Look here for royalty-free underscores for Mystery and Suspense. Whether you're working on the scene where a mutilated body is found, or you're designing a video game where the hero sneaks around a deserted space ship, this area will provide sneaky, creepy and suspenseful music tracks. Much of this is orchestral music, but not all. Also electronic and more experimental musical sounds are used to create these tracks; most of which are subtle, ambient underscores, rather than up-front, brash compositions.
A tense atmosphere with lots of percussion, space and crescendo with synths and drones [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 90 BPM]
A mysterious tune for acoustic guitar, minimalistic and suspenseful. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 63 BPM]
An uneasy, unsettlilng and somewhat mystical film score / soundtrack with an edgy sound combining synthesizers and piano. Mystery / Intrigue / Crime / Regret / Forensics / Analytics / Criminal Investigation. [Tempo: Slow / 82 BPM]
A deep, ambient, slowly moving, textural track. Nostalgic, flowing, hazey. Reflective / Thoughtful. Somewhat similar to the sound of Sigur Ros. Perhaps a slight Scandinavian / Nordic feel. Melancholic and haunting. [Tempo: Slow / 80 BPM]
A dark and poignant underscore for film / drama. Gloomy, but with hints of hope. Touching, personal and introspective. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
A dark piece with swelling tension and pounding drums. Your anti-hero will thank you. [Tempo: Slow / 80 BPM]
A tension building track great for action and adventure scenes or reality game show programming. Features unique drum rhythms, a harmonic piano ostinato, synth motifs, and string riffs. [Tempo: Medium / 64 BPM]
A dramatic track that builds in tension and features strings, piano, big percussion hits, electric bass synth, and pads. Perfect for action and adventure scenes or reality game show programming. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 86 BPM]
A dramatic tension track that opens with rhythmic and melodic synth lines and builds with light percussion, piano, strings, and brass motifs. Perfect for action and adventure scenes or reality game show programming. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 128 BPM]
This epic track features a sad, yearning melody performed by a traditional Chinese bowed instrument. Underneath this melody is a huge combination of orchestra and percussion, which grows in intensity throughout the length of the track, and create a sense of propulsion. [Tempo: Medium / 130 BPM]
Ethnic flutes and duduk, orchestra and percussion. Someone is on a long journey and is in a cold and foreign land. Great for travel documentaries or suspenseful scenes in TV and film. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 91 BPM]
A small jazz group of drums, bass, piano and vibes with a sprinkling of guitar. A cool vibe, like a basement club in a city late at night. [Tempo: Slow / 90 BPM]
A propulsive track featuring both acoustic and electric guitars, drums and synth. Intense drama simmers just beneath the surface, ready to boil over at any moment. [Tempo: Slow / 80 BPM]
A feeling of rising tension pervades this epic TV drama style track. Think 24. [Tempo: Medium / 124 BPM]
Heavy pounding drum driven big orchestral sound. Hectic very fast powerful driving solid dramatic adventure with uplifting high energy. Energizing, pulsating, production music. Bold dramatic and tense chase scene, crime in progress, bank heist, dynamic racing and action scenes. [Tempo: Slow, Medium, Fast / 118 BPM]
Nervous action / thriller underscore. Stakeout, movement, urgency, ticking bomb. This track has a strong and tense nerve, as if everything is going to blow at any second. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 131 BPM]
Disturbing, distorted, uneasy and malevolent. Highly suitable for scifi, game, thriller or action film. String lines nervous and staccato, dissonant string stabs with busy percussion. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow, Medium / 112 BPM]
Slow, pensive, introspective underscore for drama & storytelling. Pensive, somewhat dark / sombre. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 55 BPM]
A slow, serious, pensive underscore for mystery drama, fiction, storytelling. Perhaps crime or criminal investigation, dark subjects. Cold. Various mixes are available. This track shares its sound / production style with two other tracks, 'Inner Struggle' and 'Inner Thoughts'. They can work well together, if you wish to keep a uniform sound / feel in your production. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 57 BPM]
A sombre and very slow moving underscore track for mystery, drama or fiction. Dark subjects, perhaps crime, criminial investigation or difficult subjects. Stories of struggle or hardship. Various mixes are available. This track shares its sound / production style with two other tracks, 'Revenge 2 Dark Thoughts' and 'Revenge 3 The Plot'. They can work well together, if you wish to keep a uniform sound / feel in your production. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 49 BPM]
A slow moving background track for drama and fiction. Serious subject matter, perhaps crime, criminal investigation or dark urban subjects. Slightly dreamy. Various mixes are available. This track shares its sound / production style with two other tracks, 'Turmoil 1 Suspicion' and 'Turmoil 2 Activate'. They can work well together, if you wish to keep a uniform sound / feel in your production. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 48 BPM]
Spacious, ethereal, airy, cinematic, thoughtful & dreamy “ambient rock” style. Plucked strings combine with a steady, hypnotic beat to make mesmerising music that would suit dramatic / mystery / detective / documentary type projects. Emotive, introspective, reflective, serious & repetitive. Float off into the sky. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 113 BPM]
An orchestral film cue of mystery and intrigue. Sneaky, pondering, suspicious. Good for adventure, comedy, fantasy, family film. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 90 BPM]
