It seems like as long as there has been Rue Morgue, there's been the Midnight Syndicate. And now, just in time for Halloween, Edward Douglas and Gavin Goszka return with another eerie offering of sinister soundscapes on "The Dead Matter: Cemetery Gates." A companion piece to the duo's upcoming feature film "The Dead Matter," the album celebrates vampires, Egyptian relics, and the lumbering undead with a symphony of mourning church bells and ghostly gothic choirs that play games over a gently wounded piano. This disc provides plenty of dark atmospherics for ripe imaginations, and really, if Midnight Syndicate weren't around at this time of year, I think we would actually have to cancel Halloween.

Tomb Dragomir - Rue Morgue