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.
Slow, weighty hard rock music track with a sense of anxiety and danger. Monster, ponderous groove gives way to feisty guitar riffs and sharp synths. Strong, relentless and confident. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 80 BPM]
A very nasty piece of work. Evil and hellish, this slowly grinding, crushing and somewhat sickening beat is overlaid with severely distorted guitar riffs and heavy, processed drums, for a very hard core, almost vulgar result. Good for extreme sports, dirt and grit, fighting/brawling, ugly scenes of destruction and mayhem. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 70 BPM]
A dark, tense and urgent music track with synths and orchestra. Dramatic and powerful music mood, with an apocalyptic edge. [Tempo: Fast / 140 BPM]
A groovy techno music track with deep pads and emotional build ups. This track has a rhythmic switch at a half way point. Edgy and pumped music. [Tempo: Medium / 120 BPM]
All live performed, genuine African drum ensemble. Recorded live in one take by the Shabani Jabiri Bakari ensemble from Bagamoyo, Tanzania. This music composition is inspired by a street in Dar es Salaam called "Mtaa Kongo". A very busy street with a lot of people. [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 166 BPM]
Fast, aggressive, big and powerful epic drums track. Determined, tribal, pounding music. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 130 BPM]
Dark and ominously hybrid tension music with electronica elements, pulsating rhythm, deep, impactful taiko percussion, and ambient pads. Suitable for suspenseful film scenes, thriller documentaries, and crime investigation podcasts. (Stem files available.) [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 100 BPM]
An evolving and building, suspenseful music track, combining hybrid & pulsating synths and symphonic orchestra. Ending as a loud trailer piece, with added organ sound. Awe / Majestic / Incredible Music. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 120 BPM]
An aggressive dubstep / drumstep track is a contemporary cue reminiscent of artists such as skrillex, Knife Party and Nero. It's energetic, driving and gritty. It has a funky danceable groove, screaming wobble bass that stands up and grabs your viewers attention, and a reggae influenced chord progression that is a nice blend of dub and progressive dance. It's exciting, extreme and fashionable and would work nicely in advertising, extreme sports and athletic video, automotive promos, video games, tv and film and as hi energy in store or a phone on hold track. [Tempo: Slow, Medium, Fast / 175 BPM]
Fresh and funky, brass stabs and retro breaks. Upbeat, groovy, fun and full of attitude music. [Tempo: Fast / 120 BPM]
Pulsing, cinematic electronic music theme. Epic / Adventure / Future. Gritty / Powerful music track. [Tempo: Fast / 140 BPM]
A hybrid orchestral & big beat / tech groove track with a slick, driving sound and a good energy level. Tough and confident. Will go well with a modern action thriller, spy thriller, chase, secret agent, undercover agent, police operation, etc. [Tempo: Medium / 100 BPM]
Intriguing and impactful underscore for news items and other documentary features. This track has a sense of urgency with mild suspense. Documentary / Crime reporting / Cyber / Hacking / Police stakeout, etc. [Tempo: Medium / 80 BPM]
Aggressive track of evolving suspense and tension, odd and mysterious at times, dark and ominous at times. A punch in your face! [Tempo: Slow, Fast / 164 BPM]
Drum'n Bass with dub and tech-step influences. Moderately high tempo, swelling bass synth patterns. Rhythm changes to half-speed and back up to a more aggressive breakbeat / jungle / drum & bass style pattern. Confident, groovy and futuristic. Available with or without female vocal samples. Good for sports / motorsports / sci-fi / future / technology / dub & glitch / underground cultures / urban subcultures. [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 170 BPM]
A lively funk / R&B track with a repated, catchy bass line, funk guitar and occasional brass licks. Can be modern day or classic / retro funk as well. Busy and upbeat, gives off a good funky energy. Busy / Active. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 120 BPM]
Dark and industrial, orchestral rock and hip hop, reminiscent of Dj Shadow or Moby. Soft organs chords lay the motif before bass guitars and rock drums cut through and combine to create highly dramatic feeling, an epic odyssey. Twisted, glitched metal guitars follow before breaking down into an epic string section to conclude the journey. Ideal for use in high-end advertising and promotional pieces - Also included is an "Orchestral" version - an ambient mix ideally suited for scoring in the modern Fantasy / Supernatural genres. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 80 BPM]
A dark, edgy and suspenseful music track featuring a hybrid sound of orchestra and electronics, with big percussion. Dangerous / Threatening / Tension building music. [Tempo: Medium / 164 BPM]
Dark breakbeat / Hip Hop music crossover with spikey synths and otherworldly feel - ideal with gaming videos, extreme sports music and technology advertising. [Tempo: Medium / 98 BPM]
Modest Mussorgsky - Night on Bald Mountain in D Minor, IMM 43. Full orchestra. Music recorded and produced by David Hamilton exclusively for Lynne Publishing. [Tempo: Medium, Fast, Very fast / 0 BPM]
Hybrid industrial trailer music track with pounding drums and sound design elements. Tense, urgent, violent music. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 146 BPM]
Straight to the point, active, punchy and up-front Funk track. Full of energy and vigor, this will get your feet tapping and bring sparkle and excitement to any media project. Energetic / Funky / Excited. [Tempo: Fast / 120 BPM]
A Percussion Only track, with marching snares, military march. Occasional big drum strikes. Useful as music for scenes of war, war preparation, battle preparations, etc. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 100 BPM]
A dark and intense music track, slowly building from a quiet and suspense atmosphere. Evolves into a big, and powerful track loaded with orchestral and hybrid sounds, accompanied with choir. Epic / Sci-Fi / Future Music. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 75 BPM]
