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.
Blazingly fast techno beat with drum'n bass influence mixed with a twisted and mangled guitar riff gives this track a great hook and makes it highly suitable for high energy, high impact material such as extreme sports, etc. [Tempo: Very fast / 186 BPM]
All live performed, genuine African drum ensemble. Recorded live in one take by the Shabani Jabiri Bakari ensemble from Bagamoyo, Tanzania. "Lipango" is a hunting dance music from the Pangwa tribe. [Tempo: Fast / 161 BPM]
A strong rhythm of deep, ethnic percussion provides the base for this staccato, ominous and glorifying track with a dark fantasy feel. It builds gradually throughout, to a huge and overpowering tidal wave of orchestral brass, strings, war chants and a massive percussion section. Proud and majestic, but with a threatening, malevolent feel, like an army of dark beasts on the eve of war. Maybe even Pirates... [Tempo: Medium / 53 BPM]
A solid and determined rock track with a certain amount of grit but without straying into heavy metal. Mid-tempo rock with a rough edge, great for use with sports, high-tech, exciting footage and technology web sites, maybe powerful machinery or vehicles etc. [Tempo: Medium / 82 BPM]
Action oriented hybrid orchestral music track, with a lot of metallic percussion and powerful blasts. Fast and driving percussion ensemble. Inspired by apocalyptic action and car chases. Chase / Crime / Cinematic Music. [Tempo: Fast / 150 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]
Hard core, extreme hard rock / grindcore. Very violent / brutal. Forceful, determined, aggressive. Fast guitar riffing, doubling up on the kick drum for a machine-gun like rhythmic feel. Use with scenes of violence, destruction, war, extreme aggression, hardcore motor sports, extreme sports and dramatic trailers with an extreme / fiery / violence overload kind of feel. [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 190 BPM]
Intense fuzzy and driving rocker with lead guitar taking the place of the lead vocal. Hints of Queens of the Stone Age, Satriani and Foo Fighters. Contains guitars, bass, organ and drums. [Tempo: Fast / 145 BPM]
Gearing up for a battle, the two sides size each other up. The leader of the good guys delivers a short yet inspiring message to his team... we may be down but not out, go out there and conquer! Orchestra and urban beats. Good for sports and any scene building up to action. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 88 BPM]
Hard and edgy, downtempo, industrial rock. Hard biting guitar guitars with slamming drums and a gritty, edgy sound. [Tempo: Medium / 96 BPM]
A dark and ominous tribal music track with urgent, intense, earthy African drums and various foreboding instruments and vocal grunts. Danger / Darkness / Primal / Savage. [Tempo: Fast / 135 BPM]
A raw and gritty, fast tempo rock track with a UK / Brit / Indie-rock sound. Also a slight Surf rock influence with tremolo guitars. Exciting, raw, rebellious. [Tempo: Fast / 159 BPM]
A punk-ish tune filled with nasty guitar-spanking riffs, distorted bass and banging drums. A lot of energy and attitude makes this track very edgy and current, but it also has a retro flavor. Very confident and kinda cocky. Great for youth and teen-oriented material. [Tempo: Fast / 160 BPM]
A brutal, fiery, low and hard punching metal rocker. Mean, ballsy and with about a hundred tons of attitude. Great for action, sports, motor sports and big boys with big toys. [Tempo: Medium / 119 BPM]
Something is coming your way, you can feel the tension in the air. And then it comes into view and its travelling fast, leaving a trail of dust behind. A Powerful rocker with an edgy intro and a killer guitar riff. The guitar melody lends it a positive feeling of speed and power. [Tempo: Medium / 126 BPM]
Powerful, medium-fast paced, high-intensity, adrenaline-fuelled guitar rocker.dramatic, atmospheric & passionate combination of monster riffs, synths, strings and hefty grooves. [Tempo: Fast / 146 BPM]
Drum'n Bass / Techno / Dubstep hybrid. Busy and edgy. Cool for extreme sports, hi speed chases and anything else that needs an energetic and ear catching background track. [Tempo: Fast / 144 BPM]
Doomy lumbering grind-rocker with monolith sized menacing riffs. Quite anthemic. Think Rage Against the Machine jamming with Black Sabbath. Contains guitars, bass and drums. [Tempo: Medium / 88 BPM]
Nice opening music for awards, achievements and business success. [Tempo: Fast / 140 BPM]
Edgy, lively, groovy, motivated, driven electro rock tracks with bundles of tension, suspense & nervous energy. Synth bass & lush strings combine with lively drums and syncopated organ lines to make music suitable for thriller / action / crime in progress / jewel heist type projects. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 140 BPM]
A fast paced dubstep breaks track in the style of Prodigy meets Skrillex. Perfect for extreme sports and aggressive scenes, this track transitions from an atmospheric, almost eerie start into full on, in your face complextro/dubstepo. Nice for extreme sports and energetic action sequences. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 130 BPM]
A hybrid orchestral music track with a massive, epic sound. Distorted, unstable synthesizers combine with full orchestra, huge percussion and eventually, choirs. This music track has a sound of epic action scenes, sci-fi, fantasy or horror. The track has several build-ups and drop-offs, edit points that can be used to make track fit the timing of your production. [Tempo: Slow, Medium, Fast / 83 BPM]
Hard rock, progressive rock with down and dirty guitar riffs, drum syncopations, occasional keyboard overlays and textures of several guitars. Great for sports footage and much more. [Tempo: Fast / 136 BPM]
This track has a intense instrumentation, that drives the song with a lot of passion and extreme sound. It will work well in any action and sport footage. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 105 BPM]
After a dark and uneasy intro, the main riff takes off at about 27 secs into the track. This is a dirty, filthy, grinding and gritty, dark and destructive track of hard biting guitars and squelching synths. Negative and doom-laden, with aggression, power and determination. Grindcore, hardcore, industrial, post-modern electro guitar mayhem. [Tempo: Fast / 140 BPM]
