Once upon a time... in the nineties, I had somehow found a Halloween cassette that I found myself really liking and I liked it so much that I continued to play it all year long. (This Halloween tape was the kind that had music and sound effects on it to create background for a haunted house or a Halloween party). I loved the atmosphere that it created as I played it in the background as I went about my everyday business of chores and homework and what not.
Unfortunately, I lost that tape and could not remember the name or where I had gotten it in order to replace it. For years, I would buy Halloween tapes hoping that I would come across a tape like the one I had loved so much. I even remember one of my dear friends lovingly teasing me for listening to such "cheesy" or "cringe" music.
Well, twenty years later I finally found the sound I was looking for. I had long given up on trying to find a great Halloween cd until I saw one called Midnight Syndicate 13th hour. Taking a quick look at the back of the cd, I had a good feeling that this could possibly be the sound I was looking for. The moment I played it I was so excited. It was indeed what I was looking for all those years. in fact, the album was really very good and I was so happy that I had went with my intuition and bought it.
With the name of the cd I went online and researched and found a few other albums that had this kinda Halloween atmospheric sound. I discovered that it is called a few things but I think that the most common ones I saw were dark neoclassical, neoclassical ambient wave, dark ambient, or neoclassical dark wave.
I have started listening to these albums and I find this music so relaxing and interesting. I think that I will have a collection of this music in no time.
I am including a list of the groups I really like that I have found for anyone who may be interested. I am including albums I think are Neoclassical dark wave and Neoclassical ambient wave . However, my apologies if I have put any of these bands/groups in the wrong genres.
Midnight Sanctuary
Nox Arcana
Lustmord
Danzig- Black Aria (this album specifically)
Update : I found the name of the cassette. It is the 1990 version of Pumpkin Time's Chamber of Horrors sold by Kmart in the 1990s. There is supposedly a CD version of this recording but the running times don't match. I think I'm going to try to get a hold of one and see if its the same. There is more information about this cassette on my Recommended links page. Scroll to the bottom to check out the links.
