70's SABBATHical vibes. DOOOOOOOOOHMM! is the cobweb on your mommy's tombstone, the disturbed little boy dissecting kittens in the basement, the creepy crawly thing that ate the monster under your bed... Needless to say, DOOOOOOOOOHMMM! kick Doom Metal's ass. BLACK HOLE could not have come from any other country than Italy. Although highly unique, many musical parallells can be drawn. The DEATH SS/Paul Chain comparison is obvious, but BH beats them silly simply because they write better songs. You can tell they have worked alot on the construction of the pieces to create that perfect mysterious glow, and they've managed to do so without making the music more complicated than necessary. Strange, psychedelic guitar effects and keyboards are used in plenty without them loosing any of their heaviness. The primitive, surrealistic graphix and the weird bandphoto, set in a mourge with the band standing over a child coffin adds the final touches to make "Land Of Mystery" one of the most eerie and original records in Metal history. The only other bands I know that occationally came close to this sound where LESTER MADDOX, PAGAN ALTAR and ICE CROSS (the coolest and most evil early 70's band ever)! Are we in the mood now? Right then, let's talk songs: "Demoniac City" is kind of an oddball. A mid-paced NWOBHMish song which isn't really doomy in a traditional sense. On first listening it is a minor letdown and definitely the weakest song on the album. However with it's eerie production and original vocals it sets you in the right mood. The song grows with every listening and makes the journey into the fiery pits of DOOOOOOOOOHMMM!-music a little easier on the senses. Trust me, you'll be thankful for that easy start when the mighty "Land of Mystery" hits you like 10 tons of rotting body parts on your sorry arse. Pure Power Sludge! Epic D...-riffing and a mighty chorus that will make Stoner fans weep in despair. After this hit song we go into the deepest heart of BLACK HOLE dementia: "All My Evil" is an orgy in skeewed and crooked harmonies & riffs, very offbeat, very ghoulish and very, very good. "Bells Of Death" is not a DEATH SS-cover, but it could be. "More fun than an open casket funeral..." as The Accüsed so elegantly put it. Another unusual twist is that the B-side surpasses the A-side in greatness. "Blind Men and Occult Forces" - what a genious title for a D...-track. It's like a long, slow and slithering walk down into hell, and suddenly when the chorus comes you are pushed over the edge into the fiery pit by unseen hands. Burn, baby, burn.... "Spectral World" is perhaps my favourite track. It's the slowest piece on the album and with it's psychedelic vibes, maybe the least metallic, but the harmonies are midblowing and totally wins you over to the dark side. The last song is an istrumental. It starts off in the same psyche mood as the song before, but gets heavier at the end and it kinda makes you think those classic METALLICA-instrumentals like "Call of Chtulu" or "Orion" ...if they had been recorded back in '69 in a Transylvanian opium den, that is. Almost 10 minutes long and never a boring second. Main man Robert Measles recorded a second BH album in the early 90's, "Living Mask", which was released a few years ago on CD. Unfortunately it's a disappointment. Here he uses a drum machine which he really doesn't master. At its worst moments it sounds alot like the first album by the infamous DAMIEN STORM(!). The CD is still worth checking out because of the '86 "Angel of Lucifer" demo that is included. The title song is one of the band's greatest moments and well worth the full CD price.

You should check this album out if you like your Goblin, Jacula, Antonius Rex etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDCX_VTLxSU

interesting. digging these clips and I LOVE that cover.

not familiar with antonius rex, jacula, or paul chain however. any recommendations?

I love it when the Suspiria theme gets all keyboardy in the second half or so of the version I have. Justice for prog!

digging these clips and I LOVE that cover.

cover's great, but the music isn't quite doing it for me. some good ideas, but few memorable riffs or hooks, and there's an exhausted quality to the whole thing that keeps me at a distance. maybe i'd like it better if the youtube quality wasn't so shitty...

I'm kind of into that, actually. have been listening to dwarr and these clips have a similar lo-fi, homemade epics quality to them. (not the youtube compression but the production in a broader sense.)

was thinking of dwarr while listening to black hole. similar vibe and lost-in-time appeal. and i guess you could say that some of dwarr's stuff sounds "exhausted," too, but not in quite the same way. dwarr has that miasmic, despairing atmosphere, but there's an energy and tension to it that keeps me hooked. didn't get that from black hole. just felt like they were trudging through the motions, with some good ideas but little personality. but i dunno. i've spent the last half hour reacting negatively to REM and armond white, too, so maybe i'm just having a day...

oh, totally. well put, and by the same token, I have a big tolerance for this type of sound and find it hard to be critical. I just love the idea of weirdo loner bands like bathory and dwarr using the rudimentary tools they have available to make things sound as BIG and DRAMATIC as possible. sure, black hole fall short of those guys, but I can still get with the vibe. ymmv.

