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.
A Percussion Only track, with big pounding drums in various more and less intense patterns. Useful for sound design, film scoring, games and more. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 105 BPM]
Fast, frantic and hard hitting semi-orchestral, semi-electronic music for action, fight, battle, war or racing scene. Distorted, twisted guitars, deep brass stabs, extremely fast techno breakbeat. Also suitable for action or extreme sports etc. [Tempo: Fast / 159 BPM]
Opening with a simple ambient piano motif, this track soon explodes into a dark, passion fuelled combination of distorted guitars and driving percussion - Dramatic / Aggressive / Futuristic. [Tempo: Slow, Medium, Fast / 110 BPM]
A short 30 second blast of dramatic accented strings, brass and massive percussion intended for epic promos, news, trailer and dramatic radio cues. Ideal for turmoil, tension and struggle in reality TV shows like Celebrity Apprentice, Survivor, Fear Factor, Iron Chef and The Bachelor. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 160 BPM]
Dark and foreboding ethnic-orchestral trailer/action track. Pounding drums, primitive vocal chants, slightly tribal sound, with staccato brass. Good for fantasy warriors, ogres or orcs etc. [Tempo: Medium / 81 BPM]
A unique guitar intro builds into massive detuned guitars and syncopated drum hits. Powerful and punchy, this track is geared towards productions involving action, extreme sports, military and intense video games. [Tempo: Medium / 104 BPM]
Someone is being followed as they drive towards their destiny, a final showdown. Orchestra with interesting guitar, synth and percussion layers. Perfect for a modern suspenseful film. The music gets big and epic, yet at times is also smaller in scope, intricate and suspenseful. [Tempo: Medium / 98 BPM]
Epic, positive, energetically uplifting, grand, stadium rock. Huge melodic guitars, monster drums & glorious strings combine to make big music with a sense of victory & overcoming adversity for sports/thriller/action type projects. [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 143 BPM]
Steadily building and stirring epic orchestral music theme with choir. Heroes / Huge / Epic. Also available without the choir. [Tempo: Fast / 168 BPM]
Dark, brooding, foreboding & cinematic rock track. A tense, dramatic intro leads to monster riffs and driven drum beats, powering forward with a great sense of sinister, evil energy. Would suit thriller/horror/halloween type projects. [Tempo: Slow, Fast / 146 BPM]
Breakbeat / Drum'n Bass. Dense, thick and a little bit dreamy / trippy. Excited / Energetic. Trippy / Floating / Intense / Busy. Good for X-Sports / X-Games, extreme sports, action and adventure, and more. [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 138 BPM]
Aggressive modern Heavy Metal tune, with powerful drumming and guitar shredding. Double bass drum groove sounds like a machine gun. Try the underscore version also. Without the lead guitars, it has an even great sound of 'heavy weight'. [Tempo: Medium, Fast, Very fast / 130 BPM]
A hybrid orchestral and D'n'B track that's full of energy and emotion. The track opens with slow and drawn out piano chords and some processed staccato strings. Emotional start of the track builds up to the main part that's a straight up drum and bass rhythm. The main part offers a strong contrast and is full of energy and rhythm. The track breaks down to the slow part again only to build up and bring back the main rhythmic part one more time towards the end of the track. This track has orchestral elements as well as a liquid drum and bass feel as it tries to blend the two. This track will work great in motivational videos, inspiring content, car commercials and more. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 140 BPM]
Dramatic, weighty, powerful, intense & explosive riff-fuelled rocker. Heavy, driven & at times, darkly sinister. A dirty, grungy nod and tribute to all the great Seattle bands - Nirvana, Alice in chains and Soundgarden. Dynamic, groovy & aggressive. Would suit sports / action / thriller / military type projects. [Tempo: Fast / 122 BPM]
Intense, busy, almost frantic orchestral film soundtrack piece, suitable for in-film, in-game, or for trailers. Big, epic orchestral sweeps and stabs, busy congas giving a sense of chase and urgency. Great for millitary, action, mission thriller or sci-fi. [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 166 BPM]
