Our selection of royalty-free cinematic music with an emphasis on tension, danger, nerve, and a sense of unease. Sometimes more subtle and sneaky music, other times more overt threatening music and soundtracks for critical situations, this music is made for action thrillers, police operations, stakeouts, spy / undercover agents, dangerous missions, hurricane-chasing and more.
'Deep Secrets' is a collection of 7 music tracks primarily made for love story or love drama. The tracks share a common main melodic theme which is hinted in each of the 7 pieces, in various different settings, which make these compositions work well either separately, or together. This music carries a certain bittersweet feeling, of longing and despair, but also of hope and tenderness. The short piece 'Love Letters' hints at a forbidden love. The much longer 'Love Promise' tells of true love, with it's tender and sparse guitar and piano melodies which later lead into an all-out tear jerker complete with Irish flute and sweeping strings that climax at around 3:45. Then there is the much darker 'Bittersweet' that tells of danger and longing, whilst the short piece 'Mystery' sets the scene for personal reflection or a puzzle. Throughout the collection, the arrangement is dominated by piano, acoustic guitar, cello, Irish flute and string section, with occasional other instruments. [Tempo: Slow / 91 BPM]
This track starts with a nervously pulsating rhythm and sorrowful, wailing ethnic strings, before it erupts into a majestic, powerful and dramatic, slow march with full orchestra and choir. Pompous, menacing, awe inspiring. A quiet epilogue follows with ethnic / mysterious strings. Slightly middle eastern feel. World mystery / ethnic drama etc. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 120 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]
A suspenseful and ominous music with elements of mystery, conspiracy, intrigue with intensity throughout. Guitar and electronic elements. Good music for trailers, too. [Tempo: Medium / 120 BPM]
A passionate and epic music, featuring airy orchestral sound blended with pulsating deep synth. Grand / Soaring / Inspirational music track. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 100 BPM]
Sneaky, suspicious underscore track for film, tv, media. Spy / Secret Agent / Crime. Sneaking, hiding, stalking, searching. Perhaps investigating or finding clues, or possible track and follow mission. Dark and mysterious. [Tempo: Slow / 92 BPM]
15 minutes continuous, uninterrupted background music track for video productions and other media. Mystical, eerie, cold and pulsating soundtrack for Scifi or Mystery. Brooding music, pensive and awe inducing. Creates a feeling of unknown tension, and a vast space. [Tempo: Slow / 120 BPM]
Energetic royalty-free orchestral music track with a rising feel and a sense of progression. Uplifting and positive, call to action rising drums with an emotional solo cello melody. Rousing, passionate and large. [Tempo: Slow, Fast / 160 BPM]
This orchestral cinematic soundtrack has a sense of greatness and grandeur, but without going all out. Poignant and graceful, the track has a darkness, but is also filled with awe, amazement and wonderment. The track builds up to a climax around the 01:20 mark. Emotional, soaring, and with dignity and a timeless cinema sound. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 135 BPM]
Dark and industrial, orchestral rock and hip hop, reminiscent of Dj Shadow or Moby. Soft organs chords lay the motif before bass guitars and rock drums cut through and combine to create highly dramatic feeling, an epic odyssey. Twisted, glitched metal guitars follow before breaking down into an epic string section to conclude the journey. Ideal for use in high-end advertising and promotional pieces - Also included is an "Orchestral" version - an ambient mix ideally suited for scoring in the modern Fantasy / Supernatural genres. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 80 BPM]
A dramatic and high-impact soundtrack with an action drama feel, combined with some ethnic and mystery elements. Somewhat eerie, edgy, alien, and mystical. Action thriller / Fantasy / Sci-fi / Danger. (Stem files available.) [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 120 BPM]
Dark, omninous, menacing orchestral soundtrack. Deep, pounding percussion, blaring horns and a war mongering, chanting choir of deep voices, primal, perhaps beasts or orcs. Impending war, battle, conflict. Great fantasy material, highly suitable for film, games or trailers. This track is recorded with a live philharmonic orchestra and choir. [Tempo: Medium / 98 BPM]