Determined, cool and confident power rock with an interesting, odd time signature. Available both as a vocal version and as an instrumental version. The instrumental mix in particular is great for sports, action, extreme sports, racing, and any high impact, high energy footage. [Tempo: Medium / 100 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 powerful, booming heroic epic trailer track. Begins with emotional cello and choir, moving into thumping drums and strings at 0:20, with heroic horns entering at 0:33. A breath in the music at 0:59, then the second sections begins which is more relaxed and pulled back. 1:30 sees the music move back into the powerful and epic style once again with the penultimate section beginning at 1:50 which builds until 02:03 when the most epic part begins. Powerful strings, horns and drums dominate this track. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 75 BPM]
A slow, but aggressive and relentless hard rock / big beat track built on biting and snarling guitar riffs. Use for sports, action, motorsports, dirt and grit, muscle and brawling etc. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 95 BPM]
Energetic hard rock / nu metal. Edgy, high intensity and energy level. Good for chase, action, race, fight / brawl, extreme sports and more. [Tempo: Fast / 165 BPM]
Powerful hard rock with a heavy eighties aura. Perfect for sports or training montages. Energizing and inspiring solid rock tune. Also available without the corny guitar melody. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 120 BPM]
Exciting, bold, driven, atmospheric, dramatic rock track with great forward momentum & suspense. Determined, bouncy, rebellious, confident, dynamic, tense & thrilling. Would suit extreme sports / motorsports / action / thriller type projects. [Tempo: Fast / 152 BPM]
Energy rock track with a high level of intensity and plenty of twists and turns throughout, to keep the interest and energy level up. Fast tempo, energizing, exciting. Good for sports, extreme sports, power racing, action filled footage, fights and brawls, destruction derby, etc. [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 167 BPM]
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]
Dark, exciting, adrenalized & tension-filled rock track with electronic & orchestral elements. Very driven & powerful. Picks you up and throws you around. Would suit high drama / thriller / action / extreme sports projects. [Tempo: Fast / 140 BPM]
A cool electronic beat with a dark mood and funky acid bassline. Simple but powerful tune, with strong rhythm and clean analog synthesizer sound. Tight 303 acid bass, cool vocal cuts and rhythm switch ups make this a unique and stand out tune. This music track will work great in car commercials, demo videos, extreme sports, action scenes and much more. [Tempo: Medium / 100 BPM]
A 3 voice harmony guitar melody drives this bouncy, happy instrumental. The middle section blistering guitar solo darkens the atmosphere a bit. Overall, reminds me of several Steves (Vai, Hackett, Morse...) [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 146 BPM]
Soundtrack / Sci-fi / Space / Fantasy. An energetic track suggesting the setup for a battle or other epic event. Conveys a sense of resolve and determination. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 123 BPM]
Urgent and dramatic action cue, suitable for chase or battle scene, military conflict, combat sports, action movie trailer or other high impact footage. Live orchestra combined with sampled percussion and fast congas patterns creates a sense of desperate urgency and struggle. Chaos and destruction. [Tempo: Fast / 150 BPM]
Edgy, gritty and intense power rock. Meaty, chunky and heavy guitar riffing with industrial style keyboard textures and drums. Slightly mechanical, metallic feel. Good for power engines, action sports, extreme sports, fighting, dirt flying, rally and Nascar, offroad madness and much more. [Tempo: Medium / 110 BPM]
A tense, pensive underscore for a dramatic scene with an Italian or Sicilian slant. Perhaps New York Mafia, historical drama, or a chase / battle / conflict scene set against a backdrop of Italy / Sicily or Eastern Europe / Traditional Europe. Mandolin and violin with battle percussion, orchestral strings and brass stabs. [Tempo: Slow, Medium, Fast / 75 BPM]
A dark and staccato action trailer music track, featuring synths combined with orchestra. Modern sounding track with a touch of electronica and blockbuster feel. Action / Future / Edgy Music. [Tempo: Fast / 110 BPM]
A varied and quite progressive rock track. Different guitar parts, some more melodic, others more riff based. Moderately aggressive, with a sense of danger, freedom, adventure and gutsy attitude. [Tempo: Fast / 130 BPM]
A dark and gritty, determined and vengeful, power rock track. Brutal guitar riffs, staccato and stuttering. Good for action trailer, fights and wrestling, big power racing, extreme sports and action filled footage. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 110 BPM]
Tense orchestral piece. Pulsing drums and strings, abrasive brass and drums, haunting textures and an overall suspenseful pursuit. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 98 BPM]
High tension, action and energy track. Semi-orchestral, with electronic drums and synthesizers. Constant rhythm changes make this piece good for game and film trailers, and any productions needing high impact, nervous music. Ominous, dangerous, suspenseful and foreboding, with hip hop influences. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 120 BPM]
Unique, intensely powerful, monster riff- fuelled rock track that would suit extreme sports or action/thriller projects. Imagine Black Sabbath crossed with Satriani and you're in the right area. [Tempo: Medium / 92 BPM]
A tense and dark trailer-style track led by orchestra and synths while featuring electronic drums and driven guitars at points. Epic and powerful, with a clock-like pulse. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 120 BPM]
A dramatic hero type theme. A dangerous situation, people in distress, lives in danger. Perhaps a brave rescue team or military intervention. [Tempo: Medium / 112 BPM]
Percussion only track / Battle drums. Tracks with Drums only are useful for action sequences, fight scenes, war and battles, macho sports and exertion, powerful imagery, dramatic trailers and more. Also available as seamlessly looping Drum loops / Percussion loops. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 97 BPM]
