Claudio Simonetti (born 1952) is Italian composer, musician and keyboardist for legendary prog band Goblin which delivered many great tunes and soundtracks for Italian horror movies. Simonetti´s specialty is music for horror movies and he composed some really great tunes from 1970 onward working with Dario Argento, Lamberto Bava, Lucio Fulci, Ruggero Deodato, Umberto Lenzi or Sergio Martino.
This is soundtrack for Lamberto Bava´s fantastic 1985 classic, one of the best that Italian genre has to offer. I still remember the movie poster when this one played in my hometown back in the second half of the eighties. There was a cinema there called Dom (meaning Home in Croatian) which showed old school karate/kung fu movies, Italian Mad Max clones, sword and sorcery movies and horror. I was scared as little kid with tagline ‘Cities will become graves’ I think it was like that or something. Years later, this movie never ceases to amaze, along with superb soundtrack which is a mixture of electronic music, synth prevailed melodies, almost happy main tune called Demon which is spooky along with kind of jolly. Miniatures like Threat and Cruel Demon are sure to make perfect atmospheric intermezzos between the main body of the album. There are couple of versions of the main song, for me especially great being piano version bringing along even more heavy horror atmosphere and reminding me why I love this movie so much. Besides prog influences and electronica, there are couple of pop influenced melodies here and there in the greater picture. Great soundtrack to fantastic movie!
Chicago s favorite sons are back with new record! Naked Raygun are punk rock veterans and I am glad to still see them go and sounding strong after all these years and still causing a whirlwind, real storm of emotions with their melodic old school pop punk rock. This new bunch of songs has something for everyone, from sweet chorus of Treat Me Unkind that I love so much, to almost psyched ending of Soul Hole Baby, across haunting, atmospheric noisy and garage rock Suicide Bomb, pure unaldurated punk fun of Broken Things, this album is very versatile using punk rock as it was meant to be, as a means of creativity in song writing and making a whole new world of sound for us listeners to enjoy. I can almost smell the sweaty, smoke filled garage and club full of punks listening to this band and let Naked Raygun take you to otherworldly experience of rock. Nice album.
Besides being great PR agency for bringing underground metal to hearts of legions of brothers and sisters out there, Metalmessage also releases music and their compilations are something to watch out for. I remember when I was a kid starting in the scene, there were tape trading days which created a network that is still active today in many ways. One of the means to discover new bands were compilation tapes and I loved listening to them and discovered new bands, sent a letter, got to know new friends, help bring bands to my area and I am active in the scene now, thirty years after that. This is already eighth part of Metalmessage compilation and this time they deliver fifteen bands from the underground and one common thread is that they are all high quality music and each of them represented here is fantastic, depending on your personal taste. Since my personal taste is somewhere in more blacker specter of scene, my favorites on this compilation are Antrisch, awesome black metal, Lovecraft inspired doom Cult Of Salem, Varus from Germany, being energetic black folk metal, but you will have to listen and find your own favorites, I am sure you will. Go check it out!
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