Disco Inferno: How Italian Disco Music Loved The Occult.

Infernal and horror-adjacent themed abounded in Italian disco music.

From the memories of Disco Bambino

”As narrated previously, vinyl records were my universe from the very early years of my life. No toys could ever give me the same amount of  joy, as well as power to dream, as records did. When I played them, not only did I dance and sing over the music, but I also imagined variety shows, choreographies, costumes and so on. So, just like any kid at 4 or 5 years old would take a doll or a miniature race car to school, I did the same with my favorite record of the day. My school (Sacred Heart of Bitonto, a small town in Puglia, Italy) was run by the Filipine nuns, who were also our teachers in all of the various subjects. Mine was a fiery little lady in her late 60s called Sister Fernanda,  who was very fascinated by the records I brought to school. On Saturdays, the last school day of the week, she used to ask me to play the record and perform in front of the entire class. And these happened to be all disco music records, from Rettore’s “Kobra” to Patr…