Anyone reading my blog knows the importance I put on music and sound, particularly when it comes to horror. A soundtrack makes or breaks ambiance, the most essential element of creating fear. We all know it, the screeching strings in Psycho, to the mounting drums leading us down the path of a on-screen jump scare. Akira is the master of bringing horror to heart-pounding life with his sound effects and his music tracks are stand alone.
But the masters of ambience are Midnight Syndicate. It blows my mind when I talk about them and get blank stares in return. How is it possible that everyone and their mother doesn't know about these guys? They are stuffed awkwardly into an extremely limited category of Halloween soundtracks. I hate that. While it's applicable, it gives the impression that they are gimmicky, one demential and translucent. It couldn't get anymore incorrect then that.
Midnight Syndicate crafts beautiful, haunting, imagination provoking music. Anyone who listens to Midnight Syndicate only in the October haunt season is out of their minds. Midnight Syndicate is anytime music, all the time music.
Their albums are thematic and each tells a complete story. Lurking in crypts to exploring a haunted victorian mansion, they take you for an unforgettable journey. Key here, is that the journey is through your own imagination. While there is a theme, nothing is dictated to you. You are allowed to conjure your own images and explore your own, personal darkness.
Their albums are seriously underpriced and can be found at their website, here.
And for anyone, and you should be, curious, here is a track from one of my favorite albums of all time, The 13th Hour.
Due to me twisting some arms, front man Edward Douglas is coming to CONvergence, the largest sci-fi convention in the midwest! If everything goes according to plan, I'll get to interview him about his work and new film, The Dead Matter.
If you don't know Midnight Syndicate, you are missing out.
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