Underscore music for drama, poignant stories, insights, movies or nature. Contemplation / Remembrance / Mysterious. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 80 BPM]
A lonely piano melody gently plays out on top of dark strings and synths. A sense of moving on from a terrible past, but not without scars. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 62 BPM]
Spacey and atmospheric trip. Exotic mellotron strings and cool drum machine grooves combine to give an eastern flavour. The chorus brings the feeling of travel and forward motion as bass and percussion joins in. [Tempo: Medium / 96 BPM]
A subtle, solemn and reflective underscore for film, drama and more. Understated but powerful, this is a poignant and deep composition that goes under your skin. Use also for scenes of amazement and natural beauty. True / Insightful / Emotive. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
Cinematic Jazz-Funk, laidback yet full of tension, passion, mystery and drama. Retro 70s style movie and TV soundtrack music with strings, brass, electric piano, harp, bass and drums. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 84 BPM]
Sad, emotive strings fill this track. Soft electric piano chords play over the top as the tune builds then drops down in intensity only to rise up once more. Would suit romantic or tragic film project. [Tempo: Fast / 123 BPM]
Dark, sinister and brooding horrow/Halloween type piece that combines church organ, tremelo-ed strings and distorted guitar riffs. Hi tension and suspense is blown apart by the chorus part exploding into shining black light. Would suit horror/mystery/suspense projects. [Tempo: Slow, Fast / 120 BPM]
A thoughtful and pensive music track for drama, story telling, mystery or reflection. Melodic, a bit haunting and introspective, this music track will go well with personal stories, intrigue, a developing story or deep insights. A great mood setter. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 105 BPM]
Thoughtful, contemplative, reflective piece. Piano is joined by orchestral strings and then develops into a full orchestral arrangement a bit further in. Story-like, intriguing, developing. Suitable for drama and storytelling. [Tempo: Slow / 68 BPM]
This song is about seasonal depression. The lyrics describe the hopelessness involved in the changing weather and are a metaphor for a relationship that is past due. Available as a vocal version and an instrumental version. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 135 BPM]
Provocative Eastern tinged cello lines add mystery and intrigue to this brooding underscore. A mournful female vocal sings over sweeping chords at 1:21. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
Dark, moody and edgy underscore track with an industrial sound, starting with drones, pads and synths, then drums enter and the track continues to grow in energy, eventually finishing with crazy and deranged sounding synths. Perfect for anything unsettling or gritty, dark etc. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 120 BPM]
Is this business as usual or a front for an illegal operation? Suspenseful underscore, featuring odd-meter orchestral/electronic rhythmic vamp which gives the feeling of a working process, but at the same time of mischief, something not-quite-right. Good for mystery films and documentaries on crime. Key of D, 104 bpm. [Tempo: Slow / 103 BPM]
Folk / Country song about being isolated. Available as a Vocal version and an Instrumental version. [Tempo: Slow / 68 BPM]
This sentimental track has an exponentially-rising energy level throughout, starting with low energy (just vocals, strings and piano) and working its way into a full band piano-rock ballad. It will work well with footage of relationship troubles, reflective, sad, depressing, lonely, bittersweet, homesick or driving footage. Energetic guitars with a thumping bass line, melodic piano and soaring violin somewhere between pop and rock. The lyrics are all about coming to realization with the end. Closure on a failed relationship, learning to move on, get over it, and learn to love and trust again. Available as a vocal version and an instrumental version. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 135 BPM]
This powerful Indie rock music track evolves from soft to explosive within seconds. Piano and overdriven electric guitar play the melody and are overlaid by urgent electric rhythm guitars, picked bass, high powered drums, and percussion. Great music for dramas and emotional programing. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 131 BPM]
A dreamy, nostalgic and haunting track that will work for scenes of reminiscing and discovery. [Tempo: Slow / 80 BPM]
Powerful & emotional atmospheric orchestral track. Slow synth pads drone out into the stratosphere as strings & a pulse bass drum join. The chorus section's lush strings and lonely piano lines tug at your heartstrings, telling a tale of lost love & smouldering desire. [Tempo: Very slow / 40 BPM]
Powerful, serious sound. Smooth beat, dark strings, spherical synthhesizer, piano. Serious issues in politics, news and human relations. [Tempo: Slow / 85 BPM]
A sorrowful, emotional cinematic music. A simple piano melody develops into a full orchestral music track with big drums and emotional strings. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 0 BPM]
A serious and edgy track that builds in tension. Instruments include electric & acoustic guitars, strings, harp and percussion. Great for full length trailers. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 111 BPM]
A cinematic track featuring a beautiful melody on piano, strings, choir, drums and percussion. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 130 BPM]
