Abrasive and jarring machine-like rhythmic elements, epic and otherworldly with ominous undertones and rising in intensity. Works great with crime, industrial, steampunk and sci-fi scenes. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 126 BPM]
Electronic percussion and eerie electric piano melodies generate an atmosphere of tension and suspense. The mystery thickens and new sound layers are added in a dramatic, hypnotic crescendo with a few stops, perfect for edit points. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 88 BPM]
Powerful and deep Hip Hop music beat, with dramatic strings and orchestral elements. Strong pensive feel. In the style of Epic Hip Hop. Urban, Orchestral, Sports, Tough, Edgy Music. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 79 BPM]
Fantasy style orchestral soundtrack. Dark, gloomy and ominous. Big horn sections, mysterious melodies. Great for fantasy, epic adventures, dark times, horror, impending doom and conflict. Occasional deep vocal grunts and chants. This piece plays for over 6 minutes with plenty of variation, and can be used for several different cues, or used all together as background atmosphere. [Tempo: Slow / 75 BPM]
Dramatic, mystic theme in the "Silent Witness" vein. Building tension. A single, crystal clear soprano voice. Great for adventures, mystery, dark drama, etc. There is also an "acapella" version with only the voice, singing latin text. (The latin words are nonsensical and have no real meaning.) Finally the "Theme" version also includes the latin song as well as the orchestral backing, in a shorter version. [Tempo: Medium / 93 BPM]
Symphonie fantastique in G minor, Op. 14 IV. Marche au supplice (March to the Scaffold), by Hector Berlioz. Recorded exclusively for Shockwave-Sound.com by D Hamilton. [Tempo: Slow, Medium, Fast / 0 BPM]
Tense combination of sound designer sounds with ambient synth textures and a hard hitting techno backdrop. Action, drama, dramatic, chase, crime, police, battle, war, futuristic action and suspense. [Tempo: Slow, Medium, Fast / 116 BPM]
A lonely music box melody builds to a full orchestra before ending as it begins. Dark, tense and climactic but not too scary, family oriented horror. Good for trailers, video games, cartoons, halloween, quirky Tim Burton type films and even commercials. [Tempo: Slow / 70 BPM]
A creepy piece that starts off with a slow piano, builds as low strings makes it's way. Perfect for a scene where somebody is walking alone in the woods, hunted by a killer, or having a mental breakdown. Could also imagine a lone man, driving through a desolate city. [Tempo: Slow / 60 BPM]
An intense sequence of pulsating rhythms that indicate action and risk. Electronic / Undercover / Technology Music. [Tempo: Medium / 120 BPM]
Battle drums. Epic, huge percussion. A combination of orchestral percussion and ethnic / tribal drums. Suitable for battle, fight, chase, conflict, etc. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 115 BPM]
Featuring orchestra, gritty guitar and drums, this cinematic Western-styled piece could be a character study for a Western hero or antihero. Dramatic and epic, this piece could be useful in scenes depicting the conceiving of or execution of a plan (e.g. bank robbery, capturing an outlaw) or for the archetypical ride into the sunset. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 92 BPM]
Deep piano, repetitive harp pattern and a pulsating, subtle drum beat. Good underscore track for thriller, crime, spy mission, etc. [Tempo: Medium / 58 BPM]
A staccato and forward driven, mid-tempo urban beat. Strong beat and slightly "off key" guitar and Rhodes licks give the track a somewhat dirty streets or underground feel. Constant synth pulse bass gives it a nice and funky rhythmic drive. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 100 BPM]
Cool and ethereal electro rock track with a slightly sinister undertone. Spacey plucked santoors float over soft and spacey synth pads and noises as a slow, determined beat kicks in. Would suit dramatic or cinematic projects. [Tempo: Slow / 59 BPM]
A dark and suspenseful hybrid music featuring a combination of growling distorted bass, orchestra and synth sounds. Tension building / Danger / Ominous / Determined. Sense of urgency and foreboding. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 0 BPM]
A nerve wracking and dark ambient piece, featuring heavy, grooving bass and drums combined with an edgy piano track and dramatic orchestral instruments. The overall feel is ominous and suspenseful. [Tempo: Slow / 88 BPM]
Orchestral tension, movie soundtrack underscore. Tension, disturbing, anxious. [Tempo: Medium, Slow / 115 BPM]
A disturbing horror / sci-fi sound design track. Shock / madness / loss of connection with reality. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
Swashbuckling and heave-ho'ing, great washes of orchestral drama. Great theme for a fantasy film, game or other presentation that needs a grand, epic introduction. [Tempo: Medium / 90 BPM]
Percussion only track / Battle drums. Tracks with Drums only are useful for action sequences, fight scenes, war and battles, macho sports and exertion, powerful imagery, dramatic trailers and more. Also available as seamlessly looping Drum loops / Percussion loops. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 75 BPM]
Orchestra underscore. Cello and bass synth drive pace with piano, forboding brass and string lines. Espionage, spy theme feel. Crime, mystery, investigation. Dark, edgy. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 120 BPM]
Mysterious electronic underscore, for moments of uncertainty and problem solving. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 85 BPM]
A dark and gritty, determined and vengeful, power rock track. Brutal guitar riffs, staccato and stuttering. Good for action trailer, fights and wrestling, big power racing, extreme sports and action filled footage. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 110 BPM]
A classic House of Mystery soundtrack with a quirky, bizarre, haunted or magical feel, in a grotesque mood and sound. Old musical box, carousel or fairground genre. Great for fairy tales, mystical tales, Halloween, magical mischief, or dark comedies. [Tempo: Medium / 156 BPM]
Crime, drama underscore - eerie and dark with distorted undertones, bit crushed bass and piano. Uncomfortable and Tense. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 128 BPM]
