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.
An epic adventure or fantasy track with a sweeping orchestral feel. Like amazing new discoveries, grand adventures, fantastic new places or a dangerous, epic mission. The openingg and middle parts of this track is glorious and optimistic, whereas the closing section of this track is darker, more menacing, more urgent and closes off with a very dark, pounding, eerie outro. [Tempo: Slow, Medium, Fast / 133 BPM]
A blazing, fiery and red-hot progressive rock track. Slightly psychedelic music. Hefty and wild. [Tempo: Slow, Medium, Fast / 136 BPM]
Felix Mendelssohn - Symphony No. 4, Op. 90. Movement IV. Saltarello. Presto. Arranged and recorded exclusively for Shockwave-Sound.com [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 0 BPM]
Rough and kickin’ Rock / Dance music crossover track. Tough yet playful, ideal as extreme sports music, gaming, action-filled footage etc. There is also a version with vocal samples. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 128 BPM]
Seriously funky electro groove music. Great as music for corporate, technology, fast flow of information, people and business on the move. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 128 BPM]
All live performed, genuine African drum ensemble. Recorded live in one take by the Shabani Jabiri Bakari ensemble from Bagamoyo, Tanzania. This music composition is inspired by a street in Dar es Salaam called "Mtaa Kongo". A very busy street with a lot of people. [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 166 BPM]
After an acoustic intro, this track soon builds into a take-no-prisoners, up-front and gutsy, hard hitting rock track. Uptempo and crunchy, with a wild streak. Action / Extreme Sports / Combat / Fight / Wild / Untamed. [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 174 BPM]
Dark, intense, mean, powerful, driven, passionate, hard-hitting, no nonsense rocker with great tension & momentum. Loud, confident, exciting, primitive, dangerous, wild, wicked, relentless & fiery. Would suit action thriller / extreme sports / military / combat type projects. [Tempo: Fast / 150 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: Fast, Very fast / 100 BPM]
A dark and suspenseful hybrid music featuring a combination of growling distorted bass, orchestra and synth sounds. Tension building / Danger / Ominous / Determined. Sense of urgency and foreboding. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 0 BPM]
Edgy Drum'n Bass / Breakbeat. Dark, industrial feel. Gritty and grimey. Slightly disturbing, choppy and processed. Good for action / chase, motorsports and x-sports, future / futuristic, sci-fi, race / racing and destruction. Robotic and mechanical. Youth culture / Urban subcultures / Dark rave. [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 170 BPM]
Moderately busy big beat track built around catchy guitar riff. Confident, relentless and not too overpowering. Think big engines, metal against metal, car commercials/vlogs or anything related to technology, industry, motors, running, sport and testosterone, modern lifestyle, fashion or hipster stuff. [Tempo: Medium / 120 BPM]
Confident, edgy, hefty, dynamic, exciting, brutal, tense & dramatic rocker with great, bold power & drive. Weighty, measured, primitive, suspenseful, menacing, crushing, wicked & unstoppable. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 152 BPM]
Restrained aggression boiling over and unleashed, creates a state of panic. Ideal tool for sci-fi, extreme sports, mystery, crime, fight, chase and action scenes. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 84 BPM]
A lively funk track with a repated, catchy bass line, funk guitar and occasional brass licks. Can be modern day or classic / retro funk as well. Busy and upbeat, gives off a good funky energy. Busy / Active. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 127 BPM]
Big, bad and bold Hip Hop / Trap track, aggressive, in-your-face, ideal for sport, martial arts, exercise and baddy scenes. Powerful and heavy. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 75 BPM]
A groovy acoustic bass theme mixed with a funky retro breakbeat. In the style of recent Brit-flick / mobster / crime-in-progress and gritty productions. Big Beat/ Spy / Chase Music. [Tempo: Medium / 113 BPM]
An intense and dramatic movie trailer style track, complete with full orchestra, choir and a huge percussion sections. Very dramatic, powerful, urgent, and tense. Big brass stabs combine with ethnic drums and vocal chants. The chord progression helps to increase the intensity level throughout, towards the final crescendo and climax. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 156 BPM]
An aggressive dubstep / drumstep track is a contemporary cue reminiscent of artists such as skrillex, Knife Party and Nero. It's energetic, driving and gritty. It has a funky danceable groove, screaming wobble bass that stands up and grabs your viewers attention, and a reggae influenced chord progression that is a nice blend of dub and progressive dance. It's exciting, extreme and fashionable and would work nicely in advertising, extreme sports and athletic video, automotive promos, video games, tv and film and as hi energy in store or a phone on hold track. [Tempo: Slow, Medium, Fast / 175 BPM]
Stomping, pounding swagger rock music with a lot of attitude. Infectious guitar riffs, clapping and modern beat. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 85 BPM]
A down and dirty, nasty beat and synth riff. Determined, controlled aggression. Combining elements of urban, rock, electronica and hip-hop. Similar to the sound of The Crystal Method. Pensive, confident, cool. [Tempo: Medium / 122 BPM]
Rock guitars, drums and mysterious ambient elements combine to give a feeling of racing across the harsh desert in a rally car, also working and achieving, pushing through. Futuristic and slightly spooky, great music for motorsport, bikers and grease monkeys! [Tempo: Medium / 110 BPM]
A High energy soundtrack to launch impactful media. Ideal for impactful TV spots, typography, and sporting event openers. Big Taiko drums pound away to create a feeling of anticipation for a big moment and climax in either a live sporting event or compelling media project. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 125 BPM]
