Midnight Syndicate has their latest music CD available called “The Dead Matter: Cemetery Gates”. Fresh off of their effort for the film “The Rage” in 2007 they bring another scary, eerie, and refreshing sound that makes you want to bust your Halloween shit out early and start setting up the house! This latest CD is not your basic background music for a horror film or cheap scary music you would find in the $3 bin. It’s a refreshing effort that can chill the hardest of hardcore horror movie fans’ bones and make you feel you are trapped in a Fulci zombie film or a ‘Hammer’ classic. Track number one, “Cathedral Ruins” draws you in instantly as it brings images of Fulci’s great work in the early 80s when you first witness his films and sucks you with the creepy feeling you use to feel when you first started watching horror films in your childhood and does not let go of you until the last track “Lullaby” ends. “The Dead Matter” is a brilliant collection of music that could be used for your scary haunted house for Halloween or I can see it being used for a cool, inventive, creepy independent horror film. Midnight Syndicate’s latest effort is not the official soundtrack for the film “The Dead Matter” which is scheduled for an early 2009 release but has some tracks from the CD that are used in the upcoming film. This news makes me very excited about the upcoming film to see where and how the tracks are used. Any horror fan that would hear this music would be stupid to not buy Midnight Syndicate’s latest collection of music as they prove again that not since Carpenter’s efforts during the 80s has such a collection fit the horror genre and made you as a horror fan want filmmakers making their latest project to include such a soon-to-be classic collection! I give this perfect fitting horror genre CD four stars out of four stars.

Tim Gross - Bastards of Horror