Dynamic and energetic, modern epic track. Dark and powerful percussion, joined by orchestra, electric guitar and synthesizers. Uprising, urgent and intense. Heroic, determined, Ominous. Suitable for trailers, action scenes, sci-fi movies, fights, rising armies, marching to battle and more. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 141 BPM]
An energetic, upbeat piece utilizing layers of percussion, piano and strings. Evokes a feeling of tension and determination. [Tempo: Medium / 67 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]
Dark ambient, Horror underscore. Mystery / Eerie / Creepy / Cold. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 60 BPM]
Dark ambient, Horror underscore. Dizzy / Sickly / Uneasy. Rhythmic pulse. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 65 BPM]
Dark ambient, Horror underscore. Mysterious / Noisy / Investigative / Suspicious. Cold. Varying degrees of intensity. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 100 BPM]
Dark ambient, Horror underscore. Malevolent / Evil / Sickly / Unnatural. Experimental sound design. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
A dark mystery feel going on in this track. Different layers of all kinds of strange sounds, including kalimba patterns, are are adding up to a very mysterious and pensive sound collage. Can be ethnic / world mystery, spy mystery, fantasy or sci-fi. [Tempo: Slow / 80 BPM]
Dark and mysterious Score track with strings, horn section, sound effects and energetic percussions. Very atmospheric, dramatic and highly diversified. Ideal for thriller and all kinds of suspense. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 165 BPM]
Mysterious and exciting score track with a modern sound featuring piano, synths and strings. Good for mystery, thriller and suspenseful action movies. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 115 BPM]
Atmospheric and orchestral score suggests big open spaces, great adventures, new frontiers to conquer. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
Aggressive track of evolving suspense and tension, odd and mysterious at times, dark and ominous at times. A punch in your face! [Tempo: Slow, Fast / 164 BPM]
Dark, gloomy, sinister underscore for film, TV, games, thriller, chiller, horror, etc. Darkly sparkling. Suspenseful, few notes, somewhat experimental, ambient soundscapes. [Tempo: Very slow, Medium, Fast / 122 BPM]
An intensely ominous electronic/orchestral soundscape supports a brooding, haunting theme; overwhelmed with darkness and fear, this track is destined for moody scenes of terror and horror in contemporary cinema... For underscore and build-up. Instrumental, Dangerous Music, Dark Music. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 120 BPM]
A cinematic style dark cue, feelings of danger and fear, great for horror and sci-fi scenes. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 120 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 new classical / film score / cinematic type track based on a repeating ostinato, and with a sense of expectation and a developing story. Great for use with drama, reality show, real people, real stories in a developing world. Light, but not really happy. Relaxed, but also with a sense of something happening. Also available as a solo piano version. [Tempo: Medium / 80 BPM]
A track of uneasy discord and mysterious twists and turns. A disturbed mind, a fragile sanity? [Tempo: Medium / 120 BPM]
A dark, unsettling cinematic backdrop. Uneasy / Gloomy / Mysterious. [Tempo: Slow / 94 BPM]
Moving steadily forward, with a sense of activity and progress, this track will work well as a tension builder, or as an underscore for drama or storytelling. [Tempo: Medium / 120 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]
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]
A mysterious, modern tension track. It features marimba, synth ambience, electronic loops and guitar harmonics. This track has a certain 'outback' feel and can be used for the deep south USA, as well as Australia, or really any other swamp / jungle / outback type setting. [Tempo: Medium / 90 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]
A contemporary, cinematic music track with an intriguing and captivating vibe. Featuring piano, strings, glockenspiel, atmospheric pads and orchestral percussion. Great for dynamic action scenes in films, TV and documentaries. [Tempo: Medium / 125 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]
Sound-design trailer with machinery sounds. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 77 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 dark and edgy track filled with suspense. The track begins with an eerie and mysterious solo guitar. The track continues to build till its unsettling climax. This song has a middle eastern/world music influence and would be perfect for documentary or any war/action film. Influenced by John Carpenter. [Tempo: Slow / 130 BPM]
A mysterious and pensive, orchestral underscore for Fantasy, Adventure or Sci-fi. A mixture of awe, amazement, wonderment and nervous tension. What's lurking behind these walls? Great background material for Fantasy games, Adventure / Discovery, Historical and Epic stories. Can also work for some Epic Trailers. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 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]
Strange, otherworldly, atmospheric and ambient World/Ethno track with a mystical feel. Can be African plains, Middle Eastern deserts, perhaps Amazon / South American deep jungle, or other exotic, alien or foreign place. Maybe even an exotic, strange planet. Contains elements of both Light and Darkness, and perhaps awe / amazement. Good for fantasy, sci-fi, adventure, world / history / documentary. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow, Medium / 90 BPM]
A dark, cold and damp TV or film underscore cue. Pensive, unnerving and unsettling, this piece is suitable for a scene in a crime mystery, horror flick or perhaps a criminal documentary featuring evil or the occult, gruesome discoveries in forensics. Soundscapes. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 85 BPM]
Sneaky, slow, somewhat dark "spy funk" track with electro / dub influences and occasional lead guitar lines. Good for Crime in Progress, Spy / Agent, Secret Mission, undercover police operation, forensic investigations etc. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 130 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 staccato and ominous / uneasy track with a traditional European flavor provided by Violin, Accordion and Mandolin, combined with pounding drums and orchestra. Could be Italy / Italian / Sicilian or other European country, possibly Mafia related or a track to accompany conflict, battle, shootout, chase or some urgent situation. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 115 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]
Not for the faint-hearted! Menacing Score track with powerful drums and diverse aggressive, distorted sounds. Evil, scary and very dark. [Tempo: Slow, Fast / 120 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]
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]
If a metropolis urban city had a voice, this is how it would sound. Cello spiccatos leave you on edge while the trumpet duo sounds somewhat jazzy and someone depressing. A suitable choice for an action-packed mafia or film noir trailer concerning urban crime. [Tempo: Slow, Medium, Fast / 230 BPM]
An evil soundscape evoking the image of psychos, stalkers, serial killers, crime scenes, murder, twisted plots and Investigation Discovery shows. Images of occult events, crime scene flashbacks, ghosts and monsters on Halloween and supernatural freak show circuses. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 114 BPM]
Bizarre, weird and unusual. This chaotic and evil sounding prepared piano and sound design track creates evil thoughts of Halloween, cults, ghosts and the supernatural. Stalkers, serial killers, crime scenes, murder, twisted plots and Investigation Discovery. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 120 BPM]
These dark horror cues can be classed either as "music cues" or "sound effects", as in reality they function as both. They are all recorded with a large, live symphony orchestra with the same quality as any soundtrack from big budget movies. The effects are easy to loop and edit, and can be tailored to fit any cue, as they can be used from virtually any point. Consider them a construction kit to score horror, mystery and dark drama. Recorded, mastered, and delivered to you in pristine 24-bit audio. Also look for YS Horror Cues 21-40 and YS Horror Cues 41-60. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow, Medium / 0 BPM]