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.
A slow but determined, foreboding, cold groove carries through this mysterious, dark track. The backbeat groove keeps pumping away unrelentingly - as strings, pads and synth arpeggios weave swirling patterns around it. Technology, mythology, science, mystery, past and future, high tech, sports, cutting edge, dark past. Similar to the sound of Massive Attack. [Tempo: Slow / 81 BPM]
A frisky and funky guitar rock track built over a standard 12-bar blues chord structure. Double-time drums, upbeat and uplifting guitar riff. Great for commercials, presentations, sports and action, any fun filled, fresh, busy, colorful programming or media. Groovy, baby! [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 125 BPM]
Fast country featuring fast picked Telecaster electric guitar over bass and drums. A fun and jumpy, action filled country track. [Tempo: Very fast / 140 BPM]
Strong, dominant and powerful orchestral battle theme. Suitable for trailers, battle scenes, huge forces or powerful machines etc. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 98 BPM]
Strong, dominant and powerful orchestral battle theme. Suitable for trailers, battle scenes, huge forces or powerful machines etc. [Tempo: Medium / 93 BPM]
A very powerful orchestral fantasy battle track. Almost chaotic at times, with strings and brass interplay with huge percussion and sweeping cymbals. Great for use with fantasy war, trailer, battle sequence, warfare etc. [Tempo: Fast / 0 BPM]
Mysterious, orchestral theme, Grand chord progressions, string sections with percussion and later a full orchestra. Builds to crescendi at around 01:10, followed by a more sinister section with dark string and nervous stabs. Suitable for drama, scifi or fantasy. [Tempo: Medium / 94 BPM]
Skewed, odd, quirky. Slightly mechanical sounding, leftfield urban mechanoid beats with a hip-hop flavor. Anxious. [Tempo: Medium / 86 BPM]
In your face, hardcore heavy metal track with a big, slamming wall of guitar riffs, wild synth licks and occasional sections with an industrial/mechanical feel. [Tempo: Medium / 75 BPM]
Blazing, fiery hard rock track with a very strong forward drive. Great for hardcore car racing, stupid jackass stunts, extreme sports, any action or battle footage etc. [Tempo: Very fast / 145 BPM]
Fat and fresh alternative rock similar to, say, some of harder Nickelback work. Uplifting and optimistic. Suitable for sports footage, downhill, skating or parachuting, racing, base jumping, any action packed footage really. The track alternates between 'down and dirty', gritty guitar riffs and high soaring solo lines representing a free spirit, untamed and living the wild life. [Tempo: Fast / 126 BPM]
An intense, fiery hard rock track with blazing guitar chops and downtempo but powerful drums. Layers of electric guitars provide a thick texture of aggressive and funky rock riffing. Great for action, racing, extreme sports, high impact footage. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 100 BPM]
A hard rock track with a powerful punch and a big pair of cojones. Feelgood, uplifting and positively forward driving and highly suitable for action footage, extreme sports and car racing, powerful football cuts, destruction and mayhem, etc. [Tempo: Medium / 132 BPM]
This is pretty much as 'in your face' as we're ever going to get. This is a fast, brutal, ruthless and relentless blazing inferno of destructive mayhem hard rock track. Great for raw footage, destruction and war, burning and slashing, extreme sports etc. [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 130 BPM]
A guitar rock track that's rough, but not hard. Plenty of attitude and grit, but without crossing over into hard rock or metal. Bluesy guitar riffs create a restrained, but gutsy rock feel. Great for sports, challenges and much, much more. [Tempo: Fast / 135 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]
Majestic and monolithic movie soundtrack cue, high intensity with a live choir singing a glorifying theme, live orchestra and deep pounding war drums. Perhaps an awesome war machine, a superhero or the rise of a powerful mage. Great material for action movie trailer, sci-fi or fantasy, epic battle etc. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 140 BPM]
A dark and twisted action fantasy or sci-fi film soundtrack. Gloomy and majestic at the same time, the piece depicts a deep conflict, pain and determination. Suitable for explosive film trailer, war or battle footage, combat and conflict. [Tempo: Medium / 69 BPM]
Military / Science fiction soundtrack style. A slow, pensive and mysterious opening gives way after a couple of minutes to a pompous, staccato horn stabs and marching snares and all-out battle with horn stabs and fast congas. Sci-fi and battle/chase scenes. Ominous, dramatic, conflict. [Tempo: Medium / 80 BPM]
Staccato strings and synth pulse arpeggio. Military or science fiction cinematic sountrack style. Spluttering synthesizers, orchestral horn stabs, timpani, congas and snares. First half sneaky and building, dissonant, arm-up. Second half all-out battle, chase, action. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 100 BPM]
Rock guitar riffs and diveboms with funky hammond organ, horn stabs in a high energy, positive drive, upbeat sports/action track with elements of rock, techno and funk. [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 120 BPM]
Gaming or adventure music with a relentless marching thrust that includes smouldering interludes shot through with flurries of eastern flutes. There is also a Contemporary Mix which adds Urban style drums for a hip-hop soundtrack feel. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 70 BPM]
