A sneaky, downtempo funk track in the style of 1980s cop films like Beverly Hills Cop and many others. Synth bass, gated drums, wah-wah guitar. Suitable for scenes of investigating, stalking, sneaking around, stakeout and more. [Tempo: Medium / 110 BPM]
Determined, powerful, intense, driven & hypnotic rock track with great groove & a bluesy vibe. Adventurous, determined,fiery, mean, raw, gutsy, heavy, edgy, rhythmic & crushing. Would suit action / thriller / sports / military / documentary type projects. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 89 BPM]
Dark Dub / Hard electronica. Robotic / Futuristic / Mechanical. Funky Breakbeats / Machine like / Robotic. Great for body popping, funky robots, futuristic dance club, futuristic animations, etc. [Tempo: Medium / 70 BPM]
This aggressive cinematic piece starts with a chaotic string crescendo, and abruptly changes to a dramatic and forceful orchestral texture. Great for action trailers and sequences. [Tempo: Fast / 143 BPM]
A dark action piece. Heavy brass, drums, orchestra and choir suggest a frightening pursuit. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 110 BPM]
Heavy distorted guitar riffage and powerful drums. Good for extreme sports, intense military video games, UFC, ESPN, NFL and action cues. In the style of Metallica, , Pantera, Lamb of God, Disturbed, In Flames and Avenged Sevenfold. [Tempo: Slow, Fast / 100 BPM]
An edgy, loud, intense and powerful blockbuster royalty free music track featuring a synthesis of orchestra, synths and smashing percussions. Suitable as music for epic videos and powerful footage. [Tempo: Medium / 125 BPM]
Somber and mysterious. An hypnotic and suspenseful piano with dark and shadowy strings. Great for suspense documentaries or crime scenes depiction. [Tempo: Slow, Fast / 120 BPM]
A hard hitting, wall of noise type, guitar rock track drawing on classic and modern rock styles. Heavy chugging guitars, blasting drums, high energy level. Exciting, rough, dirty and grinding, with a dark edge. Good for things like dangerous stunts, wild sports, raw Nascar racing, extreme engine power, ultimate fighting championship, and much more. [Tempo: Fast / 100 BPM]
Tense and rhythmic orchestral soundtrack cue. Like dark magic brewing or mischief being carried out. A sense of urgency. Fantasy/Adventure. [Tempo: Medium / 114 BPM]
A suspenseful and stirring chamber music track starting with piano, and evolving into very cinematic, trailer track without percussion and brasses, making it slightly softer and cleaner trailer type of music. A sense of movement, activity, something building up, nearing, increasing. [The 'Radio Edit' version has been edited to reduce the 'intensity' of the most dramatic/climax part of the track. This could make it less suitable for drama, advertising etc. where you need a build-up to a climax, but more even-going, more suitable for just listening.] [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 190 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]
A dark and cinematic industrial piece, with pulsing percussion, nerve wracking metallic sounds, and heavy electronic synth tracks. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 83 BPM]
Dark and ominous, foreboding and hard pounding, cinematic track. Orchestra, choir and big drums. Dramatic / Epic / Edgy / Powerful / Dark. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 98 BPM]
A heavy, cinematic electronic piece. Dramatic bass hits stab through the tense electronic instrumentation and dark, grooving drum beat, creating tension that builds to the end of the piece. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 120 BPM]
A hybrid orchestral / electronic track with an Epic, Sci-fi feel. Tense, strong, dramatic, with pompous orchestral brasses and big percussion over a pulsating synth arpeggio. Good for science fiction adventure, heroics and more. [Tempo: Medium / 97 BPM]
A dark, doom laden, aggressive and gritty, semi-electronic / semi-orchestral music track. The first and last thirds are relentless and violent with an industrial, edgy, futuristic sound. The middle third has a more ethnic / world feel. Future / Action / Dystopian Music. [Tempo: Fast / 120 BPM]
A very dark , disturbed piece. It tells of an unseen malevolence, drawing ever closer to the point where the hairs on the back of your neck stand up. Huge down-tuned guitar riffs grab you by the jugular and toss you around till you plead for mercy. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 125 BPM]
Sizzling deep funk. Rough, dark, pumping and oozing. Subtle, foreboding, like something dark and powerful simmering under the surface. Downtempo, with a funky hip hop feel. A little bit otherworldly, weird, not quite of this world. Also available as an Underscore version. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 90 BPM]
A cinematic music track with a classic mystery sound. Live performed string section. A certain darkness, a twisted undertow. What trickery is afoot? Spy / Dramatic / Horror Music. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 140 BPM]
For Thriller, Suspense, Horror, Police, Criminal investigation. Ominous repetitive piano and harp motif builds up into a full orchestral climax. Good for opening credits and crime and investigation series. [Tempo: Medium / 90 BPM]
An intense epic action cue that starts mysterious and builds to full out action with driving percussion rhythms, orchestral energy, and big drums, underscoring anything from a fast car chase to a battle between man and machine. Very much in the vein of John Powell's "Bourne" movies and the scores of Hanz Zimmer and Steve Jablonsky ("Batman Begins" and "Transformers"). [Tempo: Fast / 138 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]
