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.
Sneaky, slow, somewhat dark "spy funk" track with electro / dub influences and occasional lead guitar lines. Good for Crime in Progress, Spy / Agent, Secret Mission, undercover police operation, forensic investigations etc. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 130 BPM]
Eerie, tense, percussive soundscape with a relentless spooky melody, dark metalic FX and flute sweeps. Atmospheric with a sense of suspense and imminent danger. Menacing and sinister. 48 hours, The Mentalist, Castle, Alien Invasion, crime drama, horror, Sci-Fi. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 90 BPM]
Steady, understated background groove. Electro bass and drums keep a nicely flowing, subtle tech groove going, without any real development or outstanding melody. Good for background / underscore and media use, including corporate, technology and more. Masculine, with some sense of mystery / risk. [Tempo: Medium / 120 BPM]
A modern sounding and also ambient, yet melodic track that evokes a serious, but also lighter feeling. The tracks starts off with pads and other synths but a lighter beat also enters later. Fits nicely to either presentations of all sorts - including medicine, science and education, but would sit equally well behind a weather forecast. [Tempo: Medium / 100 BPM]
Mysterious, dark and ethereal cinematic track with pianos, dreamy pads and sound effects create a mystical atmosphere. Good for movies, documentaries and more. [Tempo: Slow / 80 BPM]
An electronic Dubstep track featuring a fat but clean bass, classical drum beat spiced up by an Indian touch to it brought by a sitar, some tablas and a bansuri. It's urban and dark sound would provide a great combination to any city footage, something like a documentary on Bombay's mafia. [Tempo: Slow / 130 BPM]
A mysterious and pensive, orchestral underscore for Fantasy, Adventure or Sci-fi. A mixture of awe, amazement, wonderment and nervous tension. What's lurking behind these walls? Great background material for Fantasy games, Adventure / Discovery, Historical and Epic stories. Can also work for some Epic Trailers. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
Mystery, intrigue and magic in this deep, tense / pensive fantasy underscore. Creepy, sneaky, underlying tension. Good for adventure, exploring, lurking danger. Use in fantasy games, sci-fi / horror film, mystery and suspense. Full orchestra; available with or without choir. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 100 BPM]
Very hard to categorize this track; it's a mystical, electronic, dark-dub influenced underscore / background groove. A sense of underlying movement, mystery and atmosphere. Good for crime drama, forensics / investigation, underscores for urban and technology based content. Has a sense of something uneasy, something intangible. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 70 BPM]
Very dark, eerie and foreboding. This synth-based cue is drone driven, with stabs of rhythmic color and percussion. I could be used as a sneak, a stalk, or for some really twisted character development. Good for thriller, crime drama, drama, police show, mystery. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
This Chopin inspired classical piece with a modern twist evokes the music written for the time with some classical-modern phrased lyrical melodic overtones. Think Chopin meets Van Gogh in a creative artistic landscape of mind and spirit. Good for classically inspired Media of all types. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
Eerie, tense, percussive soundscape with a relentless spooky melody, dark metalic FX and flute sweeps. Atmospheric with a sense of suspense and imminent danger. Menacing and sinister. 48 hours, The Mentalist, Castle, Alien Invasion, crime drama, horror, Sci-Fi. [Tempo: Medium / 100 BPM]
Prepare to enter battle with this tense, epic, cinematic track. Starting with percussion and gradually building with brass, strings, snare drum and even some war cries. Good for movies, video games and tv dramas ranging from ancient times through to futuristic Star Wars type battle scenes. [Tempo: Slow, Medium, Fast / 70 BPM]
A moderately sneaky, somewhat magical feeling, general background track for fantasy, fairy tales and exploration. This track contains no repetition throughout, which means you can play this track in a loop (for example, in a video game or other media) for a long time without it becoming too repetitive. There are some melodies but nothing too epic or too theme-like, so the music stays nicely in the background and provides an atmosphere, without becoming too dominating. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow, Medium / 0 BPM]
