This is the area for dark, ominous, foreboding, cinematic music in our royalty-free music site. The tracks presented in this genre are suitable for mystery, suspense, tension, horror and dark drama. These tracks will stay in the background and just provide an uneasy atmosphere in your media project such as films, YouTube and social media, games and more.
Ethereal tense building underscore composed of mostly unique sounds. Composed with films and video games in mind. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
Surreal, atmospheric with deep low hits. Great for setting a tense mood in a horror or suspenseful scene. Perhaps someone is being watched, or is quietly creeping around in the mist. The music doesn't get too big up until the end, but gradually ratchets up the suspense. Big rise right at the end with an abrupt ending. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 55 BPM]
Distorted ambient screeches, deep booming drone, reverberant pipe hits. Scattered congas. Dark, horror. [Tempo: Very slow / 0 BPM]
Very dark, eerie and foreboding. This synth-based cue is drone driven, with stabs of rhythmic color and percussion. I could be used as a sneak, a stalk, or for some really twisted character development. Good for thriller, crime drama, drama, police show, mystery. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
An ominous horror track that features ambient synths and creepy, high-pitched, animal-like noises. A heavy, repetitive drum beat enhances the sense of foreboding midway through the end. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
Hollow synths and eerie sustained vocal notes dominate and then swell together in the revealing conclusion to this suspenseful track. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
An eerie and creepy figure of a ghost subtly sneaks by with a cold and evil presence in this electronic / ambient suspense cue. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 96 BPM]
Creepy and eerie horror musical soundscape. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
A dark and haunting track for mystery, thriller or dark drama. Bleak, haunting, ominous. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 34 BPM]
A mysterious, atmospheric strings and low percussion based track perfect for creating a sinister feel to a brooding scene. The suspense grows gradually, never getting very big but hinting at something horrific about to take place. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
Surreal ambient/new age track, with electronic rhythm parts and dreamy pads. Eerie. Desolate. Isolation. Space. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
A short, intense, dark track. Slightly otherworldly, with a single, solemn, female vocal. A track for a gruesome discovery.... [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 0 BPM]
Dark, foggy pads, slow bassoon and cello. Creeping, slowly moving musical soundscapes. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
This dark and gloomy horror track starts out with only a few dark piano notes. Other elements such as distant voices, metal scrapes join to create a creepy and eerie horror musical soundscape. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
A dark, pulsating, repetitive drum beat lies pumping underneath distorted psych lines of electronic grit. [Tempo: Slow / 120 BPM]
Big booming drum, dark pulse, staccato. Strings and brass join in. Horror, cult film or sci-fi soundtrack. [Tempo: Medium / 65 BPM]
Somewhere between music, soundscapes and sound effects, the 'Toxic Air' series consists of 15 parts named after toxic gases. The music is almostly entirely without any recognizable rhythm or structure. Useful for sci-fi, horror, etc. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
A seamlessly looping textural soundscape with sci-fi effects. Creates a sense of wonder and mystery. [Tempo: Very slow / 0 BPM]
Unsettling, dark & digital. Broken future, hi-tech, scary, tension. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 0 BPM]
A creepy and nervous thriller/chiller underscore. Uncertainty, tension. Pensive, high piano notes over slowly oozing background textures. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
Twisting and churning, dark ambient soundscapes. Reverberant metal hits and clanks, disturbing textures. Good for horror, sci-fi, suspense underscore. [Tempo: Slow / 109 BPM]
Electonica type of track that gives you feel of a conveyer or machinery at work, wheels are spinning. Easy loopable, this track is great as a background soundtrack for industrial, real “How things made” TV, perhaps some car commercial and many more. [Tempo: Medium / 110 BPM]
A dark textured, otherworldly sound that creeps in and provides a sickening sense of horror and dismay. Suspenseful, dark ambient soundcape. [Tempo: Very slow / 89 BPM]
Eerie and mysterious music box, full of anticipation and fear. Dreamy mood. [Tempo: Slow / 55 BPM]
Moving, swarming ambient bed with a foreboding, dark drone and a resonant melody line. Space, sci-fi, mystery... [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