Dreamy, introspective, serene, reflective, moody, solemn, somber, sedate piano & strings soundscape. Conjures up images of a russian winter, ice & snow all around. Ethereal & thought provoking. Would suit dramatic / cinematic / filmic / romantic type projects. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 79 BPM]
A tribal and primal sounding peace built on percussion grooves and mysterious, drone like synth pulses. Influences from ancient world cultures come together with futuristic, sci-fi type sounds, to create a fusion of past, present and future. Ominous, mysterious, tense. Think tribes, jungle, rainforest, world beat / mystery. [Tempo: Medium / 120 BPM]
An open, transparent underscore music with a somewhat mysterious, pensive tone. Echoey guitars over a slightly dark drone. Thoughtful and reflective, perhaps regret or waiting for something. The end part takes on a more assertive, gloomy, doom laden feel. Also available as an Underscore version, and as a version without the drums. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 90 BPM]
Modern and moody ambient electronic score. For crime and mystery drama such as CSI or Bones as well films, corporate projects and documentaries with an analytical, investigative, explorative or scientific theme. [Tempo: Medium / 90 BPM]
A mix of orchestral and electronic elements creates a beautiful tension. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 92 BPM]
Ambient, Dreamy, Electronic, moving soundscapes. Mystical, with occasional Tibetan monk. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 120 BPM]
Soft, slow, moody, hypnotic, atmospheric track using spacious piano and gated synth pulses. Mysterious, mesmeric, intriguing, dark & brooding. Would suit thriller / dramatic / mystery / spy / crime type projects. [Tempo: Slow / 79 BPM]
Ethereal, abstract, moody, mysterious & thought-provoking track using ambient synth atmospheres. Dark, unnerving, tense, scary, contemplative & edgy. Would suit space / dramatic / sci-fi / cinematic type projects. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
An emotive and cinematic piano led track, with warm strings, subtle percussion and a quiet drone. Evocative and somewhat melancholy, this track would be great for adding an emotional edge. [Tempo: Slow / 120 BPM]
Looking inside for answers, following up on troubling questions, searching and wanting to understand are easily conveyed in this marimba-centered piece. Bells, pizzicato strings, pan drums, drums, shaker, bass and synth pad float behind the marimba hypnotically. Suitable for all kinds of emotional drama, and themes/scenes where melancholy and searching dominate. [Tempo: Medium / 108 BPM]
A very deep relaxation track with a mysterious / world feel. Tibetan bells, ethereal pads, distant strings. Suitable for hypnosis, yoga, deep stillness. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 60 BPM]
Space, sci-fi soundtrack material. Epic composition with orchestral arrangement, inspired by Babylon 5, Cosmos and other space series. Emotional, fluttering, with a strong sense of discovery and new frontiers. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
Suspenseful thriller underscore. Ticking rhythm giving a sense of counting down. Sneaky strings, spy-like electric piano. International conflict, thriller, inspired by the music in films like 'The Interpreter' and TV series like '24', etc. [Tempo: Fast / 113 BPM]
Mysterious, pulsating underscore track with a sense of danger or impending discovery. Crime investigation, undercover spy, agent, secret mission, breaking in or exploring a crime scene etc. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 85 BPM]
Underscore track with a low level spy-thriller bass groove. Funky, laidback drums, electric piano, slightly retro feel. Undercover cop, investigation, searching for clues etc. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 75 BPM]
A tense and nervous underscore with ominous strings, occasional deep booming drums and a few spy-like guitar notes. Highly suitable for thriller, spy material, tense film underscore etc. [Tempo: Medium / 69 BPM]
A dark, pensive and very tense film underscore track using staccato string section, unintelligible whispers, ethnic percussion. A very serious tone which sets the scene for crime, thriller, international conspiracies, terrorists, etc. [Tempo: Medium / 80 BPM]
Secret Agent or Spy Thriller material featuring funky riffs, horn sections and the unmistakable melodies of international mystery and intrigue. Inspired by James Bond 007 and other spy thriller films. [Tempo: Medium / 110 BPM]
Futuristic, dark and menacing sci-fi or horror underscore. Synth pads, reverberant percussion, few piano notes and ominous chord progressions. [Tempo: Very slow / 106 BPM]
Horror, scifi or thriller underscore featuring severely mangled guitar notes, deep thumping percussion and a disturbing drone. Like the desolate sound from the pits of hell, this is a very dark ambient track. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
Ominous, epic royalty free soundtrack piece with an orchestral/electronic arrangement. Dark, foreboding, like dark tales from a city or sci-fi horror. Rich on texture and melody with a sense of foreboding and tension. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
Very sparse underscore, almost a void. Scraping pads, unrecognizable, resonant sounds. A place of unease and disease, sneaking, hiding. Great as a sci-fi, thriller or horror backdrop. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
Dark, ominous, ghostly, slowly turning and twisting soundscape, later joined by gloomy strings. Great horror or sci-fi underscore. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
Dark, foggy pads, slow bassoon and cello. Creeping, slowly moving musical soundscapes. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
A hard hitting, wire cut, synthetic, minimalist and incredibly funky techno/house track. [Tempo: Medium / 125 BPM]
TV news broadcast style. Urgent, serious, news footage, latest breaking news etc. [Tempo: Medium / 85 BPM]
Energetic rock theme. Impulsive guitar riffs. Spatial drive guitar solo. Mix of electronica and hard rock elements. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 120 BPM]