Look here for royalty-free underscores for Mystery and Suspense. Whether you're working on the scene where a mutilated body is found, or you're designing a video game where the hero sneaks around a deserted space ship, this area will provide sneaky, creepy and suspenseful music tracks. Much of this is orchestral music, but not all. Also electronic and more experimental musical sounds are used to create these tracks; most of which are subtle, ambient underscores, rather than up-front, brash compositions.
Broken and fragmented, hard hitting, stuttering and sputtering electro rock with industrial elements. Chopped-up, spitting guitar riffs with extreme distortion. This is pretty grungy stuff, high on adrenaline. A sense of cutting-edge mechanics, machinery, etc [Tempo: Medium / 120 BPM]
Semi-orchestral, semi-industrial and powerful thriller soundtrack. Dark string and brass textures, a pulsating beat that oozes just under the surface. Serious, international conflict, war or battleground, covert mission, etc. [Tempo: Slow / 50 BPM]
Foreboding drone with mountain flute, ethnic percussion and vocalizing, chants. General exotic, mysterious feel, can be Native American, South American, Polynesian, Aztec, Inca, or African. Tribal, ethnic, exotic, africa. [Tempo: Slow / 66 BPM]
A slow, serious, pensive underscore for mystery drama, fiction, storytelling. Perhaps crime or criminal investigation, dark subjects. Cold. Various mixes are available. This track shares its sound / production style with two other tracks, 'Inner Struggle' and 'Inner Mind'. They can work well together, if you wish to keep a uniform sound / feel in your production. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 57 BPM]
Slow, spacious, ethereal, textured track with dreamy, exotic, chanted vocal samples. Be whisked away on the calm breeze to foreign lands. [Tempo: Slow / 80 BPM]
Pure rock drama! Waves of guitars and drums come crashing in on the intro synth sequence. Intensity builds through the verse until the chorus attacks with full on guitars and staccato strings. The last chorus has 2 searing lead guitar solos to up the heat just one more notch. Contains guitars, bass, strings, synth and drums. [Tempo: Fast / 120 BPM]
Cinematic track with a mystical, dark and gloomy vibe full of anticipation. Suitable for films, documentaries, trailers investigation news and videos. [Tempo: Slow / 80 BPM]
Light suspenseful tension track suitable for reality television results shows like American Idol and Dancing with the Stars, to keep your audience anxious. Low brooding bass, morphing synths, emphatic strings, and escalating percussion all work to create an intense edge-of-your-seat atmosphere. [Tempo: Fast / 144 BPM]
A pensive, ominous and dark - but restrained, cinematic / orchestral piece. Hints of trouble on the horizon. Suitable for drama, crime, period drama, film/tv. [Tempo: Medium / 158 BPM]
Medium paced blues groover with plenty of cool guitar lines, organ, brass stabs and cheesey 60's style organ. Grows in intensity to an almost Big Band sound, as it goes and gets yer foot tappin' instantly. [Tempo: Medium / 113 BPM]
Exotic, dark, atmospheric and adventure track made with various eastern percussion, native middle eastern instruments, strings and more. Exotic, mystical, foreboding, haunting. [Tempo: Slow / 110 BPM]
An intensely ominous electronic/orchestral soundscape supports a brooding, haunting theme; overwhelmed with darkness and fear, this track is destined for moody scenes of terror and horror in contemporary cinema... For underscore and build-up. Instrumental, Dangerous Music, Dark Music. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 120 BPM]
A somewhat dark, pensive and mysterious, neo-classical / film soundtrack styled piece. Elegant, but edgy. Dark stirrings / Malevolent / Grotesque. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 104 BPM]
Short evolving epic track with tension building. A climate of danger, mystery, anxiety leading to the climax ending part. [Tempo: Slow / 66 BPM]
A somewhat bizarre, and slightly creepy, 1980's themed instrumental production with big synths and drums. Big and spacious - like travelling back in time. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 74 BPM]
Battle/tribal/dark. Shamanic, ethnic track dominated by massive pounding drums and atmospheric textures. Tense, urgent, restless and earthy. [Tempo: Medium / 200 BPM]
Imagine sitting at the window of a trans-world train watching many different cultures, flavours and atmospheres go past you. A real journey of a piece. You never know quite what will happen next. Contains synth bass and pads, drum machines, ethnic percussion such as tabla and bongos and african voices. [Tempo: Medium / 126 BPM]
Horror Mystery Soundtrack. Eerie / Cold / Malevolent / Uneasy. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
Acoustic piano and cool electronic sounds float in a suspension, this highly ambient electronic piece calls to mind slow motion through its drawn-out pads, synth effects and rhythms. [Tempo: Fast / 124 BPM]
A mysterious, investigation music track, but not too dark or heavy. Semi-light, intrigue, data processing, clues and mystery unfolding. Great music for documentaries. [Tempo: Medium / 117 BPM]
An underscore track for use in film, games, and media. Varying intensities of fantasy / adventure background music, good for in-game, in-film, drama, cultural, historical and discovery. Has a sense of dark mystery, exotic mysticism, perhaps ancient dark secrets or undiscovered lands. [Tempo: Slow / 0 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]
