An epic music track with a dark atmosphere and uprising mood. The track opens with a dark analog synth, layered with moody piano notes and effects. Cinematic strings and taiko drums help build tension to the main reveal. The main part of the track explodes with huge distorted drums, a call to action melody and epic string section. Suitable as music for video game and movie trailers, action scenes, scenes of battle or hero struggle. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 155 BPM]
A mysterious and dark ambient piece. Heavy electronic sounds and a dark, grooving drum track provide a sense of cold melancholy. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 82 BPM]
Robert Schumann, Faschingsschwank aus Wien, Op. 26, IV. Intermezzo in E-flat minor. Performed live in studio by renowned concert pianist Vadim Chaimovich, exclusively for Shockwave-Sound.com. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 0 BPM]
A mellow, reflective and haunting acoustic music track, with elements of Americana and ambient music. Dreamy, textured, atmospheric, based on acoustic guitars with ethereal arrangement. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 112 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]
An eerie, cold and subtle underscore track for thriller, crime or mystery. Slow / Suspicious / Questioning. [Tempo: Very slow / 0 BPM]
A dark, suspenseful and pensive, ambient track made with various synths, male monk voices and other pad based effects. Suspense / Dark / Apocalyptic. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 78 BPM]
Mysterious, nocturnal, candlelit music. Suggests internal conflict, dreamy mystic wisdom, grave truth, or late night pining. Lead Violin/viola, bells, choir. Mystical / Epic / Fantasy Music. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
Inspired by the Salburun Eagle Hunting Festival of Kyrgyzstan, this music track begins solemnly but has a lively mid section that feel like a true celebration of the festival and all that surrounds it. Oriental / World / Travel Music. [Tempo: Slow, Fast / 96 BPM]
An evocative, emotional music track with melancholic shades. Glitched beds made with dry guitars, synths and wordless vocal emulate the sound of the wind. The song rises up to a post-rock outro. [Tempo: Slow / 65 BPM]
In an attempt to recapture his lost innocence, a man time travels back to when he was a young boy on Christmas Day. Bouncy pop/rock with piano, acoustic and electric guitars, bass, drums, strings, sitar, synths, female backing vocals. Available as a vocal version and an instrumental version. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 123 BPM]
A dark and suspenseful track that is both cinematic and epic in equal measure. This track would suit film noir, cinema, police ,drama, sports, action. The track features gritty and memorable guitars and drums that pulse, hypnotise and resonate the whole way through. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 100 BPM]
Retro breaks and Blues riffs in the style of Beastie-Boys / Fat Boy Slim featuring scratching & vocal refrain, 'The beat don’t stop when the baseline drop (Check the rhythm, check the flow)'. Also available without the vocal parts. [Tempo: Slow / 82 BPM]
A beautiful, cinematic composition with a deep emotion. Great for emotional moments in films and TV about emotional or touching content. Melancholic, wistful and reflective, but also hopeful and warm. [Tempo: Slow / 125 BPM]
A mellow, reflective and warm piece of electric, ambient guitar music. Hopeful, warm, heartening, searching. You get a feeling it tells a story. [Tempo: Slow / 126 BPM]
Pulsating, fluid and evolving, this cinematic Ambient track evokes deep emotion, darkness and hope and a sense of forever. Long synth pads and random FX drape over a deep sine bass nudging us through a smooth and shifting arrangement. It’s excellent for emotional dramas, B-roll and self-help talkovers. Ethereal, eternal, vast, cosmic. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 117 BPM]
A laid back and moody ambient guitar track which starts with reversed echoing guitar swells before breaking into the main repeated melodic phrase. It creates a dark, ambient and melancholic mood. [Tempo: Slow / 50 BPM]
Vintage and moody Spaghetti Western track mixed with a laidback Funk groove. Features whistling, guitars, trumpets, choir, bass and drums. [Tempo: Slow / 82 BPM]
Royalty free downtempo music piece with piano samples and modern trap beat. Contemporary / Minimal / Atmospheric / Mystical. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 130 BPM]
