Royalty-Free Music for crime mysteries and crime thillers; in particular, the tracks we've put in this area represent the music that we felt would go well with Gangsters, Drug dealers, Tough guys and general Bad-Asses. The music will tend to have a slow, mean beat, sometimes Hip-Hop or Urban based music but also sometimes more Orchestral / Classic style music that can be used to illustrate the Bad Guy in your production. This music will tend to have a cold, ruthless edge to it.
Intense, drama-soaked orchestral rocker. Screaming strings and monster riffs combine to great effect. Full of suspense and powerful momentum. Contains guitars, strings, bass and drums. [Tempo: Medium / 88 BPM]
Dark and disturbing soundscape. Horror, scifi, creepy, sound design. An uneasy drone and distant, reverberant hissing noise develops into a climax at about 35 secs. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
Powerful, intense, dramatic, gritty, gutsy, grungey rock track with great energy and determination. Epically huge chugged guitar riffs combine with doggedly driving drums to make dynamic, passionate rock music with a sense of invincibilty. Suitable for action / extreme sports / thriller type projects. [Tempo: Medium / 128 BPM]
A rather strange mix of battle percussion and old, twangy, tremolo guitars with a slight Mexican "danger" feel. Suitable perhaps as a chase or battle scene in a cult film or film noir. A unique track with a somewhat weird edge. [Tempo: Fast / 124 BPM]
Funk-rock track with a heavy Nickelback'esque chorus part. We have a full length vocal version, as well as a full length instrumental mix and shorter instrumental cuts and loops of this great funky and melodic rock track. Note! The vocal version contains a single explicit word. [Tempo: Medium / 97 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 / 70 BPM]
Ominous and arid western atmosphere, inspired by modern TV drama like Breaking Bad, CSI and Banshee. Slide guitars over a driving rhythm. Crime and gangster feel, as well as police investigation mood. Cinematic / Western / Crime Music. [Tempo: Medium / 0 BPM]
Cool and funky instrumental track featuring powerful bass and drum, groove ideal for cop shows, car chases, etc. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 80 BPM]
Orchestral action piece with huge brass and drums implying suspense and building tension. Think espionage-laden chase. [Tempo: Slow, Fast / 90 BPM]
An intense epic 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: Slow, Fast / 122 BPM]
Horror, scifi or thriller underscore featuring severely mangled guitar notes, deep thumping percussion and a disturbing drone. Like the desolate sound from the pits of hell, this is a very dark ambient track. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
A pulsating synth and eerie melodies create a haunting, suspenseful atmosphere soon joined by synth bass and an electric guitar ostinato. Electronic and Acoustic drums and percussion help build a crescendo and reinforce the feeling of purposeful, unstoppable resolution. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 100 BPM]
Dark Dub / Breaks. Downtempo, grimy beats. Machine like, Futuristic, Funky, Dark Electronica. Robotic / Mechanical / Dark & Weird / Strong. Also available without the vocal samples. [Tempo: Fast / 140 BPM]
Softly swaying, live acoustic jazz built on a repeated bass pattern. Instrumental interplay, mellow and breezy style with some jazz improvisation. [Tempo: Medium / 90 BPM]
Slow paced royalty-free music track with digital drums and deep digital basslines mixed with orchestral hits and strings. Broken future, bleak and ominous. The build up is slow into a melodic yet unsettling drop with strings and crushed drums that resemble a gun shot. A good track for movie and video game trailers, scenes of struggle and repression. Also for forensic investigation, crime / crime scene, spy and undercover agent, etc. [Tempo: Slow / 65 BPM]
"Constructing the Machine". A pulsing and building orchestral thriller montage cue underscoring anything from working mathematical formulas to constructing a time machine. Rhythmic percussion, brass, strings, ambient fx, electronic instruments. [Tempo: Medium / 128 BPM]
Uplifting and Funky Disco track with an authentic 70s vibe. Features Horns, Slap Bass, Guitars, Keyboards and Drums. Great for any project in need of a retro soundtrack from the 70s. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 120 BPM]
