Goblin: drummer and founder of the band Walter Martino has died

Mourning in the Goblin house. Walter Martino, drummer and co-founder of the Italian band known to most for his collaboration with Dario Argento, for whom he composed the music for masterpieces such as “Profondo rosso”, has died at the age of 71. It was Goblin who announced Martino’s passing, with a post on social media: «Walter was a fundamental figure in the history of the band and of the music that accompanied some of the most iconic pages of Italian cinema», we read in the official note of the group, which he had founded together with Claudio Simonetti, Massimo Morante and Fabio Pignatelli, before the dissolution in 1989. After the stop, its members carried out alternative projects, however freezing the Goblin brand. In 1999 Simonetti founded Daemonia and in 2010 together with Massimo Moranti and Maurizio Guarini, but without Martino, he formed New Goblin, an experience which was followed, starting from 2017, by that of Claudio Simonetti’s Goblin.

Martino, who died yesterday in Livorno hospital, was the son of Bruno Martino, famous pianist, singer and composer, author of the famous “Estate”. After Goblin he collaborated with Mia Martini, Alan Sorrenti, Claudio Baglioni, Rino Gaetano, Antonello Venditti, Loredana Bertè and Renato Zero.