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.
Powerful, exciting, tense, driven, crushingly heavy & undeniably head-nodding hard rocker with big riffs, soaring leads and monster drums. Brutally weighty, raw, mean, gutsy, determined, confident & wicked. Would suit action / thriller / extreme sports / combat purposes. Simply unstoppable. [Tempo: Fast / 157 BPM]
A big and epic action music track, with a sense of great power, amazement and triumph. Suitable as music for titanic battles, scifi, action thrillers, etc. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 72 BPM]
A very nasty industrial-electronic track with vicious, pounding percussion and a violent, edgy and gritty sound. Violence / Horror / Sci-fi / Destruction / Alarm / Madness. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 88 BPM]
Dark orchestral thriller / conflict music. Military mission, war preparations, conflict, tension. Also highly suitable for sci-fi or political thriller, etc. [Tempo: Medium / 0 BPM]
A determined, malevolent heavy rock track with big drums & big guitars. Wicked, sinister, brooding, with a sense of foreboding. The full weight drops at about 1 minute in. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 92 BPM]
Massive propulsive low strings and brass give this epic heroic track a sense of momentum, like a march towards a glorious battle. Orchestra, huge drums and choir, perfect for trailers. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 100 BPM]
Glitchy bells and horns, rock guitars and dubstep beats give a feeling of working hard, physical training, breaking through the pain barrier. Ideal music for combat & extreme sports, video games and advertising. Workout / Training / Gym Music. [Tempo: Slow / 144 BPM]
Slamming, edgy drum beat with dark and pulsating synth patterns. A sense of a dark underworld, industrial, post-modern, perhaps post-apocalyptic world or futuristic industry. Gritty, grinding, hard edged. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 115 BPM]
An ultra heavy and explosive metal track. A blend of modern breakdowns mixed with traditional metal/industrial style guitar riffs. Dissonant synth lines add drama to the mix. Geared towards productions involving extreme sports, military, intense video games, UFC, ESPN, NFL and action. [Tempo: Slow, Medium, Fast, Very fast / 172 BPM]
Cinematic, brutally crushing, intensely driven, primitively powerful & insanely climactic rock track with tremendous forward momentum & excitement. Would suit action thriller / extreme sports / motorsports / combat type projects. Fast, dramatic, gutsy & monumental. [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 100 BPM]
A fiery and tense, mean and edgy hard rock / metal music track with a bad attitude. Gutsy, gritty, intense and wild music. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 134 BPM]
Upbeat, high energy adrenaline rocker with slight ethnic flavour. Lots of guitar melodies, distorted guitar riffs, strings and bombastic dramatic statements. Contains guitars, Persian santoor, bass, drum and strings. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 120 BPM]
Nervous action / thriller underscore. Stakeout, movement, urgency, ticking bomb. This track has a strong and tense nerve, as if everthing is going to blow at any second. Good tension, helped by severely distorted synths and guitars mixed in with the semi-orchestral textures. [Tempo: Medium / 130 BPM]
A dramatic, staccato, pounding track featuring orchestra and epic percussion. Situation critical, imminent danger. Rhythmic and dark, this track starts with a somewhat mystical tone and then grows and develops into a hard, stormful, tense march. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 140 BPM]
Cool combination of huge lumbering grungey guitar riffs and ethnic vocals samples. Has a powerful, rich and sometimes menacing vibe to it... a statement of intent. The mid brings a long breakdown where drums and strings bubble under and twist their way back to an almighty riff attack. A real journey of a tune. [Tempo: Medium / 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: Slow / 77 BPM]
A suspenseful and edgy music track with an epic sound. Rising and evolving mood, featuring an extremely dramatic brass section, simple orchestral melody, and pompous atmophere. Hero / Epic / Trailer Music. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 95 BPM]
