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Midnight Syndicate is a US-based musical group that has been working mainly in the genre of gothic horror music since 1998. (A 1997 self-titled release covered multiple mainstream genres.) Their music is commonly used to provide atmosphere in Halloween haunted houses.

Formation

Composer Edward Douglas created Midnight Syndicate in 1996. In 1998, fellow composer Gavin Goszka joined the group and they have since released several critically acclaimed and highly successfully gothic horror soundtracks. Synonymous with the horror music genre, Midnight Syndicate has established a worldwide following with their signature sound. As the standard for the Halloween and Haunted Attraction industries, Midnight Syndicate's music is heard throughout the Halloween season - everywhere from Universal Studios Orlando and Paramount and Six Flags theme parks to countless haunted attractions and homes across America and around the world. In addition to being featured in X-Box games, films, and television shows as diverse as Barbara Walters’ specials and Monday Night Football, the band recently developed a soundtrack for the classic roleplaying game Dungeons & Dragons. In 2005, they released their seventh CD, a ghostly, chilling album entitled The 13th Hour.

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Thereafter, the line-up parted ways to explore separate projects. Joseph Vargo wrote and published a vampire novel entitled Tales from the Dark Tower and a set of Gothic Tarot cards and began his new similarly-veined musical project Nox Arcana. Band members Ed Douglas and Gavin Goszka released two other CDs in keeping with their mentor's concepts of an orchestrated musical style, though shedding the idea of giving their audience a "story" to follow and focusing more on having the listener create their own story to accompany the music.

In 2003, Ed Douglas and Gavin Goszka made a diversion from the horror music genre to pursue the gaming market with their Dungeons & Dragons CD.

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 ===Formation===
+Composer Edward Douglas created Midnight Syndicate in 1996.  In 1998, fellow composer Gavin Goszka joined the group and they have since released several critically acclaimed and highly successfully gothic horror soundtracks.  Synonymous with the horror music genre, Midnight Syndicate has established a worldwide following with their signature sound.   As the standard for the Halloween and Haunted Attraction industries, Midnight Syndicate's music is heard throughout the Halloween season - everywhere from Universal Studios Orlando and Paramount and Six Flags theme parks to countless haunted attractions and homes across America and around the world.  In addition to being featured in X-Box games, films, and television shows as diverse as Barbara Walters’ specials and Monday Night Football, the band recently developed a soundtrack for the classic roleplaying game Dungeons & Dragons.  In 2005, they released their seventh CD, a ghostly, chilling album entitled The 13th Hour.
-In 1998, [[Joseph Vargo]] brought Midnight Syndicate into the public eye with his movie soundtrack concept for a subtle yet powerful gothic horror album that would put to shame the Halloween sound effects of yesteryear. Aside from contributing the gothic artwork and ominous vocals, Vargo stepped in as the executive producer and new creative director of the band. Vargo lent his musical influence and trademark title ''Born of the Night'' to their breakthrough release, as well as the 1999 follow-up ''Realm of Shadows.'' Vargo radically altered Midnight Syndicate's sound, giving the band a new direction and streamlining their experimental mix of styles to focus exclusively on a darker sound that would appeal to his established gothic audience.
-Riding on Vargo's popularity in the gothic subculture and his success in the market, Midnight Syndicate titled every song after each of Vargo's popular paintings in an effort to establish a rapport with his gothic and Halloween audiences, and the music soon became a favorite of haunters.
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