Electronic percussion and eerie electric piano melodies generate an atmosphere of tension and suspense. The mystery thickens and new sound layers are added in a dramatic, hypnotic crescendo with a few stops, perfect for edit points. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 88 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]
Electronic underscore with warm piano, spacey synthesizer and lush pads. Explorer, keep moving forward feel. Mystical, eerie. [Tempo: Medium / 120 BPM]
Underscore to a forensic examination a-la CSI. Evokes images of modern technology, progress, science, forensics and medicine, whilst sounding modern yet organic. Hints of eastern culture. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 83 BPM]
Funky clavinet style synth starts this shuffley groover of a track. Non-stop bounce and energy from start to finish. The mid section brings a slight breakdown as ethereal voices and synth pads fade in and out. [Tempo: Medium / 100 BPM]
A dark and grungy orchestral hybrid track. Unsettling distorted synth and drums keep a relentless and dark theme. The track slows down to a slight quiet break in the middle, followed by a loud and heavy drop that plays out to the end. This track is suitable for video game or movie trailers, scenes of struggle or battle. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 70 BPM]
Edgy, rough and determined electro-funk / techno crossover with a Big Beat sound. Hard edged staccato synth licks. Aggressive, dominant, mechanical and forceful. Good for car chase scene, mech warfare, modern war machines, fights and brawls, etc. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 120 BPM]
Hip-hop track with spy / mystery / secret agent style strings and brass. [Tempo: Slow / 85 BPM]
Hip-hop track with a sort of sinking feeling. Downwards spiraling, subte synth lead, sparse hiphop beat, sub bass. [Tempo: Slow / 90 BPM]
Battle drums / marching percussion. A combination of orchestral percussion and ethnic / tribal drums. Suitable for battle, fight, chase, conflict, etc. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 102 BPM]
A crazy, hectic, cool, unpredictable electronic dubstep track. Animated, adventurous, frantic, lively, wild & wicked. Would suit urban documentary / action thriller / combat video type projects. [Tempo: Medium / 80 BPM]
A mean, forceful, unforgiving Big Beat track that blends elements of techno, industrial, rock and funk to create a groovy and funky style of gritty music, recently made famous by groups such as The Crystal Method. A slamming funk beat is joined by distorted synths and hard biting guitar riffs. Entirely groove based, there isn't much melody to speak of, but the music carries a sense of relentless motion and power. [Tempo: Medium / 110 BPM]
A very eclectic and somewhat bizarre track, blending elements of Dark Dub electronica, Hard rock and Reggae. Stuttering and spluttering synthesizers create a pulsating rhythmic bed for hard biting guitar riffs and slamming Dub / Industrial drums. Technology, future and the Matrix meets Halloween and crime? [Tempo: Slow, Medium, Fast / 140 BPM]
A driving rock song that features drums, guitar, bass, and distorted vocals. Has a slightly indie, hard rock feel. Also available as an instrumental version. [Tempo: Fast / 103 BPM]
Upbeat electro-rock song. Available as a vocal version and an instrumental version. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 173 BPM]
Phasing and glitching metal guitar riffs begin to rise in tempo before dropping into a filthy and snarling EDM drop. Gives the feeling of chasing through the jungle like the ‘Predator’ so therefore perfect for use with war, military, gaming, extreme sports! [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 128 BPM]
A sci-fi oriented track that we had trouble finding the right category for, featuring sputtering, arpeggiating analogue synthesizers, space echoes, weird spacey sounds. Desolate. Isolation, paranoia, horror, space, scifi. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
Dark and brooding, glitchy and mechanical electronica gives an unsettling feeling, works great for hi-tech and telecoms, futuristic scenes and bad robots. [Tempo: Medium / 120 BPM]
