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.
Action, dramatic and epic track made with percussion, orchestra and more. Great for creating tension and a dramatic atmosphere in your project. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 70 BPM]
Edgy rocky, heavy ambient industrial. Sort of ambient electronic at the beginning. Kicks off towards the end of track with a build up. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 105 BPM]
Big, Emotional film score / trailer music track. Dramatic atmosphere created by orchestral strings and percussion, piano and an impulsive cinematic beat best suited for fateful dramatic scenes, trailers and movies. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 68 BPM]
Abstract ambient guitar soaked in reverb and delays. Very atmospheric and thought provoking. Great for space, exploration, reflection, discovery, ascension and more. [Tempo: Very slow]
Ambient / New Age. Cosmic, peaceful, softly flowing. Good for yoga, meditation. Also for images of space, future and sci-fi, stars and cosmos. Possibly nature or underwater / deep sea diving. Can also be for science, DNA etc. Reflective / shimmering. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 58 BPM]
A strangely alluring musical painting, featuring a repeating ostinato with slight movements into the mysterious or the otherworldly. This piece will work great as a 'musical painting' for anything profound. Wonderment / Amazement Music. A feeling of something unfolding or flowering, developing. [Tempo: Medium / 176 BPM]
An epic race across the Alaskan race, surrounded by snow capped mountains and frozen lakes. The music starts small and atmospheric, leading to an exciting finish, like racing toward the finish line. [Tempo: Medium / 86 BPM]
This orchestral cinematic cue contains two parts/sections. The first 30 seconds has a strong tension and a rhythmic pulse, with a foreboding, dark tone. The second part, from about 30 seconds onwards, is more melancholic, sorrowful and wistful, with a sense of loss or realization. [Tempo: Slow / 90 BPM]
Experimental electronica using all new sounds. Eerie underscore. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 128 BPM]
A moody and atmospheric ambient piece with ethereal pads and ambient slide guitar. Soft, yet deep and evocative music, like an unfolding story or a magnificent sunrise. The track has a slight sense of ethnic mystery or the ancient world music, maybe India. Very dreamy, reflective and rich on atmosphere, perhaps something spiritual. [Tempo: Very slow / 125 BPM]
Futuristic beats and atmospheric synth arpeggiations, cool bass melody at second half of track, opens right out to cyberpunk post apocalyptic goodness, science and technology, action sequences, sci-fi, sports, advertising. [Tempo: Slow / 94 BPM]
A driving techno rhythm with powerful acid basslines evoking thrilling, dangerous action with an underlying menace & excitement. Visceral string lines add a sinister note to the dark atmospherics & brutally tensile instrumentation. Intended to compliment the Dream Valley Music tracks, ‘True Life Stories’, ‘Secrets & Memories’ and ‘Dawn Of A New Life’. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 120 BPM]
This slow, reflective track presents muted, lush string harmonies and an echoing keyboard pad. Rich, echoing strings and light percussion and drums build this fluid track, accompanied by vocal choirs and resonant effects. [Tempo: Very slow / 126 BPM]
Exotic and passionate Orchestral Tango mixed with a driving Funk groove. Features strings, piano, vibraphone, bass and drums. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 105 BPM]
Ambient and airy strings create a sense of wonder which is ideally suited to scenes that need some positive suspense. [Tempo: Slow]
Atmospheric and spacious downtempo. Dark icy beats and percussion with pulsey melodic synths. Contemplative and insightful. Science, sci-fi, technology, drama, tv, film, videogames, new media, documentary. [Tempo: Slow / 88 BPM]
A very dark and dramatic music, starting as a suspense build-up for an epic sounding main section, which consists of a classic symphonic orchestra with large percussive elements and metal impacts. Powerful / Tense / Dangerous. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 85 BPM]
Blending the symphonic/orchestral with the contemporary, modern, futuristic, this is a crossover track that works well as film soundtrack, credits roll, or as music for any kind of visual media, web site, etc. An epic melody played by string section is backed up by a fat, downtempo electronic groove and various sweeps and swirls. [Tempo: Medium / 100 BPM]
