Mangled and glitched sounds of jungle animals infused with atmospheric drums erupt into a monstrous Drum n Bass groove in the vein of DJ Fresh and Rudimental. Ideal for extreme sports, cutting-edge urban or futuristic chase scenes. [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 175 BPM]
A dark piece full of dread. A religious chant of full choir for horror and drama. Supernatural overtones with a gothic style. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 70 BPM]
A pensive, determined, cinematic score. Perhaps the pivotal point or turning point in a story - a decisive moment. A sense of urgency, determination and drama. Also good for commercials / advertising with a mysterious, dark edge, perhaps technology, power or determination. [Tempo: Fast / 142 BPM]
War influenced track, with a cinematic aura. Powerful world percussion combined with middle eastern melodic phrases, full of anticipation and drive. Think Homeland and Syriana, or any tense drama with an Eastern / Arabic feel. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 110 BPM]
Over the top eighties action music with lyrics about a maneater woman, made entirely with retro synthesizers and drum machines. Synthwave music inspired by television series, cartoon themes and Kung Fury theme song True Survivor. Also available as an instrumental version. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 140 BPM]
A moody drum and bass music track with strong bass stabs. The track has an emotional and hopeful piano melody shattared by an annihilating break-beat and oversaturated bass stabs. Dark sound design elements, distant piano and strings mixed with strong electronic beat give this track a unique and powerful impact. This track will work great as music in fight scenes, trick compilations, car chases and even movie and game trailers. [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 100 BPM]
Sweeping chords dip & weave through an atmospheric wash of sound. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 180 BPM]
A dramatic, serious epic cinematic track. Blend of symphonic instruments, expressive choirs, synths and electro/dubstep rhythm. Massive sound. A feel of a danger or inevitable dramatic events. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 77 BPM]
Typical seventies Blaxploitation music or Cop Show theme. Think Starsky and Hutch, Shaft or Superfly. Funky wah guitars, lots of percussion and an epic soul brass finale. [Tempo: Medium / 92 BPM]
An edgy, tense, and urgent Hybrid electronic / orchestral track with a serious, cinematic feel and a sense of danger, critical situation. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 140 BPM]
Action thriller track made with synths, effects, orchestra and percussion. Atmosphere, tension, suspense and action - with a modern or futuristic feel. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 90 BPM]
An epic blockbuster type, hybrid orchestral track. Powerful bottom end, orchestral elements and huge choir. This track is a mixture of cinematic and dubstep / electronic / industrial elements. [Tempo: Medium / 95 BPM]
A dark, suspenseful track for horror and grisly scenes - made with dark, edgy, violent sound design and epic drums. [Tempo: Slow / 65 BPM]
A dramatic, epic, dark and atmospheric music track for Hollywood blockbusters, very dramatic scenes and cinematic trailers. Made with epic orchestra, sound design, epic drums and vocal. The dramatic female vocal gives the track an exotic, Eastern feel - but the track is also available without the vocal, and the no-vocals version is more location neutral and can be the score for any international conspiracy thriller or other high drama production. Trailer / Hollywood / Epic Music. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 120 BPM]
A dramatic, cinematic, orchestral piece of amazement and heroism. This piece gradually builds up from an ominous, dark beginning, increasing into a crescendo towards the end. [Tempo: Slow / 74 BPM]
Dark ambient synth pulse, made for tension, mystery and suspense. Besides the main track, this piece comes in many different seamless loops which can be used in combination with each other to 'build' the soundtrack needed for a scene, in a modular way. Simply place the different loops on the timeline, in a way that matches your on-screen action, or blend, combine, crop and join the loop pieces to create your own 'version' of the track. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 100 BPM]