A dramatic orchestral track with choir, slowly growing in intensity throughout, towards a powerful crescendo and climax. Highly suitable for movie trailer, game trailer, dramatic footage of war, conflict, power struggle, fantasy or scifi, or hard/gritty sports or action material. [Tempo: Medium / 125 BPM]
Synth pulses and psychedelic guitar notes introduce a tense atmosphere before brutal guitar riffs pulverize you into submission. A very powerful and intense combination of huge distorted riffs, machine-like drums and soaring lead lines make this track a heady brew. [Tempo: Fast / 130 BPM]
A dark, ominous, threatening piece of very percussive, orchestral soundtrack style music. Highly suitable for movie trailer, game trailer or other dramatic content. Choirs, brass stabs and huge, tribal percussive sections. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 116 BPM]
Action oriented orchestral track, with a lot of metallic percussion and powerful blasts, combined with eerie tonal elements. Inspired by apocalyptic action and car chases. [Tempo: Fast / 128 BPM]
A brutal, stuttering and chopped-up power rock track with industrial / hard core tendencies. Slamming guitar riffs, big sound, partly processed and mangled in a destructive, aggressive wall of sound. Use with extreme sports, high impact / high energy sports, motor sports, burning and racing, fighting and brawling, fire and destruction. [Tempo: Fast / 160 BPM]
Ominous, foreboding choir voices soon give way to an all-out, blazing and massive, glorifying, epic, orchestral theme. Dramatic, massive, impressive. Great for intros, trailers, etc. [Tempo: Medium / 125 BPM]
A down and dirty, gritty and groovy blues-rock music track with high energy level and a meaty punch. Great music for sports, action, edgy footage, extreme sports and more. [Tempo: Medium / 150 BPM]
An intense action cue with driving percussion rhythms, orchestral energy, and big drums, underscoring anything from a fast car chase to a battle between man and machine. Very much in the vein of John Powell's "Bourne" movies and the scores of Hanz Zimmer and Steve Jablonsky ("Batman Begins" and "Transformers"). [Tempo: Medium / 90 BPM]
Classic blues sound. Wailing blues guitar, with a slowly grinding electric guitar riff. Only two guitars, no drums or anything else. [Tempo: Slow / 62 BPM]
A cut-down and rough, yet restrained, electronica/techno track. Combining hard and softer synth patterns with a straight to the point four-on-the-floor type techno beat, this is classic techno-trance dance floor stuff. Also available as a Workout version which has an uninterrupted, even beat all the way through and has a slightly higher tempo than the main version. [Tempo: Medium / 125 BPM]
Grungy and energetic Drum and Bass track with deep analog bass and heavy drums. The track opens with a lush analog pad and slowly builds to the main event drop. The main part of the track features heavy bass, punchy drums and a synthesizer chaos to build energy and tension. This track will work great in extreme sports, racing, automotive, movie and video game trailers. [Tempo: Slow, Medium, Fast / 150 BPM]
Powerful Dubstep/Electronic track with aggressive synths, epic Brass / Choirs and a driving beat. Edgy, exciting and slightly dark. Well-suited as a Score track for rapid action and fight/epic scenes. [Tempo: Slow, Fast / 140 BPM]
Builds to a driving rhythm set against incessant electronic filtered synth lines and layers of dark washes. Kinetic, powerful and modern with a forceful, animalistic edge. A strong, bass heavy Underscore & Stripped Back version offer editing possibilities to extend to required lengths. Rises to an abrupt explosive conclusion. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 120 BPM]
A disturbing, percussion-only track. Use of feedback and clanking metal reminescent of the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre soundtrack or some of John Cage's work, but with the added element of dark, ethnic percussion. This fairly short track is great for a thriller, chiller, horror or dark mystery. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
Raw rock / Fast 'n Wild / Fun Sports: Dirty and bold punk / rock tune, with lots of "cojones". Bad ass music for bad ass attitude. [Tempo: Fast / 156 BPM]
Strong, dominant and powerful orchestral battle theme. Suitable for trailers, battle scenes, huge forces or powerful machines etc. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 98 BPM]
A driving, atmospheric electronic piece. The instrumentation is balanced between gritty synthesizers and orchestral strings over a steady, grooving drum beat. [Tempo: Medium / 117 BPM]
Synth arpeggios hypnotize as they grow in intensity, a drum groove joins in then thick walls of fuzzy guitars. Suddenly you're powering forward with huge impetus. A unique track with a few surprising twists and turns. Jump aboard if you can handle it. [Tempo: Fast / 130 BPM]
