Halloween Music Collection
| Halloween Music Collection | ||||
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| 📅 Released | July 30, 2010 | |||
| 🏷️ Label | Entity Productions | |||
| 🤑 Producer | Edward Douglas, Gavin Goszka | |||
| Midnight Syndicate chronology | ||||
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Halloween Music Collection is a best of album by the gothic, horror instrumental band, Midnight Syndicate, released on July 30, 2010. Featuring a selection of tracks made popular through the music's exposure in the Halloween, haunted attraction, horror music, and role-playing game industries.
Album information and release
Halloween Music Collection was released to celebrate the band's 13th Anniversary and contained music from Midnight Syndicate albums released to that point (2010). It was released and distributed by Midnight Syndicate's label and distributor, Entity Productions. The album was included with The Dead Matter (2010) DVD and The Dead Matter: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack in The Dead Matter: 3-Disc Deluxe Edition released on July 30, 2010 and sold through Hot Topic stores in the US.[1][2]
Reception
Gregory Burkart of Fearnet.com called the album a great place to start for those not familiar with the band adding that he felt it represented their entire career with music "ranging from sweeping symphonic overtures to gothic ambient pieces, complete horror audio environments, and a bombastic church-organ solo."[3]
Track listing
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Taken from album | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Family Secrets" | Edward Douglas | The 13th Hour | 3:05 |
| 2. | "Darkness Descends" | Edward Douglas | Out of the Darkness | 1:55 |
| 3. | "Fallen Grandeur" | Gavin Goszka | The 13th Hour | 2:53 |
| 4. | "Room 47" | Edward Douglas | Gates of Delirium | 2:50 |
| 5. | "Born of the Night" | Edward Douglas | Out of the Darkness | 3:07 |
| 6. | "Raven's Hollow" | Edward Douglas | Realm of Shadows | 1:08 |
| 7. | "Awakening" | Edward Douglas | Vampyre | 3:52 |
| 8. | "Shadows" | Edward Douglas | Out of the Darkness | 3:05 |
| 9. | "Haunted Nursery" | Edward Douglas | Out of the Darkness | 2:18 |
| 10. | "Army of the Dead" | Gavin Goszka | Dungeons & Dragons | 4:07 |
| 11. | "Dark Legacy" | Gavin Goszka | The Dead Matter: Cemetery Gates | 3:35 |
| 12. | "Morbid Fascination" | Edward Douglas | Gates of Delirium | 2:38 |
| 13. | "Deadly Intentions" | Edward Douglas | The 13th Hour | 0:54 |
| 14. | "Undead Hunters" | Edward Douglas | Vampyre | 3:18 |
| 15. | "Soliloquy" | Gavin Goszka | Out of the Darkness | 3:04 |
| 16. | "Tempest" | Edward Douglas | Realm of Shadows | 1:18 |
| 17. | "Grisly Reminder" | Gavin Goszka | The 13th Hour | 1:49 |
| 18. | "Residents Past" | Gavin Goszka | Gates of Delirium | 4:05 |
| 19. | "Veiled Hunter" | Edward Douglas | The 13th Hour | 1:57 |
| 20. | "Alchemist's Chamber" | Edward Douglas | The Dead Matter: Cemetery Gates | 2:47 |
| 21. | "Noctem Aeternus" | Edward Douglas | Out of the Darkness | 2:32 |
| 22. | "Vampyre" | Edward Douglas | Vampyre | 4:30 |
Personnel
Production
- Producers – Edward Douglas, Gavin Goszka
- Mastering – Gavin Goszka
- Photography – Rex B. Hamilton, Mike "Pogo" Hach, Sarah Mann
- Cover art and design – Brainstorm Studios
References
- ↑ Julie Washington, "Dead Matter scores a lively release deal", The Plain Dealer, July 17, 2010, Pg. E1
- ↑ Beyond the Grave Jim Vickers Cleveland Magazine, August 2010. Retrieved November 21, 2025
- ↑ DVD Review "The Dead Matter" Gregory Burkart, Fearnet, July 27, 2010. Retrieved November 14, 2025.
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