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.
Straight forward driving, beefy modern hard rock/metal track ideal for reality TV, sports, and action cues such as Ultimate Fighter, Nascar, WWE and UFC. Huge, slamming drums mixed with edgy, tight palm muted 7 string guitar riffs. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 100 BPM]
A slow but determined, foreboding, cold groove carries through this mysterious, dark track. The backbeat groove keeps pumping away unrelentingly - as strings, pads and synth arpeggios weave swirling patterns around it. Technology, mythology, science, mystery, past and future, high tech, sports, cutting edge, dark past. Similar to the sound of Massive Attack. [Tempo: Slow / 81 BPM]
A dark cinematic piece with percussions and pads that builds into an atmospheric blend of guitar ambiences, mysterious drones and big percussion. Huge climax at the end. Good for dramatic moments, transitions, trailers, film and tv. [Tempo: Medium, Fast, Very fast / 139 BPM]
Powerful hard rock with a heavy eighties aura. Perfect for sports or training montages. Energizing and inspiring solid rock tune. Also available without the corny guitar melody. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 120 BPM]
A vibrant, slightly menacing up-tempo rock / funk / breakbeat track, funky guitar riff filters up through electro dance beats and builds into a straighter, more mechanical synth break, great for sports and adventure with a sense of being in control and quite happy about it! Groovy and with live drumming, can also work well for action/chase sequences. Underscore version without repeating disco stab. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 128 BPM]
Epically spacey & powerful rock monster with electronic elements. At times slightly psychedelic, others quite dark, heavy & sinister. Always motivated, determined, intense & melodic. Contains some intense guitar work! Would suit thriller / action / sports projects. [Tempo: Medium / 90 BPM]
Edgy, dramatic, exciting, atmospheric, driven, colourful and powerful electronic-rock track mixing spacious synths, plucked ethnic strings, phatt synth bass, frenetic beats & brass stabs. Would suit action / thriller / sports / documentary type projects. [Tempo: Fast / 138 BPM]
A hybrid orchestral / electronic track with Middle Eastern influences. Some parts of this track are pensive, sneaky, uneasy - other parts more dramatic, ominous and epic. Can easily be edited to the fit the lenghts of your cues, to match the timing of your project. Edgy, Serious. [Tempo: Medium / 100 BPM]
Hard hitting rock / metal track with elements of modern melodic rock. Positive, fresh, and energetic feel. Gutsy and heavy, but also uplifting. Good for sports, extreme sports and high impact footage. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 80 BPM]
An exciting and energised rock track with catchy 8-bit elements and an epic sound. Sounds both youthful and new, very much in the fashion of the current 8-bit pop/rock fusion trend. [Tempo: Fast / 170 BPM]
Powerful, dramatic orchestral track with a sense of an imminent attack about to happen. Danger, conflict, tension, preparing to go to battle, not knowing what awaits. This film score style track has a cinematic, epic sound, great for action, adventure, thriller type productions. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 110 BPM]
Retro funk drums and funky clav are joined by futuristic electronic sounds, to create an unusual & eclectic form of urban jazz groove. [Tempo: Fast / 105 BPM]
A creature from beyond time and space appears, accompanied by massive, cinematic, trailer-style orchestra and choir! [Tempo: Fast / 151 BPM]
An unnerving, tense and somewhat quirky soundtrack with a sense of the strange, weird, and mystical. Available with or without occasional child vocal chants, this track combines elements of the Ancient and Mystical with more modern sounds and a driving, determined beat. Good for tense and nervous scenes, perhaps building up to action. Can be set in an exotic place on earth, or even on a strange alien planet. [Tempo: Medium / 100 BPM]
A dramatic and quite evil dub step / breakbeat music track gives an uneasy feeling of science fiction and alien encounters. Crescendoing synth keys filter up into a monstrous half-time dub step style beat before the track breaks down and the finale is a complextro breakbeat section. Great for use in sci-fi, extreme sports music, technology or any type of modern urban scene. [Tempo: Slow, Medium, Fast / 128 BPM]
Crushingly heavy, doggedly determined, intensely driven & primitively powerful hard rock track with hints of Rage Against The Machine & Queens of the Stone Age. Confident, raw, mean, gutsy & lively. Would suit extreme sports / motor sports / action / thriller / combat type projects. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 121 BPM]
