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.
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]
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]
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]
A fiery and uber heavy rocker. Think gritted teeth, white knuckles, pedal to the metal. Mean and gutsy, with a seriously heavy punch. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 140 BPM]
A seriously heavy, chunky and powerful metal rocker. Slow, sluggish, brutish, like an unstoppable, relentless force. Unforgiving. [Tempo: Slow / 80 BPM]
A fast, furious, blazingly loud rocker. Pedal to the metal, and no let-up. A stormy and fiery energy infusion. Great for sports, action and exciting footage. [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 169 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]
Wagner - Die Walküre, B major, WWV 86B: Act III. Ride of the Valkyries. Classical Music recorded exclusively for Shockwave-Sound.com by Y Sazonoff. [Tempo: Medium / 0 BPM]
A gutsy and groovy power rocker with a mean riff and a bad attitude. Action / Dangerous / Fighting Music. [Tempo: Fast / 145 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]
A rough, gutsy and gritty power rocker. Chunky, powerful guitar riffing and a mean streak. Medium tempo and a great energy level. [Tempo: Medium / 102 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]
A tense and simmering action / danger track with a combination of orchestral and electronic elements. Dangerous, Mysterious, Tension. Can be a great soundtrack for dangerous missions, tense operations, spy and undercover agents, simmering danger or conflict, crime, or undercover operationns. An element of Hip-Hop / Trap drums is added towards the end to give it a slightly urban edge. (Stem files available.) [Tempo: Medium / 99 BPM]
This reflective and pensive track features piano and strings. It evokes images of someone deep in thought, reflecting on the past, reminiscing on fond memories, tender and heartfelt. It has an introspective feel to it, making it ideal for moments of reflection, hope, love, personal experiences, and sentimental, emotional storytelling. [Tempo: Slow / 100 BPM]
Fast-paced exciting beats and world percussion, full of power and aggression. (Stem files available.) [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 140 BPM]
Cinematic Battle music / Fight music. Rhythmic, pounding, marching piece with orchestra, big percussion and occasional choir. Dramatic / Fantasy / Determined / Dark. (Stem files available.) [Tempo: Medium / 154 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]
Building from an uneasy atmosphere into complete Bedlam with a variety of orchestral passages, stabs and flourishes. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 114 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]
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]
Edgy, determined, brutal, progressive rock music track. Relentless and dark. [Tempo: Medium, Fast, Very fast / 119 BPM]
A dramatic, aggressive and tension filled music track made with big and powerful classical orchestra and choir. Three parts, trailer structure. Apocalyptic / Dark Fantasy / Trailer Music. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 140 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]
Powerful, epic orchestral royalty free stock music with electronic elements. Grand, heroic and dramatic, this orchestral soundtrack is perfect for epic adventure / fantasy scenes of superheroes uniting to save the world, or a hero on a journey to battle dark forces. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 105 BPM]
A blazing, fiery and red-hot progressive rock track. Slightly psychedelic music. Hefty and wild. [Tempo: Slow, Medium, Fast / 136 BPM]
A high energy track with elements of both rock and techno. Flamin' guitar chops and hard staccato synths. [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 122 BPM]
Filtered and distorted bass guitar, processed drums and biting guitar riffs. Similar to Crystal Method or The Matrix etc. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 90 BPM]
An orchestral track suitable for a fantasy adventure, set in a medieval or fantasy world. Exciting times ahead, new discoveries. The track goes through various different stages and offers several different editing options within the same track. Pensive, tense, excited and glorious. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 134 BPM]
A sweeping symphonic track, highly suitable for an Indiana Jones style, daring adventure film scene, movie trailer or game trailer. Live orchestral instruments are used in combination with samples to create a huge Hollywood movie sound. Dark pounding percussion, strings and brass - starting out with staccato stabs and building to a crescendo towards the end, perhaps getting ready for war or battle. [Tempo: Medium / 113 BPM]
Apocalyptic and dramatic orchestral track with a choir entering on the second half. Majestic, regal and proud. Suitable for war, power struggle, film trailer, movie trailer, action footage, fire desctruction and mayhem. Also good for fantasy or sci-fi, perhaps an uprising or marching to war. [Tempo: Medium / 87 BPM]
A bombastic and majestic track cleverly created by combining samples with live orchestra and live choir recordings. Dramatic, staccato strings and brass sections lead the way into a powerful and intense trailer track with a thunderous percussion section. Growing to a crescendo and eventually into a climax. Highly suitable for fantasy, scifi, gearing up for war or battle, hard sports or high impact action footage, and more. [Tempo: Fast / 150 BPM]
A dark, ominous, threatening piece of very percussive, orchestral soundtrack style music. Highly suitable for movie trailer, game trailer or other dramatic content. Choirs, brass stabs and huge, tribal percussive sections. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 116 BPM]
