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.
Driving electro-rock track with big beat drums and stabbing guitar riffs. Confident, relentless and not too overpowering. Think big engines, motorbikes, metal against metal, car commercials/vlogs or anything related to technology, industry, motors, running, sport and testosterone, modern lifestyle, fashion or hipster stuff. [Tempo: Medium / 120 BPM]
A groovy acoustic bass theme mixed with a funky retro breakbeat. In the style of recent Brit-flick / mobster / crime-in-progress and gritty productions. Big Beat/ Spy / Chase Music. [Tempo: Medium / 113 BPM]
A marching, foreboding and determined, orchestral track with pounding drums. Dangerous situation. Powerful onslaught. Heroic rescue. Honor and victory. [Tempo: Medium / 85 BPM]
Imposing and tense, building throughout, cinematic epic theme. Anxious / Strong / Edgy / Dramatic music track. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 150 BPM]
Edgy electronic music with solid beats, thumping toms and acid sound design. Dark / Dangerous / Power / Edgy / Raw music track. [Tempo: Fast / 135 BPM]
Dark Hip-Hop and orchestral music mix, with a secretive mood. Spy music / Crime / Ominous / Edgy. [Tempo: Slow / 75 BPM]
A dark and suspense trailer track with an atmospheric and dramatic mood. Lots of rising effects, soundscapes and hybrid synths. Edgy, dramatic, tense. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 110 BPM]
Industrial and pounding sound design with action beats. Edgy / Powerful / Mechanical Music. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 100 BPM]
An epic trailer music track with retro feel synthesizers and hard hitting drums. Atmospheric opening is lined with low synth pads and drones building to an epic bass drop. Lots of glitches, boomers and drops fit for a dramatic movie or video game trailer music or other edgy, dark, gloomy and twitchy material. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 105 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]
Authentic 1960's or 1970's style instrumental surf-rock, guitar rock with twangy, squealing guitars. Moody, retro feel. [Tempo: Medium / 133 BPM]
Hard electronic synths and beats meet up with dramatic orchestral sweeps. Danger, drama, conflict, or extreme situations. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 140 BPM]
A sneaky, downtempo funk track in the style of 1980s cop films like Beverly Hills Cop and many others. Synth bass, gated drums, wah-wah guitar. Suitable for scenes of investigating, stalking, sneaking around, stakeout and more. [Tempo: Medium / 110 BPM]
Dramatic hip-hop style with an orchestral element and a spy mystery feel. Deep bass line, dramatic string section and a pounding hip-hop beat gives a 'rough' urban sound and the marching snare gives it a serious edge. Good for inner city, street drama, police, investigation, suspense and action thriller etc. Also great for multimedia, branding and more. [Tempo: Medium / 101 BPM]
A dark and creepy track suitable for trailers, movie opening scenes and more. Starts with an eerie, almost child like piano melody, then grows into a more horror feel, like evil forces, black magic or a horde of dark warriors. The track appears to end with a crescendo at about 01:12 but it comes back with a creepy closing section, revisiting the main theme. Good for horror, fantasy, dark forces, creepy films and more. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 109 BPM]
A hard hitting, wall of noise type, guitar rock track drawing on classic and modern rock styles. Heavy chugging guitars, blasting drums, high energy level. Exciting, rough, dirty and grinding, with a dark edge. Good for things like dangerous stunts, wild sports, raw Nascar racing, extreme engine power, ultimate fighting championship, and much more. [Tempo: Fast / 100 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]
Dark and gritty, urban funk / hip-hop / breakbeat. Downtempo, grinding, distorted bass guitar riff and retro funk drums. Gangster, bad ass, criminal etc. Available with or without 'bad man' vocals hooks. [Tempo: Medium / 80 BPM]
Slamming, aggressive electro-rock with an industrial edge. Mangled and processed beats, distorted guitar licks. Busy, fragmented. Extreme sports, fighting, dirty/grinding footage etc. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 122 BPM]
Up tempo psychedelic funk with heavy wah wah guitar lines, brass, flute and clattering drums. A kitsch retro workout with a contemporary dance music edge. A fun and funky look back at the 1960's and 1970's... [Tempo: Fast / 118 BPM]
Deep and funky house / hip-hop crossover, nice synth arpeggios and beatz. [Tempo: Medium / 81 BPM]
A slow, sizzling, determined beat meets up with retro funk riffs, metal guitar chords and slow, methodical synths to create a sizzling, pumping, 'rough & tumble' style Big Beat track. This track has a feeling of something relentless, unforgiving and unstoppable. Something that will just keep going, undeterred, until everything in its way has been crushed into submission. Cool, gritty, rough and tough, determined and dominant. Good for inner city brawl, conflict, mechanoids or transformers, high tech warfare, modern weapons, bad-ass tough guys, etc. [Tempo: Medium / 84 BPM]
A hard hitting Big Beat track featuring a determined, although downtempo, methodical rhythm with rough and touch, gritty and nasty riffs. Suitable for tough guys on the street, mean machine, high tech warfare or battle / brawl / fight. Also inner city chase, tough guy cops / secret agents / undercover spy, moving into position. A sense of determination, never-give-up siege mentality. Relentless, groovy and funky. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 120 BPM]
