Dramatic and Escalating Cinematic Action track featuring orchestral strings, percussion, synth pads and sound effects. Great for trailers, films in action and drama genres, Police / Investigation TV series and more. [Tempo: Medium / 90 BPM]
A throwback to classic role playing games, the orchestra evokes a dark dungeon with unknown dangers lurking around every corner. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 123 BPM]
A seriously heavy, chunky and powerful metal rocker. Slow, sluggish, brutish, like an unstoppable, relentless force. Unforgiving. [Tempo: Slow / 80 BPM]
Big, rugged action track, with mystery. Evokes a feeling of a inspired group marching toward a common goal. Also good for crime / crime in progress / criminal investigation, etc. Features large Epic Percussion. [Tempo: Medium / 120 BPM]
A tense, rhythmic, staccato track for secret missions and high pressure situations. [Tempo: Medium / 125 BPM]
A mystical world / exotic music track made with atmoshperic synths, epic drums and eastern native instruments. Dark / Hot / Foreboding Music. Can be ancient Africa or Middle East. [Tempo: Slow / 80 BPM]
Orchestra underscore. Cello and bass synth drive pace with piano, forboding brass and string lines. Espionage, spy theme feel. Crime, mystery, investigation. Dark, edgy. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 120 BPM]
Electronic underscore with warm piano, spacey synthesizer and lush pads. Explorer, keep moving forward feel. Mystical, eerie. [Tempo: Medium / 120 BPM]
A dark ambience to hi-light the grim features of serious moments. For crime-related scenes and situations, dark drama, psychological drama. Also for scifi. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
A somewhat mystical and intriguing, orchestral score for drama, family adventure, fantasy or storytelling. Slightly quirky and stormy, this piece has a sense of intrigue, wonder - and perhaps a new angle? [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 120 BPM]
Slow Moving rhythmic underscore. Transformers invade the city. Low, marching drums and low, sonic drones set the tone for this soundscape. [Tempo: Medium / 92 BPM]
A rough, gutsy and gritty power rocker. Chunky, powerful guitar riffing and a mean streak. Medium tempo and a great energy level. [Tempo: Medium / 102 BPM]
Urban trap piece, edgy and sparse with plenty of hit points and drops, big bass and contemporary synths. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 101 BPM]
A disturbing horror / sci-fi sound design track. Shock / madness / loss of connection with reality. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
A dark and forceful cue, for dangerous and threatening situations. Pounding percussion gives this track a sense of urgency and stress. Dangerous / Critical / Fight. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 116 BPM]
A sickly, cold, dark and trippy horror / thriller / mystery underscore with deliberate disharmony and a sense of confusion or madness. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 45 BPM]
A scary and violent horror / sci-fi sound design track. No musical notes, just scrapey, cold sounds and a sudden, terrifying shock at 44 secs. Disturbing and truly unpleasant. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
A dramatic, and very dark soundtrack cue, which keeps building and growing, getting closer as the tension grows higher. Dark / Threatening / Scary. [Tempo: Slow / 80 BPM]
A very dark and eerie, creepy track for mystery, horror, thriller or disturbing, dark drama. Scattered, psychedelic piano notes on a dark, bleak background. The piece grows more dramatic as it goes along, increasing the nervous tension and the sickly feeling of unease. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
A tense and uneasy soundtrack cue for a dangerous situation. Dark, ominous, threatening, foreboding. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 80 BPM]
A brooding, ominous and dark soundtrack for mystery, thriller or drama. Foreboding / Tense / Threatening. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 65 BPM]
Mysterious middle eastern or Arabic music track. Darbuka drums, strings, occasional duduk flute. [Tempo: Medium / 100 BPM]
An ominous and dark ambient piece, with a sense of tension that rests just below the boiling point and leaves the listener uneasy. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
A dark and cinematic orchestral piece. Driving percussion tracks combine with darkly harmonized strings and an Indian vocal flair to create a sense of tension and urgency. [Tempo: Slow / 75 BPM]
