It is with great honor that Supersonic Festival present Italian legends, GOBLIN first UK shows in over 20 years. 

Goblin started in 1974 as the progressive rock group Cherry Five. The name Goblin first appeared on the map in 1975, when the band recorded the soundtrack for Dario Argento’s “Profondo Rosso”. This was the starting point for a decade long, highly creative and widely influential collaboration between the eccentric film maker and Goblin, that made the group become the aural signifier of the Italian horror film movement of the seventies and the eighties. Till the late eighties they released two studio albums and wrote scores for about 20 films of various directors, including Joe D’Amato and Luigi Cozzi. With OST’s for the Argento cult films “Profondo Rosso” (1975), “Suspiria” (1977), “Tenebre” (1982) and “Phenomena” (1985), as well as for the European versions of George A. Romero’s classics “Martin” (1977) and “Dawn of the Dead” (“Zombi”, 1978), Goblin created some of the most thrilling pieces of soundtrack music ever made. While Argento undisputedly masters color and composition, Goblin’s suggestiv and complex symphonic scores mark a demarcation line when it comes to dark atmospheres, suspense and stirring drive. In combination they create the unique, highly stylized, surreal and psychedelic experience that made the movies become cult classics.

Support comes from Miasma & the Carousel of Headless Horses
Featuring members of British band Guapo this instrumental quintet plays dark, antiquated sounding music encompassing elements of Eastern European folk, avant-rock, neo-classical film composition and elements of progressive bands such as Goblin. Their music is exciting and could easily be the soundtrack to an Alejandro Jodorowsky film.
www.myspace.com/headlesshorses

Capsule the brains behind Supersonic Festival are curators, promoters and fans of the finest music, revealing the otherwise indescribable connections between contemporary music and art, crafting extraordinary events for adventurous audiences. Now in it’s 7th year, the event will once again take place at the Custard Factory in the heart of Digbeth in Birmingham utilising a number of spaces for music, art, film and cake. This year Supersonic extends its program to include two nights at the Scala in London with headline performances by highly influential Italian band GOBLIN and he notorious Japanese band CORRUPTED.

“Supersonic, in our opinion the best festival in the world right now”
Rock-A-Rolla Magazine

http://www.supersonicfestival.com

It is with great honor that Supersonic Festival present the first UK shows for the notorious Japanese band CORRUPTED joined by newly reformed cult doom outfit featuring Sunn 0))) duo Stephen O’Malley and Greg Anderson THORR’S HAMMER + splatter rock band THE ACCUSED.

Corrupted – Osaka Japan
Corrupted is THE absolute reference in terms of monolithic and experimental funeral doom. The band has become legendary: consistently refusing interviews and photo shoots, the band has only been seen in Europe during a discreet tour in 2000 and a couple of appearances last year, this will be their first show in the UK.

Corrupted’s music is bleak, monumental and slow as a pachyderm… Extraordinary brutal riffs-drones played in a very low guitar/bass duo, as well as a drummer who maintains a brontosaurus like striking force on improbable slow tempos serve as a morbid box for a singer with an inimitable tone: guttural and abysmal at will, he declaims apocalyptic texts in Spanish (!!!). The band sometime uses long instrumental, melancholic breaks that admirably contrast with the force of their sound.
http://www.dxmxtx.com/corrupted/

Thorr’s Hammer- US/NORWAY/UK
Greg Anderson & Stephen O’Malley presents their maiden voyage into darkeness: the cult recordings by the black doom act Thorr’s Hammer. Thorr’s Hammer is raw nihilistic doom featuring the unbelievable vocals of Norwegian goddess Runhild Gammelsæter. Presented in her native Norwegian tongue, Runhild Gammelsæters’ gutteral dark vocals are contrasted by beautiful singing creating a huanting atmosphere. Funeral dirge is provided by the collaberation of Stephen O’Malley (ex-Burning Witch/SUNN0)))) and Greg Anderson (ex-Engine Kid/SUNN0)))/Goatsnake) Jamie Sykes (ex-Burning WitchWardrums, ex-CODENAME F.A.D.G.E.) and Guy Pinhas (Beaver, The Obsessed, Goatsnake, Melvins, etc) (Subharmonics). This union is raw, low and heavy as fuck, reminiscent of elder gods HELLHAMMER/CELTIC FROST,SABBATH, AND VENOM. The material contains the original three demo tracks (from 1995) and a recently unearthed live recording (“Mellom Galgene”) all originally created in the stoned winter of 1994-1995….. grim melancholy.
http://www.myspace.com/thorr39shammer

The Accused – US
Formed in 1981 in Oak Harbor, Washington by bassist Chibon ‘Chewy’ Batterman, Dana Collins and guitarist Tom Niemeyer. John Dahlin was the vocalist from 1982-1984. The addition of Blaine Cook (frontman of Seattle hardcore punk group The Fartz) fit nicely into the group’s migration towards a more heavy metal-based sound. In 1984, The band dubbed their style “splatter rock,” in homage to their favorite genre of horror films. Their hybrid musical formula was distinguishable by Blaine’s unusual choking-sound vocals, Niemeyer’s muted, choppy, buzzsaw guitars, dark metallic riffs, and rapid-fire drumming. The band are also responsible for creating the wild, zombie mascot Martha Splatterhead, whose likeness (created by Niemeyer) adorns most of their albums and many of their promotional items. The Accused recorded five albums, three EPs, and over 100 songs between their 1981 inception and 1990s hiatus.
The current line-up consists of Brad Mowen (also a member of Master Musicians of Bukakke and former member of Burning Witch and Asva), Dorando Hodous (also a member of Lesbian), Mike Peterson and Niemeyer.
http://www.myspace.com/kingsofsplatter

Capsule the brains behind Supersonic Festival are curators, promoters and fans of the finest music, revealing the otherwise indescribable connections between contemporary music and art, crafting extraordinary events for adventurous audiences. Now in it’s 7th year, the event will once again take place at the Custard Factory in the heart of Digbeth in Birmingham utilising a number of spaces for music, art, film and cake. This year Supersonic extends its program to include two nights at the Scala in London with headline performances by highly influential Italian band GOBLIN and the notorious Japanese band CORRUPTED.

“Supersonic, in our opinion the best festival in the world right now”
Rock-A-Rolla Magazine

http://www.supersonicfestival.com