Slow Cha cha style dance paired with some dark impact sounds and cymbal scraping. Beautiful and relaxing, but also subtly unsettling and eerie. Classic detective. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 100 BPM]
Enchanting Mystical background music, suitable for background or underscores. It is slow-moving with a transparent sense of intrigue and mystical magic. Subtle music that you don't notice too much. Features rich soft chords on the piano with long floating clarinet melodies against harp and strings. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
A solemn and thoughtful cinematic background piece featuring piano and a haunting, ethnic Duduk. Foreboding, gloomy, thoughtful, contemplative. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 54 BPM]
Cinematic atmospheric washes of light & shade blossom into free form piano lines evoking wide vistas or a homely, folksy environment. Thought provoking, captivating & pure with a sense of the innate complexities of life. The track ends on a positive note and this uplifting passage is available separately as Sting 2. ‘Dawn Of A New Life’ is similar in style to Dream Valley Music’s ‘Secrets & Memories’, ‘True Life Stories’ and ‘How It Ends’. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 120 BPM]
A set of 6 minimalistic cinematic strings pieces made to function as underscore, background music for drama and storytelling. Each of the 6 cues (parts) share the same sound, but with different chords and hints of melodies, each carrying different moods and emotions. Use at low volume during film scenes, to stay back and create an emotion or mood, without being noticed too much. The sound used is a combination of acoustic strings and synth strings, like much of cinematic / TV drama / film score music uses. [Tempo: Slow / 88 BPM]
Exotic and dark Middle East / Arabic vocal (non-verbal) ominous, foreboding, deep pads and Eastern strings combined with a dark, edgy and minimalistic Trap / Hip-Hop beat. World / Arabian / Middle Eastern with a dark and edgy urban twist. (Stem files available.) [Tempo: Medium / 95 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]
Sad and emotional piece made for extreme visual and cinematic solutions. Heavy orchestral drums led by high piercing strings and basses following. The beginning of the track starts soft and builds upon itself with a tense and dramatic movement. This track is perfect as a theme or even any emotional cinema, it contains a start-stop feel to really offset the strings which lends itself for a very beautiful sound. (Stem files available.) [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 120 BPM]
This chamber orchestra track has a balance of story-telling and cinematic drama capabilities and can be used in a wide range of media. A beautiful piano arpeggio melody to accompany this track and the soft and sudden piercing stabs and leads with the violin to really bring the most emotion and enjoyment of this beautiful melody and emotional track. Edgy, raw, close, live strings production. (Stem files available.) [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 65 BPM]
Johannes Brahms: Tragic Overture in D minor, Op.81. Classical music recorded by D Hamilton exclusively for Lynne Publishing. [Tempo: Slow, Medium, Fast / 0 BPM]
Slow, doom-ish, retro pulp / surf rock. Dark and moody, with a 1960's / 1970's Tex-Mex sound. Good for retro and pulp type productions. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 81 BPM]
A pulsing synthesizer sets the tone for a dark atmosphere in the beginning. Drums with a hint of bit-crushed distortion build up and then quiet down before a massive drop. The main drop hits with a huge impact of drums and low bass. Layered in electronic melody gives the track a modern and edgy feel, but keeps a serious tone. Resembles "Tron Legacy" soundtrack. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 70 BPM]
This Cinematic / Electronic crossover track opens with a unique string like synth and a strong melodic theme. The first drop is a heavy hitting slow pace theme that builds with the original melody layered with synthesizers and strings, before it builds up with distorted drums, a strong string melody and a pitched-up effect to a big hit at the end. This track will work for movie and video game trailers, scenes of battle or struggle. Dark / Industrial / Cinematic / Apocalyptic. [Tempo: Slow, Fast / 65 BPM]
Mellow and melancholic, loving and tender melody with soft soprano saxophone, piano and harp. Delicate, touching, highly suitable for use in drama, personal reflection, story telling. Nostalgic, beautiful, caring. [Tempo: Slow / 63 BPM]