A dark, industrial and heavily percussive piece with elements of dubstep. [Tempo: Slow / 65 BPM]
Edgy electronic underscore, with a feeling of urgency and danger. Complex and intricate but un-intrusive. [Tempo: Medium / 130 BPM]
Mysterious electronic underscore, for moments of uncertainty and problem solving. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 85 BPM]
Urgent and dramatic electro underscore. Powerful yet unobtrusive. [Tempo: Medium / 120 BPM]
An exciting orchestral piece, with heavy, hammering percussion and epic, adventurous string tracks. [Tempo: Medium / 100 BPM]
An orchestral, ambient piece with dark harmonies and a sense of ominous tension. [Tempo: Medium / 120 BPM]
This bold piece combines elements of dubstep with heavy metal to create a dark and intense overall vibe. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 70 BPM]
A nerve wracking and dark ambient piece, featuring heavy, grooving bass and drums combined with an edgy piano track and dramatic orchestral instruments. The overall feel is ominous and suspenseful. [Tempo: Slow / 88 BPM]
A stirring and uneasy, urgent feeling, underscore for film/drama. Tension / Unease / Urgency / Foreboding. Great for things like a courtroom drama or perhaps police, detective work, crime in progress, etc. (Stem files available.) [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 70 BPM]
A mean, rough and cocky Indie-rock / Alternative rock track with guts and attitude. Great for macho, sports, racing, weight lifting and swagger. Big boys and big toys. [Tempo: Medium / 88 BPM]
Fantasy or sci-fi oriented, dark and ominous orchestral film score. Subtle, threatening pulses, growing in intensity. Foreboding, otherworldly, suspenseful. Impending doom or conflict. Reminescent of the Star Wars soundtrack. [Tempo: Slow, Medium, Fast / 0 BPM]
A moody and exotic music track with tension and suspense. Dark and alluring, with a sense of impending danger or doom. Ethnic world / Exotic / Foreign feel / Middle Eastern influence. (Stem files available.) [Tempo: Medium / 85 BPM]
Tribal drums with vocal chants, didgeridoo with ominous, foreboding drones. Primal tribe / Pagan ritual / Ancient dance / Indigenous cultures. Dark and intense. (Stem files available.) [Tempo: Medium / 95 BPM]
Gutsy, driven, attitude-laden and swaggering, instrumental hard rock with a contrast between the sneaky verse parts vs the take-no-prisoners, meaty and weighty chorus parts. Edgy, fun and tense. [Tempo: Medium / 124 BPM]
Dirty retro breaks with a modern bass transition from live to synth, vocal refrain 'switch the bass on ‘em, make it drop'. Ideal for retro 70s style, gangsters and bad guys, gaming and extreme sports. Also available without the vocals. (Stem files available.) [Tempo: Medium / 75 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]
'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]
Orchestra starts small, adding a touch of tension and uncertainty, but soon builds to an inspiring punchy melody. A soaring heroic horn melody comes in after a while, and carries us through to a big ending. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 75 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]
This cue offers suspense and horror in a driving, modern orchestral, avant garde productio. Cellos, violins, Violas all create dissonant sound effects for the mood of this track. [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 118 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]
Mysterious, restless, drum-driven track with Oriental favour. A sense of tension and danger. Taiko, shamisen, flute, electronic textures. [Tempo: Medium / 110 BPM]
A Percussion Only track, with big pounding drums in various more and less intense patterns. Useful as music for sound design, film scoring, games and more. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 140 BPM]
Dark, cinematic and light suspenseful music track made with chamber orchestra. No divided parts. Dark / Spooky / Eerie / Quirky music. [Tempo: Medium / 145 BPM]
A suspenseful and ominous music with elements of mystery, conspiracy, intrigue with intensity throughout. Guitar and electronic elements. Good music for trailers, too. [Tempo: Medium / 120 BPM]
A grand, sweeping, semi-orchestral piece with a gradual build-up towards a crescendo at the end. Loud percussion with a slight eastern or oriental feel. Ominous, dramatic, epic. Grand adventures, history and mythology. [Tempo: Medium / 81 BPM]