Chunky, hefty, driven, dynamic, confident, purposeful, thrilling rock groover with a spacey, atmospheric intro. Loads of forward momentum & fiery, gutsy down-tuned riffage combing with monster drums & moody synths. Would suit extreme sports / motorsports / combat / military / action / thriller type projects. [Tempo: Medium / 102 BPM]
Loungy Funk Pop with a positive mood and groovy funk elements. The catchy sounds and some melodic variations fits well with advertising. [Tempo: Medium / 105 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 / 94 BPM]
Positive dubstep / electro feel tune with club drums and synthesizers. Great quality track that resembles top electronic artists. Positive melody changes up to a dirty dubstep drop with a gritty distorted bass. At 01:00 the track drops into a nasty, gritty Dubstep part. Final drop hits a clean four to the floor beat that will please any clubber. Good for club scenes, dance scenes, car commercials and more. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 130 BPM]
A hybrid orchestral / electronic track with an Epic, Sci-fi feel. Tense, strong, dramatic, with pompous orchestral brasses and big percussion over a pulsating synth arpeggio. Good for science fiction adventure, heroics and more. [Tempo: Medium / 97 BPM]
A collection of 7 short music tracks. High impact, intense, dramatic jingles, highly suitable as music for TV programme opening sequences, intros, splash screens, product introductions, sports and action footage, reality TV and more. [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 131 BPM]
A darkly epic and menacing atmosphere built by low pitched cellos, distorted, mechanical drum beats, stabbing brass and spacious electronics. Conflict, chase, thriller, sci-fi. [Tempo: Fast / 150 BPM]
Action, Adventure, Military, Epic, Trailer, Orchestral, Dubstep. The track starts with female solo vocalizations over a dark orchestral atmosphere. Then it develops into a gigantic and massive action packed track, with a breath-taking dubstep breakdown. [Tempo: Slow, Medium, Fast / 132 BPM]
A tense and dramatic battle, conflict, fight, chase or combat track. Aggressive, threatening, foreboding and ominous. Good track for fantasy, action-adventure, fighting, conflict and intense danger, extreme situation, dramatic reality-TV etc. Also available as a Percussion Only version, as well as several stingers and seamless loops. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 0 BPM]
A powerful, driving, big energy, clever, ambient drum and percussion track that features big taiko boomy grooves. Great for Sports, and impactful advertising and trailer productions. Provides a feeling of suspenseful build up to a powerful finish. The music is determined and impactful. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 136 BPM]
Like Black Sabbath jamming with the Chemical Brothers and inviting Korn to join in. Hypnotic trashy beats, spacey synth leads and weaving bendy basslines meld with huge blunt guitars. in the end section things get quite out of hand as the Tsunami of guitars swamp the Electronica and pummeling ensues until the monster takes it's last breath. [Tempo: Fast / 150 BPM]
Dark, heavy, determined, epic, powerful & intense modern metal track with great drive & a sense of foreboding. Scary, threatening, mean, dynamic, gritty, dangerous and gutsy. Would suit action / thriller / horror / combat / extreme sports type projects. Contains huge guitars, bass, drums & strings. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 88 BPM]
Punchy, energetic Drum & Bass. Intense, disturbing, hypnotic, industrial. [Tempo: Very fast / 144 BPM]
A very positive and inspiring, uplifting and exciting movie soundtrack / theme. Great as a main-theme or for a scene of amazing discoveries, free spirits, new adventures and a promise of glorious times to come. Fun and rousing, this track has that "big sky" feeling of wide open spaces and endless possibilities. Great for fantasy, adventure and new discoveries. Could also work for a Western. [Tempo: Medium / 139 BPM]
Intense orchestral action music with rhythmic percussion, aggressive brass and dramatic strings, that ends heroically. Good to use in a chase sequence where the victim escapes. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 99 BPM]
Thriller, chiller, horror chase track. Unnerving, tense, dark, gloomy, chilly, chase, disturbing, ominous. Nervous, suspenseful, tense. [Tempo: Fast / 157 BPM]
