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.
Powerful trailer style music track starting as a deep sub hit and pulsating bass engine. It slowly rises into a huge blockbuster track featuring big orchestra with determined string section, and wide horns and trombones. Suitable as music for action blockbusters and trailer videos. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 100 BPM]
Inspired by 80's sci-fi and horror films revived today by Stranger Things. Ominous blend of synthesizers and orchestral tones, with a repetitive tense motif. Somewhat sensual atmosphere. Cinematic, Thriller, Suspense, Terror, Sci-Fi, Retro. [Tempo: Slow / 156 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]
A dark, dramatic and suspenseful music track made with massive sound design, epic orchestra and more. Intense and aggressive in vibe. The whole structure is gradation towards climax. Rising / Dark / Doom laden music. [Tempo: Slow, Medium, Fast / 120 BPM]
Full of atmospheric soundscapes, this cinematic music track is rich with retro synths, and creative sound design drones. Futuristic / Dark / Eerie / Emotional music. [Tempo: Slow / 80 BPM]
Mystical / Dark / Foreboding / Uneasy / Eerie / Urgent Music. Small orchestra soundtrack piece, featuring live performed orchestral instruments, suitable as music for film and other media. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 154 BPM]
Rhythmic pulsing orchestral music track with a scientific and anticipation aura. Curious and epic music. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 140 BPM]
A suspense and slowly evolving music track with a mystic and trailer feel combined. Synths are layered with orchestra, with pulsating bass, and epic choir at the end. Sci-fi / Fantasy / Action thriller, etc. [Tempo: Slow, Medium, Fast / 85 BPM]
A suspenseful action blockbuster music track, featuring a combination of synths, industrial elements and symphonic orchestra. Huge percussion ensemble and wide brass section. Strong / Dramatic Music. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 100 BPM]
Pensive / Active / Uneasy / Hurried Music. Neo-classical, light orchestra arrangement, suitable as music for film, drama, TV and other media. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 156 BPM]
A dark and suspenseful hybrid music featuring a combination of growling distorted bass, orchestra and synth sounds. Tension building / Danger / Ominous / Determined. Sense of urgency and foreboding. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 0 BPM]
Tension building music track starting as a suspense atmosphere featuring simple piano melody. Rising into a big hybrid cinematic track in modern expression. Pulsating and dramatic music. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 100 BPM]
Medium tempo epic trailer music featuring synthesis of electronica and orchestra blended in suspense and mystery. Awe / Amazement / Wonderment / Grandeur. [Tempo: Medium / 120 BPM]
An ominous and foreboding suspense music, starting slowly and then rising into an emotional, epic piece. Featuring full orchestra combined with piano and pulsating synths. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 155 BPM]
A cold and creepy horror soundscape. Twitchy drones with uneasy rumblings. Haunted house / Grisly Murder / Uneasy, Scared. Ends with a big crescendo and scary moment. Also available as a seamlessly looping version. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
A suspenseful, pulsating music track featuring plucked synths, background guitars, and simple piano melody. Very dramatic and tense mood with a touch of ambient electronica. Elegant / Flowing / Mystical Music. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 85 BPM]
A dark, pulsating, futuristic blockbuster music track, featuring repetitive synth combined with full orchestra, bringing hybbrid blend of modern cinematic approach. Powerful / Mysterious Music. [Tempo: Medium / 120 BPM]
A dark and driving synth-based track, featuring intense percussion and distorted guitars leading to an intense and epic climax. [Tempo: Slow, Medium, Fast / 100 BPM]
Dark, moody and edgy underscore track with an industrial sound, starting with drones, pads and synths, then drums enter and the track continues to grow in energy, eventually finishing with crazy and deranged sounding synths. Perfect for anything unsettling or gritty, dark etc. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 120 BPM]
Restrained aggression boiling over and unleashed, creates a state of panic. Ideal tool for sci-fi, extreme sports, mystery, crime, fight, chase and action scenes. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 84 BPM]
low drone and electronic percussion create an atmosphere of tension and expectation that builds to a release marked by an eerie fractured piano melody. [Tempo: Medium / 105 BPM]
Apprehensive and dramatic sound design intro growing in power and confidence with orchestra and percussion. Strong / Epic / Powerful. Very dark music track. [Tempo: Slow, Medium, Fast / 125 BPM]
A pensive and emotive intro part, grows into a powerful, percussive, tense and dynamic cinematic theme. Strong / Sound Design / Trailer / Edgy music track. [Tempo: Slow, Fast / 150 BPM]
An intense and powerful blend of orchestral and metal music, with loud, heavy metal drum section. Forceful / Tense / Dark music. [Tempo: Medium / 85 BPM]
Cinematic retro synth wave; this track was created using only two vintage hardware synthesizers; a Moog Minimoog model D and a Prophet 5. Strangely futuristic and vintage at the same time. Ambient / Eerie / Synthetic / Retro / Mystery. [Tempo: Medium / 110 BPM]
Edgy electronic music with solid beats, thumping toms and acid sound design. Dark / Dangerous / Power / Edgy / Raw music track. [Tempo: Fast / 135 BPM]
A dark, tense and urgent music track with synths and orchestra. Dramatic and powerful music mood, with an apocalyptic edge. [Tempo: Fast / 140 BPM]
