A dark, mysterious track using a combination of electronic and orchestral elements, that starts out ominous and foreboding with synth arpeggio, strings and slow drum pulse. The track speeds up at 1:14 when fast electronic percussion loops join in. [Tempo: Slow, Medium, Fast / 155 BPM]
Inspired by classic role playing video games, the noble orchestra of this piece creates a heroic mood as its sets the stage for dark challenges in a dangerous dungeon. [Tempo: Slow / 65 BPM]
Determined, serious underscore track for political thriller or drama. Slight military or SWAT team feeling, going through preparations, moving into position, or being chased. Moderate intensity, mix of deep, dark percussion with orchestral and electronic sounds. [Tempo: Medium / 80 BPM]
Ever felt that you were being watched by someone? Your every move being monitored from afar. A sinister, fevered, twisted and unnerving piece. Contains violins, cellos, xylophones, string plucks and some quite twisted melodies that slowly unfold, creating lots of tension. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 75 BPM]
This dark and gloomy horror track starts out with only a few dark piano notes. Other elements such as distant voices, metal scrapes join to create a creepy and eerie horror musical soundscape. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
A pumped up dark and driving tune. Brimming with energy, motivation and power. This track builds nicely and will pump you up and get you ready to rock. Good for use in confrontational or competitive environments. Be it hard training, extreme sports, a shootout or all out royal rumble! Push yourself to the limit. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 89 BPM]
An intense orchestral piece. Dark and ominous choral sounds combine with heavy brass, strings, and percussion to create a dark and nerve wracking overall vibe. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 82 BPM]
A foreboding and tension-building music track combining Cinematic and Electronic elements, using a blend of synths and symphonic sounds combined. Suitable for mystery and dramatic scenes. Awe / Amazement / Mystery / Drama / Darkness Music. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 80 BPM]
Very slow hypnotic beat with mega heavy guitar riffing. Dark, powerful, pumping and sizzling. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 124 BPM]
A sparse and hypnotic stock music with a trance like quaility. Features a female voice chanting in Gaelic or other World/Mystery style. Dark, somber and intense. Can be Eastern European / Balkan, Gaelic, or Eastern / Persian / Orient. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 50 BPM]
Edgy, Ambient track with high expectation... [Tempo: Slow / 116 BPM]
A dark, foreboding, mysterious hip hop track, slow paced. Suitable for fantasy, action thriller, scifi, war, conflict, movie trailer, video games. Sparse instrumentation, slightly exotic, with groovy deep drums and ominous synth lines. The track creates a very tense, suspenseful atmosphere. [Tempo: Slow / 80 BPM]
An atmospheric dramatic track that begins with light piano and synths and expands with the addition of strings, electric guitar, and heavy drums. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 64 BPM]
A dramatic tension track that opens with rhythmic and melodic synth lines and builds with light percussion, piano, strings, and brass motifs. Perfect for action and adventure scenes or reality game show programming. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 128 BPM]
An original piece of music, stylized as a medieval funeral march song or torchlight dance. Medieval / Early music / Vikings / Irish Celtic / English / Historical music. Performed live in a studio on Bagpipes, Hurdy Gurdy and Percussion, by the Fleurdelis ensemble. [Tempo: Medium / 188 BPM]
This amusing & magical leitmotif features lively pizzicato cellos as they tip toe towards a marching Mariachi trumpet line that vanishes into thin air, only to be replaced again by the creeping, mischievous cellos. Hotel Tango is matched in style & character to the other Elliot Simon’s tracks, Another Working Day, The Secret Path, A Midnight Symphony and An Unfortunate Incident. [Tempo: Medium / 107 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]
Tribal royalty free track with a dangerous edge. Features didgeridoos and Australian percussion with drums. Groovy and primitive. The Didgeridoo gives the track an Australian reference, but it's not necessarily limited to Australia, as this can be a nice track for any location, when you need that 'Jungle fever' feel. Available in several different mixes/versions. [Tempo: Medium / 107 BPM]
Mysterious / Awaiting / Obscure / Uncertain / Thoughtful / Riddle Music. Small orchestra soundtrack piece, featuring live performed orchestral instruments, suitable as music for film and other media. [Tempo: Medium / 120 BPM]
Epic,atmospheric, sinister & sometimes menacing rock track with electronic elements & strings. Stadium rock with a really glorious dark side. Would suit thriller/action/horror/mystery/extreme sports type projects. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 128 BPM]
A duet of acoustic guitars set the stage for your backwoods bayou footage. Or revving up your car show before the engines start. One guitar pulsates a bluesy southern feel, while the second guitar slithers around improvising some swampy drama for your Gator Bayou. A great background track, and just enough energy to move your video along. [Tempo: Medium / 0 BPM]
A short horror / scifi track, somewhere between sound design / sound atmosphere and music. Scraping metals, swirling vortex, strung out pads... Suitable for company splash screen, intro, logo, and more. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 0 BPM]
Classic horror flick type material, with mystical chords and stabbing rhythms. Hypnotic feel. The creepy crawlies are out to get you! [Tempo: Slow / 84 BPM]
A rather upbeat industrial track -- not too dark, and with a sharp industrial edge and a mechanical feel. Think mechanoids and robotics. [Tempo: Fast / 138 BPM]
Dark sinister & brooding soundscape that will have you locking all your doors & windows! Synth fx, horror percussion fx and ominous choir drones combine to make haunting, tense music suitable for horror / hallowen / ghost / thriller type projects. Don't look behind you!... [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 74 BPM]
