This royalty-free tracks area contains music suitable for Military, War, Armed Conflict and related subjects. From tragic, tearful orchestral movements reflecting memories of fallen soldiers and tragedies, to more historical sounding music for World War I / World War II history and documentaries, to more straight-forward battle themes, war drums and explosive, gritty, metal & nu-metal music. Also music for Fantasy Wars (e.g. Orcs vs Humans) is represented here.
A full on dramatic action track, great for big superhero style trailers, or modern powerful sci fi films. Mixing traditional scoring orchestral elements with modern futuristic glitched style synths, this track is perfect for that big budget trailer sound, or for an epic dramatic action film. [Tempo: Slow / 78 BPM]
Slow Moving rhythmic underscore. Transformers invade the city. Low, marching drums and low, sonic drones set the tone for this soundscape. [Tempo: Medium / 92 BPM]
Dark, ominous, gutsy, edgy, brooding rock music with a great driving, rolling tom beat that explodes into life. Dynamic, epic, determined, intense, sinister, powerful, glorious, disturbed & insistent music that would suit extreme sports / action / combat / cinematic projects. Not for the faint of heart. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 164 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 slowly rising, emotional and cinematic music track. Starting with huge hits and synth melody. After piano plays main theme, orchestral elements emerge, and with each turn track becomes bigger and louder, ending as big cinematic piece. Rousing and emotive, with a slightly sorrowful and reflective side - but also grand, inspiring, hopeful and heroic music. [Tempo: Slow / 65 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 driving piece with a powerful and dramatic solo cello backed by anthemic rock drums and guitar. Serious, cinematic and powerful. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 95 BPM]
Foreboding and eerie, dark and mystical, ambient track with an Ethnic / World mystery feel. Wailing ethnic vocal with tribal percussion joining in later. Edgy and musky. Threatening, dark tribe - perhaps vikings, indigenous tribe or tribal warriors. [Tempo: Medium / 117 BPM]
An insanely intense, fast and furious, blood thirsty hard rocker with six billion tons of raw energy and a punch that will knock you right out. Unbeatable for sheer energy. [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 206 BPM]
Pounding live drums and heavy metal guitars combined with distorted synths. Funky metal groove, ideal for radical sports, fighting, MMA, Military and any other masculine subject. [Tempo: Slow / 75 BPM]
Epic, dramatic and aggressive trailer music track made with massive hybrid sound design, aggressive cinematic orchestra and hard hitting epic drums. Trailer structure, three big parts with many stopping points for easier editing. Dark / Aggressive / Dramatic Music. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 0 BPM]
Dripping with testosterone and burning with bad attitude, this slow and groovy rocker has ton of swagger and funk. Real men only! [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 73 BPM]
Rousing and victorious orchestral theme music, soaring with epic choir. Heroic / Adventure / Glory. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 160 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]
A no messing rock and roll track. Straight for the throat. Huge guitars and a massive throbbing beat... all with a slightly unconventional revolving drum feel and eastern style guitar melodies. The tune gets more gradually intense as it goes on. The mid section breaks down to a tribal tom groove until the final chorus section explodes. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 158 BPM]
Exciting, driven, intense, powerful, motivated & energised rocker with massive momentum. Huge walls of distorted guitars combine with crushing, busy, dynamic beats to make edgy, dangerous music that would suit action / thriller / extreme sports / military / combat type projects. Thrilling & adventurous. [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 146 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]
'Dark Ages' is a collection of 12 dark, ambient, semi-orchestral tracks. The music has a sense of history and mythology, making these tracks highly suitable as a soundtrack for historical drama, history / documentary as well as medieval/fantasy material, be it films, fantasy games, TV or installations. The music is mostly without any outstanding melody, making it highly usable as background texture and ambient underscore. It leaves room for dialogue and/or other audio elements, without competing. Some of the tracks carry a sense of mystery and danger, whilst others lean more towards horror and sci-fi. All 12 parts share a sense of lurking danger, impending tragedy, conflict and betrayal. The arrangements are dominated by dark drones and pads, piano, cello and resonant overtones. Also available are 9 seamless music loops from this collection. [Tempo: Slow / 58 BPM]
An intricate, intense and Inspiring Orchestral pop track. Blend of strings, piano accompaniment, percussion, drums and modern synth sound, this trailer music style song, evolves progressively in time and culminate with a powerful dubstep / orchestral section. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 140 BPM]
An emotional, orchestral track that combines a feeling of honor, glory and amazing achievements, with that of reflection. Honorable, valiant, rousing - but also fragile, even delicate. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 140 BPM]
Emotional, cinematic action track with a mystical feel in the beginning but escalating to a more dramatic orchestral ending, great for trailers, films, games and TV. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 80 BPM]
A grand and emotional neo-classical orchestral soundtrack, of heroic victories and achievement. Here, the typical orchestral elements combine with a pop-style drum beat, creating entirely new emotions. It consistently builds up to a climax and then fades away again. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 118 BPM]
Electronica infused orchestral music. Synth low pulse drives the music with anticipation, joined by low drones and epic percussion. Orchestra comes in and takes the piece to the next level. Good for war preparation, rendezvous scenes, crime investigation and more. Cinematic, Action, War, Crime, Police. [Tempo: Medium / 85 BPM]
An atmospheric dramatic track that begins with light piano and synths and expands with the addition of strings, electric guitar, and heavy drums. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 64 BPM]
