If you're looking for music for an action film, you may want to check out this track listing. This music can be orchestral, or more techno- or rock based -- or sometimes even a combination of these styles -- and is highly suitable for crime capers, get-away scenes, car chase, running for your life, that kind of thing. Often combining high tempo rhythms with staccato, sometimes dissonant, musical compositions, these track carry a sense of stress, danger, urgency and desperation.
Classic Hip Hop breakbeat with a Funk-Rock bass line, vinyl scratching. Works great with extreme sports, counter-culture, gangster get-away, rough and tumble. [Tempo: Medium / 96 BPM]
A dark, determined, edgy and slamming Electro / Techno beat music. Powerful, mechanical, forceful and methodical. [Tempo: Medium / 0 BPM]
This powerful Indie rock music track evolves from soft to explosive within seconds. Piano and overdriven electric guitar play the melody and are overlaid by urgent electric rhythm guitars, picked bass, high powered drums, and percussion. Great music for dramas and emotional programing. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 131 BPM]
Up-beat, funky, retro breaks feel with a vocoded refrain, “I came to start the party, ‘cos I’m the party starter”. Great music for action sports, work montages and gangster scenes. Also available without the vocals. Urban / Party / Dance stock music. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 128 BPM]
Orchestral track in style of Hollywood movies, featuring lively strings, powerful brass and percussion, and interesting chord progression, giving it a mood of amazement and wonder. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 120 BPM]
An epic blockbuster track featuring suspense orchestra combined with big risers and trailer impacts. Suitable music for epic trailers and powerful, high impact footage. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 90 BPM]
A Percussion Only track, with marching snares, military march. Occasional big drum strikes. Useful for scenes of battle, chase, urgency, action. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 0 BPM]
A suspenseful and slowly building blockbuster music track featuring full orchestra, with a blend of plucked synth playing unison with main string section. Grand / Epic / Triumphant / Amazing. [Tempo: Medium / 95 BPM]
Urban, grinding Rocktronica features vocal phrase, “What you gonna do for the dollar dollar bill” - Great for extreme sport and crime scenes. Also available without the vocal parts. [Tempo: Fast / 142 BPM]
Intricate drum rhythms and huge hits build to a dramatic finale. Action / Tension / Fight / Chase / Arm-up. (Stem files available.) [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 115 BPM]
A groovy acoustic bass theme mixed with a funky retro breakbeat. In the style of recent Brit-flick / mobster / crime-in-progress and gritty productions. Big Beat/ Spy / Chase Music. [Tempo: Medium / 113 BPM]
An evolving and building, suspenseful music track, combining hybrid & pulsating synths and symphonic orchestra. Ending as a loud trailer piece, with added organ sound. Awe / Majestic / Incredible Music. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 120 BPM]
Tense, industrial trailer type track. Intro: 0'45'' – 0'45'', build: 0'46'' – 1'30'', climax starts at 1'32'. Starts tense and enigmatic, increases in intensity to tribal drums from 1'09''. Dramatic / Tension / Awe. [Tempo: Slow, Medium, Fast / 85 BPM]
Eerie, tense, percussive soundscape with a relentless spooky melody, dark metalic FX and flute sweeps. Atmospheric with a sense of suspense and imminent danger. Menacing and sinister. 48 hours, The Mentalist, Castle, Alien Invasion, crime drama, horror, Sci-Fi. [Tempo: Medium / 100 BPM]
A very high energy indie rock track. Slight elements of Punk and Hard rock, but mostly this is a Brit Rock / Alternative Rock / New Wave rock track along the lines of Foo Fighters etc. Reckless, with lots of attitude. Bad youth, stupid stunts, high energy sports and motorsports, etc. [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 143 BPM]
A driving and pretty intense electro-tech track with stabbing,staccato, stuttering synth patterns and a subtle, but rough techno groove. Available with or without an eerie, heavenly "Agnus Dei" choir part. This track has a pretty unique style and sound which can make your production really stand out. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 120 BPM]
Marching, dramatic, aggressive. Orchestra and choir (choir enters later in the track), with additional electric guitar and rock drums for added power. Also available without the choir and without the rock drums. Dominant / Menacing. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 75 BPM]
