Melancholy, moody, and haunting. This track would work great as a character theme. There are ominous undertones when the bass beats come in. (Stem files available.) [Tempo: Slow / 80 BPM]
A haunting acoustic guitar based song about “love at the first sight”, featuring male main vocal, female backing vocals, fretless bass and light percussion. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 76 BPM]
A brooding and dark feeling soundtrack with an emotive undertone. Features violon, cello and piano, and has a distant Asian influence. [Tempo: Slow / 109 BPM]
This track combines pulsating synthesizers with full orchestra and a solo soprano voice. Solemn and emotional, this track has a sense of impending drama, or setting off on a dangerous journey, not knowing what to expect. Both fragile and determined, with a sense of sorrow. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 68 BPM]
Atmospheric, exotic, ethnic track featuring female vocal choir and the middle-eastern, north african plucked string, instrument, Oud. Great for travel, discovery, adventure as well as fantasy and dream worlds. The choir gives it an angelic feel, juxtapositioned against the serious, somewhat ominous tone of the Oud. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
A soulful blues rock ballad about comforting a scorned and distraught loved one. Soulful and emotional guitars with male vocals. Great for montages, theme song, soundtrack, or vlog music. Available as a Vocal version and as an Instrumental version. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 118 BPM]
String drone and ethnic flute. Dark, ominous, sparse, like the desert, savannah, mighty mountain ridges or vast open landscapes. Highly suitable for nature or travel. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
Underscore track for intrigue, crime, conspiracy and troubled times. This film soundtrack style track has both a dark and a light side, with a strong foreboding sense of impending conflict. Besides the full mix regular version, there is also a 'without percussion' version, with all the drum/percussion sounds removed. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 74 BPM]
A beautiful version of the famous Beethoven piano piece, Moonlight Sonata. An alternative version "with pedal noises" is also available, where the natural sound of the piano's food pedal has been included in the recording. Recorded exclusively for Shockwave-Sound.com by D Hamilton. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
A grand, epic, romantic piece of orchestral / symphonic film score music. Wide open fields, home lands, personal stories, adventure and epic tales. The piece plays for six and a half minutes and can be used for several different cues, or together as a whole. This track is recorded with a live philharmonic orchestra. [Tempo: Slow / 71 BPM]
Pop with rock undertones. Early 2000’s feel. Acoustic guitar, guitar, bass and drums. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 142 BPM]
Slow, sad and very beautiful piano-lead track with a tragic air. Would suit romantic/dramatic/documentary type projects. [Tempo: Slow / 66 BPM]
A deep, ambient, slowly moving, textural track. Nostalgic, flowing, hazey. Reflective / Thoughtful. Somewhat similar to the sound of Sigur Ros. Perhaps a slight Scandinavian / Nordic feel. Melancholic and haunting. [Tempo: Slow / 80 BPM]
A mysterious, dark and damp, slowly sizzling Urban underscore music track. Suspenseful, moody and sultry. Suitable as music for crime thriller, urban drama, etc. This track is also available in various versions, including an Electric Guitar version and an Quiet version. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 68 BPM]
A cinematic track featuring a beautiful melody on piano, strings, choir, drums and percussion. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 130 BPM]
A song about finding love in todays environment of social media, information overload, and online dating. Modern rock with a country flair, rocking string section at the end. Electric violin, string section, electric guitar, bass, drums, acoustic guitar, vocal harmony. [Tempo: Medium / 85 BPM]
Unique blend of regal strings and horns and hefty guitars. The verse is a slow grooving electro beat which builds slowly via a b section of clean swirling guitar and lamenting vocal loops into an explosion of guitars and drums. Very filmically dramatic, intense and quite unexpected. [Tempo: Slow, Fast / 75 BPM]
Dramatic and dark solo piano composition. Tragic but beautiful music full of nostalgia and dramatism about the memories of the past, reminscence of lost loved ones. This emotional composition can greatly enhance dramatic trailers, films, documentaries and videos. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 62 BPM]
Modern alternative rock track about dreams and hopes. Thoughtful lyrics and emotional male vocals. Available as a vocal version and an instrumental version. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 102 BPM]
Soft, lush string pads with touching, nostalgic soprano saxophone. Tender, melancholic, reflective, caressing. Suitable for film, drama, tv and emotional content. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
Deep and Dark Trap / Hip-Hop Drill music. 80's guitars into 808 drops. Works for urban scenes, rap, sports, edgy thrillers and urban culture. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 69 BPM]
This raw, acoustic guitar music can easily evoke a given protagonist’s harsh reality, with turmoil, tough decisions and calamities abounding. The track is single recording of a 4-string acoustic guitar with an accompanying resonator slide guitar music. Perfect for setting a raw, rural feel in your drama or country lifestyle themes. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 80 BPM]
An electronic track with influences from ambient music, but with a somehow dark or sad undertone. Sparse drums, deep bass and a melancholic melody create a futuristic atmosphere. Good for sci-fi movies, crime investigation, thriller and mystery. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 76 BPM]
An intensely suspenseful mystery cue underscoring anything from a deceitful murder to a mass epidemic. Orchestral with piano, in the vein of James Newton Howard's scores for M. Night Shyamalan films (The Village, Signs, The Happening). [Tempo: Medium / 94 BPM]
Mysterious, mystical and foreboding Arabian or Persian textures. Nervous underscore with a Middle Eastern flavor. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
A very sad and yet relaxing tune. Strings wash over you in a mood full of loss and lament. Above the strings a piano tells it's story in a simple and meloncholy melody. In the chorus the string section swells up and overflows like an inevitable tide of sorrow. The ending brings in the elements of the orchestra almost one by one until the final call. Would suit a tragic drama or romantic film project. Contains strings and piano. [Tempo: Slow / 64 BPM]