A dystopic soundtrack. Starts with a simple bass pulse, and builds slowly to a high intensity with manipulated brass sounds and various other alien sounding synths. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 120 BPM]
Action oriented hybrid orchestral track, with a lot of metallic percussion and powerful blasts. Starts off with distorted electronic percussion and mystery strings, then develops into a powerful tense motif. Good for spy, military, invasion and high octane action. [Tempo: Medium / 110 BPM]
A sneaky and sinister underscore track with a heartbeat like rhythm. Twitchy strings, mysterious chord progressions, pensive mood. This track is quite long and it develops over time into a more intense track with more of a clear and present danger, chase or frantic fear. After 3 minutes an electronic drum beat sets in to raise the intensity level by another notch. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 60 BPM]
Disturbing, distorted, uneasy and malevolent. Highly suitable for scifi, game, thriller or action film. String lines nervous and staccato, dissonant string stabs with busy percussion. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow, Medium / 112 BPM]
A sharp hit begins this brooding, sinister horror track, which features suspenseful, ambient synth swells and atmospheric string effects. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 55 BPM]
An ominous and foreboding suspense music, starting slowly and then rising into an emotional, epic piece. Featuring full orchestra combined with piano and pulsating synths. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 155 BPM]
Dark and gripping cinematic underscore, with subsonic drums & timpani, arpeggiated piano and horn strikes for moments of tension and near discovery. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 120 BPM]
Fast, intense, dark orchestral track with pounding percussion, staccato strings and distorted guitars. A sense of danger, conflict and urgency. [Tempo: Fast / 182 BPM]
Vigorous Hip Hop and Orchestra track with some choir elements towards the end. Strong heroic feel. Good for sports and epic stuff with an urban twist. [Tempo: Slow / 75 BPM]
A tense, ominous, brooding underscore for action, thriller, sci-fi and more. Pounding percussion, dark pads and sweeps. Urgency / Danger. Also available in a version without the drums, which represents a more sneaky / dark ambient feel. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 120 BPM]
A throwback to classic role playing games, the orchestra evokes a dark dungeon with unknown dangers lurking around every corner. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 123 BPM]
Energetic, groovy, slightly industrial electro track that gets ugly in the chorus part when layers of distorted guitars gatecrash the party and rip up the seats. Reminiscent of Nine Inch Nails in parts. [Tempo: Fast / 120 BPM]
A dark, cold and damp TV or film underscore cue. Pensive, unnerving and unsettling, this piece is suitable for a scene in a crime mystery, horror flick or perhaps a criminal documentary featuring evil or the occult, gruesome discoveries in forensics. Soundscapes. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 85 BPM]
Fast, frantic and hard hitting semi-orchestral, semi-electronic music for action, fight or racing scene. Distorted, twisted guitars, deep brass stabs, extremely fast techno breakbeat. Chase or battle material. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 110 BPM]
A creepy and eerie mystery/horror cue underscoring anything from a deceitful murder to an evil presence. Orchestral with piano, in the vein of James Newton Howard's scores for M. Night Shyamalan films (The Village, Signs, The Happening). [Tempo: Slow / 85 BPM]
A heavy, cinematic electronic piece. Dramatic bass hits stab through the tense electronic instrumentation and dark, grooving drum beat, creating tension that builds to the end of the piece. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 120 BPM]
A grand, sweeping track that tells of amazing world journeys. This track is not tied to one specific country or culture, but has Eastern European / Baltic as well as more Oriental / Eastern / Persian elements. Use for world discovery / amazing journeys, ethnic / foreign drama and travels. Features Psaltery, Mbira, Dulcimer, Gaohu, Morin Khuur, flutes and various ethnic percussions. Available with or without a sorrowful, female ethnic vocal. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 99 BPM]
Accented strings, brass with huge percussion and synths. Ideal for dramatic breaking news and reality TV cues such as Dateline NBC, Rock Center, Celebrity Apprentice, Survivor and Fear Factor. Useful for transitions, investigations, the turmoil and struggle while trying to complete tasks, goals and elimination. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 100 BPM]
Huge drum n' bass percussion collides with orchestral breaks and extreme FX stabs. Evoking visions of speed, excellence and hybrid technology. Well matched with the Elliot Simons track 'Metallic Wasteland'. [Tempo: Medium / 81 BPM]
Fast and pulsating Drum'n Bass. UK urban style, with a hard edge and a mangled, chopped up metal guitar riff making an appearance halfway in. Fast and funky, energetic. Good for sports, extreme sports, action filled footage, commercials, hectic activity and more. [Tempo: Very fast / 170 BPM]
A dramatic, serious epic cinematic track. Blend of symphonic instruments, expressive choirs, synths and electro/dubstep rhythm. Massive sound. A feel of a danger or inevitable dramatic events. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 77 BPM]
Hectic, stressed and frantic techno-rock mashup. Gritty and dirty, stressed and unnerving, the guitar riff bites relentlessly like a nasty attack dog. This track would go well with fighting and brawling, extreme sports footage, hellish and painful endurance, post apocalyptic metal hell, chase scenes, destruction and mayhem. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 140 BPM]
Pensive, sinister, apprehensive, sneaking, waiting. Dramatic underscore that provides nerve and tension to film, crime, investigation, stakeout, horror or dark mystery. [Tempo: Medium / 105 BPM]
A tense, rhythmic, staccato track for secret missions and high pressure situations. [Tempo: Medium / 125 BPM]
