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.
A very dark horror / sci-fi sound design track. Ominous, threatening, gloomy, malevolent. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
Creepy and eerie horror musical soundscape. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
Distant beat on a big drum. Threatening, dark, dramatic, eerie. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 82 BPM]
Xylophone in a spooky place. Dark, dramatic, eerie, horror. [Tempo: Very slow / 120 BPM]
Ghostly, atmospheric pads. Dark, scary, eerie. [Tempo: Slow / 65 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]
Dark, ominous, ghostly, slowly turning and twisting soundscape, later joined by gloomy strings. Great horror or sci-fi underscore. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
Dark, foggy pads, slow bassoon and cello. Creeping, slowly moving musical soundscapes. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
A disturbing, percussion-only track. Use of feedback and clanking metal reminescent of the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre soundtrack or some of John Cage's work, but with the added element of dark, ethnic percussion. This fairly short track is great for a thriller, chiller, horror or dark mystery. [Tempo: 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]
A gloomy, moody, atmospheric fantasy soundscape suitable as an underscore / backdrop to a mysterious and dark world. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 120 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]
A dark, damp, ill feeling orchestral underscore. Large, gloomy, doom laden. [Tempo: Very slow / 92 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 and spacious ambient textures, slowly evolving, sacred knowledge, hidden secrets. [Tempo: Very slow / 108 BPM]
Dark and menacing sound design, psychological terror, unknown forces, malevolence, evil entities, mind control underscore, horrifying and disturbing. [Tempo: Very slow / 96 BPM]
Ultra spacious and atmospheric sound design, time dilation with bubblings of ambient texture. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
Revolving galactic synth cylinders, dark and pervasive. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
Huge spacious sonic landscape, dark and psychological, altered realities and time distortions. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
Dark and mysterious soundbed, psychological terror, isolated fear, social drama, malevolent and sinister. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 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]
A creepy and nervous thriller/chiller underscore. Uncertainty, tension. Pensive, high piano notes over slowly oozing background textures. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
A sneaky and sinister underscore track with a heartbeat like rhythm. Twitchy strings, mysterious chord progressions, pensive mood. This track is quite long and it develops over time into a more intense track with more of a clear and present danger, chase or frantic fear. After 3 minutes an electronic drum beat sets in to raise the intensity level by another notch. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 60 BPM]
A collection of three different dark ambient soundscapes, using both musical and sound effect elements to create creepy horror scenes. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
A low, isolated harp picks heavily at low notes, then aided by a marimba, African percussion and shivering strings which adds to the tracks menace. A dark track that has hints of Michael Giacchino (a la Lost) about it. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 0 BPM]
Spacey, ethereal and tripped-out ambient electronic featuring synths, drones and hypnotic piano lines. Has a mysterious underwater feeling to it. Would suit thriller/suspense projects. [Tempo: Very slow / 61 BPM]
Dark synth pulse, eerie metallic pads, occasional deep drums and scattered notes. Tension. [Tempo: Fast / 121 BPM]
Very dark, scraping and menacing flesh pads and aural movements, slightly sickening soundscape. [Tempo: 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]
Chaotic sound textures, a dark sci-fi disturbing soundscape. Intense. Chaos/Horror. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
Barren, dry and bleak ambient soundscape. Dissonant, unnerving and uneasy. [Tempo: Slow / 0 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 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]
Menacing, dark ambient sound collage. Ice cold sound texture suggesting a terrible realization or horrible sight. Suitable for horror, sci-fi, thriller or experimental material. [Tempo: Very slow / 125 BPM]
Very sparse underscore, almost a void. Scraping pads, unrecognizable, resonant sounds. A place of unease and disease, sneaking, hiding. Great as a sci-fi, thriller or horror backdrop. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 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]
Unsettling, uneasy, foreboding, malevolent musical soundscape for horror and scifi. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 99 BPM]
Tinkly horror musical soundscapes. Uneasy, sickly, unsettling. [Tempo: Medium / 0 BPM]
A dark, pulsating, repetitive drum beat lies pumping underneath distorted psych lines of electronic grit. [Tempo: Slow / 120 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]
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]
Tinkling, synthetics and filtered, pulsating drum beats. An eerie atmosphere. [Tempo: Slow / 60 BPM]
Sparse pads, almost gluey in texture and with an evil tone. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
Piano, tense atmosphere. Eerie tension, dark. [Tempo: Very slow / 91 BPM]
Deep, pounding percussion. Nervous strings and dark, twitchy pads. Scary, grotesque, dark ambient music. Good for horror, chase, sci-fi, science fiction, dark crime thriller. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 90 BPM]
Big booming drum, dark pulse, staccato. Strings and brass join in. Horror, cult film or sci-fi soundtrack. [Tempo: Medium / 65 BPM]
Distorted ambient screeches, deep booming drone, reverberant pipe hits. Scattered congas. Dark, horror. [Tempo: Very 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]
An intensely suspenseful mystery/horror cue underscoring anything from a deceitful murder to a ruthless intruder. Orchestral with eerie piano and creepy ambient fx, in the vein of James Newton Howard's scores for M. Night Shyamalan films (The Village, Signs, The Happening). [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
A creepy and eerie mystery/horror cue underscoring anything from a deceitful murder to an evil presence. Orchestral with piano, in the vein of James Newton Howard's scores for M. Night Shyamalan films (The Village, Signs, The Happening). [Tempo: Slow / 85 BPM]
