When Dario Argento needed someone to score his upcoming film Profondo Rosso, Daria Nicolodi (Argento actress/writer and former girlfriend) suggested a group named Cherry Five whom she had been listening to at the time. Two members of the band would form their own band, Goblin, which consisted of Claudio Simonetti on keyboards, Massima Morante on guitar, Fabio Pignatelli on bass, and Walter Pignatelli on percussion.

The score for Profondo Rosso was a smash remaining at number one on the Italian charts for weeks and making Goblin instantly famous in their homeland. Their score was an intricate part to the mysterious feel of the film as opposed to merely being background noise like most soundtracks of today. But it wasn't till their monumental score for Suspiria that they revolutionized horror film scores.

Argento had Goblin create the major themes before the film was made in order to play the music while filming to get the actors in the correct rhythm. The result is one of the loudest most intense scores ever created and one can only imagine what a different film Suspiria would be with a different soundtrack.