A somewhat mystical and intriguing, orchestral score for drama, family adventure, fantasy or storytelling. Slightly quirky and stormy, this piece has a sense of intrigue, wonder - and perhaps a new angle? [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 120 BPM]
A procession of fire eaters, freaks and magicians mixed with the monochrome charm of a 1950's science fiction B movie. Mysterious, beautiful & grotesque in equal measures with just a pinch of ironic humour. A great Halloween track. There are two different mixes available: Version A has a "bubbly magic" sound which is not included in Version B. [Tempo: Medium / 90 BPM]
This track could easily be tagged as a typical New Age Instrumental. But it carries a deep feel of grandness, evoking the beginning of times, the beauty of the universe, the vast extent of the cosmos, and things like that. Works beautifuly with mystery, prophecies, historical events, mystical matters and pre-historical subjects. Nontemporal. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow]
Cinematic retro synth wave; this track was created using only two vintage hardware synthesizers; a Moog Minimoog model D and a Prophet 5. Strangely futuristic and vintage at the same time. Ambient / Eerie / Synthetic / Retro / Mystery. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 110 BPM]
Ominous and arid western atmosphere, inspired by modern TV drama like Breaking Bad and CSI. Crime and gangster feel, as well as police investigation mood. [Tempo: Slow / 90 BPM]
Battle drums. Pounding percussion. A combination of orchestral percussion and ethnic / tribal drums. Suitable for battle, fight, chase, brawls and action scenes. [Tempo: Slow, Medium, Fast / 98 BPM]
This Cinematic / Electronic crossover track opens with a unique string like synth and a strong melodic theme. The first drop is a heavy hitting slow pace theme that builds with the original melody layered with synthesizers and strings, before it builds up with distorted drums, a strong string melody and a pitched-up effect to a big hit at the end. This track will work for movie and video game trailers, scenes of battle or struggle. Dark / Industrial / Cinematic / Apocalyptic. [Tempo: Slow, Fast / 65 BPM]
A somewhat dark and mystical, edgy, cinematic trailer type track. Fluttering and deliberately "broken", this track has the sense of something uneasy, unstable, simmering just beneath the surface. Think demon worship, the occult. The track changes from mystical / foreboding passages to more aggressive, staccato, percussive parts, with sudden stops and starts that can be used as edit points. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 84 BPM]
Mid tempo, heavy rock track. Features pounding drums, chugging heavy rock/metal guitars and eerie keyboards. [Tempo: Medium / 140 BPM]
A very slow and somewhat gritty, downtempo lounge track. Dusty, funky and smoky, lo-rider style. Elements of hip-hop, acid jazz, funk and retro lounge. Boom Chicka Wah Wah ... [Tempo: Slow / 80 BPM]
Octave laden piano and plucked strings highlight a dark romantic mafia sound within this piece of music. This would work perfectly with an Italian, Sicilian or Spanish mob or Mafioso character within film or television. There is some similarity to the style of the theme from “The Godfather.” This could also be used to illustrate an unusual romance. [Tempo: Slow / 91 BPM]
A semi-orchestra, semi-tribal, earthy, mystical background / underscore track for fantasy, exploration, adventure and travel. General background use, peaceful and slightly mysterious, but without really being particularly sad, happy, dark, light or emotional. Nice for exploring new worlds, discovery, fantasy games, adventure games, travel programmes, or background use for visual imagery, mystery and mythology, etc. Throughout the 7 minutes playing time there is no repetition, so you can play this track in a loop for a long time without it getting too repetitive. [Tempo: Slow]
A stormful, staccato, orchestral / cinematic piece for drama, tv, documentaries, period drama, nature and more. Urgent, active, dramatic, turmoil. [Tempo: Fast / 180 BPM]
An atmospheric exotic and mysterious music track made with dark pads, middle eastern percussion and exotic female vocal performed by Andrea Krux. Exotic / World / Dark / Cinematic Music. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 120 BPM]
A smooth jazz groove played by live jazz band featuring electric bass, piano, rhodes and a lazy sampled drum rhythm. Calm, easy jazz grooves. [Tempo: Medium / 75 BPM]