Action oriented hybrid orchestral track, with a lot of metallic percussion and powerful blasts. Starts off with distorted electronic percussion and mystery strings, then develops into a powerful tense motif. Good for spy, military, invasion and high octane action. [Tempo: Medium / 110 BPM]
A neo classical soundtrack piece with a sense of passing time, a story unfolding, a process taking place. Pensive, mysterious, uncertain, somewhat dark. [Tempo: Medium / 120 BPM]
Symphonie fantastique in G minor, Op. 14 IV. Marche au supplice (March to the Scaffold), by Hector Berlioz. Recorded exclusively for Shockwave-Sound.com by D Hamilton. [Tempo: Slow, Medium, Fast / 0 BPM]
In the style of the desert scenes of "Breaking Bad", an ominous, foreboding soundscape of tension and textures. Nice for scenes of suspense and drama. [Tempo: Slow / 77 BPM]
A creepy piece that starts off with a slow piano, builds as low strings makes it's way. Perfect for a scene where somebody is walking alone in the woods, hunted by a killer, or having a mental breakdown. Could also imagine a lone man, driving through a desolate city. [Tempo: Slow / 60 BPM]
Dark and cinematic cue with a reflective beginning and builds to a tense and emotional climax. Starting with simple piano before strings and horns slowly creep in. Great for movies and documentaries. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 120 BPM]
Dark synth pulse, eerie metallic pads, occasional deep drums and scattered notes. Tension. [Tempo: Fast / 121 BPM]
Fresh and funky, cut to the bone, downtempo hip-hop underscore. [Tempo: Medium / 105 BPM]
Heroic, huge and dramatic, a spine-chilling symphonic film soundtrack depicting armies, warriors or huge fantasy structures. Epic, grand, powerful, emotional. Great for fantasy, war, battle, movie trailer, and more. This track is recorded with a live philharmonic orchestra and choir. [Tempo: Fast / 131 BPM]
Fantasy style orchestral soundtrack. Dark, gloomy and ominous. Big horn sections, mysterious melodies. Great for fantasy, epic adventures, dark times, horror, impending doom and conflict. Occasional deep vocal grunts and chants. This piece plays for over 6 minutes with plenty of variation, and can be used for several different cues, or used all together as background atmosphere. [Tempo: Slow / 75 BPM]
Urgent, dramatic soundtrack piece with live choir. Spine-tingling, epic, high drama, very highly suitable as film trailer, movie trailer, game trailer, commercial, movie intro, in-film battle sequence, etc. Fast pounding percussion, big drums, huge orchestral stabs, horns and strings fluttering, choir chanting. Very dramatic and intense. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 129 BPM]
Dark, ominous and pounding orchestral theme. Heavy gear, big machines or beasts of war, marching forward, unrelenting. Dramatic, pompous, determined and powerful. Highly suitable for movie trailer, film trailer, intro sequence, battle scenes or gearing up for war, battle or a great contest of strength and bravery. [Tempo: Slow / 82 BPM]
Dramatic, mystic theme in the "Silent Witness" vein. Building tension. A single, crystal clear soprano voice. Great for adventures, mystery, dark drama, etc. There is also an "acapella" version with only the voice, singing latin text. (The latin words are nonsensical and have no real meaning.) Finally the "Theme" version also includes the latin song as well as the orchestral backing, in a shorter version. [Tempo: Medium / 93 BPM]
Dark, pulsating thriller underscore. Deep percussion, orchestral sweeps, synthesizer pulses; a great combination of symphonic and electronic elements with big percussion. Suspenseful thriller, crime, spy mission material. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 90 BPM]
Hard electronic synths and beats meet up with dramatic orchestral sweeps. Danger, drama, conflict, or extreme situations. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 140 BPM]
'Dark Ages' is a collection of 12 dark, ambient, semi-orchestral tracks. The music has a sense of history and mythology, making these tracks highly suitable as a soundtrack for historical drama, history / documentary as well as medieval/fantasy material, be it films, fantasy games, TV or installations. The music is mostly without any outstanding melody, making it highly usable as background texture and ambient underscore. It leaves room for dialogue and/or other audio elements, without competing. Some of the tracks carry a sense of mystery and danger, whilst others lean more towards horror and sci-fi. All 12 parts share a sense of lurking danger, impending tragedy, conflict and betrayal. The arrangements are dominated by dark drones and pads, piano, cello and resonant overtones. Also available are 9 seamless music loops from this collection. [Tempo: Slow / 58 BPM]