A nervous / ennerving and pensive orchestral track with epic percussion. A sense of danger and urgency. Good for reality TV / rescue mission, international conflict, armed conflict, military missions, action drama and more. Somewhat heroic / valiant feel. The good guys triumph! A full choir enters towards the end of the composition. This track is also available in an alternative version with an ethnic / exotic Monk voice singing a kind of gurgling vocalizing along with the music, giving the track a more ethnic / strange element. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 105 BPM]
A grand, epic track featuring orchestra and choir. (Also available without the choir). Dramatic, epic, foreboding. Ominous and glorifying. Good for fantasy, adventure, epic trailers, fantasy fight scenes and more. [Tempo: Fast / 140 BPM]
Rough and gritty electronica combined with a heavy metal guitar riff. Downtempo, processed rock style drums and glitchy synths & samplers combine to create a funky and rough electro-rock track with a big, massive sound. The dissonant piano patterns give the track a somewhat trippy / psychedelic feel. For a more straight feel, the Underscore version is also available, without the trippy piano. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 70 BPM]
Dark, grime pop UK dubstep with hard drums and a huge wobble bassline. Similar to Ministry of Sound Dubstep album - Magnetic Man, Skrillex, Datsik. Would be effective as background music for youth/teen oriented TV, film or advertising. Would also suit a video game. [Tempo: Slow / 70 BPM]
Moderately energetic, fast Drum'n Bass / Techno / Rave track. Good for X-sports, racing / action / chase, thriller with a sci-fi / tech / sci-tech style. Also, underground club, rave scene, urban subcultures. [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 170 BPM]
A tough, uncompromising, state-of-the-art soundtrack. Its driving, futuristic sounds & orchestral pay off would suit Olympic sized sporting events, epic visuals, contemporary gaming, modern war themes, movie trailers & films. Stark instrumentation leaves room for narrative, epic sound design or added SFX. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 63 BPM]
Hard and edgy, downtempo, slamming electro beats with a rough, mean guitar riff. Nasty, edgy and gritty. Unstable. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 70 BPM]
Funky and gritty Dark Dub / Dubstep meets nasty guitar riff. Slamming, glitchy drums with broken synthesizers and mangled samples. Transformer funk? Good for bad-asses, X-sports, action and destruction, etc. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 110 BPM]
Deep bass lines and synths build a dark and intense atmosphere with a sense of suspense and drama. Good track for underscore dramatic situations. An amazing fusion of distorted guotar lines, percussion and strings. [Tempo: Slow, Medium, Fast / 100 BPM]
A very intense, strong and fiery piece or orchestral sci-fi / fantasy / battle music. Suitable for Epic Trailers, science fiction or Fantasy / Adventure. Heroic uprising, huge battles, epic struggles. Heroes marching on to glory. [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 150 BPM]
A lively, grand and epic orchestral soundtrack suitable for Fantasy, Magic, Sci-fi and Epic trailers. Pompous and eventful, this track features brash and urgent orchestral runs and is available with or without the Choir. Somewhat Harry Potter-esque in style, the track carries a sense of danger and urgency, whilst at the same time feeling excited, amazed, rousing and triumphant. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 95 BPM]
A somewhat punk'ish Pop-Rock track with an Indie type sound and lots of attitude. Youthful, somewhat rebellious, a little bit Leftfield, and very cool. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 162 BPM]
Fist Pump is a high energy Rock track, delivering messages of non-caring and recklessness. The breakdown includes a modern twist on an old blues progression, as well as a high energy outro. Perfect for extreme sports type videos. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 157 BPM]
Funky track with clav and brass section. Busy, lively, excited. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 125 BPM]
A powerful mix of syncopated synths, dramatic, fast accented strings and breakdown beats. Ideal for reality TV cues when firing contestants as well as other dramatic cues such as Celebrity Apprentice, Survivor and Hell's Kitchen. Mob hits and urban chase scenes with bad guys on the move. [Tempo: Medium / 130 BPM]
Exciting, edgy and modern. A relentless vision of futurism packed with lo-fi guitar and warped drum layers. The track builds towards an eerie, distant riff that charges full tilt towards a glitchy, fidgety ending. Visceral and oddly compelling. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 174 BPM]
A seriously groovy track featuring a bare, gritty rock guitar playing a rough blues pattern, with big beat style drums and occasional brass section joining in. Funky and cocky, with attitude! [Tempo: Medium / 98 BPM]