Mysterious, mystical and foreboding Arabian or Persian textures. Nervous underscore with a Middle Eastern flavor. [Tempo: Slow / 0 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 hazy, somewhat dreamy, Americana / Folk, textural track featuring acoustic guitar, acoustic piano and harmonica lead. Lamenting, with a dark undertone. Good for drama, crime, history and more. Also available without the harmonica, making it a more ethereal, reflective underscore track. All live performance; no computers. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 84 BPM]
Tender and sorrowful, cinematic film/drama underscore. Sweeping strings, light orchestra. Touching, emotional, sad. [Tempo: Very slow / 0 BPM]
Modern electro synth alternative rock in the style Ladytron/Depeche Mode. Dark brooding synths/pads and leads, swirling theme guitars, drum machines and drum kit. [Tempo: Medium / 110 BPM]
An uneasy, ambient rock music track with noir and electronic shades. Obsessive piano theme is gradually enriched with synths and groovy drum pattern that lead to a nervous and restless outro. [Tempo: Slow / 138 BPM]
This track features a rock-steady drum and bass line syncing with slamming guitar lines of rock. The lyrics sing about a recent break-up and moving past the hurt and emptiness felt inside. Available as a vocal version and an instrumental version. [Tempo: Medium / 121 BPM]
A hell-raising, spine-tingling, bombastic orchestral track recorded with real strings and a real choir, on a big recording budget. [Tempo: Medium / 109 BPM]
An intensely suspenseful mystery cue underscoring anything from a deceitful murder to a mass epidemic. Orchestral with piano, in the vein of James Newton Howard's scores for M. Night Shyamalan films (The Village, Signs, The Happening). [Tempo: Medium / 94 BPM]
Ambient, semi-orchestral track with suspended strings and deep percussion hits. This tense music cue has a sense of historic drama, lurking danger, impending tragedy, conflict and betrayal as war plots being brewed. Highly suitable as a soundtrack for historical documentary, drama, as medieval/fantasy material, be it films, fantasy games, TV specials or other installations. Easy loopable and editable. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
Piano solo, slow theme. Mellow, peaceful, easy, romantic, perhaps wistful or nostalgic. [Tempo: Very slow / 72 BPM]
Classical acoustic guitar piece. With drama, suspense and many mood changes, played very emotionally. [Tempo: Medium / 92 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]
Synth pulses with a cinematic feel. Retro electronica with a nod back to the 1980's. Moody and contemplative. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 100 BPM]
A dark and depressing soundtrack-style theme featuring orchestra, piano, and solo violin that creates a hopeless and saddening mood. A stirring melody evokes death, grief, misery, mourning, suffering and desolation. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 115 BPM]
A sorrowful, but also comforting piece that starts out with piano, with orchestral strings entering later. A sense of loss, perhaps a bygone era. Very poignant, touching, intricate. Good for drama, personal stories, history and historical documentaries, etc. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
A mysterious and dark sounding solo piano piece. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 80 BPM]
Slow, spacious, ethereal, textured track with dreamy,exotic, vocal samples. Be whisked away by ethereal chants, on a calm breeze to foreign lands. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 82 BPM]
A grand, epic, romantic piece of orchestral / symphonic film score music. Wide open fields, home lands, personal stories, adventure and epic tales. The piece plays for six and a half minutes and can be used for several different cues, or together as a whole. This track is recorded with a live philharmonic orchestra. [Tempo: Slow / 71 BPM]
Trumpet and mellow / melancholic electric piano with upright bass. Moody jazz. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
A beautiful version of the famous Beethoven piano piece, Moonlight Sonata. An alternative version "with pedal noises" is also available, where the natural sound of the piano's food pedal has been included in the recording. Recorded exclusively for Shockwave-Sound.com by D Hamilton. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
An Alt Rock track that conveys feelings of melancholy and sadness but also energy and determination, time for regrouping not for surrender. Starting with an intense Guitar arpeggio and going directly to a full blast, full band theme, the track then goes through quieter sections, exploring different degrees of these emotions. [Tempo: Medium / 126 BPM]
A reflective, thoughtful, serious underscore for drama, mystery or documentary. Thinking time / Contemplation / Processing. [Tempo: Medium / 108 BPM]
This is a deep and dark cinematic track. Guitar part and Piano low notes accompanied by emotional Viola/Cello melodies. For drama films, videos and documentaries. [Tempo: Slow / 96 BPM]
A dark, cold and damp TV or film underscore cue. Pensive, unnerving and unsettling, this piece is suitable for a scene in a crime mystery, horror flick or perhaps a criminal documentary featuring evil or the occult, gruesome discoveries in forensics, crime scene investigation, etc. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
Dark, Mysterious and ambient cinematic track with a dreamy motif featuring guitars, orchestral percussion, choir, synth pads and middle eastern instruments like Duduk and Zurna. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 65 BPM]
Atmospheric, exotic, ethnic track featuring female vocal choir and the middle-eastern, north african plucked string, instrument, Oud. Great for travel, discovery, adventure as well as fantasy and dream worlds. The choir gives it an angelic feel, juxtapositioned against the serious, somewhat ominous tone of the Oud. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
A melancholic and nostalgic, ethnic waltz featuring Middle Eastern or Northern African flutes and string instruments over soft pads and acoustic guitar. [Tempo: Slow / 75 BPM]
