Look here for royalty-free underscores for Mystery and Suspense. Whether you're working on the scene where a mutilated body is found, or you're designing a video game where the hero sneaks around a deserted space ship, this area will provide sneaky, creepy and suspenseful music tracks. Much of this is orchestral music, but not all. Also electronic and more experimental musical sounds are used to create these tracks; most of which are subtle, ambient underscores, rather than up-front, brash compositions.
A subtle and transparent movie soundtrack, suitable for film or television. Somewhere between light and darkness, this track provides a slightly pensive background for personal reflection, waiting, forensic investigation, crime scene surveillance, or a time for interpersonal drama, thoughtful moments etc. Also great for reality show, emotional scenes, or piecing together clues in a mystery. [Tempo: Medium / 100 BPM]
A pensive, rhythmic underscore for a dark thriller, drama, crime mystery or documentary. The percussion carries a slightly ethnic or tribal feel, while the wailing, screeching metallic pads give the track a sense of fear, anxious waiting or nervous movement. Great for film, television drama, crime scene investigation, reality show and much more. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 86 BPM]
An ambient film soundtrack cue with a very mysterious edge. Pensive, slowly moving soundscape, like hiding, sneaking, or breaking and entering. A subtle rhythmic element enters about half way through along with a deep drone, giving the track a darker, more ominous edge. Great for crime thriller, investigative documentary, a tense moment during reality show or forensic investigation, etc. [Tempo: Slow / 109 BPM]
An unsettling and nervous film or television underscore cue. A repetitive rhythm gives the piece a pensive feel and the uneasy drones and pads brings a sense of terrible realization or an unfolding mystery. Great for crime investigation, horror, dark drama, documentary and more. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 91 BPM]
An intense 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: Medium / 90 BPM]
An intense 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: Fast / 80 BPM]
A driving and emotional dramatic cue with a thematic interlude underscoring anything from a kidnapping search to an innocent fugitive on the run. Orchestral with rhythmic percussion, piano, strings, and brass. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 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: Medium / 75 BPM]
A driving and emotional dramatic cue with a thematic interlude underscoring anything from a kidnapping search to an innocent fugitive on the run. Orchestral with rhythmic percussion, piano, strings, and brass. [Tempo: Medium / 80 BPM]
An intense 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: Fast, Very fast / 142 BPM]
A steady comedy/drama cue underscoring a delicate scheme and a secret plan. Great for several mildly suspenseful scenes with an element of fun and mystery. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 99 BPM]
A comedic and funny cue underscoring a multitude of hilarious predicaments from a bad date to a bad first impression to bad practical joke. Also, sneaking and scheming. Pizzicato strings, piano, humor, vibraphone, clarinet, and percussion. [Tempo: Slow / 105 BPM]
A fun and mysterious comedy cue underscoring anything from sneaking around, scheming, hiding, tip-toeing, to investigating a haunting. Light orchestral with pizzicato strings, piano, flute, clarinet. [Tempo: Slow / 71 BPM]
A subtle comedy cue underscoring anything from a sneaky plan to a silly hideout. Sneaking around, scheming, hiding, playing spy. Pizzicato strings, clarinet, flute, and piano. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 98 BPM]
A very dramatic and grippingly emotional epic composition with orchestral, choral, and world instruments with middle-eastern colors. This piece starts with a very mysterious and vast introduction before a rise to a driving and almost tragic emotional climax. Perfect for trailers. [Tempo: Very fast / 120 BPM]
An intensely suspenseful mystery cue underscoring anything from a deceitful murder to a mass epidemic. Orchestral with piano and hear beat pulse, in the vein of James Newton Howard's horror scores for M. Night Shyamalan films (The Village, Signs, The Happening). [Tempo: Medium / 100 BPM]
An intensely suspenseful mystery cue underscoring anything from a deceitful murder to a mass epidemic. Orchestral with creepy piano, in the vein of James Newton Howard's scores for M. Night Shyamalan films (The Village, Signs, The Happening). [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 90 BPM]
A suspenseful thriller cue with varying textures underscoring anything from hostage negotiations to a prison break. Orchestral with low piano, percussion, and and ambient fx. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 112 BPM]
Very atmospheric and dreamy Japanese winter garden style with echoey acoustic guitars, koto and shamisen over sparse oriental percussion. [Tempo: Slow / 54 BPM]
Indian style slide guitar, sitar and woodwinds over India percussion. The track builds in intensity as it goes on. Mysterious, mystical. Ethnic, ancient world mysteries. Oriental, with a dark side. Exotic. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 105 BPM]
Filmscore/Cinematic. Mysterious/Futuristic, Exciting, Dramatic, Suspense. Strings, Piano, Brasses/Horns, Symphony Orchestra. Drama, Documentary, Mystery. [Tempo: Medium / 90 BPM]
Like music from deep space or a molecular structure, this ambient music track features scattered sounds, signals and rhythms in interwoven textures. Good for science, technology, documentary, history, space, science fiction, etc. [Tempo: Medium / 112 BPM]
A creepy and eerie mystery/horror cue underscoring anything from a deceitful murder to an evil presence. Orchestral with piano, in the vein of James Newton Howard's scores for M. Night Shyamalan films (The Village, Signs, The Happening). [Tempo: Slow / 85 BPM]
An intensely suspenseful mystery cue underscoring anything from a deceitful murder to a mass epidemic. Orchestral with piano, in the vein of James Newton Howard's scores for M. Night Shyamalan films (The Village, Signs, The Happening). [Tempo: Slow / 77 BPM]