Cinematic Jazz-Funk, laidback yet full of tension, passion, mystery and drama. Retro 70s style movie and TV soundtrack music with strings, brass, electric piano, harp, bass and drums. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 84 BPM]
Mysterious and haunting, an exotic middle eastern or arabic track based on acoustic guitar, hand percussion, strings and a traditional eastern woodwind instrument duduk. After an opening section with guitar, bass and hand drums, the main beat comes in at about 55 seconds into the track, and then at 1:32 the song reaches its climax. Also available “underscore” mix without the guitar, leaving only the background instruments. Culture, education, traveling, documentary and historical programming. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 104 BPM]
A short track that tells of darkness and sadness. [Tempo: Medium / 90 BPM]
Pop/Acoustic - Singer/Songwriter - about the death of someone close. A new arrangement with only acoustic guitar and vocal. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 73 BPM]
A song about finding love in todays environment of social media, information overload, and online dating. Modern rock with a country flair, rocking string section at the end. Electric violin, string section, electric guitar, bass, drums, acoustic guitar, vocal harmony. [Tempo: Medium / 85 BPM]
There’s a difference between terror and horror. This track is a sonic tale of the inner workings of a demonic serial killer as he/she confesses their brutal crime. It’s a slow buildup of organic string lines and atmospheric tension stretched across two minutes of anxiety and creepiness until the explosive ending. [Tempo: Slow / 60 BPM]
Dark and ethereal cinematic composition with piano and heavenly pad sound, very emotional and thoughtful music, good for drama films, documentaries, trailers and more. [Tempo: Slow / 105 BPM]
Elegant, romantic and sexy contemporary RnB piece, with beauty piano melodies, gated synths and a slow drum beat. Some variations in the middle section make it more dynamic and vibrant. Nostalgic, smooth, dramatic, a bit melancholic. Good for drama and love film soundtrack with an urban feel. [Tempo: Medium / 72 BPM]
Pop with rock undertones. Early 2000’s feel. Acoustic guitar, guitar, bass and drums. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 142 BPM]
Slow, doom-ish, retro pulp / surf rock. Twangy guitars with a Mexican feel. California surf style guitar amp sound. Very slow, sensual in a 'fatal female' type mood. Good for pulp and retro styled flicks. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 92 BPM]
A tender and reflective piano track with an ambient background and a sweet string section. Subtle and cinematic. [Tempo: Slow / 76 BPM]
Orchestral hip-hop instrumental. String sets blended with straight forward drum set. [Tempo: Slow / 85 BPM]
Female power rock in the style of Evanescence. Heavy rock band instruments. Key words: Relationships, Female alternative rock. [Tempo: Medium / 125 BPM]
Powerful, serious sound. Smooth beat, dark strings, spherical synthhesizer, piano. Serious issues in politics, news and human relations. [Tempo: Slow / 85 BPM]
Sometimes words are not enough to describe the depth of emotions. This solo piano piece will let you connect with those profound feelings. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 80 BPM]
This sentimental track has an exponentially-rising energy level throughout, starting with low energy (just vocals, strings and piano) and working its way into a full band piano-rock ballad. It will work well with footage of relationship troubles, reflective, sad, depressing, lonely, bittersweet, homesick or driving footage. Energetic guitars with a thumping bass line, melodic piano and soaring violin somewhere between pop and rock. The lyrics are all about coming to realization with the end. Closure on a failed relationship, learning to move on, get over it, and learn to love and trust again. Available as a vocal version and an instrumental version. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 135 BPM]
Starting with soft acoustic guitar, gentle organ and female vocal, this song builds up into chorus with male vocal and harmonies followed by slide electric solo at 1:33. This slide electric continues through the next verse building again into big double chorus with uplifting backing vocals. Long electric guitar solo begins at 3:28. The lyrics are about the two different sides of a relationship, told with both male and female main vocals. Instrumental version also available. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 124 BPM]