Tires squealing, sirens blaring, adrenalin flowing. The Chase begins. Dramatic, suspenseful, powerful track mixing electronic and orchestral elements. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 81 BPM]
A musical landscape with a taste of the sound of the Middle East and a subtle touch of modern instruments. An aura of seduction and mystery music. [Tempo: Medium / 115 BPM]
A strong, hard hitting and very dramatic action or trailer track. Created with a combination of samplers, live orchestral performers and a live choir. Suitable for use with explosive scenes of action, destruction, war, conflict, battle, sci-fi or fantasy, or even competitive sport. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 90 BPM]
A Percussion Only track, with marching snares, military march. Occasional big drum strikes. Useful as music for scenes of war, war preparation, battle preparations, etc. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 100 BPM]
An expressive, emotional, cinematic and uplifting music track made with orchestra and epic drums. Inspirational and positive, uplifting and reflective music. [Tempo: Slow / 55 BPM]
The first half of this track is a mystical, eerie, dark ambient guitar piece with an evil, malevolent presence. For the second half it develops into a very dark, deep, gutsy and powerful metal rock / progressive rock track with a sense of a violent, unstoppable evil. Use for horror and unspeakable terror. [Tempo: Slow, Fast / 75 BPM]
A heavy, powerful metal / hard rock track which starts of with a very heavy, slow riff and soon goes into overdrive with a fast, raw, intense guitar rockout. [Tempo: Slow, Fast, Very fast / 153 BPM]
Deep and brooding strings establish a mysterious atmosphere before climaxing and evolving into a powerful, confident theme statement. Rich strings and horns make for an epic feel. (Stem files available.) [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 72 BPM]
Orchestra and drums pound out an aggressive theme perfect for a super villain, or a tense scene in a film or TV show. Could work well for sports action: down but not out, making the final push against adversaries. Or also a street battle brewing in a dark and sinister city late at night.Choir blasts in the last section to add an epic swell right before the music abruptly ends, in the style of film trailers. [Tempo: Medium / 97 BPM]
A dark and intense blockbuster music track featuring decisive string pattern accompanied with a sound of full orchestra. Suitable as music for trailers and blockbusters. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 100 BPM]
Electronica infused orchestral music. Tension builds throughout the piece, ending with a big boom, but retaining a somewhat anticipative aura. Good music for war preparation, rendezvous scenes and crime investigation and chase. [Tempo: Medium / 100 BPM]
An epic and rousing track for fantasy, adventure, epic trailers. Features actual live performed orchestral instruments in combination with samples. Urgent, strong, intense. Valiant, powerful. Full orchestra with choir. Available in various different version/mixes. [Tempo: Fast / 160 BPM]
Gustav Holst - The Planets, Op. 32: I. Mars, the Bringer of War. Arranged and recorded with real live orchestra, exclusively for Shockwave-Sound.com. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 0 BPM]
Big sounding synths that resemble a distant roar set the mood of this royalty free music track. The opening synthesizers build up to a major drop with huge drums and animal like digitized roars. The track breaks down into a wide slow moment with a melodic 80's style synth. The second drop brings even more of the bionic animal to the track building with big hits and drums. Suitable for game and movie trailers, as well as fight scenes, sci-fi and sports. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 65 BPM]
Hard-hitting, relentless hybrid industrial trailer production music track with some Hip Hop influence - leading to a victorious crescendo. Tons of electronics, piano, guitars and sound design elements. Edgy / Tension / Big. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 128 BPM]
A dark and determined, forceful and methodical, orchestral march. Relentlessly marching on, an awesome force. Dark / Foreboding / Relentless / Doom-laden / Forceful. [Tempo: Medium / 95 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]
Dark, moody, modern action track. Percussion based with electronic and rock elements. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 86 BPM]
Dark, eerie, atmospheric, menacing & explosive electronic rock track that summons the air of being hunted or stalked. Edgy, confident, tense, determined, epically powerful & with an air of foreboding. Would suit dramatic / horror / mystery / Halloween / documentary type projects. Hints of Nine Inch Nails. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 90 BPM]
Gritty, gutsy, intense, lively, raw, aggressive, wicked, heavy, driven and uncompromising modern metal track. A groove that would suit action thriller / extreme sports / motorsports / combat type projects. [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 138 BPM]
Apprehensive and dramatic sound design intro growing in power and confidence with orchestra and percussion. Strong / Epic / Powerful. Very dark music track. [Tempo: Slow, Medium, Fast / 125 BPM]
Franz Schubert Symphony No. 8 ('Unfinished Symphony') in B minor, D.759: 1. Allegro Moderato. Classical music recorded by D Hamilton exclusively for Lynne Publishing. [Tempo: Slow, Medium, Fast / 0 BPM]
Brooding and menacing orchestral percussion track. Huge stacks of big drums / battle drums / percussion. Builds up and gets more frantic as it nears the end. [Tempo: Slow, Fast / 160 BPM]
An "oriental'ed" dubstep track. Aggressive and melodic, its oriental touch is given trough a catchy usage of a Duduk and Yall Tambour and its trashy side trough a rough beat and greasy bass synth. A dynamic and surprising progression that would match any sport or urban related footage. [Tempo: Slow, Medium, Fast / 140 BPM]
A very high energy indie rock track. Slight elements of Punk and Hard rock, but mostly this is a Brit Rock / Alternative Rock / New Wave rock track along the lines of Foo Fighters etc. Reckless, with lots of attitude. Bad youth, stupid stunts, high energy sports and motorsports, etc. [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 143 BPM]
Sad, somber, defeated, heartbreaking, epic, tragic string piece that's also serene, peaceful, tranquil, sedate and mellow. Would suit historical, romantic break-up, war or documentary type projects. Reminiscent of Samuel Barber's Platoon piece. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 97 BPM]