Fat and groovy guitar riffs combine with powerful drums and synth patterns for an infectious rock fest. Great for sports, extreme sports, action footage etc. [Tempo: Medium / 81 BPM]
Funky electro-static track with elements of techno, house and more traditional electronica. Confident, cool and mechanical. [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 128 BPM]
Solid groove drums with ambient textures. Hard, determined, hi-tech. [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 145 BPM]
Aggressive & atmospheric Drum'n Bass. Dark, energetic and aggressive. [Tempo: Fast / 166 BPM]
Big beat electronica. Urban contemporary, energetic, happy, funky and a little bit freaky. [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 133 BPM]
Punchy menu, scratches and stabs. Energetic, bouncy, wacky. [Tempo: Fast / 170 BPM]
A very loud, brash and intense action track, highly suitable for movie trailer, game trailer, war or battle scenes. High level of intensity throughout with live choir and live orchestral instruments used in combination with samples and huge, pounding percussion. Urgent, tense and very dark. Builds to a crescendo towards the end. The only difference between the regular version and the 'Alterative version' is that the alternative version does not contain the solo female voice phrase at 25 secs. [Tempo: Fast / 131 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]
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]
A dramatic orchestral track with choir, slowly growing in intensity throughout, towards a powerful crescendo and climax. Highly suitable for movie trailer, game trailer, dramatic footage of war, conflict, power struggle, fantasy or scifi, or hard/gritty sports or action material. [Tempo: Medium / 125 BPM]
Apocalyptic and dramatic orchestral track with a choir entering on the second half. Majestic, regal and proud. Suitable for war, power struggle, film trailer, movie trailer, action footage, fire desctruction and mayhem. Also good for fantasy or sci-fi, perhaps an uprising or marching to war. [Tempo: Medium / 87 BPM]
A bombastic and majestic track cleverly created by combining samples with live orchestra and live choir recordings. Dramatic, staccato strings and brass sections lead the way into a powerful and intense trailer track with a thunderous percussion section. Growing to a crescendo and eventually into a climax. Highly suitable for fantasy, scifi, gearing up for war or battle, hard sports or high impact action footage, and more. [Tempo: Fast / 150 BPM]
Punchy, energetic Drum & Bass. Intense, disturbing, hypnotic, industrial. [Tempo: Very fast / 144 BPM]
Fresh & rhythmic dance pop, with vocal samples. Upbeat, energetic, hard, funky. [Tempo: Fast / 138 BPM]
A somewhat restrained, but positive and upbeat electro track. Nice, energizing background groove. [Tempo: Medium / 81 BPM]
Drones and pulsating rhythm. Mystery and tension. Nice underscore for a dramatic situation. [Tempo: Medium / 90 BPM]
A highly intense and gripping suite of action and suspense scoring, underlying anything from the plot of a spy to the chase of an escaped convict. Orchestral in nature with big drums and driving percussion rhythms, in the vein of John Powell's "Bourne" movies and the scores of Hanz Zimmer and Steve Jablonsky ("Batman Begins" and "Transformers"). [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 93 BPM]
A building and pounding action cue with driving percussion rhythms, orchestral energy, and big drums, underscoring anything from a heist getaway 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 / 75 BPM]
An intense action cue 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 / 130 BPM]
An intense action cue 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: Medium / 90 BPM]
An intense and fun action cue with driving percussion rhythms, orchestral energy, and big drums, underscoring anything from a major heist to a victorious getaway. Very much in the vein of John Powell's "Bourne" and "Italian Job" scores and the scores of Hanz Zimmer and Steve Jablonsky ("Batman Begins" and "Transformers"). [Tempo: Medium / 80 BPM]
An intense action cue 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 / 80 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]
An intense epic action cue with driving percussion rhythms, orchestral energy, and big drums, underscoring anything from a reckless helicopter chase to a battle between man and machine. Very much in the vein of Danny Elfman's action scores and the scores of Hanz Zimmer and Steve Jablonsky ("Batman Begins" and "Transformers"). [Tempo: Fast / 155 BPM]
A driving and emotional dramatic cue with a thematic interlude underscoring anything from a kidnapping search to an innocent fugitive on the run. Orchestral with rhythmic percussion, piano, strings, and brass. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 90 BPM]
A driving and emotional dramatic cue with a thematic interlude underscoring anything from a kidnapping search to an innocent fugitive on the run. Orchestral with rhythmic percussion, piano, strings, and brass. [Tempo: Medium / 80 BPM]
An intense epic action cue with driving percussion rhythms, orchestral energy, and big drums, underscoring anything from a fast car chase to a battle between man and machine, with a riveting climax. 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 / 155 BPM]
An intense action cue 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, Very fast / 142 BPM]