Dark orchestral thriller / conflict music. Military mission, war preparations, conflict, tension. Also highly suitable for sci-fi or political thriller, etc. [Tempo: Medium / 0 BPM]
Huge sounding orchestral production mixed with modern, urban drums. About halfway through, a choir enters ominously. Foreboding, impending conflict, battle, war, epic struggle, urgent and dangerious situation. Great for action, military, war, sci-fi, and high-tech thriller. [Tempo: Medium / 85 BPM]
Extreme hardrock in the style of Nine Inch Nails or Marilyn Manson. Twisted and distorted guitars stutter and spit. Loud, brash, in your face and taking no prisoners. Psych out. [Tempo: Medium / 104 BPM]
Swashbuckling and heave-ho'ing, great washes of orchestral drama. Great theme for a fantasy film, game or other presentation that needs a grand, epic introduction. [Tempo: Medium / 90 BPM]
Powerful and intense battle theme suited for fantasy and adventure. Full orchestra and choir. [Tempo: Medium / 122 BPM]
Raw and dirty guitar riffing meets downtempo, slamming hip-hop drums. Powerful stuff, suitable for action footage, raw engine power, extreme sports, fighting and wrestling, or any dark, hard, cold, mechanical visual imagery. Confident and dominant. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 100 BPM]
A cheeky and funky electro number with a slight disco feel. Full of attitude and confidence, based on a repeating synth pattern which is joined by guitars on the chorus part. Exciting, colorful. Great for fashion, animation, web media, Flash and presentations. [Tempo: Fast / 135 BPM]
Haunting film underscore. Howling wind instrument and a low pitched roar, produced with a tribal instrument called "tambor onca". [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
Nervous action adventure underscore. Ticking rhythm, uncertain pulses, mysterious notes. A sense of urgency and impending danger. Suitable for crime drama, thriller, spy mystery, criminal investigation, reality TV, sci-fi drama and more. [Tempo: Medium / 75 BPM]
Acoustic drum'n'relax music with distinctive tribal flavour. Builds slowly from simple and smooth drum groove with ocassional men chanting up to dense, almost trance like final of ethnic flute. As far as there is no distinct melody, this track should work nicely for travel, wide panorama themes in "Discovery like" manner or other exotic background applications. [Tempo: Medium / 121 BPM]
A mysterious, ethnic mood conveying an uneasy or wondering state of mind. Going through a few distinct parts this weird fairytale begins simple but ends on a higher intensity, with a heartfelt ethnic chant. Good for fantasy, mystery, mythology, exploration and archeology etc. [Tempo: Slow / 62 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 funky pop, R&B, Urban groove number available as a Vocal or Instrumental version. Staccato, steaming hot pumping rhythms, downtempo electronic hip-hop style arrangement with a dark edge. Male pop/RnB vocal. [Tempo: Medium / 97 BPM]
A dreamy and ambient background piece with driving feel-good percussion and a hopeful sense of magic, building to an inspiring climax. Perfect for documentaries, corporate videos and commercials. [Tempo: Slow, Medium, Fast / 125 BPM]
Danger lurks around every corner in this urgent string driven orchestral pursuit theme that shocks and frights towards a nightmarish conclusion. The danger deminishes with a reflective end passage. [Tempo: Fast / 165 BPM]
Suspense soaked riff rocker which uses simple berimbau lines, clean atmospheric guitars and great big dirty guitars. Great repeated build and release. The last time has a soaring lead guitar solo. In parts, slightly reminiscent of Failure and even Nirvana. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 92 BPM]
Imagine walking through the ruins of a haunted castle at night, never knowing what night be round the next cobweb covered corner. A very black and sinister piece. Slow with a building tension. Contains synths, drum kit, guitars and bass. [Tempo: Slow / 68 BPM]
Adrenaline pumped track, starts with Killing Joke-esque spacey guitar intro then monster bludgeoning riffs pile in. The verse drops down and brings extra tension until the Foo Fighters style chorus blows the heavens wide open. Contains guitars, bass drums and strings. [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 170 BPM]