Dark thriller underscore. Slowly moving pads and rhythms, reverberant percussion, seriously deep bass notes. Impending, pensive, foreboding, tension, signs of danger and mystery. [Tempo: Slow / 85 BPM]
Piano, tense atmosphere. Eerie tension, dark. [Tempo: Very slow / 91 BPM]
A cinematic style suspense cue, feelings of danger and fear, great for horror and sci-fi scenes. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
A dark, ominous track of ambient synth and string soundscapes, marked by a big, unexpected hit and cacophonous swell at the end. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
Warm soaring ambient with cosmic sprinkles and metaphysical undertones. [Tempo: Very slow / 132 BPM]
Dark ambient, Horror underscore. Malevolent / Evil / Sickly / Unnatural. Experimental sound design. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
Eerie, ghostly voices start off this track, and are soon joined by a slow, dark, primal drum beat. Unearthly presence. [Tempo: Slow / 81 BPM]
A very slow moving ambient track, like oozing, sticky, floating, slowly sinking into the deep or softly falling snow. Sorrowful, mournful, almost standing still. A sense of time itself slowed down. Inspired by the ambient works of The Dead Texan and others. Acoustic piano, mellotron, slowly swirling synth pad, electric guitar. [Tempo: Slow / 88 BPM]
Somewhere between music and soundscape, this track features strange, uneasy sounds and echoey rattles. Foreboding, tense. Great horror or sci-fi material. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
These dark horror cues can be classed either as "music cues" or "sound effects", as in reality they function as both. They are all recorded with a large, live symphony orchestra with the same quality as any soundtrack from big budget movies. The effects are easy to loop and edit, and can be tailored to fit any cue, as they can be used from virtually any point. Consider them a construction kit to score horror, mystery and dark drama. Recorded, mastered, and delivered to you in pristine 24-bit audio. Also look for YS Horror Cues 01-20 and YS Horror Cues 21-40. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow, Medium / 100 BPM]
This horror music bed has apocalyptic, hellish overtones. It would be well suited for, thriller or fantasy footage about paranormal and occult subject matter, as well as video-games and trailers. Its' slow, slithery pace has suggests something evil lurking, and makes for a nice tension builder that features an intense, climactic riser. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 101 BPM]
Eerie and mysterious horror / scifi underscore. Various textured sounds, something between sound design and music composition. Slightly disturbing, chaotic, like madness or malevolence. Confusion, disturbance, claustrophobia. [Tempo: Slow / 95 BPM]
Driving, tense, dramatic active underscore bed, minimal melody, very cool sound design sounds. [Tempo: Slow / 55 BPM]
Barren, dry and bleak ambient soundscape. Dissonant, unnerving and uneasy. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
Dramatic and suspenseful. Huge drums in a slow rhythmic pattern provides a deep atmosphere over witch an eerie choir comes in. Occasional distorted screeches and screams complete the total macabre mood. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 70 BPM]
Dark and mysterious soundbed, psychological terror, isolated fear, social drama, malevolent and sinister. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
Ghostly, atmospheric pads. Dark, scary, eerie. [Tempo: Slow / 65 BPM]
Very creepy orchestral soundtrack with epic strings and sinister sound effects. Highly suitable for horror scenes. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 124 BPM]
Dark and disturbing soundscape. Horror, scifi, creepy, sound design. An uneasy drone and distant, reverberant hissing noise develops into a climax at about 35 secs. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
Spine tingling, eerie, and evocatively sparse. With ambient sound effects and percussion slams, this track ebbs and flows with building suspense, creating the perfect atmosphere for an indie horror feature. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
Heavily influenced by the "Who Wants To Be a Millionaire" music, this is a package of tense, anxious music suitable for game shows, quiz shows as well as other media. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
A disturbing, constantly moving soundscape of scraping strings and odd sounds, as if sensing the presence of a malignant power, lurking monster or perhaps alien being. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
Xylophone in a spooky place. Dark, dramatic, eerie, horror. [Tempo: Very slow / 120 BPM]
Dark and spacious ambient textures, slowly evolving, sacred knowledge, hidden secrets. [Tempo: Very slow / 108 BPM]
A slow, morbid, foreboding version of the classic rhyme 'Twinkle Twinkle...'. The instrumentation is piano and voice sounds to give it an eerie haunting feel. For sinister horror and Halloween scares. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
