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Festival News: RoSfest Announce Daemonia To Their Stage As Saturday's Headliner

Posted on Saturday, October 16 @ 18:00:00 UTC by nightowl

"RoSfest is pleased and honored to announce Daemonia to our stage as our Headliner for Saturday night May 21st, 2011," writes the man behind RoSFest, George Roldan.

"To talk about Daemonia is to talk about famous Goblin keyboardist and producer Claudio Simonetti who in 1999 formed the group Daemonia along with Nicola Di Staso: Guitar, Federico Amorosi: Bass, Titta Tani: Drums, and they recorded the CD Dario Argento Tribute, which was released by S4/Sony at the beginning of 2000. The CD contains the new progressive rock arrangements - with the addition of a great symphonic orchestra - of the most famous soundtracks taken from the films of Dario Argento composed by Goblin, Claudio Simonetti, Keith Emerson and Ennio Morricone.

"In 2001 Daemonia recorded the album Daemonia - Live... Or Dead with a 30 piece orchestra, containing all of the live versions of Dario Argento Tribute plus 3 extra studio bonus tracks: 'Halloween,' 'Tubular Bells,' and 'Gamma.' This album was the first to feature new guitar player Bruno Previtali.

Daemonia @ ProgWest 2002; photo: Stephanie Sollow"In 2000 Daemonia played The Cult Con Festival in New York City, a concert organized by their American fans. In October 2002, during a tour in Japan, they recorded the album: Live In Tokyo, released only for the Asian market. After continuing to tour throughout Europe, they released the DVD Daemonia - Live In Los Angeles, which contains their concert recorded live at the 2002 ProgWest Festival in Los Angeles.

[Technically it was Claremont, but that's at the eastern edge of LA County. And, btw, Daemonia were fab! read David Cisco's review of ProgWest (at our "old" site); Steph Sollow reviewed Dario Argento Tribute, read it here- local ed.]

"The DVD box also contains the CD of the soundtrack, composed by Goblin, of the George Romero's film Zombi/Dawn Of The Dead, completely recorded with new arrangements by Daemonia during the summer 2005.

"Daemonia is recording their new album containing new and unpublished songs with a new female singer Silvia Specchio.

"Look for Daemonia to bring a killer set to the Majestic Theater on Saturday night."

Daemonia @ MySpace | Daemonia @ Facebook | Daemonia @ YouTube

Rites of Spring is May 20th, 21st & 22nd, 2011 @ the Majestic Theater in Gettysburg, PA.

[Source: George Roldan/Rites Of Spring Festival]

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