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.
Big Beat tune in the style of Prodigy. Distorted synth line and a pounding drum beat, combined with aggressive electronica elements. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 120 BPM]
A strong and motivational pop/rock track with a feel of hope and positivity. Bass, drums, synths and multiple guitar parts combine to create a big and pleasing sound. [Tempo: Medium / 118 BPM]
Apocalyptic track with a haunting vocal, where the beautiful and fragile clashes with the dark, destructive and desolate. The track starts off slowly with distant hits and drums. The main build up is a strong riser of detuned strings and brass that builds up to a massive dubstep drop. The main drop is full of deep bass and over the top heavy drum hits. The track continues with the distorted dub step theme with a layer of vocal towards the end. Suitable for epic video game and movie trailers, scenes of battle or struggle, or a futuristic armageddon. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 65 BPM]
A deep, low-down, gritty and gutsy, fiery and hard hitting rock / metal track. High energy level. [Tempo: Medium, Fast, Very fast / 92 BPM]
A funky and edgy Dubstep track with a big beat and a gritty determination. Groovy and infectious, with a nice and energetic 'drive' and plenty of twists and turns along the way. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 115 BPM]
A hard hitting Big Beat track featuring a determined, although downtempo, methodical rhythm with rough and touch, gritty and nasty riffs. Suitable for tough guys on the street, mean machine, high tech warfare or battle / brawl / fight. Also inner city chase, tough guy cops / secret agents / undercover spy, moving into position. A sense of determination, never-give-up siege mentality. Relentless, groovy and funky. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 120 BPM]
A powerful and forceful battle track for historical, fantasy, adventure battles. Perhaps vikings or hordes of savage invaders. Dark and powerful stuff. [Tempo: Slow, Medium, Fast / 135 BPM]
High-speed, frenetic paced Rock guitars and Jungle beats combined with glitchy child-like voices, ready for action scenes, destruction and mayhem! Ideal for fighting computer games, crime, gang culture. [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 170 BPM]
An extremely hard hitting guitar rock track. Full-on energy impact, massive power, all-out hard rock warfare. Severely cranking guitars and bass, with a B-part featuring an industrial element. [Tempo: Fast / 120 BPM]
A fiery, hard hitting metal track with a seriously heavy punch, and rhythmic synth patterns used in combination with chugging and wailing guitars. Raw and intense. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 127 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 / 0 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]
A sneaky, downtempo funk track in the style of 1980s cop films like Beverly Hills Cop and many others. Synth bass, gated drums, wah-wah guitar. Suitable for scenes of investigating, stalking, sneaking around, stakeout and more. [Tempo: Medium / 110 BPM]
Smooth, warm, pulsating and delicately groovy electronica. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 95 BPM]
Retro 8-bit / 16-bit computer gaming style music, inspired by the sounds of 1980's and 1990's arcade video game machines and home video game systems such as Nintendo, Commodore Amiga, Sega, Atari, etc. This track has a melodic action feel, like an agent on a mission, a crime in progress, a cool spy master or a super hero. [Tempo: Medium / 124 BPM]
Funky and cool breakbeat track with chopped up vocals and vinyl effects. Fast paced slap bass riff mixed with drum and bass style loops and synths gives this track a playful and upbeat energetic quality. Confident and funky. [Tempo: Fast / 120 BPM]
An urgent, dramatic, epic trailer track. A sense of urgency or time running out. Great hordes of warriors on the move. Majestic and menacing, threatening. Perhaps the uprising of a huge army. Powerful stuff. Also available as a Rock Mix, with additional heavy rock guitars and rock drums. [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 100 BPM]
Fast sliced drums, melodic bass. Aggressive, energetic, hard. [Tempo: Fast / 168 BPM]
Driving electronic beat with acid synths and broken drum beat. The track drops into a punchy 4/4 electro beat and later switches to a high energy drum & bass part with pitched up synths and big buildups. Sounds of a siren and vocal sample 'drive' suggesting a race or a chase. Also available without the vocal sample and the siren sound. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 125 BPM]
Funky, gritty big beat music track in the style of Crystal Method or Chemical Brothers. Edgy synths and guitar riffs. Nasty, confident, funky and relentless music. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 125 BPM]
Drum'n Bass with Dubstep / Dub and Glitch tentencies. Gritty and choppy, heavily processed. Edgy, with a mechanical, almost dirty feel. A middle part takes it all down to a dreamy / heavenly / fantasy soundscape, before once again kicking in the main beat. Features fragments of female vocals scattered in a complex sonic landscape. Good for future / sci-fi / space / high-tech / robotics, as well as action/chase, extreme sports, gutsy and gritty visuals, etc. [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 170 BPM]
A down and dirty, nasty beat and synth riff. Determined, controlled aggression. Combining elements of urban, rock, electronica and hip-hop. Similar to the sound of The Crystal Method. Pensive, confident, cool. [Tempo: Medium / 122 BPM]
Busy, active, energetic Drum'n Bass / Breakbeat. Confident strut, with lots of attitude; hard synth leads swirling and diving, in and out of pitch. High energy level. Robotic, Relentless and Funky. [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 165 BPM]
Driving and motivating hard rock track with catchy guitar riffs and synths. [Tempo: Fast / 135 BPM]
A dark, determined, edgy and slamming Electro / Techno beat music. Powerful, mechanical, forceful and methodical. [Tempo: Medium / 0 BPM]
Mystical / Dark / Foreboding / Uneasy / Eerie / Urgent Music. Small orchestra soundtrack piece, featuring live performed orchestral instruments, suitable as music for film and other media. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 154 BPM]