A huge, pounding tribal drum rhythm is at the core of this powerful, hair raising and hell raising, all-out and full-on majestic action trailer track. Live orchestral instruments and live choir combined. It's massive, epic, glorifying, scary and overpowering -- suitable for any extremely dramatic action or battle footage, fantasy or sci-fi, combat sports and much more. [Tempo: Fast / 120 BPM]
Very powerful, dominant and diabolical orchestral action track with choir chants. Staccato, threatening, awesome, overpowering and majestic. Live orchestral instruments and live choir combined with clever use of samples to create a huge sound that would not be out of place in any Hollywood production. Suitable for film trailer, action, war, battle footage as well as combat sports or any other explosive material. [Tempo: Medium / 105 BPM]
A dark and twisted action fantasy or sci-fi film soundtrack. Gloomy and majestic at the same time, the piece depicts a deep conflict, pain and determination. Suitable for explosive film trailer, war or battle footage, combat and conflict. [Tempo: Medium / 69 BPM]
Dark, omninous, menacing orchestral soundtrack. Deep, pounding percussion, blaring horns and a war mongering, chanting choir of deep voices, primal, perhaps beasts or orcs. Impending war, battle, conflict. Great fantasy material, highly suitable for film, games or trailers. This track is recorded with a live philharmonic orchestra and choir. [Tempo: Medium / 98 BPM]
Fantasy style orchestral soundtrack. Dark, gloomy and ominous. Big horn sections, mysterious melodies. Great for fantasy, epic adventures, dark times, horror, impending doom and conflict. Occasional deep vocal grunts and chants. This piece plays for over 6 minutes with plenty of variation, and can be used for several different cues, or used all together as background atmosphere. [Tempo: Slow / 75 BPM]
A disturbing, percussion-only track. Use of feedback and clanking metal reminescent of the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre soundtrack or some of John Cage's work, but with the added element of dark, ethnic percussion. This fairly short track is great for a thriller, chiller, horror or dark mystery. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
Massive, sweeping orchestral track with a huge, thunderous percussion section. Heroic, epic, pounding and cinematic. Builds towards a climax at the end. Highly suitable for movie trailer, film trailer, game trailer, film intro sequence or opening sequence, war and battle scenes, etc. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 70 BPM]
Urgent, dramatic soundtrack piece with live choir. Spine-tingling, epic, high drama, very highly suitable as film trailer, movie trailer, game trailer, commercial, movie intro, in-film battle sequence, etc. Fast pounding percussion, big drums, huge orchestral stabs, horns and strings fluttering, choir chanting. Very dramatic and intense. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 129 BPM]
Dark and dramatic, monolithic and massive, orchestral soundtrack piece. Thumping percussion, choir, brass and string stabs. Also mixed in is an electronic techno beat for added impact. Very climactic, choral chants growing, increasing and reaching the climax at the end. Highly suitable for film trailer, movie trailer, action scene, intro sequence, dramatic footage, war or battle scenes, or even extreme sports. [Tempo: Slow / 87 BPM]
Dark, ominous and pounding orchestral theme. Heavy gear, big machines or beasts of war, marching forward, unrelenting. Dramatic, pompous, determined and powerful. Highly suitable for movie trailer, film trailer, intro sequence, battle scenes or gearing up for war, battle or a great contest of strength and bravery. [Tempo: Slow / 82 BPM]
A very tasteful and delicate version of the traditional Irish classic, Amazing Grace. There are numerous verses throughout, each with a slightly different arrangement, giving this track a nice, subtle variation throughout. Acoustic guitar, Irish flute / penny whistle, piano. In the fourth verse, a graceful, gentle piano solo plays on subtle humming choir, almost gospel like. An Underscore version is also available (without lead instruments, great for singing along). [Trad./Arr: B. Lynne] [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 81 BPM]
Dark, pulsating thriller underscore. Deep percussion, orchestral sweeps, synthesizer pulses; a great combination of symphonic and electronic elements with big percussion. Suspenseful thriller, crime, spy mission material. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 90 BPM]
Dark and gloomy, powerful and pensive action thriller underscore. Nervous and understated rhythmic pulse, dark, twitchy strings. A deep sense of danger and dark forces. Great as a soundtrack for film, tv or game, mystery thriller, undercover mission, etc. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 96 BPM]
Staccato and nervous, semi-orchestral tension underscore. Undercover, dangerous mission. Few guitar notes mixed with symphonic elements and a pulsating rhytmic backdrop. Movement, getting into position, primed and ready for action. Great for spy, mystery, thriller, crime, secret mission, military or swat team etc. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 125 BPM]
Dramatic film score type track, depicting chase, struggle, urgent mission or battle scenes. Suitable as in-film, in-game, or other media, as well as for movie trailer. [Tempo: Fast / 137 BPM]
Dramatic, larger-than-life and dark orchestral action piece. Violence, chase, seemingly invincible enemies, huge forces, extreme danger. This track is suitable in action, thriller, sci-fi film, game or other media, or for movie trailers etc. [Tempo: Medium / 90 BPM]
Orchestral / Symphonic / Soundtrack. Filmscore/Cinematic. Patriotic, Serious, Powerful, Determined, Heroic, Brave. Symphony Orchestra, Big Drums. Epic/Historical, Martial/Military. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 156 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]