This is where you'll find our royalty free music for horror films. Horror is a pretty wide ranging term that stretches from old classics like Dracula, via mainstream "slasher" films like the "Saw" and "The Hills Have Eyes" series, via famous Survival style video games such as "Resident Evil" and "Alone in the Dark". The genre is also closely related to science fiction and there have been many great Horror / Sci-Fi crossover films ("The Thing", "Alien", "The Chronicles of Riddick") and games ("Fallout", "F3ar", "Metroid Prime"). The music is will generally be dark and suspenseful, creepy and eerie.
Majestically dark and ominous, Ambient Guitar music. Like the soundtrack to a drone flying over an alien landscape. Epic, dreamy, grandiose and slightly unnerving. Tense / Foreboding. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
Dark, eerie, ethereal, spacious, creepy, moody, thoughtful, slightly menacing electronic track with a slow groove & a sense of foreboding. Hypnotic, cool, smooth & haunting. Would suit mystery / crime / documentary / Halloween / horror type projects. [Tempo: Slow / 79 BPM]
A very loud, brash and intense action track, highly suitable for movie trailer, game trailer, war or battle scenes. High level of intensity throughout with live choir and live orchestral instruments used in combination with samples and huge, pounding percussion. Urgent, tense and very dark. Builds to a crescendo towards the end. The only difference between the regular version and the 'Alterative version' is that the alternative version does not contain the solo female voice phrase at 25 secs. [Tempo: Fast / 131 BPM]
A track of uneasy discord and mysterious twists and turns. A disturbed mind, a fragile sanity? [Tempo: Medium / 120 BPM]
A dark and staccato action trailer music track, featuring synths combined with orchestra. Modern sounding track with a touch of electronica and blockbuster feel. Action / Future / Edgy Music. [Tempo: Fast / 110 BPM]
Sneaky, suspicious, ambient track with a sense of future, sci-fi, space. Could be good for a scene of exploring a dangerous place, abandoned spaceship or warehouse, strange alien planet, etc. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 47 BPM]
Horror Mystery Soundtrack. Unearthly / Mystical / Lurking / Increasing, growing, crescendo, climax. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 0 BPM]
Minimalistic electronic beats, stomping Ibiza dance club or house party style. Staccato, syntesizer stabs and arpeggiators with 808/909 style drums, cut down and hard core. [Tempo: Fast / 128 BPM]
A short horror / scifi track, somewhere between sound design / sound atmosphere and music. Scraping metals, swirling vortex, strung out pads... Suitable for company splash screen, intro, logo, and more. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 0 BPM]
Driving, tense, dramatic active underscore bed, minimal melody, very cool sound design sounds. [Tempo: Slow / 55 BPM]
Ambient sci-fi soundscape. Floating synth pads and eerie scifi sound textures, inspired by the work of David Lynch. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
Ominous and powerful theme music featuring distant trumpet, orchestral trumpet and strings creating an enticing atmosphere. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 104 BPM]
Guttural industrial sounds featuring low and distorted sound effects. Great for a heavy and mechanical feeling. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 101 BPM]
A dark solo piano piece that has an underlying feeling of menace, danger and horror. Piano sounds like a beating heart at the end as the suspense grows but resolves. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 0 BPM]
A low, isolated harp picks heavily at low notes, then aided by a marimba, African percussion and shivering strings which adds to the tracks menace. A dark track that has hints of Michael Giacchino (a la Lost) about it. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 0 BPM]
This track has a haunted overtone and pays a subtle homage to the music 'Dexter' in the theme. This cue would work well for film or television, opening credits, paranormal footage and spooky movie trailers. It features detuned piano and haunting choirs that makes a nice ghostly tension builder. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 70 BPM]
Battle/tribal/dark. Shamanic, ethnic track dominated by massive pounding drums and atmospheric textures. Tense, urgent, restless and earthy. [Tempo: Medium / 200 BPM]
A moody, echoing march. Heave synth sounds, and sparse melodies. Sets a mood that is ominous and mysterious. (Stem files available.) [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 53 BPM]
A dark and ominous track featuring choir and piano. Mysterious, chanting, perhaps occult séance or dark magic. [Tempo: Slow / 52 BPM]
A quirky and odd production music track with naive bells and a slight 'medieval' touch of harpsichord. Like an old house with secrets, perhaps something that would go in a dark comedy, a Halloween related production or a haunted house music. [Tempo: Medium / 105 BPM]
A hybrid orchestral music track with a massive, epic sound. Distorted, unstable synthesizers combine with full orchestra, huge percussion and eventually, choirs. This music track has a sound of epic action scenes, sci-fi, fantasy or horror. The track has several build-ups and drop-offs, edit points that can be used to make track fit the timing of your production. [Tempo: Slow, Medium, Fast / 83 BPM]
Slow, spacious, brooding, atmospheric, heat-soaked, sinister, cinematic, edgy, suspense-filled soundscape that makes you feel like you've been out lying in a sun-baked desert for days, desperate for water. Would suit filmic / crime / documentary / dramatic type projects. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 70 BPM]
Dark soundtrack style track, depicting the mindset of a disturbed and tortured being. This track lasts only a minute, during which it goes through a slow opening and a manic middle section, before returning to the sad, painful opening theme once more in closing. [Tempo: Medium / 66 BPM]
