Fabio Pignatelli is an Italian musician. He is the

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player for the Italian

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band

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. Goblin provided

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s for several horror films, most famously Dario Argento's '' Suspiria'' (1977) and George A. Romero's '' Dawn of the Dead'' (1978). The band was largely defunct by 1979, but Pignatelli kept the group together, as well as holding onto the name, and the group continued well into the 1990s, with its main lineup restored briefly in 2000. Because of Pignatelli's operation of a band with the name, they were credited as Simonetti-Pignatelli-Morante for the film, ''

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'', because the other band members (most importantly, Maurizio Guarini and

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), most of whom had not worked with Simonetti or Morante, were not involved. In 2013 he played bass guitar on "Backlit" track from

Simulakrum Lab Simulakrum Lab is an Italian synthwave/ retrowave music project created by composer and sound designer Paolo Prevosto. Guests who collaborated in the first album "''Simulakrum Lab''" (2013) were: * Claudio Simonetti (composer, together with Go ...

album, vintage synthesizers music project created by Paolo Prevosto.

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* Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Italian bass guitarists Male bass guitarists Progressive rock guitarists {{italy-musician-stub

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