On our list of places we'd like to be this October 31st if we had huge piles of money lying around, Rome is ranked pretty freakin' high right now. More precisely, the Jailbreak Club on Via Tiburtina is the venue we'd seek out if plane tickets to Rome just magically shot out of our butts. And why, do you ask? Besides the fact that Rome is one of the world's most magnificent cities? Well, duh – because the one and only Daemonia is putting on a special Halloween horror show in the land where the giallo was born.

The decade-old creation of Goblin founder Claudio Simonetti, Daemonia burst from the confines of a mere Goblin cover band to become one of the biggest names in modern Gothic horror rock. Simonetti continues to man the keyboards as always, but has also recruited guitarist Bruno Previtali, bassist Federico Amorosi and drummer Titta Tanni (of gore-metal outfit Necrophagia) to transform Goblin's music – including their scores to Dario Argento flicks like Deep Red, Suspiria and Tenebrae – into skull-smashingly epic metal masterpieces.

When we last chatted with Daemonia, they had just added songs from the score for Dario's The Third Mother to their set list, and were heading back into the studio to work on a new album of original material (no Goblin arrangements this time). Word has it the new material will be very similar to hit single “Mater Lacrimarum,” on which Cradle of Filth frontman Dani Filth provided vocals.

The album's taking a bit longer than expected, but in the meantime Simonetti and company are still doing live shows all across the globe (with occasional stops in North America). This Halloween, as the old saying goes, is the night they come home.