"dwarr has that miasmic, despairing atmosphere, but there's an energy and tension to it that keeps me hooked. didn't get that from black hole"

As a big fan of Dwarr, I agree completely but, just like Alan said, what makes Black Hole interesting is their insular/ dilettante-ish quality.
Obviously they couldn't rock, operated in this sort of void that is the Italian "rock" scene, still they came up with this weird, morbidly liquid atmosphere - very much the aural equivalent of one of those Lucio Fulci movies, where you can see awful and beautiful sequences edited together almost randomly.
Despite the English lyrics, there's a truly Italian feel in this music and I'm just sorry bands like these have been forgotten and didn't have any real followers.

ps Jacula and Antonius Rex are the brainchild of the same guy, Antonio Bartoccetti: again esoteric obsessions, some prog leanings, super slow proto-doom metal riffs with laughable spoken words and some surprisingly clever touch.
Paul Chain was the guitarist of Death SS: his first EP "Detaching from Satan" is excellent, lo-fi psychedelic metal with lyrics sung in an invented language. Definitely less Jandek-like, but still weird.

Jacula "U.F.D.E.M."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEyWQGx3rac

Antonius Rex "Aquila non capit muscas"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05WffbTn0Qc

Paul Chain "Occultism"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9vP7LHVdC4

oh man, am a bit tied down atm but am looking forward to listening to these when time permits. thanks a lot, marco!

fuck that paul chain is badass

not sure I'm feeling jacula/antonious but I will investigate further before I make the final call.

paul chain is indeed badass.

i played jacula at a halloween party 2 years ago and people asked me to change it :-/
i have the antonius rex vinyl reissue and it came with a bonus 7" that was pretty good and can also be played backwards!

where has this music been all my life

I mean there are bands you plan to check out, but it just doesn't happen and time goes by

I just got 3 mint LPs and I hope this

side one of suspiria > everything else they did

still like most of it.

― GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Friday, May 26, 2006 2:33 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark

isn't true... b/c it just BLEW MY MIND.

promising start to side 2, sounds like Chris & Cosey... in 1976!

OK now this is definitively in the prog camp, whereas side 1 wasn't... This long track is still nice, kinda like a Heldon/Gong hybrid.

Suspiria theme used for one of the syncronised swimming teams!

NO WAY
that's awesome

Here's the video; it's creepy as hell:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUFJ2cGZtQk

i love that so much
thanks!

:)

La Lechera, i just LOLed at your scree-name.

that was way too awesome and now i need to see suspiria again

This is the kind of thing you have dreams about after watching too many fringe olympic events late into the night...

dear father christmas:
http://boomkat.com/cds/576157-goblin-the-awakening-box-set

Apart from this one - no. I think using this thread for all Goblin related discussion is a good idea. Continue.

i've had "tenebre" stuck in my head for DAYS and i was trying to purge it, but has this live video been posted here? i genuinely wonder what it would be like to be in a room full of goblin fans. what would it even look like?!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuF5pTAOoPc

Mix of hipsters, old prog dudes and speccy film nerds at the London gig a few years ago, is what it looked like.

wife is a huge Goblin fan. the kind that fell in love with their sdtk work before she'd even seen an Argento movie

Was it a good show? Was the crowd invested? Was there moving/grooving or did people just kinda stand there?

Yeah it was great, apart from a few few dodgy numbers from their new album but hey. Even the drum solo was good! Audience were grooving more than you usually get at prog shows, for what that's worth. There quite a few Hoxtonites there though, so they were grooving somewhat ironically just to be on the safe side.

first ever U.S. tour, wow.

http://www.musichallofwilliamsburg.com/event/305971-goblin-brooklyn

ok guess I'll put these here too

Oct 1 Atlanta, GA/ The Loft
Oct 3 Asheville, NC/ The Orange Peel
Oct 4 Baltimore, MD/ Otto Bar
Oct 5 Philadelphia, PA/ Underground Arts
Oct 6 Brooklyn, NY/ The Music Hall of Williamsburg
Oct 9 Boston, MA/ Sinclair
Oct 10 Montreal, QC/ Le National
Oct 11 Toronto, ON/ Opera House
Oct 12 Pontiac, MI/ The Crofoot
Oct 13 Chicago, IL/ Metro
Oct 15 Denver, CO/ The Gothic Theatre
Oct 18 Seattle, WA/ Neumos
Oct 19 Portland, OR/ Hawthorne Theatre
Oct 20 San Francisco, CA/ The Regency Ballroom
Oct 22 Los Angeles, CA/ Beyond Fest @ The Egyptian Theater (with a screening of Deep Red)
Oct 25 Austin, TX/ Housecore Horror Film Festival
Oct 27 Austin, TX/ Housecore Horror Film Festival

Glad they finally decided to make it happen.

Seems Goblin are playing in London on halloween, the same night as Fabio Frizzi! But at a different venue! This is not clever.

that's a scheduling disaster!

Especially since half the audience will already have bought Frizzi tickets.

Potential audience I mean

Well obvs AND it's Halloween!
I can't imagine that audience being large enough to warrant being split up like that but maybe I am underestimating Frizzimania.