haunted attraction website, City Blood. Impact on role-playing game industry Midnight Syndicate has a significant following in the role-playing game community.Jeffrey Lee, "Background Music for Role-playing Games," Examiner, August 5, 2009 Their Dungeons & Dragons CD broke previous sales records for gaming soundtracks in its first month. Their The 13th Hour CD won the Origins Award for Best Gaming Accessory presented by the Academy of Adventure Game Art & Design, marking the first time a role-playing soundtrack or music CD had won the award. The 13th Hour also became the first music CD to win an award at the ENnies, a fan-based annual award show for role-playing game publishers and products. In 2007, Midnight Syndicate teamed up with Goodman Games to produce Cages of Delirium a Dungeon Crawl Classics adventure based on Gates of Delirium which came packaged with the CD. The Cages of Delirium module was nominated for an ENnie Award as well as the band's Carnival Arcane album in 2012, their Monsters of Legend album in 2014, and their Zombies!!! Official Board Game Soundtrack in 2016. Distribution When record labels and distributors rejected the band's first two CDs, Douglas began building his own distribution network by selling CDs out of his van with Goszka and cold-calling hundreds of stores.Jennifer McKevitt, "Art of Darkness", News Herald (Mentor, OH), October 29, 2006, Sec. E, Pg.E1. Today Midnight Syndicate's CDs are self-distributed to thousands of retailers worldwide through Entity Productions, Inc. and its partners, making them one of the largest distributors of Halloween-themed music.Carl E. Feather, "A little night music", Star Beacon (Ashtabula, OH), October 30, 2006, Sec. B, Pg. B1. In addition to Dee Snider's Halloween-themed music act, Van Helsing's Curse, Entity Productions also distributed the 2010 version of The Dead Matter movie. Discography Studio albums Midnight Syndicate (1997) Born of the Night (1998) Realm of Shadows (2000) Gates of Delirium (2001) Vampyre (2002) Dungeons & Dragons (2003) The 13th Hour (2005) The Dead Matter: Cemetery Gates (2008) Carnival Arcane (2011) Monsters of Legend (2013) Christmas: A Ghostly Gathering (2015) Zombies!!! Official Board Game Soundtrack (2016) Bloodlines (2021) Soundtrack albums The Rage: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (2008) The Dead Matter: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (2010) Axe Giant: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (2013) Reissues Out of the Darkness (Retrospective: 1994–1999) (2006) Halloween Music Collection (2010) Music of Halloween Horror Nights (2020) Legendary Truth: The Collective (2022) HalloWeekends: 25 Years of Terror