Huge, hefty, confident, determined, intense, powerful rock monster combining massive walls of guitar with relentless groovy drums. Primitive, dynamic, grinding, gutsy, adventurous & bold. Modern rock that would suit extreme sports / action / combat type projects. [Tempo: Slow / 75 BPM]
Energetic hard rock / nu metal. Edgy, high intensity and energy level. Good for chase, action, race, fight / brawl, extreme sports and more. [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 158 BPM]
Fat and fresh alternative rock similar to, say, some of harder Nickelback work. Uplifting and optimistic. Suitable for sports footage, downhill, skating or parachuting, racing, base jumping, any action packed footage really. The track alternates between 'down and dirty', gritty guitar riffs and high soaring solo lines representing a free spirit, untamed and living the wild life. [Tempo: Fast / 126 BPM]
A dark, dramatic, and rousing orchestral music track with a feel of war or conflict. The dark, gloomy and determined character of this track will give your project an epic, tense feel. Angry / Doom / Epic Music. [Tempo: Medium / 120 BPM]
Featuring synths, heavy electric guitars and some seriously epic moments, this track has a huge sound and a punchy melody. Has an energetic, rocky and heavy main riff, a strong electronic drum beat and a mix of retro chip sounds and synths. The middle section also features epic orchestral and choir elements. Perfectly suited for high impact, high energy videos or retro games. [Tempo: Fast / 144 BPM]
Tense, horrific survival music, blending hard percussion with orchestral elements. Changes between pensive, nervous parts and more action filled parts for chase, action scenes. Nervous, slightly chaotic, disoriented. [Tempo: Medium / 95 BPM]
A funky bassline and Rockin' beat are the core of this fast paced 'race to the finish' track. Turn up the volume for full effect and blend this with images to portray speed, agility, technology and the ultimate winner. [Tempo: Fast / 130 BPM]
Dramatic , medium pace, driving riff-fueled rocker. Think Foo Fighters meets the Boston Symphony Orchestra and you're in the right area. Would suit adrenaline sports / thriller type project. [Tempo: Slow / 67 BPM]
Edgy, gritty and intense power rock. Meaty, chunky and heavy guitar riffing with industrial style keyboard textures and drums. Slightly mechanical, metallic feel. Good for power engines, action sports, extreme sports, fighting, dirt flying, rally and Nascar, offroad madness and much more. [Tempo: Medium / 110 BPM]
An adventurous Persian, Egyptian, Middle Eastern theme track. Like setting off on a new quest, confident and battle ready. A feel of the Middle East, Arabia, Persia and perhaps historical, legends, fantasy etc. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 90 BPM]
Driving Score track with e-guitars, effects and heavy drum/percussion sounds. Edgy, menacing and aggressive. Good for action, pursuits and thrilling fight scenes. [Tempo: Slow / 120 BPM]
A no holds barred assault on the ears, guitars, drums and bass collide in and go for the jugular, until the mid section where the sound pressure goes into an ambient breakdown... only to be shattered once again by searing lead guitar. Lots of eastern scales in the lead melodies. Hints of jeff beck and george lynch. [Tempo: Fast / 136 BPM]
Exciting, bold, driven, atmospheric, dramatic rock track with great forward momentum & suspense. Determined, bouncy, rebellious, confident, dynamic, tense & thrilling. Would suit extreme sports / motorsports / action / thriller type projects. [Tempo: Fast / 152 BPM]
Percussion only track / Battle drums. Tracks with Drums only are useful for action sequences, fight scenes, war and battles, macho sports and exertion, powerful imagery, dramatic trailers and more. Also available as seamlessly looping Drum loops / Percussion loops. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 81 BPM]
Fast Tempo heavy metal/rock track. Features driving metal guitars, an echoing energetic guitar riff and pounding bass guitar and real live drums. [Tempo: Fast / 155 BPM]
Intense and dark hard rocker, with brutal riffing and occasional alarming synth elements. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 131 BPM]
Driving electronic music track with uplifting melodies and strong rhythmic elements. Break beat and melodic opening of the track builds up and drops into a driving 4/4 rhythm with rolling bassline. Slow but energetic feel of the track gives it a wide range of applications. Positive / Game / Action Music. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 115 BPM]
Dark Dub / Breakbeat. Sarcastic / Gritty / Grimey / Dark Electronica / Robotic / Mean / Strong. Also available without the vocal samples. [Tempo: Medium / 140 BPM]