An intensely suspenseful mystery cue underscoring anything from a deceitful murder to a mass epidemic, with a riveting climax. Orchestral with piano, in the vein of James Newton Howard's scores for M. Night Shyamalan films (The Village, Signs, The Happening). [Tempo: Medium / 0 BPM]
An intensely suspenseful mystery cue underscoring anything from a deceitful murder to a sudden kidnapping. Orchestral with piano, with electric bass and percussion, in the vein of James Newton Howard's scores for M. Night Shyamalan films (The Village, Signs, The Happening). [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 0 BPM]
An intensely suspenseful mystery cue underscoring anything from a deceitful murder to a mass epidemic. Orchestral with piano, in the vein of James Newton Howard's scores for M. Night Shyamalan films (The Village, Signs, The Happening). [Tempo: Medium / 94 BPM]
An pulsing suspenseful mystery cue underscoring anything from a rescue search to a shocking discovery. Orchestral with piano, in the vein of James Newton Howard's scores for M. Night Shyamalan films (The Village, Signs, The Happening). [Tempo: Medium / 90 BPM]
A hip psychological dramatic cue underscoring contemporary night life with sexy and dangerous undertones. Electronic and ambient instruments, urban grooves, and piano and strings. [Tempo: Medium / 79 BPM]
Dramatic, epic track suitable for trailers, action scenes and more. Dark and powerful staccato percussion, joined by choir and big brass. Powerful, uprising, glorifying. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 139 BPM]
Arabian, Middle-Eastern or Persian background track with exotic percussion, drones and flutes, with occasional choirs and solo voice. Haunting, mysterious / mystical. [Tempo: Slow / 65 BPM]
Film score, cinematic theme. Sense of mystery and intrigue, development, an unfolding story, with an underlying, almost inviting, darkness, Roald Dahl like. Real live orchestra performance. [Tempo: Medium / 78 BPM]
Very staccato, urban hip-hop inspired beatz with a sense of mystery and intrigue. Good for urban scenes, film/background, inner city stories, etc. [Tempo: Medium / 90 BPM]
Semi-orchestral, intense, action or drama soundtrack. Serious, tense, pulsating rhythms. Good for thriller, action-adventure, intense drama, danger/reality TV and more. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 116 BPM]
Semi-orchestral, mystical, mysterious and haunting. Filmscore, fantasy-adventure style with strings, bells, voices. Magic and wizardry. Atmospheric and eerie. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 0 BPM]
Slowish, blues like jazz trio. Upright bass, drums, vibraphone. A little bit sneaky, hiding, mischievous. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 75 BPM]
A soft, eastern melody played on ethnic woodwind. Slowly increasing orchestral backdrop. Mysterious and strangely inviting. Feels like '1001 Nights' or other Arabian adventures. Crescendo towards the end. [Tempo: Slow / 58 BPM]
A creepy and sinister underscore, suitable for surveillance, stakeout, dark scenes, nightly horrors. Twitchy strings, twisted sound textures and occasional mangled rhythmic beats. [Tempo: Very slow, Medium / 90 BPM]
A dark, damp, ill feeling orchestral underscore. Large, gloomy, doom laden. [Tempo: Very slow / 92 BPM]
Hip-Hop track with a mysterious / mystery feel. Scratching with howls, sinewave synths and later a deep swelling bass. [Tempo: Medium / 98 BPM]
A dark and brooding track with twisted synth textures and a deep, dark, heavy guitar chugging away in the background like an overgrown, powerful engine. Slow drums with an industrial, post-modern feel. Strength, confidence, dominance. [Tempo: Medium / 96 BPM]
Orchestral, cinematic theme with oboe lead. Melodramatic, haunting, like an unfolding story. Good for drama, film / historical / cultural, Emotional, grand and sweeping. Some parts somewhat heroic or epic, others more nostalgic. [Tempo: Slow / 77 BPM]
Cinematic, melodramatic, orchestral film underscore. Slow arpeggios underneath a layer of soft string pads, with oboe lead. Melodic, somewhat melancholic, and with a slight sense of mystery or unfolding secrets. Good for film noir and more. [Tempo: Slow / 109 BPM]
A mechanical and technical sounding urban / drum'n bass track. Fast, dry and glitchy drums with synth sub-bass, digital signals and gritty sound elements. Trippy, futuristic, spacey and quirky, Good for science, space / space travel, cutting-edge technology, experimental science, micro organisms, Information Technology, DNA/forensics, movement and activity. Developing science. Edgy / industrial. [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 170 BPM]
This track is at 60 BPM (Beats Per Minute) and is designed for visual and multimedia projects that require a clock tick track. The track features a nervous, pensive ticking clock rhythm with ambient swells and hits. Good for countdown, timed projects, time limits, or simply to illustrate the passing of time. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 60 BPM]
Ever felt the presence of someone used to be in your life but who has now become your guardian angel? This piece has that kind of vibe. Slightly melancholy and yearning but hopeful. Soft piano and mournful strings combine to make a very soothing and mellow lament. [Tempo: Slow / 70 BPM]
Beaty, fun, electronic track mixing synths, piano, organ and drum machines. Lively, motivating and with great forward momentum and energy. [Tempo: Medium / 80 BPM]
Trancey synth sequences and an irresistible beat grab you straight away. Hypnotic dance beats and fat bass lines add to the momentum as this tune gets moving. [Tempo: Medium / 110 BPM]
Tough to describe in words. A hypnotic dance throb runs through this fairly avante garde track as various synth leads come in and out. Very spacey and yet relentlessly trance inducing. Brings visions of an underground pumping, sweaty nightclub scenario to mind. [Tempo: Medium / 111 BPM]
Crazy, fevered, modern jazz-tinged groovy track with frenetic piano and xylophone lines and machine-gun drum accents. Full of drama and tension. Slightly reminiscent of Zappa if he was writing music for a bank heist. [Tempo: Medium / 100 BPM]