Nervous action / thriller underscore. Stakeout, movement, urgency, ticking bomb. This track has a strong and tense nerve, as if everthing is going to blow at any second. Good tension, helped by severely distorted synths and guitars mixed in with the semi-orchestral textures. [Tempo: Medium / 130 BPM]
A weird and different piece. Very eerie, spooky, strange and hard to classify. Led by a single soprano voice, the track soon rises up to a monolithic, scary, larger-than-life mystery. Magic, witchcraft, halloween, fantasy, evil lair, strange lands, mystical places... [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 55 BPM]
Dark and ominous percussion, anxious, ritualistic, tribal, fear, malevolence. For more in this style, please see the genre Ambient: Dark/Sinister [Tempo: Slow / 104 BPM]
Slow chords, ominous and serious, full orchestra. Good as underscore for drama, scifi, fantasy and adventure. Also for crime, spy conspiracy and personal turmoil, conflict. [Tempo: Slow / 61 BPM]
A bleak and mournful track used in a documentary about the Hungerford Massacre. A crying female vocal works alongside a desolate piano, acoustic guitars, and drums to a very powerful and emotional climax. The variations offer gentler alternatives to the man track. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 64 BPM]
Sparse, dark and ominous ambient track. Good for film noir, dark thriller, horror, sci-fi or spy mystery. Pensive strings, deep bass, reverberant congas. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
A series of 26 individual music tracks. Semi-orchestral, semi-electronic soundtrack work inspired by "Babylon 5", etc. Brooding, pompous, epic, military style. Some of these are grouped together -- i.e. "epic 1 calm", "epic 1 suspense" and "epic 1 battle" use the same instrumentation and underlying tempo, making them work well together. Of course, they work well individually too. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 42 BPM]
A sparse track with a dark, grimy, gloomy, foreboding, raw, naked sound. Features heavily distorted guitar and ambient percussion. [Tempo: Slow / 104 BPM]
A very dark film soundtrack underscore cue featuring bowed metals, drones and a subdued percussion section with a tribal feel. A few well placed spanish guitar tones adds a sense of drama and emotion. Great for thriller, crime mystery, documentary, urgent situation. [Tempo: Slow / 108 BPM]
A strange and unsettling semi-orchestral film underscore. Nervous and uncertain, swirling and clangy. Suitable for a very tense and pensive moment in a dark drama, horror, crime thriller or documentary. Carries a sense of hidden evil or a disturbing truth. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 120 BPM]
A weird and quirky track with ambient and tribal/ethnic influences. Slight jungle / tribe feel, mixed with cutting-edge, minimalistic urban and mechanical, even futuristic styles. A slapped bass groove, various textural and experimental sounds and swirley pads. [Tempo: Medium / 97 BPM]
Monolithic / Uprising / Doomsday / Awe / Amazement. Grand orchestral soundtrack depicting the rise of an awesome power. Judgment day. The hour of truth. Very ominous, malevolent, powerful. Dark, but triumphant, conquering. Good for fantasy, action, sci-fi, horror and adventure. (A note about the version described as 'Stage Mix': This version is recorded with the reverb/ambiance of a concert hall, making it sound somewhat more 'distant' from the listener and, some would say, more 'live') [Tempo: Slow / 60 BPM]
A powerful and grand / regal orchestral / symphonic soundtrack piece, driven forward by Taiko like percussion. Pounding drums combine with dramatic string sections to create a sense of imminent battle, dangerous situation. Perhaps a sea rescue, a dangerous missing on enemy territory, or the rise of an awesome fighting force. Military / Fantasy / Action / Conflict / Fight. (A note about the version described as 'Stage Mix': This version is recorded with the reverb/ambiance of a concert hall, making it sound somewhat more 'distant' from the listener and, some would say, more 'live') [Tempo: Medium / 75 BPM]
A grand, epic track that is not very aggressive or dark, but rather more illuminating, sacred, expectant. Rousing and regal, with a victorious / triumphant 'resolve' at the end. Good for fantasy, sci-fi, historical/cultural, grand entry, rising force, etc. Amazement / Heroism / Illumination / Uprising. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 150 BPM]
A mystery theme in classic style and sound. Performed with an actual live string section, this track has a nerve and a certain evil twist. A sense of intrigue and a delicious darkness. [Tempo: Medium / 141 BPM]