Busy, energetic Drum'n Bass. Stuttering, processed, chopped-up breakbeat / Drum & Bass beats with hard synths. Available with or without male vocals, somewhere between rap and scat. Confident, raw, with attitude. Good for X-sports, hardcore racing, action/chase, rave & underground club, urban subcultures, and more. [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 170 BPM]
Dark, Pensive underscore track for Action Thriller / Mystery / Horror / Sci-fi / Adventure. A Tribal / Ancient / Mystical backdrop meets with Ethereal pads and pounding percussion. Awe / Tension / Amazement / Drama. A rich, cinematic, dark sound. Available with or without the drums, and with or without the ethereal vocals. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 90 BPM]
Edgy, raw and gritty Rocktronica. Great for sports, extreme sports, racing, action, fast-cut and frantic footage etc. Available with or without the vocal parts. High energy / Energetic / Punchy. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 130 BPM]
A cinematic and edgy track with elements of movie / filmscore and hard edged Dubstep. Dramatic and epic, this track starts with piano and cinematic strings in a tense, pensive first half, and then bursting into a mechanical sounding, robotic, mean and gritty Dubstep beat in the last third. Good for mechanics, hard electronics & robotics, cutting edge technology, conflict and struggle, extreme sports, epic trailers and more. [Tempo: Slow, Medium, Fast / 100 BPM]
Low, massive, propulsive bass. Ominous, spatial percussion instruments. Evokes a sense of unease, tension, and threat. Ideal for projects related to tension, crime, and drama. [Tempo: Fast / 150 BPM]
Dark Hip-Hop and orchestral music mix, with a secretive mood. Spy music / Crime / Ominous / Edgy. [Tempo: Slow / 75 BPM]
A straight up club electro track with funky basslines and heavy beats. This track is upbeat with a heavy 4/4 rhythm. The beat switches up in the breakdown to an uplifting melodic part that builds to the main drop. The vocal effects help build up the track until it hits with a powerful EDM rhythm and bass. This track will work great for club scenes, party scenes, car commercials, electronics commercials etc. [Tempo: Medium / 125 BPM]
Huge stabs give way to twisted maniacal anguish and haunted voices. Tragic theme introduces a grim march propelled by determination and grit. The theme is presented at the end in a burst of triumph and heroism. Good for epic battle, fight to the finish, dark action. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow, Medium, Fast / 0 BPM]
Energized, intense, groovy, determined, positive, powerful, unstoppable, forward-moving rock beast combining big guitars, motivated drums and epic strings. Edgy, dynamic, dangerous, hypnotic & relentless. Would suit action / thriller / combat / sports type projects. [Tempo: Medium / 97 BPM]
An epic trailer music track with retro feel synthesizers and hard hitting drums. Atmospheric opening is lined with low synth pads and drones building to an epic bass drop. Lots of glitches, boomers and drops fit for a dramatic movie or video game trailer music or other edgy, dark, gloomy and twitchy material. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 105 BPM]
A ‘Rock-tronica’ track with a corporate feel ideal for use in advertising and motivational scenes. Energetic and bouncy, gives a feeling of rising up or happily succeeding, moving forward with vigor and enthusiasm. Also works great for technology and extreme sports. [Tempo: Fast / 140 BPM]
Australian Didgeridoo combined with powerful percission elements. Tense / Ominous / Action feel. Great for travel or history, documentaries and specials. [Tempo: Medium / 0 BPM]
A Percussion Only track, with marching snares, military march. Occasional big drum strikes. Useful as music for scenes of war, war preparation, battle preparations, etc. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 100 BPM]
Triumphantly menacing, boisterous and ferocious metal hybrid rock track. A meaty and heavy track, for dystopian scenes, post-apocolyptic worlds, gaming and high octane sports, action, crime and more. (Stem files available.) [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 80 BPM]
A hard, edgy and fiery blaze of rock power. Heavy, monstrous and gritty, with a fierce bite and drive. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 160 BPM]
Dark, edgy music track, filled with power. Pulsating synths, strings, impacts and everything suitable for powerful blockbuster track. [Tempo: Medium / 120 BPM]
Snarling industrial music beats, guitars and big horns serve up a massive mechanical, other-worldly vibe. Dark and foreboding music. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 90 BPM]
Pulsating and powerful music, building with percussion. Imposing / Epic / Rhythmic. [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 125 BPM]
Metal meets Dance & Disco. Powerful and gnarly guitars and pumping beats, ideal for all hot moves, extreme sports, chases and heists, gaming and any scene needing some craziness [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 140 BPM]
A suspenseful and ominous music with elements of mystery, conspiracy, intrigue with intensity throughout. Guitar and electronic elements. Good music for trailers, too. [Tempo: Medium / 120 BPM]
Uptempo, Los Lobos style Tex-Mex rocker featuring drums, bass, guitars and accordeon. Fast and fun! [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 135 BPM]
A dark, industrial EDM piece, featuring a gritty combination of electronic sounds, dubstep elements, and epic orchestral tracks. [Tempo: Medium / 116 BPM]
A dark, pulsating and suspenseful track featuring dramatic strings, brass, percussion. A feeling of urgency, tension and dangerous situation. Brooding / Tense / Uneasy / Apprehensive. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 140 BPM]
A rough, tough, hard edged Big Beat track with acidic synths and flanged guitar riffs. Good for action, attitude and gutsy stunts etc. [Tempo: Medium / 116 BPM]
A tense, dark battle between 2 opposing sides, fighting till the end. Strong use of strings with a mixture of synthesis to give the track a technical edge. Dynamic conclusion of epic instrumentation and frantic drums to bring the track to the end. [Tempo: Slow / 120 BPM]
Sleazy and bold horns and stabs in a fun but slightly menacing groove. Ideal for gaming, edgy content, men's health, comedy and high octane sports. (Stem files available.) [Tempo: Medium / 95 BPM]