Downtempo, dark and sensual nightly jazz, featuring a low thumping beat and saxophone. Conjures images of dark alleys, mysterious strangers, intrigue and conspiracy in the city. Smokey, mysterious, intriguing. [Tempo: Slow / 80 BPM]
Dramatic, atmospheric, brooding, electro-rock royalty free music track with a slightly dark & tense vibe. Synth pulses and lines combine with lush strings & a purposeful beat. Would suit mystery / cinematic / thriller / corporate projects. [Tempo: Medium / 102 BPM]
Inspired by 1980's sci-fi and horror films, revived today by TV series about things that are strange. An ominous blend of synthesizers and orchestral tones, with a repetitive, tense motif. Tension / Suspense / Dark Music. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 84 BPM]
Dreamy, atmospheric, with a slight air of mystery and the supernatural. Imagine being alone in the outback of Australia shrouded in fog... who (or what) is out there? Suitable for travel documentaries or any scene needing an atmospheric, surreal bed with a slight edge to it. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 55 BPM]
A pensive, pulsating and tense track for action & adventure. Orchestral with synth elements, a dark edge, but also somewhat restrained and brooding. [Tempo: Medium / 93 BPM]
Live jazz quartet; Drums, piano, upright bass, vibraphone. A rhythmic play at 7/8ths, at times quite avantgarde. Extravagant jazz moves. [Tempo: Medium / 124 BPM]
Slow, sizzling jazz swing. Jazz club, late night city alleys, private detective, smokey atmosphere, etc. [Tempo: Slow / 95 BPM]
Tinkly horror musical soundscapes. Uneasy, sickly, unsettling. [Tempo: Medium / 0 BPM]
A dramatic and quietly commanding track that will work for scenes of conspiracy, suspicion and contemplation. [Tempo: Slow / 100 BPM]
A creepy, dark track evoking the image of serial killers, crime scenes, murder, twisted plots and Investigation Discovery cues. The chaotic and evil sounding prepared piano and metallic percussion create evil thoughts and imagery of Halloween, Freddie Krueger, Jeffrey Dahmer and Ed Gein. [Tempo: Slow / 120 BPM]
The sounds of Scandanavia and Norway feature heavily in this big sounding atmospheric track. Features the Hardanger fiddle as well as modern electronic elements and organic sounds in fusion. [Tempo: Slow / 72 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]
Inspired by film maker and composer John Carpenter, this is a homage to his masterpiece The Thing, starring Kurt Russell. Ominous blend of synthesizers and orchestral horns, with a repetitive tense motif. [Tempo: Slow / 93 BPM]
Warm pads, bells and a mysterious Eastern wind instrument, the Sarangi flute. Great background music for travel and mystery, adventure and excotic places. Foreboding, underlying mystery music. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 0 BPM]
A very dark and disturbing horror / scifi / mystery track, with harsh, metallic pads and percussion counterpositioned against a fragile soprano voice. Can be both Ancient and Futuristic. Tense / Nervous pulse. Action thriller / Undercover / Sci-fi / Mystical. Also available without the drums, which makes it a more Ambient / Dark Underscore type track. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 100 BPM]
Very peaceful, lilting, ambient track. Lush synth chimes and soft pads mix to make one big fluffy textural piece. Contains synths and drum units. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 126 BPM]
A slow, eerie and mystical Ambient / Cinematic track with a cold feel of wonderment and amazement. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 70 BPM]
Thoughtful and smoothing, Trip-Hop. Dreamy, floating textures [Tempo: Slow / 82 BPM]
Ambient, dark, slightly tense with low piano notes, light percussion, synth choir and fx. Good for eliminations on reality shows, tv and film dramas, crime, horrors, mysteries, thrillers and documentaries. [Tempo: Slow / 64 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]
If Peter from Family Guy had a dream, it would probably sound like this. Atmospheric cloudy string harmonies and lazy brass melodies accompanied by sax, slowly turning bluesy until a final Chicago-style jazz ending. [Tempo: Slow, Medium, Fast / 100 BPM]
A dark suspense piece with a haunting quality. Tension builds amidst huge drums and orchestra with an abnormal sense of determination. [Tempo: Medium / 143 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 dark, ambient track with heavy pads, low strings and harmonics, and guitar feedback. Great for horror films and thrillers. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
Gentle and sleepy piece driven by guitar and baritone sax on pad'n'groove background. This slightly unreal and abstract mood associates well with calm late night climate. A bit of tranquility and a bit of sensual thrill. General underscore for film, tv and media. Also relaxation, enjoyment, chilling out... [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 94 BPM]
A haunting and ambient track with a contemplative, slow, thoughtful and wistful feel. Introspective, melancholic and reflective, this music has a dark beauty. (Stem files available.) [Tempo: Slow / 62 BPM]
Richly harmonized strings combine with dark brass undertones to create a cinematic vibe in this dramatic orchestral piece. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
This track is Jekyll and Hyde. The tense intro has techno beats and synth sequences which build in intensity until all hell breaks loose and the guitars enter with a hellishly ferocious and relentless riff. Contains synths, drum machines, guitars and bass. [Tempo: Medium / 127 BPM]
