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.
Intense and atmospheric, this track would be great for setting an ominous, chaotic, evil mood. Filled with advanced string performances and an eerie choir. (Stem files available.) [Tempo: Slow, Medium, Fast / 0 BPM]
A moody, echoing march. Heave synth sounds, and sparse melodies. Sets a mood that is ominous and mysterious. (Stem files available.) [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 53 BPM]
Deep ambient and spacey electronica. Downtempo drums enter later, over lush ambient washes of swirly synth pads. Hypnotic, dreamy, deep grooves. Chilled, Electonic Space Music. (Stem files available.) [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 60 BPM]
A sullen track with repeating echoes. Fluttery, mysterious, contemplative. Clarinet solo with flute and pads/percussion give a full rounded sound. Mystical / Introspective / Ethereal / Hazy. (Stem files available.) [Tempo: Slow / 79 BPM]
Light tension, neutral to lightly suspenseful introduction with minimal tension undertones. Suitable for documentaries, podcasts, and contemplative, active, thinking time, film scenes. (Stem files available.) [Tempo: Medium / 60 BPM]
A contemplative and intriguing film underscore, combining contemporary classical and atmospheric elements with flowing arpeggios, serene themes, and a reflective, quiet ambiance, ideal for moments of human drama and beauty. Also good as a background music track for science, forensics, investigative journalism, fact-finding and documentaries. (Stem files available.) [Tempo: Medium / 100 BPM]
Ambient film score with electronica elements, minimalistic arpeggios, and a relaxed, reflective vibe. Ideal for space science drama, technology and science. (Stem files available.) [Tempo: Medium / 100 BPM]
A dark and dramatic, cinematic trailer or action / tension score. Doom-laden / Foreboding / Serious / Tense. (Stem files available.) [Tempo: Medium / 90 BPM]
Minimal ambient bed for science, technology, news and factual documentary programs. (Stem files available.) [Tempo: Slow / 64 BPM]
Modern and precise hi-tech beats and pulses, glitches, sound design elements. Think current technology, science, investigation and innovation. (Stem files available.) [Tempo: Slow / 100 BPM]
Electronica / Synthwave / Electrowave music. Both retro and futuristic sounding, this is a modern take of 1980's-inspired, dark and mystical, groovy synth wave music. Great for gaming, cyberpunk, sci-fi, synthetics, artificial intelligence, space and mystical technology. (Stem files available.) [Tempo: Medium / 115 BPM]
Sad and emotional piece made for extreme visual and cinematic solutions. Heavy orchestral drums led by high piercing strings and basses following. The beginning of the track starts soft and builds upon itself with a tense and dramatic movement. This track is perfect as a theme or even any emotional cinema, it contains a start-stop feel to really offset the strings which lends itself for a very beautiful sound. (Stem files available.) [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 120 BPM]
Cello-led with cinematic orchestral with violin leads and string accompaniment. Versatile, thematic in nature, steady track with lots of movement and motion sonically. Raw, naked, film noir, chamber orchestra sound. (Stem files available.) [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 90 BPM]
Minimal at its core, yet striking back with sporadic leads and sharp staccato movements at the midst of the track, only to be accompanied with a short swell of strings to push for a conclusion for this very minimalistic and intense, slow tension-driven track. (Stem files available.) [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 65 BPM]
A staccato and arpeggio driven track by the cello. High, dense leads with the violin to push for a dramatic tense and dry sound. Minimal, constant and evolving. Raw, edgy, neo-classical. Tense and disturbing. (Stem files available.) [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 70 BPM]
Neo-classical, raw and naked, cello and violins in a film noir or classic drama mood. A sonically hopeful and emotional vibe convey itself with a really sweet and tender sound and feel backed by high controlled violins and cellos to bring a balance to this very delicate sounding track. Poignant and intimate. (Stem files available.) [Tempo: Slow / 78 BPM]
Romantic, sad and dramatic with a touch of hope. All the key ingredients needed to push for the best of story-telling and media which really impacts your audience. This tracks has a balance of these key elements and keeps in mind to not go beyond what is truly needed for effective and necessary melodic beauty. (Stem files available.) [Tempo: Slow / 65 BPM]
A gritty, tense and constantly building track with a sudden halt to push towards the next boundary in the middle of this cinematic soundtrack. Suitable for dramatic, edgy and dark story-telling. A raw, dark and intense orchestral soundtrack. (Stem files available.) [Tempo: Fast / 160 BPM]
A dark song that always has a hopeful mood and cannot hide its gloominess. (Stem files available.) [Tempo: Medium / 130 BPM]
Foreboding and tension-building action / thriller track with a gritty urban feel. Hard-hitting percussion with hip-hop drums, massive blaring brass and spy thriller like flute riffs combine to make a very ominous and urgent sounding action soundtrack. (Stem files available.) [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 85 BPM]
A very dark, powerful and dramatic horror / thriller track. Foreboding and scary. Eventful and intense. Combining orchestral elements with dark and powerful percussion and choir risers, this horror action track swarms and squirms through various stages and keeps developing throughout. (Stem files available.) [Tempo: Medium / 96 BPM]
A little bit spooky but mostly playful, this TV/film score track has a "sneaky" feel and is a bit cheeky. Like little detective, or someone planning a prank, perhaps. A little bit similar to some of the music in Desperate Housewives. Tip-toe'ing. [Tempo: Medium / 95 BPM]
Ominous and arid western atmosphere, inspired by modern TV drama like Breaking Bad and CSI. Crime and gangster feel, as well as police investigation mood. [Tempo: Slow / 90 BPM]
Piano, acoustic guitar, acoustic bass, vibes and conga work quickly to put a plan into action... although it may not be the ideal plan. Creates a great sense of movement and motion! In the eclectic style of scores by Thomas Newman, like American Beauty. [Tempo: Medium / 123 BPM]
A tension and suspense music bringing the rising power of orchestra, large brass ensemble and explosive and powerful percussion ensemble. Amazement / Uprising / Glory / Grandeur. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 85 BPM]
String quintet developing a dramatic theme, suited for dramatic series involving psycological or criminal content. Timeless, with a classic / classical influence music. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 160 BPM]
A brooding and atmospheric music track, featuring a haunting mood of northern cold and tribal beat. Suitable for epic scenery, historical music, cultural themes, indigenous peoples and cultures, far-away lands and amazing stories of wonder and awe. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 75 BPM]
15 minutes continuous, uninterrupted background music track for video productions and other media. Pulsing synth patterns, piano and sound design create a neutral, minimal documentary bed. Sparse and atmospheric with a sense of science, technology or factual documentary programs. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 100 BPM]