Bad-boy beats, boxing bells and monstrous horns, seriously head-bopping Hip-Hop, ideal for use with combat sports promos, urban scenes, military and gangster scenes. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 88 BPM]
Light rock / general rock / instrumental. Moderately excited, with a sense of movement, perhaps the wind in your hair, or taking responsibility, taking action. Good for youth drama, TV series and presentations as well as for driving / cars / sports, outdoor activities and more. [Tempo: Medium / 110 BPM]
Rough and kickin’ Rock / Dance music crossover track. Tough yet playful, ideal as extreme sports music, gaming, action-filled footage etc. There is also a version with vocal samples. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 128 BPM]
Pumping, driving electro-rock music with heavy guitar riffs and edgy synths. Music suitable for workout, sports, gym or big machines. Available with or without the 'One Two Three Jump' vocal parts. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 120 BPM]
Chunky and groovy Drum'n Bass. Uptempo, with a nicely combined texture of swirley, dreamy soundscapes and a solid, funky, deeply driven core bass line. Busy breakbeat / drum n bass style drums. Good for sports, action, technology / hi-tech, cutting edge media, future/sci-fi and more. [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 170 BPM]
Dark / industrial / music for dramatic trailers / cinematic / orchestral. Cinematic royalty free music track with swelling strings and a low bassline. Starts off with a slow build of violins, cello and bass. The main drop explodes with big drums and a dramatic rhythm. High pitch strings keep cutting through the track and build along with some horns to a big hit finish. This track is good for movie trailers, video game trailers, extreme sports, inspirational sports scenes of achievements, etc. [Tempo: Slow / 65 BPM]
After an acoustic intro, this track soon builds into a take-no-prisoners, up-front and gutsy, hard hitting rock track. Uptempo and crunchy, with a wild streak. Action / Extreme Sports / Combat / Fight / Wild / Untamed. [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 174 BPM]
Edgy electronica meets bad-ass guitar riff. Dark dub / heavy metal crossover. Glitchy and gritty. Funky and nasty. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 130 BPM]
Fast paced, Prodigy style Drum and bass intro and breakdown plus slamming complextro, dubstep drops. Ideal for extreme sports, gamer vids and very fast moving edits! [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 140 BPM]
Moderately busy big beat track built around catchy guitar riff. Confident, relentless and not too overpowering. Think big engines, metal against metal, car commercials/vlogs or anything related to technology, industry, motors, running, sport and testosterone, modern lifestyle, fashion or hipster stuff. [Tempo: Medium / 120 BPM]
This high energy and fast ska music is inspired in the UK style of the second ska wave of the late 1970s and early 1980s. This track gets you up and going! Saxes, trombone, organ, guitar, bass, percussion and drums make up the instrumentation. Highly suitable as music for oddball comedies, cool and slick commercials, reality shows and TV themes. [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 150 BPM]
Tough, funky, determined Future Bass / Techno music slammer. Powerful, relentless, groovy beats. Great music for action, sports, extreme sports, exciting and hi-tech / technology and future tech. [Tempo: Medium / 110 BPM]
A dark, edgy and suspenseful music track featuring epic percussion ensemble, strings and brass. Suitable for tension building and dramatic events. Brooding / Ominous music / Urgent / Threat. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 90 BPM]
Big, bad and bold Hip Hop / Trap track, aggressive, in-your-face, ideal for sport, martial arts, exercise and baddy scenes. Powerful and heavy. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 75 BPM]
A blazing, fiery and red-hot progressive rock track. Slightly psychedelic music. Hefty and wild. [Tempo: Slow, Medium, Fast / 136 BPM]
Dark and pulsing music track, featuring tense strings, electronic textures and sparse punchy percussion creates a foreboding and fearful mood [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 120 BPM]
A dark and powerful film / cinematic soundtrack that incorporates edgy, electronic, dubstep influences. Emotive, grand and lush, with a cold, dark undertone. Perhaps a dark hero. Use with action adventure, thriller, crime mystery, science fiction, armed conflict / military, and more. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 70 BPM]
Exciting, driven, call to arms rocker. Fast, bold, confident, edgy, triumphant, fiery & dangerous. Intense, passionate, primitive, loud & mean. Would suit action / thriller / extreme sports / competitive / combat type projects. Has an air of rousing victory and beating the odds. [Tempo: Fast / 151 BPM]
A dark, slow, dramatic orchestral theme with choir. (Choir enters about 1 minute in). Dramatic events, dark days. Doom and awe. Available with or without choir, and with or without additional rock drums. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 60 BPM]
80's synth vibes and rolling baseline, cinematic and futuristic music. Works great with technology, animation, sci-fi and gaming videos. Mechanical and robotic music, yet very groovy. [Tempo: Medium / 110 BPM]
Very electronic, slight retro sound like Kraftwerk or other minimalist electronica acts. Mysterious and robotic, a bit industrial. [Tempo: Fast / 130 BPM]
A dark and suspense trailer track with an atmospheric and dramatic mood. Lots of rising effects, soundscapes and hybrid synths. Edgy, dramatic, tense. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 110 BPM]
Dark, edgy, tense, exciting, atmospheric, driven & climactic electro-metal track with purpose & energy. Massive guitars, crushing drums & interweaving synths combine to make music to suit action / thriller / dramatic / sports / combat type projects.Thrilling, determined, wild. [Tempo: Medium / 121 BPM]
An action theme that thrusts forward at a cantering rate. Building to a climax that’s ready for conflict and rightful victory. [Tempo: Fast / 170 BPM]