A suspenseful action trailer music track featuring deep and growling synths combined with pulsation motion and orchestra. Hurried feel with 7/8 time signature. Suitable music for epic content, trailers and blockbuster videos. [Tempo: Fast / 0 BPM]
A futuristic electronica based mystical film score / soundtrack with an edgy, unique sound, combining synthesizers and epic orchestra. Unsettling, mysterious, and dramatic, with a larger than life sound. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 113 BPM]
Dark Hip-Hop and orchestral music mix, with a secretive mood. Spy music / Crime / Ominous / Edgy. [Tempo: Slow / 75 BPM]
A distant, eerie sound that grows from a low, brooding drone to a climactic scream of controlled distortion. Mixes include versions with or without an added layer of metallic, fragmented sounds. Matched in style with the Dream Valley Music titles, The Deep Dark, Black Light and Bloom. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
A dark and suspenseful music, featuring slow and rising pulsating motion. It rises into big, blockbuster track featuring powerful orchestral sound, with a touch of futuristic and apocalyptic mood. Mystery / Intrigue / Tension / Suspicion music. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 90 BPM]
A brooding and atmospheric music track, featuring a haunting mood of northern cold and tribal beat. Suitable for epic scenery, historical music, cultural themes, indigenous peoples and cultures, far-away lands and amazing stories of wonder and awe. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 75 BPM]
Royalty free dark, industrial sound design, powerful and tense hard-hitting percussion. Edgy / Force / Dark. [Tempo: Medium / 115 BPM]
Abrasive and jarring machine-like rhythmic elements, epic and otherworldly with ominous undertones and rising in intensity. Works great with crime, industrial, steampunk and sci-fi scenes. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 126 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]
Slowly evolving, gradually growing in tension hybrid industrial trailer royalty free music track. Atmospheric intro with piano, synths and tribal drums builds to full theme at 1'32''. Second ending starts at 2'03''. Dramatic, Powerful, Edgy. [Tempo: Slow, Medium, Fast / 0 BPM]
This hybrid pop music track combines the serious flavor of Tech narration cues with 80's-drenched Synthwave music. Its plucked synth motif is set against evocative synth bass, fluid pads and trap-inspired drums. A sense of intrigue and perilous excitement is evoked in this piece, excellent for themes, dramas, and style programming. Tech / Synthwave / Peril. [Tempo: Medium / 88 BPM]
A dark, suspenseful and tension building music track. Hybrid orchestral / electronic with nerve and a sense of urgency. Spy, secret agent, thriller music, crime in progress, danger situation, etc. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 110 BPM]
Pulsing, steady, rhythmic and ominous music soundscape building with percussion, action-packed sound design and guitars. Hard / Dangerous / Violent / Critical. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 100 BPM]
Breathing, low, complex texture joined by full orchestral percussion. War influenced music, with a cinematic aura. Powerful world percussion combined with middle eastern melodic phrases, full of anticipation and drive. Think Homeland and Syriana -- tension, conflict, prisoner, secret hideout, nuclear warhead, troops moving, etc. Cinematic / Orchestral / Percussion / Action / Trailer music. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 120 BPM]
Slowly evolving, gradually growing in tension hybrid industrial trailer production music track. Big hits and stabs leading to a dramatic orchestral crescendo. Hypnotic arpeggios, sound design elements. Danger / Tension / Battle. [Tempo: Slow, Medium, Fast / 170 BPM]
Hard-hitting, dark, edgy, raw, intense, epic trailer track with a tribal, primal feel. Monster on the loose. Horde of invaders. Terrible beasts. Overpowering force. Horror action. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 120 BPM]
Foreboding and eerie, dark and mystical, ambient track with an Ethnic / World mystery feel. Wailing ethnic vocal with tribal percussion joining in later. Edgy and musky. Threatening, dark tribe - perhaps vikings, indigenous tribe or tribal warriors. [Tempo: Medium / 117 BPM]
A dark, minimal, and sparse track with hypnotic bass, pulsing synths and light percussion. Crime, danger, tension. Mysterious and tension building. (Stem files available). [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 90 BPM]
An orchestral trailer with a rich bass that slowly unfolds and builds towards a climax. The woodwinds are inspired by 'The Moldau' by Smetana. [Tempo: Medium / 120 BPM]
A suspenseful and mysterious tension track. Pulsating underscore suitable for action thriller, psychological thriller, spy mystery, dark films and TV series. A sense of foreboding and unease. Mystical / Tense / Ominous. [Tempo: Medium / 120 BPM]
A dark and intense orchestral action track. Edgy and staccato, with a dark mystery and urgent, tension and dramatic fight, battle mood. A great track for a fantasy fight, action adventure, stressed situation, escape or survival themes. Somewhat tribal / primal sound. This track is available with or without the Koto instrument which, if included, gives the track a Japanese / Oriental twist. (Stem files available.) [Tempo: Fast / 87 BPM]
A track that slowly crescendos, building on a foundation of synth and horns, accented with violin ostinatos. A powerful, resolute statement. (Stem files available.) [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 78 BPM]
A cinematic track in four sections. Thin, ambient opening. Wood blocks, bells, and chimes sparkle, while powerful string and brass sections drive the piece forwards. Soft, gentle resolution. (Stem files available.) [Tempo: Slow / 64 BPM]