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.
Minimal piano leads into an ominous, dark, heroic orchestral music theme. Tension / Dystopia / Edgy music. [Tempo: Slow, Fast / 150 BPM]
Riffs that would down an elephant. Huge filtered dirty guitars and slow grindy drums and bass. Would suit any thriller/extreme sports/motorsport project. Reminiscent of Rage Against the Machine. [Tempo: Fast / 111 BPM]
Impending doom that builds with cinematic awe to a climactic chasm at 01:09. Suspenseful, tense, foreboding, nervous. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 130 BPM]
Crime or conflict oriented piano and orchestra music track, with a lot of metallic percussion and powerful blasts. Mystical, eerie, tense and with an underlying sense of threat and unease. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 145 BPM]
Dark and ominous event, eerie sounds, threatening and edgy, sustains with aggressive internal percussive events. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 100 BPM]
Building from an uneasy atmosphere into complete Bedlam with a variety of orchestral passages, stabs and flourishes. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 114 BPM]
A nasty, hard biting, gritty and grinding, post-modern, industrial rock track with a sickly and funky, dominant and hot headed guitar riff. Good for sports, motor sports / racing, action or chase, brawls and fights, as well as for ugly, nasty, futuristic, mechanical / transformers / attacking mechanoids. Think big engines, metal against metal. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 120 BPM]
Tires squealing, sirens blaring, adrenalin flowing. The Chase begins. Dramatic, suspenseful, powerful track mixing electronic and orchestral elements. [Tempo: Slow, Fast / 85 BPM]
Edgy, raw and gritty Rocktronica. Great for sports, extreme sports, racing, action, fast-cut and frantic footage etc. High energy / Energetic / Punchy. Available with or without the vocal parts. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 130 BPM]
An extremely hard hitting guitar rock track. Full-on energy impact, massive power, all-out hard rock warfare. Severely cranking guitars and bass, with a B-part featuring an industrial element. [Tempo: Fast / 120 BPM]
Royalty free gutsy, gritty and heavy power-rock. All-out blazing guitars, taking no prisoners. Tough and unruly. [Tempo: Medium / 165 BPM]
A cold, cut-down and hypnotic synth pattern, with crisp and edgy techno beats. Rough, determined, slightly unhinged. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 130 BPM]
Energetic and driving Funk-Rock track featuring catchy electric guitars, slap bass and powerful drums. Confident, busy and lively. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 122 BPM]
A highly intense and gripping suite of action and suspense scoring, underlying anything from the plot of a spy to the chase of an escaped convict. Orchestral in nature with big drums and driving percussion rhythms, in the vein of John Powell's "Bourne" movies and the scores of Hanz Zimmer and Steve Jablonsky ("Batman Begins" and "Transformers"). [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 93 BPM]
A nasty electro-breaks / glitch-hop track with a main synth bass that warps and glitches into an industrial-rock sounding payoff section. Forthright and triumphant, suited to fast editing, ideal for gaming videos, motorsport, mechanics and hi-octane action scenes and also works great with extreme sports and more. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 110 BPM]
Dark and pulsing music track, featuring tense strings, electronic textures and sparse punchy percussion creates a foreboding and fearful mood [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 120 BPM]
Edgy and brooding electro beats with aggressive synths. Driving / Promo / Dark. [Tempo: Medium / 100 BPM]
A video game inspired techno music track with lots of groove and drive. Punchy kicks and acid synth bring a sense of rush and anticipation. A plucky chiptune synth melody gives this track a retro feel. Minimal / Retro / Video Game Music. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 130 BPM]
Snarling bass and guitar rock riff with (scratched) vocal refrain 'It’s Going Down, down, down' - ideal for extreme sport, urban culture or to signal that the action/show/event is about to start. Also available without the vocals. [Tempo: Medium / 90 BPM]
After an acoustic intro, this track soon builds into a take-no-prisoners, up-front and gutsy, hard hitting rock track. Uptempo and crunchy, with a wild streak. Action / Extreme Sports / Combat / Fight / Wild / Untamed. [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 174 BPM]
Percussion only, war drums / battle drums track. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 75 BPM]
Monstrous dubstep synths, horns and rock guitars combine in a heaving, grinding, violent head bopper - ideal music for extreme sports, gaming and edgy futuristic mechanoid uprising. [Tempo: Slow, Medium, Fast / 87 BPM]
An intense sequence of pulsating rhythms that indicate action and risk. Electronic / Undercover / Technology Music. [Tempo: Medium / 120 BPM]
An aggressive dubstep / drumstep track is a contemporary cue reminiscent of artists such as skrillex, Knife Party and Nero. It's energetic, driving and gritty. It has a funky danceable groove, screaming wobble bass that stands up and grabs your viewers attention, and a reggae influenced chord progression that is a nice blend of dub and progressive dance. It's exciting, extreme and fashionable and would work nicely in advertising, extreme sports and athletic video, automotive promos, video games, tv and film and as hi energy in store or a phone on hold track. [Tempo: Slow, Medium, Fast / 175 BPM]