Heavy and ponderous featuring pipe organ, orchestra bells and pizzicato strings. Includes marimba, piccolo, and animated elements. For Halloween, horror, quirky comedy, dramady, spy, children's cartoon, monsters, nature, bumbling robbers, office pranks and sneaking thieves. [Tempo: Slow / 80 BPM]
Simple yet effective, eerie piano motif. Few piano notes depicting horror, death, perhaps a gruesome scene, or lurking dangers. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
Starting with a simple & compelling staccato synth line, this slow paced Hip Hop track grows progressively from a sparse instrumentation to a full effect urban beat. Synthesizers, organ, & authentic hip hop drums. Good for crime and cop shows, investigation, mystery, night club, sensual scenes. [Tempo: Slow / 145 BPM]
This track comes only as a seamless loop of 48 seconds length. It's a moody, atmospheric loop suitable for use in dark-ish or moody, gloomy, atmospheric media, menu screens, end credits, background loop for games and visual presentations. Deep pulsating rhythm, distant melody, slightly otherworldly or alien / ethnic sound. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 80 BPM]
Solo piano. Very minimalist. High piano stabs of tension with lots of spaces. Increasing tension and pace as the cue progresses. Highly editable. Three versions; version 2 is much slower paced, and version 2 is shorter and more dramatic, suitable for a transition or bumper. Good for drama, intrigue, mystery, TV, feature film, suspense, horror. [Tempo: Very slow / 0 BPM]
This is a dark, quick moving piece of solo piano music. While an eerie sound of both classical and contemporary, this piece will fit well in mystery and horror films as well as dark dramas. This could also work well in any scene of sorrow. [Tempo: Medium / 121 BPM]
A sombre and very slow moving underscore track for mystery, drama or fiction. Dark subjects, perhaps crime, criminial investigation or difficult subjects. Stories of struggle or hardship. Various mixes are available. This track shares its sound / production style with two other tracks, 'Revenge 1 Danger' and 'Revenge 2 Dark Thoughts'. They can work well together, if you wish to keep a uniform sound / feel in your production. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
A somewhat dark and powerful electronica track with a driving beat combined with various of synths and effects. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 120 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 short film or television drama cue, suitable for crime thriller, mystery or an intense. Ticking rhythm, pensive movement, building to a crescendo. Perhaps a terrible realization or a gruesome discovery. [Tempo: Medium / 112 BPM]
One in a series of 10 eerie and mystical short cues, where Sci Fi meets Horror meets Dark Fantasy. Deep, disturbing, nightmarish sounds that curl, twist and attack the unsuspecting listener with razor-like precision. These short music cues are modern and visceral, eerie and cold, in the style of modern TV series and films. To find the other 9 pieces in this series, search 'Dream Valley 10 Horror Cues'. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
Traditional Chinese music with a moderately serious edge. Good for culture and nature or documentaries. [Tempo: Slow / 57 BPM]
A sombre and very slow moving underscore track for mystery, drama or fiction. Dark subjects, perhaps crime, criminial investigation or difficult subjects. Stories of struggle or hardship. Various mixes are available. This track shares its sound / production style with two other tracks, 'Revenge 2 Dark Thoughts' and 'Revenge 3 The Plot'. They can work well together, if you wish to keep a uniform sound / feel in your production. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 49 BPM]
A tense and spooky scene is evoked with orchestra and an optional piano track. Creepy and evolving, suitable for dark, evil passages. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
A dark and tension building cue, with a sense of urgency and imminent danger. Like a stalker on the trail of his prey. [Tempo: Medium / 101 BPM]
Stripped down to a simple pulse, an electronic minimalist beat comes in after 1 min. [Tempo: Medium / 102 BPM]
An eerie and creepy track for mystery, horror, thriller or dark drama. Cold / Suspicious / Madness. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
Slow tempo, groovy indie rock track. Features a groovy drum loop with driving bass guitar, an epic sounding guitar riff and percussive keyboards. [Tempo: Slow / 85 BPM]
A Percussion Only track, with marching snares, military march. Occasional big drum strikes. Pensive, Dark, Threatening, Tension. [Tempo: Slow / 117 BPM]
These dark horror cues can be classed either as "music cues" or "sound effects", as in reality they function as both. They are all recorded with a large, live symphony orchestra with the same quality as any soundtrack from big budget movies. The effects are easy to loop and edit, and can be tailored to fit any cue, as they can be used from virtually any point. Consider them a construction kit to score horror, mystery and dark drama. Recorded, mastered, and delivered to you in pristine 24-bit audio. Also look for YS Horror Cues 01-20 and YS Horror Cues 41-60. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow, Medium / 0 BPM]
Distant beat on a big drum. Threatening, dark, dramatic, eerie. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 82 BPM]
Sci-fi, futuristic electronic background music. Space echoes. Inviting, but with a dark edge. Great for corporate, business, sci-fi, cutting edge science, technology, documentary. [Tempo: Medium / 100 BPM]
Horror Mystery Soundtrack. Creepy / Presence / Disturbing / Unrestful / Turmoil. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
Electronica infused orchestral music. Tension build throughout the piece, ending with a big boom, but retaining a somewhat anticipative aura. Good for war preparation, rendezvous scenes and crime investigation and chase. [Tempo: Medium / 120 BPM]
A slow, serious, pensive underscore for mystery drama, fiction, storytelling. Perhaps crime or criminal investigation, dark subjects. Cold. Various mixes are available. This track shares its sound / production style with two other tracks, 'Inner Struggle' and 'Inner Mind'. They can work well together, if you wish to keep a uniform sound / feel in your production. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 57 BPM]