This track is nonstop energy with slamming drums, catchy vocals, and edgy lyrics. A great fit for action scenes, anything involving alcohol, parties, dances. Available as a vocal version and an instrumental version. [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 158 BPM]
Exciting, tense, edgy, suspense-filled track with a great sense of momentum and forward drive. Dramatic strings combine with motivated, frenetic drums to make music that would suit spy / thriller / mystery / escape / crime caper. [Tempo: Fast / 156 BPM]
Run For Your Life. is a thrilling cinematic trailer that is epic suspenseful and intense full of tension and terror. It starts with a sad and haunting mid eastern vocal reminiscent of Hans Zimmer's Gladiator score and erupts into a gripping and chilling cinematic trailer that ends with massive, bold loud dramatic impacts and explosions. Excellent for trailers, action sequences, halloween and horror, extreme sports footage or clips requiring a track that leaves your audience on the edge of their seats. [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 0 BPM]
A simple, insistent, driven, powerful, building, groovy, trance-inducing rocker. Raw, mean, gutsy, epic, intense, dynamic, fiery & suspense-filled adrenaline-boosted track. Would suit rebellious action / thriller / extreme sports / combat / military type projects. [Tempo: Fast / 145 BPM]
Tense orchestral piece. Pulsing drums and strings, abrasive brass and drums, haunting textures and an overall suspenseful pursuit. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 98 BPM]
Epic drama hits! A metal, electronic, symphonic orchestral hybrid with light dubstep electronic elements. Huge guitars and dramatic moving strings make this track ideal for promos, trailers and intense action cues like UFC, WWE, NFL and all other extreme sports. In the style of Celldweller, Cliff Lin and E.S. Posthumus. [Tempo: Slow / 150 BPM]
A brutal, fiery, low and hard punching metal rocker. Mean, ballsy and with about a hundred tons of attitude. Great for action, sports, motor sports and big boys with big toys. [Tempo: Medium / 119 BPM]
Soundtrack / Sci-fi / Space / Fantasy. An energetic track suggesting the setup for a battle or other epic event. Conveys a sense of resolve and determination. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 123 BPM]
In your face, hardcore heavy metal track with a big, slamming wall of guitar riffs, wild synth licks and occasional sections with an industrial/mechanical feel. [Tempo: Medium / 75 BPM]
A very loud, brash and intense action track, highly suitable for movie trailer, game trailer, war or battle scenes. High level of intensity throughout with live choir and live orchestral instruments used in combination with samples and huge, pounding percussion. Urgent, tense and very dark. Builds to a crescendo towards the end. The only difference between the regular version and the 'Alterative version' is that the alternative version does not contain the solo female voice phrase at 25 secs. [Tempo: Fast / 131 BPM]
An infectious, riffy and catchy, classic style rock / hard rock track. Guitar driven, positive, determined. Aggressive, but more in a fresh and positive way, rather than doom-laden. Use with exciting media, victory lap, sports montage, extreme sports, watersports, basejumping and skydiving, alpine skiing, racing and motor sports, etc. [Tempo: Medium / 142 BPM]
Gritty, dirty, hip-hop with a hardcore rock element and drum'n bass style drums. Hard, dark, extreme, war mongering. Good for extreme sports and action filled footage. Grinding guitars with slamming hip hop / electronica drums. Available either with or without the Check My Style vocal scats. [Tempo: Very fast / 160 BPM]
Energetic hard rock / nu metal. Edgy, high intensity and energy level. Good for chase, action, race, fight / brawl, extreme sports and more. [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 165 BPM]
Angsty rock chic, inspired by jeans or phone commercials, etc. The full-length track is only 40 seconds long. There is also a loop available. [Tempo: Fast / 140 BPM]
Commercial pop music track heavily influenced by hip hop, using big arena synths and hints of brass. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 87 BPM]
A powerful and grand / regal orchestral / symphonic soundtrack piece, driven forward by Taiko like percussion. Pounding drums combine with dramatic string sections to create a sense of imminent battle, dangerous situation. Perhaps a sea rescue, a dangerous missing on enemy territory, or the rise of an awesome fighting force. Military / Fantasy / Action / Conflict / Fight. (A note about the version described as 'Stage Mix': This version is recorded with the reverb/ambiance of a concert hall, making it sound somewhat more 'distant' from the listener and, some would say, more 'live') [Tempo: Medium / 75 BPM]