Dry strings with massive hits and trailer SFX. A combination of live chamber string orchestra and action trailer style. Raw and intense. [Tempo: Fast / 90 BPM]
An uneasy, bleak and cold underscore track for dark drama, mystery, horror or thriller. Tormented strings, with a sense of loneliness and sorrow, combined with a creepy, eerie mystery feel. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
Very dark, scraping and menacing flesh pads and aural movements, slightly sickening soundscape. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
This track is a high Intensity action / chase cue with a primal, menacing tone. It's full of suspense and works well for footage of battles, war scenes, chases, and beasts. It's also well suited for video games and builds into a riser at the end that has a cinematic impact great for film trailers. Apocalypto meets Jurassic Park. [Tempo: Fast / 125 BPM]
Distant beat on a big drum. Threatening, dark, dramatic, eerie. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 82 BPM]
Sparse, scattered piano soundtrack. Uneasy, unsettled. Suspicious, foreboding, dark. Available with two different piano tones; one with chorus effect (prepared piano sound) and one with a straight piano sound. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
Tense, horrific survival music, blending hard percussion with orchestral elements. Changes between pensive, nervous parts and more action filled parts for chase, action scenes. Nervous, slightly chaotic, disoriented. [Tempo: Medium / 95 BPM]
A cold, creepy and uneasy track, for horror, mystery, thriller or dark drama. Isolated, tormented piano notes in a cold place. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
Chunky & leaden-heavy groove-rocker with a slight bluesy feel to the guitar style. Very weighty, loud and yet hypnotic. Would suit action/thriller/extreme sports type projects. [Tempo: Slow / 75 BPM]
A dark and ominous tribal music track with urgent, intense, earthy African drums and various foreboding instruments and vocal grunts. Danger / Darkness / Primal / Savage. [Tempo: Fast / 135 BPM]
Creepy orchestration suggests an approaching evil menace or a supernatural event. Steeped in suspense, this dark, sinister piece builds towards a horrific & sudden conclusion. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
Haunting, dreamy and sinister soundscape. Very ethereal , thoughtful and also peaceful. Contains synth pad, effected piano and string. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 60 BPM]
A cinematic, pensive track that starts with a fragile piano motif, and then grows, increases, builds… into a crescendo. Available with our without big drums. Suspenseful. Good for dramatic scenes, imminent danger, approaching situation. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 100 BPM]
An intensely suspenseful mystery/horror cue underscoring anything from a deceitful murder to a ruthless intruder. Orchestral with eerie piano and creepy ambient fx, in the vein of James Newton Howard's scores for M. Night Shyamalan films (The Village, Signs, The Happening). [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
This track starts with a strong sense of mystery and tension, like there’s a real danger lurking. Huge action drums come in later, bringing the track to a huge conclusion. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 112 BPM]
Slow, spacey, unnerving, slightly sinister electro pop track. Contains dark & hypnotic synths & drum units. Would suit horror/thriller/spy/drama/psychological type projects. [Tempo: Medium / 60 BPM]
Stalkers, serial killers, crime scenes, murder, twisted plots and Investigation Discovery shows. The chaotic and evil sounding prepared piano and sound design creates evil thoughts of Halloween, ghosts, cults and the supernatural. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 120 BPM]
Edgy, distorted, mechanical sounding, with huge drums and bit-crushed, acidic synths. Very dark. Doom laden, with pounding percussion and a relentless, aggressive feel. Orchestral sounds mangled and combined with edgy synth work. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 75 BPM]
An eerie, cold and subtle underscore track for thriller, crime or mystery. Slow / Suspicious / Questioning. [Tempo: Very slow / 0 BPM]
Eerie, spacey, ethereal & unnerving ambient track. Would suit horror / mystery projects that require something dark & with a sense of mysterious, ominous foreboding & menace. Chilling, haunting & spookily edgy. Scary, haunted fairground music. [Tempo: Medium / 145 BPM]
Cinematic dramatic action track with deep and dark vibe and growing tension. Good for jungle and forest scenes, ambush in the battle, war and special military operations, spy films and videos. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 120 BPM]
A darkly ambient, threatening and unnerving underscore. Suitable for tense and pensive drama scenes, reality show, documentary, dangerious situations, nervous undertow. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 103 BPM]
Big, industrial sounding track, with marching percussion, low strings and moody horns. Used to underscore a video about a Pig Iron factory in World War 2. Dark, ominous, serious. [Tempo: Medium / 111 BPM]
Tinkly horror musical soundscapes. Uneasy, sickly, unsettling. [Tempo: Medium / 0 BPM]
Menacing, dark ambient sound collage. Ice cold sound texture suggesting a terrible realization or horrible sight. Suitable for horror, sci-fi, thriller or experimental material. [Tempo: Very slow / 125 BPM]
A frantic, drums and percussion driven music track for a chase, battle or fight scene. Highly suitable for trailer, game, thriller or action film. (Note, this track starts with a very long, very slow crescendo, so you won't hear much for the first minute or so.) [Tempo: Slow, Fast / 158 BPM]
Dark ambient, Horror underscore. Mysterious / Suspicious / Ominous. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 80 BPM]
