If you're looking for music for an action film, you may want to check out this track listing. This music can be orchestral, or more techno- or rock based -- or sometimes even a combination of these styles -- and is highly suitable for crime capers, get-away scenes, car chase, running for your life, that kind of thing. Often combining high tempo rhythms with staccato, sometimes dissonant, musical compositions, these track carry a sense of stress, danger, urgency and desperation.
Powerful blockbuster music track, loaded with epic percussion, hits, risers and dark and loud choral harmonies. Suitable as music for trailers, action, extreme danger and high impact scenes. [Tempo: Slow, Medium, Fast / 85 BPM]
Minimal piano leads into an ominous, dark, heroic orchestral music theme. Tension / Dystopia / Edgy music. [Tempo: Slow, Fast / 150 BPM]
Intense, driven, exciting, adrenalised, thrilling progressive rock track with great urgency & forward momentum. A sound like Dream Theater or Symphony-X with some super heavy riffs and some parts more melodic. Also some use of 7/8ths time signature. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 113 BPM]
A determined and somewhat mechanical, staccato beat has given this track its title. It's a downtempo, funky, urban / hip-hop take on machines, robots, high tech mechanics, moving parts, metal and lights, in other words, everything that's cool in the world. :-) Very groovy and funky, with a dark side. [Tempo: Fast / 120 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]
Dripping with testosterone and burning with bad attitude, this slow and groovy rocker has ton of swagger and funk. Real men only! [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 73 BPM]
Edgy and energetic sports & action track, which starts with a quiet intro and keeps building to a frenetic climax. Catchy guitar riff, crunchy synths and breakbeat drive the track. It has an epic feel that would rock a stadium or music festival, and also a funk influence to give it a cool factor. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 116 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 sharp, edgy and mean spirited Power Rocker Music. Intense and energetic music track with a big forward drive. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 141 BPM]
Fast, aggressive, big and powerful epic drums track. Tribal, determined, pulsating. [Tempo: Fast / 150 BPM]
Epic trailer / Epic soundtrack for a grand uprising, a majestic victory or an epic battle. Good for fantasy / adventure / sci-fi / cinematic trailers and also for sports, extreme sports, fight sports etc. Full orchestra, epic drums, with choir joining in the later stages. Also available as a Rock Mix, with the additional bite of heavy rock guitars and drums. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 100 BPM]
An emotional, epic trailer track with a strong sense of heroics and grand victory. Amazement, courage, glory and honor. Great for epic trailers, sports / achievement, action and adventure. Also available as a Rock Mix, with the additional punch of heavy rock guitars and drums. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 100 BPM]
Smooth, warm, pulsating and delicately groovy electronica. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 95 BPM]
Unique blend of regal strings and horns and hefty guitars. The verse is a slow grooving electro beat which builds slowly via a b section of clean swirling guitar and lamenting vocal loops into an explosion of guitars and drums. Very filmically dramatic, intense and quite unexpected. [Tempo: Slow, Fast / 75 BPM]
A dark blockbuster type music track filled with metal percussion, dramatic string section, and loud, mixed choir at the end of the track. Suitable as music for trailers, tense times, fantasy, sci-fi and war. [Tempo: Medium / 125 BPM]
Dramatic, melodic and thrilling track with a sense of investigation, tragedy and the city at night. Piano lines and driving percussion in a modern/orchestral context. Climax with an epic feel at 0:31. [Tempo: Fast / 120 BPM]
A powerful and gutsy hard rock / metal track with guts and attitude, and with a bluesy edge. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 122 BPM]
All percussion is featured in this authentic tribal track. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 120 BPM]
Pounding live drums and heavy metal guitars combined with distorted synths. Funky metal groove, ideal for radical sports, fighting, MMA, Military and any other masculine subject. [Tempo: Slow / 75 BPM]
Rip-roaring Electro-Rock music track fused with dance elements, great forward movement and chaotic feeling, ideal for high-octane sports and action scenes. Chase / Criminal / Bad Guy stock music. [Tempo: Fast / 140 BPM]
Exciting, powerful, thrilling, intense electro-rocker. Raw, gutsy, passionate, fiery, gritty & explosive. Would extreme sports / action / adventure / battle / combat type projects. [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 162 BPM]
A Percussion Only track, with big pounding drums in various more and less intense patterns. Useful for sound design, film scoring, games and more. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 150 BPM]
A Percussion Only track, with marching snares, military march. Occasional big drum strikes. Useful as music for scenes of war, war preparation, battle preparations, etc. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 137 BPM]
Hard electronic synths and beats meet up with dramatic orchestral sweeps. Danger, drama, conflict, or extreme situations. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 140 BPM]
Dramatic, tense and mysterious power rock music. Heavy, bombastic and crushing riffs push this tune along. Unstoppably muscular and epically determined. [Tempo: Medium / 148 BPM]
Raw, powerful, classic rock / hard rock / heavy metal groover. A naked and raw sound featuring only drums, bass and guitar. High energy, tough, edgy. [Tempo: Fast / 176 BPM]
Driving electronic beat with acid synths and broken drum beat. The track drops into a punchy 4/4 electro beat and later switches to a high energy drum & bass part with pitched up synths and big buildups. Sounds of a siren and vocal sample 'drive' suggesting a race or a chase. Also available without the vocal sample and the siren sound. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 125 BPM]