A straight up, raw rockin' hard rock track, with a big punch and big attitude. [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 165 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]
Edgy electronic music with solid beats, thumping toms and acid sound design. Dark / Dangerous / Power / Edgy / Raw music track. [Tempo: Fast / 135 BPM]
An intense and powerful blend of orchestral and metal music, with loud, heavy metal drum section. Forceful / Tense / Dark music. [Tempo: Medium / 85 BPM]
A suspenseful and slowly building blockbuster music track featuring full orchestra, with a blend of plucked synth playing unison with main string section. Grand / Epic / Triumphant / Amazing. [Tempo: Medium / 95 BPM]
A rough and gritty Drum'n Bass track. Down and dirty with a pumping synth bass groove. Futuristic and groovy. [Tempo: Fast / 140 BPM]
Full on Chilli-Pepper style rock. Aggressive, energetic, hard, funky. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 105 BPM]
A dark, tense and urgent music track with synths and orchestra. Dramatic and powerful music mood, with an apocalyptic edge. [Tempo: Fast / 140 BPM]
Floating and building music track, featuring pulsing electronic elements, dark atmospheric textures and dramatic percussion that creates tension. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 128 BPM]
Dark and foreboding sound design elements building with percussion and threatening strings. Violent and edgy. Epic / Trailer / Tension Music. [Tempo: Very slow, Fast, Very fast / 126 BPM]
Busy, active, energetic Drum'n Bass / Breakbeat. Confident strut, with lots of attitude; hard synth leads swirling and diving, in and out of pitch. High energy level. Robotic, Relentless and Funky. [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 165 BPM]
A video game inspired techno music track with lots of groove and drive. Punchy kicks and acid synth bring a sense of rush and anticipation. A plucky chiptune synth melody gives this track a retro feel. Minimal / Retro / Video Game Music. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 130 BPM]
Big Horn stabs, energetic beats, frantic funk and wobble bass, works great with sports promos, gaming, chase scenes, action or edgy situations. [Tempo: Fast / 142 BPM]
Driving electro-rock track with big beat drums and stabbing guitar riffs. Confident, relentless and not too overpowering. Think big engines, motorbikes, metal against metal, car commercials/vlogs or anything related to technology, industry, motors, running, sport and testosterone, modern lifestyle, fashion or hipster stuff. [Tempo: Medium / 120 BPM]
Electronic beats to the max. A quality EDM track that any DJ would want in their collection. Heavy bass synths are prominent in this track. An absolutely epic build up drops into a nice groovy house track that changes up enough to keep your listener interested. Nice switch ups and effects are present throughout the track. This track will work great for club scenes, party scenes, time-lapse, car commercials and more. [Tempo: Fast / 130 BPM]
Intense, powerful, driven, exciting, atmospheric, explosive, cinematic and highly dramatic modern rock track with strong eastern flavours in it's chords & percussion. Spacey, exotic scales combine with big guitars & hefty driven drums. Would suit action / thriller / travel / sports projects. [Tempo: Slow, Fast / 85 BPM]
Up-beat, funky, retro breaks feel with a vocoded refrain, “I came to start the party, ‘cos I’m the party starter”. Great music for action sports, work montages and gangster scenes. Also available without the vocals. Urban / Party / Dance stock music. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 128 BPM]
Battle drums. Pounding percussion. A combination of orchestral percussion and ethnic / tribal drums. Suitable for battle, fight, chase, brawls and action scenes. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 66 BPM]
An ominous, edgy, tense, semi-orchestral and semi-industrial action soundtrack. Orchestra with epic percussion, majestic sounding choir. Glorious / glorifying but also tense / terror / dark power, with a technology / mechanical edge. Good for dramatic trailers, modern and futuristic warfare, battle / fight, sci-fi and fantasy, action adventure, raw/violent sports footage and more. Also available as a Rock Mix with added power guitars and rock drums, and as an alternative version without the choir. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 136 BPM]
Edgy and brooding electro beats with aggressive synths. Driving / Promo / Dark. [Tempo: Medium / 100 BPM]
A dark, rhythmic, orchestral track suitable for conflict, battle, chase or impending action. A methodical rhythm creates a sense of something relentless, malevolent. Builds to a climax towards the end. [Tempo: Slow, Medium, Fast / 163 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: Medium / 100 BPM]
Imposing and tense, building throughout, cinematic epic theme. Anxious / Strong / Edgy / Dramatic music track. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 150 BPM]
A dark and dramatic, tense and uneasy music track for danger and dramatic scenes. This track has an underlying nerve, a building, increasing arrangement that grows into an all-out action track from about 01:15. Intense, fiery, and good music for extreme danger, battle, critical situations and more. This track has a lot of starts, stops and sections, parts and "edit points", making it highly suitable for editing to fit the timing of your own footage. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 120 BPM]
Bold, percussion focused underscore with electronic and percussive elements. Dark, pensive and suspenseful soundscapes. Lazy Moog Lead. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 130 BPM]
An ominous, dramatic and tension building music track featuring hybrid orchestra, combined with classical orchetra and deep synths. Growing into big, epic trailer music. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 80 BPM]
Chunky and groovy Drum'n Bass. Uptempo, with a nicely combined texture of swirley, dreamy soundscapes and a solid, funky, deeply driven core bass line. Busy breakbeat / drum n bass style drums. Good for sports, action, technology / hi-tech, cutting edge media, future/sci-fi and more. [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 170 BPM]
