Roller

In between recording some of the best damn non-Tangerine Dream soundtracks of the 70s, Italo prog weirdos Goblin released two of the best damn Italo prog albums of the 70s. Roller, the first one, finds the band spreading their strange wings – from the title track’s deep red nightmare fuel to the Pink Floyd riff of “Aquaman,” the synth funk of “Snip Snap” through their wild 11-minute band-name statement of intent, capped off with “Dr. Frankenstein”’s lurching monster. It took around three decades for metal acts to grok on to this black-gloved madness but once they did they couldn’t get enough of it.