A short track that tells of darkness and sadness. [Tempo: Medium / 90 BPM]
A modern rock guitar riff starts this track followed by pulsing synth and guitar part. Full of interesting swells and fx make this track full of surprises while retaining a natural feel. [Tempo: Medium / 99 BPM]
Terrifying, thriller, Chase, chilly, nervous tension, sinister, threatening, creepy. Horns, strings, cello, drone, flute, pads, synths. [Tempo: Slow, Fast / 0 BPM]
Dreamatic, slightly dark, cult music, eerie, sinister undertones, alternative. Electric guitar, rhythm, synth, strings, choir, horns. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 116 BPM]
Big, powerful orchestral piece depicting power and. Majestic, epic, heroic, grand, regal, authoritative, and with a slight Indian / Middle Eastern / Oriental / Exotic feel. Strings, sitar, tabla, santoor, mridangam, rhythm. [Tempo: Medium / 92 BPM]
Music to depict the showdown between two warring clans, gearing for war, meeting your adversary face to face. Powerful, bombastic, challenge, opponents, duel, confrontation, conflict. Horns, duduk, choir, world percussion, strings. [Tempo: Medium / 113 BPM]
A feeling of suspense and eerieness. Chase, suspense, urgent, uneasy, tension, anticipation. Sneaky tension. World percussion, strings, horns, synths. [Tempo: Medium / 83 BPM]
A solo piano composition. Romantically calm and poetic, and would appease the craziest video creating an interesting paradox. It's long duration and two breaks evolving melodies will bring a good dose of poetry to your footage. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 75 BPM]
Dramatic and dark urban royalty free track. Intense groove featuring signature riffs, transitions and stunning stutter effects! Fierce and forceful. Works well for urban, street scenes, fashion, catwalk, crime, spy, adventure, exploration, video games. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 72 BPM]
This track has hard driving guitars and drums with some electronic elements. Also has elements of industrial rock. Very aggressive track. This track has an edgy, dark feel and evokes images of modern day Metal meets Doom. Good for dark, aggressive media shots in need of metal you can make sense out of. [Tempo: Fast / 170 BPM]
An eerie and somewhat dramatic Drum'n Bass / Breakbeat track. The beats are kept to a relatively subtle level, whilst grand string sections provide a sense of something important and epic. Grimey and glitchy breakbeats combine with an orchestral sound and foreboding / mysterious feel. [Tempo: Slow, Fast / 140 BPM]
A dark and dramatic piece with unique sounds creating disillusion, confusion and worry. Pulsating drones, bass hits, evil sounding delayed guitar, deep strings and mechanical, electronic drums make this track geared towards creepy dramatic TV cues heard on Investigation Discovery, Unsolved Mysteries and Dateline NBC. Crime scene flashbacks, serial killers, twisted plots, ghosts and supernatural events come to mind. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 100 BPM]
An evil soundscape evoking the image of psychos, stalkers, serial killers, crime scenes, murder, twisted plots and Investigation Discovery shows. Images of occult events, crime scene flashbacks, ghosts and monsters on Halloween and supernatural freak show circuses. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 114 BPM]
Bizarre, weird and unusual. This chaotic and evil sounding prepared piano and sound design track creates evil thoughts of Halloween, cults, ghosts and the supernatural. Stalkers, serial killers, crime scenes, murder, twisted plots and Investigation Discovery. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 120 BPM]
A tight blend of big beats, unique synths, orchestral strings and tremolo guitars. Contemplative, dark and obscure for TV and Film such as Nip Tuck and Dexter. CSI evidence lab, body counts, foggy alleyway chases, hiding and lurking, loading up guns and urban mob action. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 70 BPM]
A powerful mix of syncopated synths, dramatic, fast accented strings and breakdown beats. Ideal for reality TV cues when firing contestants as well as other dramatic cues such as Celebrity Apprentice, Survivor and Hell's Kitchen. Mob hits and urban chase scenes with bad guys on the move. [Tempo: Medium / 130 BPM]
A creepy, dark track evoking the image of serial killers, crime scenes, murder, twisted plots and Investigation Discovery cues. The chaotic and evil sounding prepared piano and metallic percussion create evil thoughts and imagery of Halloween, Freddie Krueger, Jeffrey Dahmer and Ed Gein. [Tempo: Slow / 120 BPM]
Deep world percussion and fast strings, brass and huge drum accents. Good for heavy tension and struggle, dramatic reality TV cues such as Survivor, The Apprentice, Hell's Kitchen, Design Star and The Bachelor. [Tempo: Slow / 86 BPM]