Guitars and synths brutally battle it out for supremacy separated only by a soft spacey b part that lulls you into a false sense of security before the frantic duel begins again. Contains guitars, synths, strings, bass, drums. [Tempo: Fast / 147 BPM]
A hell-raising, spine-tingling, bombastic orchestral track recorded with real strings and a real choir, on a big recording budget. [Tempo: Medium / 109 BPM]
A threatening, ominous and menacing track combining orchestral and ethnic percussion with mechanical, marching, determined rhythms and stabs. Good for chase, conflict, combat, fight scenes or situations of danger. Fantasy, games, action adventure, fighting/combat, dramatic/danger reality-TV etc. Also available as a Percussion Only mix, as well as several Stingers and seamless music loops. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 78 BPM]
A hybrid trailer track with a moody opening and epic main drop. The track opens with a distant piano and distant sound effects. The piano builds with effects and chopped up sounds to the big hits in the middle. After four huge hits and synthesizer growls the track drops into the main part. Staccato string stabs, huge percussion and low bass are present throughout the second part. The track keeps building with a large horn section to the final distorted hits at the end. Resembles Battlefield soundtrack. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 165 BPM]
A choppy, busy, edgy Drum'n Bass track with processed violins & voice cuts. The jungle parts and wobbling bass makes this a pretty visual urban title. [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 175 BPM]
Battle drums. Epic, huge percussion. A combination of orchestral percussion and ethnic / tribal drums. Suitable for battle, fight, chase, conflict, etc. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 115 BPM]
Huge sounding orchestral production mixed with modern, urban drums. About halfway through, a choir enters ominously. Foreboding, impending conflict, battle, war, epic struggle, urgent and dangerious situation. Great for action, military, war, sci-fi, and high-tech thriller. [Tempo: Medium / 85 BPM]
The intense, epic track explodes from the first beat, and only gets bigger from there. A huge wall of sound is created from the stacking of choir, massive percussion and orchestra. [Tempo: Medium / 156 BPM]
Electronic / Cars / Up-Tempo. This electronic number is in the style of many pieces typically found within Racing media. E.g Video Game Menu Pages. Formula-1, race track, high intensity and high speed media. Available with or without race car sound effects mixed into the music. [Tempo: Fast / 142 BPM]
Very tribal and intense. A rhythmic track that builds and builds. At first it walks toward with evil intent then it grabs you by the jugular and starts to mercilessly squeeeze. [Tempo: Medium / 90 BPM]
Suspenseful, tense, cinematic muisc track. Uneasy nerve, danger on the horizon. Ominous / Foreboding. This track features a full stop and re-start at around 1 minute which can be useful in editing the music to your content, for dramatic effect. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 55 BPM]
Tense and rhythmic orchestral soundtrack cue. Like dark magic brewing or mischief being carried out. A sense of urgency. Fantasy/Adventure. [Tempo: Medium / 114 BPM]
Music opens with swirling choirs and is soon joined by massive orchestra and percussion. Techno break beats come in later to add another layer of intensity to an already huge sound. For epic action, or trailers and promos. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 149 BPM]
A percussion-only track, suitable as music for various types of action, battle, sports, marching and epic productions. Epic percussion / battle drums. [Tempo: Medium / 135 BPM]
Battle drums / marching percussion. A combination of orchestral percussion and ethnic / tribal drums. Suitable for battle, fight, chase, conflict, etc. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 70 BPM]
A brooding sense of danger that builds to a climax. Heavy brass are aided by stabbing strings and thumping percussion which is great to use as trek music with big landscape shots, in which the bad guys are after the good guys. [Tempo: Medium / 89 BPM]
Energetic, groovy, slightly industrial electro track that gets ugly in the chorus part when layers of distorted guitars gatecrash the party and rip up the seats. Reminiscent of Nine Inch Nails in parts. [Tempo: Fast / 120 BPM]