Funky blues-rock with a dirty slide top line. [Tempo: Medium / 100 BPM]
Blasting Epic orchestral percussion music. The kind you use on dramatic movie trailers. Starts with a gradual build-up pattern that transforms itself after a sudden stop. Then all hell brakes loose and some atonal orchestral elements come in, adding up to the tension built towards the end. [Tempo: Medium, Fast, Very fast / 140 BPM]
Modern, exciting, suspense-filled, rhythmic & animated groove-rocker mixing big guitars with syncopated, dance-inspired drums. Thrilling, energised, fiery, serious, epic, motivated, determined & climactic. Would suit action / thriller / sports / chase type projects. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 131 BPM]
This North Africa inspired track takes the sounds of Morocco with it's african and arab elements, and mixes that with modern breakbeat and retro rock'n roll influences. We know it sounds crazy, but it works. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 106 BPM]
Gritty, gutsy and testosterone-fueled: A powerhouse of rock music that takes no prisoners. A white knuckle ride with a sharp bite. Powerful / Aggressive / Dangerous Music. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 140 BPM]
Dark, brooding and spacious electronic groover. Slow and ethereal piano lines float as a plucked santoor joins with a busy little drum groove. Hypnotic and atmospheric. [Tempo: Medium / 134 BPM]
An inspiring and energizing, melodic techno-trance track. Memorable and catchy melodies, barking analogue synth patterns and an up-tempo dance beat. Good for energetic productions, high intensity workouts and media, games, sports and much more. [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 150 BPM]
Intense, rhythmic & incredibly dramatic heavy rocker with an eastern / indian flavour.Hypnotic sitar / plucked string synth arpeggios build gradually to an onslaught of monster, face-melting distorted guitar riffs. Great combination of tension, groove & and brutality! [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 80 BPM]
A fast paced, high energy dance-rock cross over track. Trance like synth riffs combine with heavy aggressive metal guitars in a frantic race to the finish line. Gives a feeling of imminence, forward movement, great for use with all kinds of extreme sports and action, chase scenes. [Tempo: Fast / 128 BPM]
Big heavy beats and blazing guitars set the track on fire, dissonance and raw combine to create edgy meets crazy. Think Heavy rock with with sound effects swirling around create an atmosphere of doom….. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 78 BPM]
Rough / Classic Rock / Fun Sports: Gritty and edgy guitar riffing with a moderately uptempo rock beat and a good forward drive. Suitable for sports, action, X-games, stunts and pranks, etc. Elements of classic rock and college rock. [Tempo: Fast / 164 BPM]
Cinematic orchestral action track with middle eastern elements create a powerful yet exotic sound design great for trailers, movies, documentaries and more. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 110 BPM]
Fun and heavy pop rock song. Available as a vocal version and an instrumentalversion. [Tempo: Fast / 133 BPM]
Pensive, ominous orchestral film soundtrack. Secret mission, danger, impending hostilities, undercover or covert mission, military build-up, international conflict, serious consequences. The second half of the track has a much busier mood and more percussive production, and can be used for a separate cue, or as part of the main track. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 118 BPM]
Use of Eastern percussion to bring across the clash of the titans on the battlefield, coming face to face with your adversary. Gearing for war, high impact, action, battle, fight, conquest, confrontation, combat. Recorder, shakers, dufflis, duff, dhol. [Tempo: Fast / 135 BPM]
Fast-paced, gritty, intense, epic, glorious, adrenaline-fuelled rockfest. Punk-metal riffs are thrashed out over a powerfully driven, dynamic & insistent backbeat with melodic leads over the top. A total white-knuckle ride. Would suit extreme sports / thriller / action projects. [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 170 BPM]
A dark, doom laden, aggressive and gritty, semi-electronic / semi-orchestral music track. The first and last thirds are relentless and violent with an industrial, edgy, futuristic sound. The middle third has a more ethnic / world feel. Future / Action / Dystopian Music. [Tempo: Fast / 120 BPM]