A Percussion Only track, with big pounding drums in various more and less intense patterns. Useful as music for sound design, film scoring, games and more. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 140 BPM]
A fast, dramatic and powerful blockbuster music track featuring an aggressive string section, large brass ensemble and loud, epic mixed choir. Very epic and awe inspiring music. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 80 BPM]
An intense sequence of pulsating rhythms that indicate action and risk. Electronic / Undercover / Technology Music. [Tempo: Medium / 120 BPM]
A Percussion Only track, with marching snares, military march. Occasional big drum strikes. Useful as music for scenes of war, war preparation, battle preparations, etc. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 137 BPM]
A Percussion Only track, with marching snares, military march. Occasional big drum strikes. Useful as music for scenes of war, war preparation, battle preparations, etc. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 100 BPM]
A Percussion Only track, with marching snares, military march. Occasional big drum strikes. Useful as music for scenes of war, war preparation, battle preparations, etc. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 100 BPM]
An ominous, dramatic and tension building music track featuring hybrid orchestra, combined with classical orchetra and deep synths. Growing into big, epic trailer music. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 80 BPM]
A big, epic music track featuring symphonic orchestra with large percussiona and brass ensemble, and mixed choir. Powerful, big and intense trailer mood. Futuristic / Apocalypse / Super Hero Music. [Tempo: Slow / 80 BPM]
Atmospheric and spacey trailer music track, with a powerful melody and emotional build up, Epic hits, retro synths and orchestral elements create an uplifting heroic feel. Dramatic, dark, gritty and futuristic music. [Tempo: Slow / 75 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]
Inspired by 1980's sci-fi and horror films revived today by things that are strange. An ominous blend of synthesizers and orchestral tones, with a repetitive tense motif. Cinematic / Thriller / Retro Music. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 86 BPM]
An eerie or slightly dark suspenseful track made with chamber orchestra. Simple structure, evolving. Suspense / Cinematic / Classical. [Tempo: Medium / 120 BPM]
A pulsating, tension building music track, featuring piano chord progression, ambience synths, and epic orchestra sound. Powerfully rising into a big, epic music track. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 100 BPM]
A foreboding and tension-building music track combining Cinematic and Electronic elements, using a blend of synths and symphonic sounds combined. Suitable for mystery and dramatic scenes. Awe / Amazement / Mystery / Drama / Darkness Music. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 80 BPM]
Mystical, dark and pulsating music track featuring hybrid fusion of orchestral sounds, blended with synths and pulsating sequences. Rising into a blockbuster mood. Increasing sense of urgency. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 0 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]
Very dark, pulsating music track, with a touch of dystopia and futuristic, warlike atmosphere. Slowing rising, building... [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 95 BPM]
A modern trailer music track, starting out as a suspense piece, and then evolving into big, epic track featuring large percussion ensemble. Epic / Powerful / Brooding music. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 95 BPM]
A very dark and dramatic music, starting as a suspense build-up for an epic sounding main section, which consists of a classic symphonic orchestra with large percussive elements and metal impacts. Powerful / Tense / Dangerous. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 85 BPM]
A powerful, intense music track featuring a blend of epic orchestra and pulsating synths in bass and lead section. Tension / Brooding / Ominous / Fight music. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 95 BPM]
Action-oriented hybrid orchestral music track, with an ostinato theme backed by percussion and horns. Anticipation and power, with a curious and scientific vibe inspired by space exploration and somewhat tense science. Dramatic / Action / Tension Music. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 112 BPM]
Tense and pulsating orchestral atmosphere growing in intensity to big finish. Evolving / Majestic / Soaring music track. [Tempo: Medium / 224 BPM]
Industrial and pounding sound design with action beats. Edgy / Powerful / Mechanical Music. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 100 BPM]