An epic and rousing track for fantasy, adventure, epic trailers. Features actual live performed orchestral instruments in combination with samples. Urgent, strong, intense. Valiant, powerful. Full orchestra with choir. Available in various different version/mixes. [Tempo: Fast / 160 BPM]
Xylophone in a spooky place. Dark, dramatic, eerie, horror. [Tempo: Very slow / 120 BPM]
Hard hitting, fast, relentless and ruthless techno / industrial style material. This track is high on energy and packs a mean punch. Suitable for film chase or fight scene, extreme sports, racing, raw power, sci-fi and much more. [Tempo: Slow, Fast / 86 BPM]
A fiery, hard hitting metal track with a seriously heavy punch, and rhythmic synth patterns used in combination with chugging and wailing guitars. Raw and intense. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 127 BPM]
Downtempo hip-hop with synth arpeggios and deep sub-bass. [Tempo: Fast / 70 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]
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]
Drum'n Bass / Electro-tech. Solid D&B grooves over a bed of dreamy, atmospheric pads and chords give this track a somewhat edgy, futuristic, disturbing feel. High energy level, combined with a somewhat ethereal backdrop. Good for extreme sports, future and sci-tech, futuristic racing, etc. Also for youth culture / rave / urban subcultures. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 170 BPM]
Classic metal powerhouse with a few modern twists here and there. Two brutally large distorted guitars drive this juggernaut along, while lead lines and synth sequences interweave with the monster riffs. Think Annihilator meets Judas priest and you're in the right area. [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 171 BPM]
An action-packed cue with a strong percussive beat throughout. Chromatic and intense. Perfect for an action scene or tense drama. (Stem files available.) [Tempo: Fast / 144 BPM]
A quirky and odd production music track with naive bells and a slight 'medieval' touch of harpsichord. Like an old house with secrets, perhaps something that would go in a dark comedy, a Halloween related production or a haunted house music. [Tempo: Medium / 105 BPM]
Music for a grand adventure. Semi-orchestral arrangement, rich on emotion and sweeping melodies. [Tempo: Slow / 58 BPM]
Rhythmic synths open this tension building track, featuring pulsating bass and string motifs and drum grooves. A great action or thriller track with a mysterious mood. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 91 BPM]
Tough to describe in words. A hypnotic dance throb runs through this fairly avante garde track as various synth leads come in and out. Very spacey and yet relentlessly trance inducing. Brings visions of an underground pumping, sweaty nightclub scenario to mind. [Tempo: Medium / 111 BPM]
A red sun rises on a desolate, war torn city in the middle east. A soldier looks out over the smoke clouds and wonders if the end justifies the means. Epic in scope, yet full of space, would be perfect for travel documentaries requiring a moody atmosphere. Also great for understated, brooding trailers and promos. Orchestra, ethnic instruments (duduk), large percussion and atmospheric pads. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 83 BPM]
A dark and suspense trailer track with an atmospheric and dramatic mood. Lots of rising effects, soundscapes and hybrid synths. Edgy, dramatic, tense. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 110 BPM]
Driving and powerful Rock'n Roll with Hard Rock tendencies, a gutsy drive and a feeling of the open road, wind in your hair and cruising to ultimate freedom. [Tempo: Slow, Medium, Fast / 156 BPM]
Beaty, driven, electronic track mixing synths, drum machines and acoustic drums. Sometimes darkly atmospheric & moody, always lively with great momentum. [Tempo: Medium / 88 BPM]
Dirty and twisted electronica, swooshing pads, machine like drum programming, futuristic and cyberpunk, sci-fi, science and technology, insights and discovery.. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 108 BPM]
Electronic underscore with warm piano, spacey synthesizer and lush pads. Explorer, keep moving forward feel. Mystical, eerie. [Tempo: Medium / 120 BPM]
A song mainly composed of drums and effects applied to various sounds. It's wood percussions and break beat line mixes an urban and ethnic feeling. Slightly dark, slow and experimental, somehow a street at night jungle kind of soundtrack. [Tempo: Slow / 82 BPM]
A dark, pulsing tension piece. Orchestra mingling with electronic loops and huge drums support a possible military/espionage narrative or just as easily, a dark hero's charge into the inevitable. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 94 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]
A driving techno rhythm with powerful acid basslines evoking thrilling, dangerous action with an underlying menace & excitement. Visceral string lines add a sinister note to the dark atmospherics & brutally tensile instrumentation. Intended to compliment the Dream Valley Music tracks, ‘True Life Stories’, ‘Secrets & Memories’ and ‘Dawn Of A New Life’. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 120 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]
A dark and dramatic, cinematic trailer or action / tension score. Doom-laden / Foreboding / Serious / Tense. (Stem files available.) [Tempo: Medium / 90 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]