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.
Dark and pulsing music track, featuring tense strings, electronic textures and sparse punchy percussion creates a foreboding and fearful mood [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 120 BPM]
Floating and building music track, featuring pulsing electronic elements, dark atmospheric textures and dramatic percussion that creates tension. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 128 BPM]
Dark and gritty music featuring an introspective piano melody and underlying guitar riff and drone textures that create a reflective and suspenseful mood. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 112 BPM]
A dark and intense music track, slowly building from a quiet and suspense atmosphere. Evolves into a big, and powerful track loaded with orchestral and hybrid sounds, accompanied with choir. Epic / Sci-Fi / Future Music. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 75 BPM]
A mystical and quirky track made with orchestra and sound design. No divided parts, soundtrack styled. Background music / horror / tension / spooky / eerie / quirky. [Tempo: Slow / 120 BPM]
A dark, cinematic music track filled with ambience and mystical drone sounds, which slowly evolve into a massive epic track . It is a combination of machine sounds, synths and classical orchestra, featuring symphonic choir at the end of the music track. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 120 BPM]
Strong, eerie trailer style horror / suspense royalty free stock music with insane and never ending risers to build huge tension both in the full piece and the cuts. Evil / Dark / Epic music. [Tempo: Slow / 96 BPM]
Mystical, eerie, cold and pulsating soundtrack for Scifi or Mystery. Brooding, pensive music and awe inducing. Creates a feeling of unknown tension, and a vast space. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 120 BPM]
Imagine a word at the edge of the galaxy, dark with mysterious creatures. This music sets a Hollywood space scene, the use of vintage synths give a strange feel to the cue. Strong use of drums towards the later end of the song increases the mysterious feel and dynamic rage for an epic climax. [Tempo: Medium / 127 BPM]
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, 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 dark, suspenseful and creepy trailer track made with screaming strings, eerie vocals and scary effects. Trailer structure, made with many stopping points for easier editing. Hybrid / Dark / Eerie / Trailer. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow, Medium / 120 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 slowly building and increasing, tension building music track with orchestra, choir and percussion. This track builds slowly and steadily, always picking up the drama to a higher and higher level. Epic / Rousing Music. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 80 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]
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 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]
A dark and suspenseful music track featuring ambient cinematic mood, tension building orchestration and modern sound created by orchestral elements and synths. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 75 BPM]
A futuristic, blockbuster style music track featuring pulsating basses, big, epic orchestra and large mixed choir, giving a powerful touch to its climax part. Interesting time signature in 7/8ths throughout. [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]
Hybrid industrial trailer music track with pounding drums and sound design elements. Tense, urgent, violent music. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 146 BPM]
A subtlely dark, stealthy and mysterious track that is also smooth and flowing. A versatile atmospheric background template. Foreboding / Fiction / Unknown. [Tempo: Slow / 80 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]
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]
Ominous and tension-building music mood with big drums and choirs. Dramatic / Edgy / Epic music. [Tempo: Slow, Fast / 135 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]
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]
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]
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]