Orchestral, underscore, ambient. Dreamy, Calm, Hypnotic. Strings, piano, drums, bass, electronics. [Tempo: Slow / 144 BPM]
Electronica, experimental, underscore. Haunting, Techno, Science / electronics. [Tempo: Fast / 144 BPM]
Deep minimal dubstep, incorporating traditional/classical instrumentation. Dark and eerie. Mystery, danger lurking. [Tempo: Slow / 70 BPM]
Laid back mysterious and snakey country blues. Featuring smokey lap steel and electric guitar fills, underpinned with a pulsing bass and drum groove. Great for smokey country bars and scenes depicting the rural south, Americana, backwoods, swamps, moonshine and honky tonks. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 112 BPM]
Somewhere between Ambient and contemporary music, this track has a somewhat introspective, soul searching feel. Subtly melodic, transparent, thoughtful and insightful, and with a sense of hope and sincerity, this track will go well with many types of projects, from film & drama underscore to important messages about society, nature and more. Also for political messages, educational projects. [Tempo: Slow / 70 BPM]
This track could easily be tagged as a typical New Age Instrumental. But it carries a deep feel of grandness, evoking the beginning of times, the beauty of the universe, the vast extent of the cosmos, and things like that. Works beautifuly with mystery, prophecies, historical events, mystical matters and pre-historical subjects. Nontemporal. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
Heavy foreboding percussion signals something big is coming. Deep brass drones and strings providing the tension. Distant choir add to the emotion of uneasiness. [Tempo: Slow / 100 BPM]
Middle Eastern percussion lays the foundation for slow sensual strings to establish the mood. The entire orchestra crescendos to a grand finale with choir. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 100 BPM]
Creepy orchestration suggests an approaching evil menace or a supernatural event. Steeped in suspense, this dark, sinister piece builds towards a horrific & sudden conclusion. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
Epic and dramatic with many suspense and action sections. Strong and catchy melody. Orchestral with contemporary percussion grooves makes this piece very accessible and suitable to a huge range of productions and media applications. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 120 BPM]
A good track for for both "Slow" and "Speed Motion" action trailer, this track is somewhat Epic with huge percussion. High energy and slow build-up. Good for trailers with a big Hollywood sound, suspense, drama, battles, and video game music. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 73 BPM]
A man, wrongly convicted for a murder he didn't commit, escapes custody and must stay ahead of the police to find the real killer! This track was made for your next trailer or action movie/videogame soundtrack. [Tempo: Slow / 92 BPM]
Ambient, dark, slightly tense with low piano notes, light percussion, synth choir and fx. Good for eliminations on reality shows, tv and film dramas, crime, horrors, mysteries, thrillers and documentaries. [Tempo: Slow / 64 BPM]
This is a dark and claustrophobic adventure that’s soon to come to a bloody ending. Transparent piano harmonies accompany a mellow, yet terrifying string melody, building up to an unfortunate ending. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 60 BPM]
If a metropolis urban city had a voice, this is how it would sound. Cello spiccatos leave you on edge while the trumpet duo sounds somewhat jazzy and someone depressing. A suitable choice for an action-packed mafia or film noir trailer concerning urban crime. [Tempo: Slow, Medium, Fast / 230 BPM]
There’s a difference between terror and horror. This track is a sonic tale of the inner workings of a demonic serial killer as he/she confesses their brutal crime. It’s a slow buildup of organic string lines and atmospheric tension stretched across two minutes of anxiety and creepiness until the explosive ending. [Tempo: Slow / 60 BPM]
If Peter from Family Guy had a dream, it would probably sound like this. Atmospheric cloudy string harmonies and lazy brass melodies accompanied by sax, slowly turning bluesy until a final Chicago-style jazz ending. [Tempo: Slow, Medium, Fast / 100 BPM]
A dark and eerie track evoking the image of psychos, stalkers, serial killers, crime scenes, murder, twisted plots and Investigation Discovery. Occult events, crime scene flashbacks, ghosts and monsters on Halloween and supernatural freak show circuses come to mind. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 120 BPM]