Dark, dramatic, evil, climactic, spacey, malevolant, sinister, mean, tribal, foreboding, scary rock track with atmospheric and menacing synths meshing with pounding, dynamic, heavy drums. Would suit thriller / action / crime / horror / halloween / space / cinematic / extreme sport type projects. [Tempo: Slow / 112 BPM]
Wagner - Die Walküre, B major, WWV 86B: Act III. Ride of the Valkyries. Classical Music recorded exclusively for Shockwave-Sound.com by Y Sazonoff. [Tempo: Medium / 0 BPM]
A no-frills, groovy and energizing, hard rock / classic rock music track in the style of many 1980's, 1990's and 2000's rock acts. Juicy guitar work, high energy level. Exciting / Testosterone / Driving Music. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 90 BPM]
A fiery and gutsy, hard rock / metal music track with a nasty edge and the pedal to the metal. Rough and mean music. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 88 BPM]
Tense, powerful, epic, driven, exciting, drama-filled glory rock track with great suspense and forward momentum. Huge drums and big, wild guitars. Proud, determined, confident, edgy, wicked & dangerous. [Tempo: Medium / 122 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]
A Percussion Only track, with big pounding drums in various more and less intense patterns. Useful for sound design, film scoring, games and more. [Tempo: Slow, Medium, Fast / 140 BPM]
A very high energy indie rock track. Slight elements of Punk and Hard rock, but mostly this is a Brit Rock / Alternative Rock / New Wave rock track along the lines of Foo Fighters etc. Reckless, with lots of attitude. Bad youth, stupid stunts, high energy sports and motorsports, etc. [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 143 BPM]
Action build-up / Gear-up / Hollywood action/tech/scifi. A pensive and at times grand, heroic orchestral film soundtrack piece which blends electronic instruments and symphony orchestra for a technology / futuristic feel. This rather long track goes through various stages, some of which are pensive and foreboding, others more heroic, more regal and grand. This track will go well with any high-tech / sci-fi / war- or action film. (A note about the version described as 'Stage Mix': This version is recorded with the reverb/ambiance of a concert hall, making it sound somewhat more 'distant' from the listener and, some would say, more 'live') [Tempo: Medium / 61 BPM]
An atmospheric dramatic track that begins with light piano and synths and expands with the addition of strings, electric guitar, and heavy drums. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 64 BPM]
Retro rock, surf rock. Twangy guitars with tremolo, cool, genuine and accurately recreated 1960's or early 1970's sound. Style, fashion, history, culture, sports/surfing and more. [Tempo: Fast / 85 BPM]
A rough and gutsy funk track with a mechanical, industrial element. Hard hitting Big Beat funky drums with funk bass and hard edged synths. Determined, forceful. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 106 BPM]
A Percussion Only track, with big pounding drums in various more and less intense patterns. Useful for sound design, film scoring, games and more. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 0 BPM]
A Percussion Only track, with big pounding drums in various more and less intense patterns. Useful for sound design, film scoring, games and more. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 150 BPM]
A dark, brooding, and powerful orchestral hybrid rock song. Ominous strings and creepy bells lead to an explosion of pounding drums, heavily distorted guitars, and a filthy fuzz bass. As the song progresses more guitars and percussion is added, increasing the intensity. Sounds like Kasabian backed by Hans Zimmer's orchestra. A great track for sports highlights, men & motors type material, industrial presentations, commercials and more. [Tempo: Medium / 90 BPM]
Dark, brooding, menacing, intensely powerful, primitive, fiery and gutsy rock track with great sense of impending doom and epic grandeur. Heavy, loud, mean, bombastic, gritty, scary, wild & very wicked. The chorus has a middle-eastern feel. Would suit action / thriller / military / extreme sports type projects. [Tempo: Slow / 66 BPM]
Fun, upbeat, groovy and retro Funk with wah guitar, driving breakbeat, smokin horns and an elastic bass line. Great for commercials, movies or any project in need of some action packed, old school Funk. [Tempo: Fast / 117 BPM]
Exciting, driven, intense, powerful, motivated & energised rocker with massive momentum. Huge walls of distorted guitars combine with crushing, busy, dynamic beats to make edgy, dangerous music that would suit action / thriller / extreme sports / military / combat type projects. Thrilling & adventurous. [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 146 BPM]
Busy, exciting, positive, energised & intense rock track mixing drum n bass beats with fat bass and distorted guitars. Driven, dynamic, animated, adventurous, bold, thrilling & explosive. Would suit action / thriller / dramatic / sports / video game type projects. [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 151 BPM]
Hard and edgy, downtempo, slamming electro beats with a rough, mean guitar riff. Nasty, edgy and gritty. Unstable. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 70 BPM]
A slow and mean, gutsy and powerful music track, hard rocker with a stinking attitude and a huge sound. Gritty / Powerful / Mean / Determined Music. [Tempo: Slow / 84 BPM]
An urgent, dramatic and glorifying track for dramatic trailers, fight scenes, epic battles and grand heroes or warriors. Orchestra, epic battle percussion, full choir. Good for epic trailer, scenes of epic battles or charging armies. Dramatic or dangerous situation, rescue mission, fantasy fight, etc. [Tempo: Medium, Fast, Very fast / 150 BPM]
Retro rock. Twangy guitars with tremolo, cool, genuine and accurately recreated 1960's or early 1970's sound. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 60 BPM]