A straight up, raw rockin' hard rock track, with a big punch and big attitude. [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 165 BPM]
A dark, tense and urgent music track with synths and orchestra. Dramatic and powerful music mood, with an apocalyptic edge. [Tempo: Fast / 140 BPM]
Fast, aggressive, big and powerful epic drums track. Determined, tribal, pounding music. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 130 BPM]
A dark and pulsating blockbuster track, combining synth sounds with orchestral music. Suitable for movie scenes, thrillers, blockbusters, intense scenes and epic material. Cinematic / Heroic music / Amazement. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 125 BPM]
An ominous, dramatic and tension building music track featuring hybrid orchestra, combined with classical orchetra and deep synths. Growing into big, epic trailer music. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 80 BPM]
A suspenseful and slowly building blockbuster music track featuring full orchestra, with a blend of plucked synth playing unison with main string section. Grand / Epic / Triumphant / Amazing. [Tempo: Medium / 95 BPM]
Where electronica meets guitar rock and industrial. Gritty, dark, psychedelic. [Tempo: Medium / 98 BPM]
Dark, intense, mean, powerful, driven, passionate, hard-hitting, no nonsense rocker with great tension & momentum. Loud, confident, exciting, primitive, dangerous, wild, wicked, relentless & fiery. Would suit action thriller / extreme sports / military / combat type projects. [Tempo: Fast / 150 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]
Urban, grinding Rocktronica features vocal phrase, “What you gonna do for the dollar dollar bill” - Great for extreme sport and crime scenes. Also available without the vocal parts. [Tempo: Fast / 142 BPM]
Powerful and epic Hip Hop track, with a strong drive and pace. "Are You Ready For The Battle" vocal sample sets the fighter mood. Agressive and Punchy, with a bell ding reminiscent of Boxing and Fighting. Good for sports and epic stuff with an urban twist. Also available without the vocal phrase. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 95 BPM]
Edgy electronic music with solid beats, thumping toms and acid sound design. Dark / Dangerous / Power / Edgy / Raw music track. [Tempo: Fast / 135 BPM]
Confident, edgy, hefty, dynamic, exciting, brutal, tense & dramatic rocker with great, bold power & drive. Weighty, measured, primitive, suspenseful, menacing, crushing, wicked & unstoppable. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 152 BPM]
Driving and motivating hard rock track with catchy guitar riffs and synths. [Tempo: Fast / 135 BPM]
Full on Chilli-Pepper style rock. Aggressive, energetic, hard, funky. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 105 BPM]
Think Burn Notice. Jazzy and Funky. Features acoustic guitar and sizzling keyboard elements with horns. Upbeat and exciting. Good for tv action drama. [Tempo: Fast / 120 BPM]
Up-beat, funky, retro breaks feel with a vocoded refrain, “I came to start the party, ‘cos I’m the party starter”. Great music for action sports, work montages and gangster scenes. Also available without the vocals. Urban / Party / Dance stock music. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 128 BPM]
An epic adventure or fantasy track with a sweeping orchestral feel. Like amazing new discoveries, grand adventures, fantastic new places or a dangerous, epic mission. The openingg and middle parts of this track is glorious and optimistic, whereas the closing section of this track is darker, more menacing, more urgent and closes off with a very dark, pounding, eerie outro. [Tempo: Slow, Medium, Fast / 133 BPM]
A very positive, lively and energetic Rock / Hard Rock music track, with a very strong drive and high energy. Feel-good / Lively / Celebratory Music. [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 161 BPM]
A dark, slow, dramatic orchestral theme with choir. (Choir enters about 1 minute in). Dramatic events, dark days. Doom and awe. Available with or without choir, and with or without additional rock drums. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 60 BPM]
Edgy Drum'n Bass / Breakbeat. Dark, industrial feel. Gritty and grimey. Slightly disturbing, choppy and processed. Good for action / chase, motorsports and x-sports, future / futuristic, sci-fi, race / racing and destruction. Robotic and mechanical. Youth culture / Urban subcultures / Dark rave. [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 170 BPM]
A dark and dramatic, cinematic trailer or action / tension score. Doom-laden / Foreboding / Serious / Tense. (Stem files available.) [Tempo: Medium / 90 BPM]
Mystical / Dark / Foreboding / Uneasy / Eerie / Urgent Music. Small orchestra soundtrack piece, featuring live performed orchestral instruments, suitable as music for film and other media. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 154 BPM]
Felix Mendelssohn - Symphony No. 4, Op. 90. Movement IV. Saltarello. Presto. Arranged and recorded exclusively for Shockwave-Sound.com [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 0 BPM]
An intense and powerful blend of orchestral and metal music, with loud, heavy metal drum section. Forceful / Tense / Dark music. [Tempo: Medium / 85 BPM]
Electronic beats to the max. A quality EDM track that any DJ would want in their collection. Heavy bass synths are prominent in this track. An absolutely epic build up drops into a nice groovy house track that changes up enough to keep your listener interested. Nice switch ups and effects are present throughout the track. This track will work great for club scenes, party scenes, time-lapse, car commercials and more. [Tempo: Fast / 130 BPM]