A good track for for both "Slow" and "Speed Motion" action trailer, this track is somewhat Epic with huge percussion. High energy and slow build-up. Good for trailers with a big Hollywood sound, suspense, drama, battles, and video game music. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 73 BPM]
Powerful trailer music full of momentum and drive. Good for promotions of video games, film or television needing that big Hollywood sound. Has a nice break in the middle just before a powerful ending. Emotional, strong and cinematic. [Tempo: Fast / 120 BPM]
Dark and mysterious Score track with strings, horn section, sound effects and energetic percussions. Very atmospheric, dramatic and highly diversified. Ideal for thriller and all kinds of suspense. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 120 BPM]
A strong and motivational pop/rock track with a feel of hope and positivity. Bass, drums, synths and multiple guitar parts combine to create a big and pleasing sound. [Tempo: Medium / 118 BPM]
Dark, dramatic, evil, climactic, spacey, malevolant, sinister, mean, tribal, foreboding, scary rock track with atmospheric and menacing synths meshing with pounding, dynamic, heavy drums. Would suit thriller / action / crime / horror / halloween / space / cinematic / extreme sport type projects. [Tempo: Slow / 112 BPM]
Powerful, intense, mean, dark, atmospheric, epic, foreboding, determined, thrilling, brutal, menacing, rock / metal track with immense malevolant energy and raw, gutsy, gritty drive. Would suit action / thriller / combat / war / extreme sports type projects. The main beat and drive sets in at about 01:23. [Tempo: Slow / 146 BPM]
Indie-rock / Alternative rock with guts and attitude. Guitar, drums and bass. Reckless and unruly, with a moderately energetic drive. [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 142 BPM]
An epic and rousing track for fantasy, adventure, scifi and epic productions. Relentless pounding rhythm, with an ever increasing intensity and ever building, growing chords, rising towards a crescendo / climax. Big orchestral sound with choir, big percussion and a live performed soprano solo vocal. [Tempo: Slow, Medium, Fast / 100 BPM]
Repetitive sampled guitar riff over a driving drum rhythm. Synthesizer melody brings in some kind of mysterious and adventurous feel. Lots of confidence and coolness, being the ideal soundtrack for that bad ass spy scene. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 118 BPM]
Funky guitar elements and driving synth melodies combined with a powerful drum beat. Confident Big Beat track with lots of editing cues. [Tempo: Slow, Medium, Fast / 108 BPM]
Bad Ass Big Beat track. Distorted bass and synths combined with a slow yet very powerful breakbeat. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow, Medium / 85 BPM]
A super heavy, aggressive metal track with exotic, middle eastern and classical influences. In the style of Meshuggah, Korn, Survival by Muse, Periphery, Deftones and Dream Theater. Lead by distorted 8 string guitar riffage for huge, intense and dramatic uses like UFC, NFL, WWE and extreme sports. [Tempo: Slow, Fast / 166 BPM]
An "oriental'ed" dubstep track. Aggressive and melodic, its oriental touch is given trough a catchy usage of a Duduk and Yall Tambour and its trashy side trough a rough beat and greasy bass synth. A dynamic and surprising progression that would match any sport or urban related footage. [Tempo: Slow, Medium, Fast / 140 BPM]
Big sounding synths that resemble a distant roar set the mood of this royalty free music track. The opening synthesizers build up to a major drop with huge drums and animal like digitized roars. The track breaks down into a wide slow moment with a melodic 80's style synth. The second drop brings even more of the bionic animal to the track building with big hits and drums. Suitable for game and movie trailers, as well as fight scenes, sci-fi and sports. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 65 BPM]
Drum and bass style track with a dub-step flavoured bassline. It starts off with a softer style bassline wobble until the first breakdown. A sharp acid synth is introduced in the breakdown and builds to the main drop. Growly acid synth shines in the second drop, and is surrounded by edgy drums and industrial noises. An alarm like sound trails off to the end of the track. This track goes well with car chases, car commercials, extreme sports, racing, fight scenes, chase scenes etc. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 120 BPM]
Massive, pounding percussion with the rattle of chains. A mechanical, unnatural sound... all this and a bed of disturbing atmospheric layers makes this one heck of a scary track. Perfect for halloween, haunted houses and horror films. [Tempo: Slow / 119 BPM]