Suspenseful and mystical music backdrop / underscore. Pulsating rhythm and echoey sounds create an eerie, cold and mysterious ambience. Works well as music for undercover spy / secret agent, criminal investigation, forensics and analyzing, thriller / mystery music. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 122 BPM]
A Neo-classical, semi-orchestral piece for film, television and more. Rhythmic, methodical, almost slightly hypnotizing, this track keeps developing, growing and building throughout, but maintains a steadily ticking rhythmic feel, as if it's all connected, all intervowen, systematic and methodical. Good for presentations and commercials, or as an underscore for a developing story. A bit quirky. The tempo of this track matches exactly to seconds ticking. [Tempo: Medium / 120 BPM]
A pensive and introspective track with a sense of mystery and drama. A process being worked through, thoughts, motion. Perhaps intrigue or story development. [Tempo: Medium / 128 BPM]
A tight blend of big beats, unique synths, orchestral strings and tremolo guitars. Contemplative, dark and obscure for TV and Film such as Nip Tuck and Dexter. CSI evidence lab, body counts, foggy alleyway chases, hiding and lurking, loading up guns and urban mob action. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 70 BPM]
Melancholy and reflective, this piece is perfect for a documentary or a quiet scene in a film or show. It’s mostly piano and strings, playing a simple sad melody. The final moments are reflective and moody. (Stem files available.) [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 90 BPM]
A short track/jingle with a space age feel. Glorifying, but in a restrained, classy way. A sense of a new dawn, new technology, new possibilities. [Tempo: Slow]
Crime or conflict oriented piano and orchestra music track, with a lot of metallic percussion and powerful blasts. Mystical, eerie, tense and with an underlying sense of threat and unease. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 145 BPM]
A moderately sneaky, somewhat magical feeling, general background track for fantasy, fairy tales and exploration. This track contains no repetition throughout, which means you can play this track in a loop (for example, in a video game or other media) for a long time without it becoming too repetitive. There are some melodies but nothing too epic or too theme-like, so the music stays nicely in the background and provides an atmosphere, without becoming too dominating. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow, Medium]
A ghoulish groove shrouded in mystery, atmospheric and forward moving. Ideal music for scenes in the sci-fi, horror or mystery genres. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 104 BPM]
Spacious, moody, dreamy, atmospheric, other-worldly synths combine with simple piano lines & a steady beat to make tense, eerie, thoughtful & slightly unnerving music that would suit documentary / thriller / mystery / crime / spy / horror type projects. Dark & haunting. [Tempo: Medium / 110 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]
Rhythmic, driving and determined electronic royalty free music track with technological feel. Medical / Atmospheric / Science music. Trap style beat. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 125 BPM]
15 minutes continuous, uninterrupted background music track for video productions and other media. Flowing, intriguing rhythmic patterns. Electronic mood with piano, pizzicato strings, percussion and deep bass. Science / Future / Technology / Research etc. (Stem files available.) [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 98 BPM]
This hybrid pop music track combines the serious flavor of Tech narration cues with 80's-drenched Synthwave music. Its plucked synth motif is set against evocative synth bass, fluid pads and trap-inspired drums. A sense of intrigue and perilous excitement is evoked in this piece, excellent for themes, dramas, and style programming. Tech / Synthwave / Peril. [Tempo: Medium / 88 BPM]
Mystery or investigation underscore track. Spatial and transparent in sound. Good for science, analysis, forensics, crime investigation, information technology, biology, chemistry, medicine, info-tech, investigative journalism. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 110 BPM]
Pulsing and bouncy music track, featuring introspective piano and rugged synthesizer that create intrigue and mystery. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 120 BPM]
Dramatic and Escalating Cinematic Action track featuring orchestral strings, percussion, synth pads and sound effects. Great for trailers, films in action and drama genres, Police / Investigation TV series and more. [Tempo: Medium / 90 BPM]