Tough, hard hitting, filthy and greasy rock meets electronica / dubtep music. This grime breakbeat rock track breaks down into a gnarly swing / triplet build section before coming home to rock again. Ideal for use as extreme sports music and motor sports but just as suited to car chases and high octane action scenes. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 128 BPM]
Edgy, eerie, spacious, tense, mysterious, animated synth rock piece with great atmosphere and a nervous, suspense-filled, uneasy mood. Jittery, moody, menacing, serious, ethereal and dreamy. Would suit dramatic / crime / detective / histori / documentary / investigative news type projects. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 100 BPM]
This track starts off with a melancholic nylon guitar pattern before erupting into a hard edged, post-modern / post-apocalyptic, gritty electro-rock track. The two contrasting elements continue to combine throughout. Dark and doom'ish. [Tempo: Medium / 120 BPM]
A dramatic tension track that opens with rhythmic and melodic synth lines and builds with light percussion, piano, strings, and brass motifs. Perfect for action and adventure scenes or reality game show programming. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 128 BPM]
Dark ambient synth pulse, made for tension, mystery and suspense. Besides the main track, this piece comes in many different seamless loops which can be used in combination with each other to 'build' the soundtrack needed for a scene, in a modular way. Simply place the different loops on the timeline, in a way that matches your on-screen action, or blend, combine, crop and join the loop pieces to create your own 'version' of the track. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 100 BPM]
Mystery, information dissection, ideas, data flow, crime laboratory, science or forensic examinations. Looking for clues. A slow heartbeat-like bass drum sets the pace for this quiet, intense track while delicate, urgent melodies dance on top surrounded by eerie Fx. Perfect for a CSI or E.R. style Lab scene. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 115 BPM]
Nervous action adventure underscore. Ticking rhythm, uncertain pulses, mysterious notes. A sense of urgency and impending danger. Suitable for crime drama, thriller, spy mystery, criminal investigation, reality TV, sci-fi drama and more. [Tempo: Medium / 75 BPM]
A pulsing and pensive musical background for mystery, intrigue, processing, analyzing or perhaps just a story unfolding before our eyes. This music track has a slight sense of mechanical or perhaps clockwork- it starts with a simple pizzicato pulse and develops over time, but always keeps its initial nerve and sense of activity and problem solving. Mysterious / Forensics / Undercover Music. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 86 BPM]
Dark and gripping cinematic underscore, with subsonic drums & timpani, arpeggiated piano and horn strikes for moments of tension and near discovery. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 120 BPM]
Dramatic trailer music that mixes electronic instruments and strings. It is split into two sections: tension/build up and then a full onslaught. This makes it work well in trailers that have exposition in the first half, then fast cuts and action in the second. [Tempo: Slow, Fast / 145 BPM]
Mystical, pensive underscore music track for use with crime, forensic investigation, mysterious connections, intrigue and suspicion. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 120 BPM]
Intense, atmospheric, space rock monster. Huge guitars mix with electronic elements & strings to produce highly cinematic, adrenaline-filled beast that would suit thriller/action/sports projects. [Tempo: Fast / 125 BPM]
Intense, powerful, driven, hectic, heavy, frantic & edgy modern metal track. Enormous forward energy & weight makes sure this beast hammers it home. No messing. Monster chugged guitar riffs combine with syncopated shard-like drums. Would suit extreme sports / horror / thriller / action / military projects. [Tempo: Fast / 160 BPM]
An edgy and energetic rock track that oozes confidence and swagger. A solid and gritty bassline is at the heart of this track that is full of passion and confidence, reminiscent of Nirvana and grunge music. [Tempo: Medium / 120 BPM]
A swing jazz band playing on top of a bed of scary string tremolos and SFX. A pause at 1:42. Afterwards, brass instruments return with some crazy noodling. Unsettling, a bit psychedelic, perhaps losing grip on reality. [Tempo: Medium / 115 BPM]
