An ominous, dark and dramatic, orchestral / cinematic piece. Foreboding strings build up towards a change at about 30 seconds, into a more dramatic section with choir and big drums. Epic, dark, almost ritualistic. [Tempo: Slow / 95 BPM]
Evocative Middle Eastern music with a strong and dramatic flavor. Intense and exotic with melancholic undertones. [Tempo: Medium / 120 BPM]
A dramatic and epic orchestral / cinematic piece featuring actual live orchestra performance in combination with samples, and a live performed soprano vocal combined with choir. Dark, ominous and foreboding, this track is high on tension and will work well with epic / struggle / battle scenes and trailers. [Tempo: Medium / 102 BPM]
An epic and cinematic orchestral music track that builds slowly and powerfully with a huge choir and orchestra entering at 1:10. Perfect music for film trailers. [Tempo: Medium / 110 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]
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]
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 gritty and harsh, semi-orchestra, semi-electronic track with a very edgy futuristic feel. Dramatic and dark with big stabs of energy. [Tempo: Medium / 104 BPM]
A gritty and harsh, semi-orchestra, semi-electronic music track with a very edgy futuristic feel. Dramatic and ominous music. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 130 BPM]
Huge, snarling and slamming Dubstep style bass-line that wobbles and glitches emerges from a haunting background of elfin choirs and a distant tom-tom pulse. Completely evil and nasty, works great for war gaming videos, futuristic conflict or technology scenes. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 140 BPM]
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 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]
Inspired by film maker and composer John Carpenter, this is a homage to his masterpiece The Thing, starring Kurt Russell. Ominous blend of synthesizers and orchestral horns, with a repetitive tense motif. [Tempo: Slow / 93 BPM]
Hefty, powerful, driven, intense, determined, relentless, mean & muscular hard rocker with great forward thrust. Epic, edgy, dangerous, adventurous, rousing, animated & tension-filled. Would suit action/thriller/military/combat/sports type projects. [Tempo: Medium / 101 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]
A fiery, passionate and intense guitar rock fest. Gutsy and powerful. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 131 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]
A dark, edgy and tense music track, combining Orchestral and Electronic elements in a gritty, alarming, cold and intense setting. Dystopian, apocalyptic music. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 75 BPM]
An exotic and adventureous track made with exotic percussion, synths and various ethnic instruments. Action / Exotic / Foreign / Mystical. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 130 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]
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]
Action oriented hybrid orchestral track, with a lot of metallic percussion and powerful blasts. Starts with a powerful ominous pulse and develops towards a frantic percussive climax. Inspired by apocalyptic action and car chases.
[Tempo: Slow, Medium, Fast / 115 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]
A cinematic, urban hip-hop music for commercial purposes. Big, epic rhythmic hits knock out a infectious rhythm. Hip hop drums with trap hihats give it a modern feel. Dark minor chord string patches give this piece tension, while risers and cinematic hits give the track a hybrid trailer feel as well. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 76 BPM]
A powerful piece of epic action music with elements of dramatic power, full on soaring melody lines, and hard hitting percussion patterns. Great for that modern hybrid epic dramatic style sound, and to give your visuals that big Hollywood edge. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 135 BPM]
Sound-design trailer with machinery sounds. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 77 BPM]
Industrial and epic action trailer. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 85 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]
Dark and haunting Piano plays over some eerie and ambient sound effects. Creates the mood for tense and scary scenes in movies and halloween projects. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 58 BPM]
Historical, Barry Lyndon type, civil war music. Would fit a 19th century war / historical feature. Classical war march genre of orchestration, using snare drum roll, piccolo flutes, clarinets, Bass drums, French and English horn. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 110 BPM]
Eerie, tense, percussive soundscape with a relentless spooky melody, dark metalic FX and flute sweeps. Atmospheric with a sense of suspense and imminent danger. Menacing and sinister. 48 hours, The Mentalist, Castle, Alien Invasion, crime drama, horror, Sci-Fi. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 90 BPM]
Determined, fast paced chase or battle scene music, using a combination of orchestral sounds with a hard hitting techno backdrop. Hard electronic synths and beats meet up with dramatic orchestral sweeps. Danger, drama, conflict, or extreme situations. [Tempo: Fast / 120 BPM]
A frantic, percussion driven music track for a chase, battle or fight scene. Highly suitable for trailer, game, thriller or action film. String lines nervous and staccato, dissonant string stabs with busy percussion. [Tempo: Fast / 120 BPM]
An upbeat action thriller track with a modern Filmcue vibe: Suspenseful pending build up. Rich in cinematic texture. Great for various cinematic use, ominous background, action suspense segments etc. [Tempo: Slow, Fast / 120 BPM]
A tense, pensive underscore for a dramatic scene with an Italian or Sicilian slant. Perhaps New York Mafia, historical drama, or a chase / battle / conflict scene set against a backdrop of Italy / Sicily or Eastern Europe / Traditional Europe. Mandolin and violin with battle percussion, orchestral strings and brass stabs. [Tempo: Slow, Medium, Fast / 75 BPM]
A dramatic track with a European / French / Italian / Sicilian feel. A stabbing, aggressive rhythm and dark brass sweeps, combined with violin and accordeon gives this track a historical feel that makes it good for history / period drama. Threatening and uneasy. Conflict / provocation. [Tempo: Medium / 77 BPM]
An orchestral piece, a rather dark one. This composition builds up a tension and an uncomfortable feeling. It's thrilling and suspicious, this song makes a good suspense conductor without specially having any particular ending at the end, this could end well, or bad. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 89 BPM]
Driving Score track with e-guitars, effects and heavy drum/percussion sounds. Edgy, menacing and aggressive. Good for action, pursuits and thrilling fight scenes. [Tempo: Slow / 120 BPM]
A lonely music box melody builds to a full orchestra before ending as it begins. Dark, tense and climactic but not too scary, family oriented horror. Good for trailers, video games, cartoons, halloween, quirky Tim Burton type films and even commercials. [Tempo: Slow / 70 BPM]
Tense and brooding retro style movie and tv soundtrack. Climactic orchestral strings with some dissonant chords, subtle flute and latin percussion eventually builds to a funky drum groove. Perfect for undercover cops, spies, secret agents, heists, shady deals, retro dramas and blaxploitation. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 105 BPM]
An energetic hard rock/metal riff fest ideal for reality TV, sports, and action cues such as Ultimate Fighter, Nascar, WWE and UFC. Huge, slamming drums mixed with edgy, tight palm muted detuned guitar riffs. In the style of Metallica, Lamb of God, Disturbed and Pantera. [Tempo: Slow, Medium, Fast / 90 BPM]
A punchy, driving blend of heavy distorted guitars and hard hitting electronic drums. Good for intense action and extreme sports. In the style of Powerman 5000, Rammstein, Rob Zombie, Ministry, Celldweller and Metallica. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 144 BPM]
High energy electronic beat mixing elements of hip hop, house, pop and ethnic music, creating an exotic and mysterious feeling. Very modern, groovy and dark. The piece can find usage in action scenes, extreme sports, adventure, high impact footage; as good as for night club, sexy scenes. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 120 BPM]