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.
Highly dramatic and filmic. Ethnic string instruments and rhythms combine with simple piano and strings. Very hypnotic, mysterious and mesmerising. [Tempo: Medium / 90 BPM]
Slow, beautiful, emotive and peaceful track with hypnotic piano lines, lush strings and a steady, spacey beat. Has a mesmeric, slightly melancholic atmosphere. Would suit dramatic/cinematic/romantic/documentary projects. [Tempo: Slow / 74 BPM]
Very hypnotic, trance-like and seductive piece full of groove and Eastern promise. A massive groove is coloured by Eastern strings, santoors and percussion slowly builds in intensity until the final climax where huge guitar riffs enter and bring the tune to it's close. Contains guitars, santoor, strings, bass and drums. [Tempo: Slow / 81 BPM]
Hypnotic, spacious & groovey track with a strong african flavour. Trance inducing vocals & percussion loops meld with kalimba & epic strings to make a very atmospheric and powerful dramatic score. [Tempo: Fast / 98 BPM]
Dark, brooding and spacious electronic groover. Slow and ethereal piano lines float as a plucked santoor joins with a busy little drum groove. Hypnotic and atmospheric. [Tempo: Medium / 134 BPM]
Spacey, tripped out, dazed and yet with innate momentum and drive. Soundtrack to a midnight sleepwalk in a big city. Contains piano, synths , bass and drums. [Tempo: Medium / 112 BPM]
Slow and eerie, epically spacey, moving and ethereal modern orchestral tune with a powerful, melancholic feeling to it. Would suit dramatic/tragedy/documentary/history type projects. [Tempo: Slow / 62 BPM]
Light-hearted and slightly mischievous orchestral piece with a Desperate Housewives vibe to it. Full of suspense and drama. Contains pizzicato strings, violins, cellos and flute. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 83 BPM]
Dark, sinister and brooding horrow/Halloween type piece that combines church organ, tremelo-ed strings and distorted guitar riffs. Hi tension and suspense is blown apart by the chorus part exploding into shining black light. Would suit horror/mystery/suspense projects. [Tempo: Slow, Fast / 120 BPM]
Hypnotically groovey electro track with spacey synth lines crossing over staccato piano backed with laid back urban beats and a phhatt dubby bassline. A distinctly urban flavour. [Tempo: Medium / 80 BPM]
Slow, spacey, ethereal, cinematic piece. A plucked string pulse is overlaid with simple beautiful piano lines, acoustic guitar chords and emotive strings. Would suit filmic/cinematic/detective/thriller type projects. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 144 BPM]
Cool, lazy, groovy track with piano, wah wah guitars, syncopated horns and strings and synth sequences. Has a mysterious, suspense filled vibe to it. Would suit spy/gangster/cop project. [Tempo: Medium / 83 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]
Dark synth pulse, eerie metallic pads, occasional deep drums and scattered notes. Tension. [Tempo: Fast / 121 BPM]
Mysterious and exotic, sparse Egyptian, Middle Eastern or North African melody with flute, harp and windchimes. [Tempo: Slow / 120 BPM]
Somewhere between music, soundscapes and sound effects, the 'Toxic Air' series consists of 15 parts named after toxic gases. The music is almostly entirely without any recognizable rhythm or structure. Useful for sci-fi, horror, etc. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
Moving, swarming ambient bed with a foreboding, dark drone and a resonant melody line. Space, sci-fi, mystery... [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
Solar wind, mysterious drone, spacey echoes accompany a sparse and understated but yet majestic synthesizer melody, like echoes of a distant time or place. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
A dark and ominous piece with heavy use of the Taiko drum and japanese/chinese Gong. No melody, all percussion. Martial Arts, Japanese triads, dark, foreboding. Chase scene, etc. [Tempo: Medium / 75 BPM]
Almost entirely percussion driven track. Upbeat african rhythms with multiple drums. A subtle underlying bass line, influenced by trance music. Occasional African flutes. [Tempo: Medium / 105 BPM]
Stripped down to a simple pulse, an electronic minimalist beat comes in after 1 min. [Tempo: Medium / 102 BPM]
A sensual, exotic and mysterious acoustic piece depicting a deep forest, inspired by the sound of Enya, Enigma, Deep Forest, Vangelis, Kitaro or Andreas Vollenweider. If you purchase this track, you get one version with ambient sounds of birds singing mixed into the music, plus another version with just the music without birds/ambience. [Tempo: Slow / 90 BPM]
A grand cinematic piece with ethnic & tribal undertones. Chants, pulses and crescendoes give a sense of witnessing thousands of years of mystery and mythology. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 121 BPM]
A slow opening of sweeping thick space pads are later supported by a deep, sparse bass line and distorted drums. Dreamy, otherworldly, mysterious, reflection, contemplation. [Tempo: Slow / 97 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]
Eerie pads and scattered piano. Detaching from the real world and falling into nothing. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
Slow paced, soothing relaxation track featuring airy pads, few piano notes, and ethereal acoustic guitar arpeggios. Suitable for relaxation, yoga, reiki, healing, spa treatment, pilates, meditation, etc. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
8-second electro Ident. [Tempo: Medium / 122 BPM]
Tender, fluttering piece. Romantic, nostalgic, wistful, like the opening scenes of a romantic period drama etc. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
A dark, pulsating, repetitive drum beat lies pumping underneath distorted psych lines of electronic grit. [Tempo: Slow / 120 BPM]
Sparse pads, almost gluey in texture and with an evil tone. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
Sicily, gentle madolin melody. Dark, determined, tension, relaxed, funky. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 80 BPM]
An eerie and creepy figure of a ghost subtly sneaks by with a cold and evil presence in this electronic / ambient suspense cue. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 96 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 / 70 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]
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]
A sweetly mysterious, dreamy, soft and romantic musical soundscape. Bowed bells, strings, pads. Soaring, emotional chord progressions. Loving, caressing, sleepy/dreamy and slightly wistful music. [Tempo: Very slow / 0 BPM]
Fresh, positive and larger-than-life techno trance. Euro house dance style. [Tempo: Fast / 140 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]
Staccato strings and synth pulse arpeggio. Military or science fiction cinematic sountrack style. Spluttering synthesizers, orchestral horn stabs, timpani, congas and snares. First half sneaky and building, dissonant, arm-up. Second half all-out battle, chase, action. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 100 BPM]
Punchy, energetic Drum & Bass. Intense, disturbing, hypnotic, industrial. [Tempo: Very fast / 144 BPM]
A very dark film soundtrack underscore cue featuring bowed metals, drones and a subdued percussion section with a tribal feel. A few well placed spanish guitar tones adds a sense of drama and emotion. Great for thriller, crime mystery, documentary, urgent situation. [Tempo: Slow / 108 BPM]
A strange and unsettling semi-orchestral film underscore. Nervous and uncertain, swirling and clangy. Suitable for a very tense and pensive moment in a dark drama, horror, crime thriller or documentary. Carries a sense of hidden evil or a disturbing truth. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 120 BPM]