Huge drum n' bass percussion collides with orchestral breaks and extreme FX stabs. Evoking visions of speed, excellence and hybrid technology. Well matched with the Elliot Simons track 'Metallic Wasteland'. [Tempo: Medium / 81 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]
Electro-funk track with stabbing synthesizers, undercover detective type horns, retro style funk drums and a funky bass riff. Has a certain debonaire, undercover spy, crime or police chase feel. [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 127 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]
A fast, slick and mean techno groove. Atmospheric, deep, soaring and free. Highly infectious beat. [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 150 BPM]
Staccato, busy hardcore electro breakbeats. [Tempo: Fast / 160 BPM]
Full-on, hard impact, cocky and strutting electro breakbeats. [Tempo: Fast / 135 BPM]
Heavy metal style guitar riffing and squelchy analog synths. Gritty and punchy. [Tempo: Fast / 104 BPM]
Moody and deep grooving royalty free Drum'n Bass with hip-hop and acid-jazz influences. Urban, inner city. [Tempo: Medium / 86 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 guitar rock track that's rough, but not hard. Plenty of attitude and grit, but without crossing over into hard rock or metal. Bluesy guitar riffs create a restrained, but gutsy rock feel. Great for sports, challenges and much, much more. [Tempo: Fast / 135 BPM]
Rough, funky guitar riffs. Determined, forceful, aggressive, confident. Big Beat style rhythm, taking no prisoners and combining elements of techno, post-industrial techno, mech/tech, raw power, etc. Good for hard edgy visual presentations, sports / extreme sports, fighting and brawling, gritty motorsports, filmscore / action or chase scenes and more. [Tempo: Fast / 90 BPM]
Dark, shiny, hard edged, chrome styled techno-rock. Rough, tough, determined feel with raw, hard, Big Beat drums and aggressive synth patterns. Good for fast paced action, sports / extreme sports, motorsports, gritty footage and media, car chase scene, violence / fighting / brawling, etc. Determined, aggresion, forceful. [Tempo: Medium / 120 BPM]
A rough and gutsy funk track with a mechanical, industrial element. Hard hitting Big Beat funky drums with funk bass and hard edged synths. Determined, forceful. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 106 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]
Upbeat, medium-fast, retro style, chic Surf Rock. Energetic and lively. Style, fashion, and surf music style of the 1960's and early 70's. Twangy guitars. [Tempo: Fast / 80 BPM]
Classic surf rock style with fast picking guitar and a slight Mexico influence. 1960's and 1970's California sound. Latino elements with surf music arrangement. Twangy guitars, spring reverb, occasional Mexican trumpets. [Tempo: Medium / 78 BPM]
Gutsy and tense, progressive rock. Heavy guitar riffs interspersed with 70's style keyboard work and a nervy, pensive bridge part. Good for high energy productions, sports, extreme sports, racing, action filled footage, etc. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 83 BPM]
Charming and quirky retro electro track. 8-bit sounds with a Nintendo-ish feel, video game subculture, the 1980's and digital life. Slightly reminiscent of the work of Kraftwerk. At about 30 seconds a Jean Michel Jarre -like melody comes in. [Tempo: Fast / 125 BPM]
Uptempo, solid techno-trance beat. Good, steady energy level, medium intensity synth patterns with fast and moderately energetic pumping beats. Good for exercise, workout, spacey productions, high speed or action footage, sports and excitement. [Tempo: Very fast / 145 BPM]
A determined and somewhat mechanical, staccato beat has given this track its title. It's a downtempo, funky, urban / hip-hop take on machines, robots, high tech mechanics, moving parts, metal and lights, in other words, everything that's cool in the world. :-) Very groovy and funky, with a dark side. [Tempo: Fast / 120 BPM]
A hard and heavy rock track with a real gritty sound and drive. Featuring multiple layers of heavily distorted guitars, powerful drums and driving bass, this track should give some oomph to your project but without being too dark or overpowering. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow, Medium / 65 BPM]
Dark and ominous event, eerie sounds, threatening and edgy, sustains with aggressive internal percussive events. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 100 BPM]
A slowly marching, staccato, methodical, unstoppable force. Orchestral march with a sense of darkness, determination, glory and victory. Dark heroes or evil hordes. Good for dramatic trailers / epic trailer, battle or marching scene, fantasy fights, war and conflict, epic scenes and more. [Tempo: Slow, Medium, Fast / 120 BPM]
An urgent, dramatic and glorifying track for dramatic trailers, fight scenes, epic battles and grand heroes or warriors. Orchestra, epic battle percussion, full choir. Good for epic trailer, scenes of epic battles or charging armies. Dramatic or dangerous situation, rescue mission, fantasy fight, etc. [Tempo: Medium, Fast, Very fast / 150 BPM]
This track is recorded with a real live orchestra. A dramatic, at times disturbing, urgent and very nervy track for action, horror, chase, monsters, epic trailers, fantasy fight scene and more. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 0 BPM]
Rough / Classic Rock / Fun Sports: A rough, determined and slightly dirty, uptempo rock track with a moderate energy level and a good forward drive. Suitable for racing / motorsports, offroad / rally, skating, gritty teenage sports / X-Games, fun sports and more. Slight punk element, combined with a classic rock sound. [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 147 BPM]
