Over the past eleven years,
Midnight Syndicate has been creating soundtracks for the imagination.
Formed by composer/director Edward Douglas in 1996, the band 's music has
become a staple of the Halloween season, in addition to making an impact
in the haunted attraction, gothic music, and role-playing game industries.
With a catalog of horror music CDs that blend dark, orchestral horror movie
score-style music with sound effects, the band consisting of Edward Douglas and Gavin Goszka has had it's soundtracks to imaginary films featured
in everything from Barbara Walters TV specials and Monday Night
Football to X-Box games, Three Six Mafia tracks, and King
Diamond heavy metal concerts. Every October Midnight Syndicate's music
is featured in hundreds of the world's premiere amusement parks and haunted
attractions, as well as in thousands of stores and neighborhoods to provide
atmosphere for the Halloween season.
The band has also made an impact in designing music for the role-playing game industry. In 2003, they released the first official soundtrack to the classic role-playing game, Dungeons & Dragons. In 2006, their CD, The 13th Hour was the first music CD to ever receive the industry's top two awards The Origins Award and the ENnie Award for best gaming accessory.
In February of 2007, the
band announced that it would be teaming up with Precinct 13 Entertainment
to take on it's biggest project to date. The production of the horror film,
The Dead Matter. An updated remake of a film that Edward Douglas
produced and directed in 1996, for $2000, The Dead Matter tells the
story A vampire relic with occult powers falls into the hands of a grief-stricken
young woman who will do anything to contact her dead brother. The atmospheric,
story-driven movie will be directed by Edward Douglas with multiple soundtrack
CDs to be released by Midnight Syndicate in conjunction with the film. As
with their music, The Dead Matter promises to take audiences on a
journey into the darkest corners of their imagination and beyond. Production
wrapped in September of 2007 and a tentative release date has been set for
late-2008.
In January of 2008, Gavin Goszka's solo
project, Parlormuse will release it's debut CD, It's Not The Coat
Makes The Gentleman. A departure from his dark, atmospheric work with
Midnight Syndicate, Gentleman takes popular songs from the Victorian-era
and brings them up to date utilizing lush three-part vocal harmonies and
a wide range of acoustic and electric instrumentation. In February of 2008,
Midnight Syndicate will release it's soundtrack to the horror film, The
Rage.