Slowly moving track with a mood of regret and misery, but also of hope. Monotonous harp and disonant ponderous pads in the background with accordion theme repeating its wailing melody. Although the track is hard to categorise, one can find here a slight feel of Middle Eastern, Semitic melody vibe. [Tempo: Slow / 56 BPM]
Starting with soft acoustic guitar, gentle organ and female vocal, this song builds up into chorus with male vocal and harmonies followed by slide electric solo at 1:33. This slide electric continues through the next verse building again into big double chorus with uplifting backing vocals. Long electric guitar solo begins at 3:28. The lyrics are about the two different sides of a relationship, told with both male and female main vocals. Instrumental version also available. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 124 BPM]
This song is about seasonal depression. The lyrics describe the hopelessness involved in the changing weather and are a metaphor for a relationship that is past due. Available as a vocal version and an instrumental version. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 135 BPM]
Ethnic, lamenting music track performed live by Rafael Krux. The main form and vibe is in the style of ballade. Can be Slavic / Eastern European, or Middle Eastern / Persian, Celtic or even Viking etc. Sorrowful / Haunting / Ethnic Music. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
A very inspirational and emotional track in an alternative rock style. Similar to U2. Great for modern drama with an urban touch. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 105 BPM]
An ominous, soaring and epic piece - of great men (or beasts) and heroic deeds. This track starts with a longing, emotional theme and later rises to a heroic, glorifying, high impact rhythm close. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 74 BPM]
Perfect for productions that require a dense, dark, and a bit scary backdrop, such as features and TV shows. [Tempo: Slow / 61 BPM]
An open, transparent underscore music with a somewhat mysterious, pensive tone. Echoey guitars over a slightly dark drone. Thoughtful and reflective, perhaps regret or waiting for something. The end part takes on a more assertive, gloomy, doom laden feel. Also available as an Underscore version, and as a version without the drums. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 90 BPM]
This sentimental track has an exponentially-rising energy level throughout, starting with low energy (just vocals, strings and piano) and working its way into a full band piano-rock ballad. It will work well with footage of relationship troubles, reflective, sad, depressing, lonely, bittersweet, homesick or driving footage. Energetic guitars with a thumping bass line, melodic piano and soaring violin somewhere between pop and rock. The lyrics are all about coming to realization with the end. Closure on a failed relationship, learning to move on, get over it, and learn to love and trust again. Available as a vocal version and an instrumental version. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 135 BPM]
Very slow, spacious, atmospheric & beautiful piano-lead ambient track with a deep sense of loss, longing & melancholy. contains piano, strings, acoustic & electric guitar, drums. [Tempo: Slow / 60 BPM]
Pensive waltz about figuring life out and working through lost love. Available as a Vocal version and an Instrumental version. [Tempo: Slow / 166 BPM]
Piano solo, slow theme. Mellow, peaceful, easy, romantic, perhaps wistful or nostalgic. [Tempo: Very slow / 72 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]
Smooth and orchestral Ambient / Cinematic Music crossover. Features a full string orchestra accompanied by warm piano and synth to give a calm, yet dramatic feeling. A bit mysterious / a dark undertone. Contemplative / Pensive Music. [Tempo: Slow / 105 BPM]
Is this business as usual or a front for an illegal operation? Suspenseful underscore, featuring odd-meter orchestral/electronic rhythmic vamp which gives the feeling of a working process, but at the same time of mischief, something not-quite-right. Good for mystery films and documentaries on crime. Key of D, 104 bpm. [Tempo: Slow / 103 BPM]
Soft Chinese, oriental mood music. Plucked strings, soft stringpads and hand percussion. China, Tibet, Malaysia and other Oriental destinations. [Tempo: Medium / 125 BPM]
Beautiful, haunting melodies, with a traditional Greek or Eastern European feel. Drifting like a distant memory of life long ago, and love lost. Also highly suitable for nature and the outdoors. Played on bouzouki, acoustic guitar, slide guitar, and Rhodes piano. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
Elegant, romantic and sexy contemporary RnB piece, with beauty piano melodies, gated synths and a slow drum beat. Some variations in the middle section make it more dynamic and vibrant. Nostalgic, smooth, dramatic, a bit melancholic. Good for drama and love film soundtrack with an urban feel. [Tempo: Medium / 72 BPM]
This powerful Indie rock music track evolves from soft to explosive within seconds. Piano and overdriven electric guitar play the melody and are overlaid by urgent electric rhythm guitars, picked bass, high powered drums, and percussion. Great music for dramas and emotional programing. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 131 BPM]
Mixing elements of Hip-Hop, Classical and R&B in a serious, downtempo, urban street track, similar to recent HBO urban series. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 80 BPM]
Enhance your scenes of long and dark winters, loneliness, mystery, broken hearts or breathtaking nature with this brooding, urban downtempo track featuring piano, pads, bells, bass and drums. Creates a real feeling of space and emptiness over a relaxed funky groove. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 77 BPM]
An epic, cinematic trailer track with emotional strings. The track opens with large strings and effects that quiet down right before a massive hit. The main drop is a heavy hitting mix of strings drums and brass. Over the top heavy drums have a strong impact. The track continues with an epic brass progression to a final distorted hit in the end. This track will work well in video game or movie trailers, as well as scenes of battle or uprising. Proud, strong and sorrowful. [Tempo: Slow, Medium, Fast / 120 BPM]
A short track that tells of darkness and sadness. [Tempo: Medium / 90 BPM]
About a person who wants to be in a relationship but is not having any luck. An endless search for love. Ballad, acoustic, intimate, personal. [Tempo: Slow / 60 BPM]
