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.
Chilled, sparse and slowly building production music track with a hint of mystery, wonderment and anticipation. Piano, mallets, subtle drums (1'42''). Great as background music for drama & storytelling. [Tempo: Slow / 75 BPM]
Native American percussion and flutes playing a ceremonial ancient music. Great music for history documentaries, world heritage and specials. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 100 BPM]
A nursery rhyme like theme with dark, mystical overtones that sucks you in to its web of deceit and mystery. Modern yet with retrospective 1980’s sensibilities. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 128 BPM]
Staccato cellos, pianos, uneasy harmony resolving in beauty (1 min), slightly serious yet playful and lively. Works with advertising, drama, avant-garde film, mysteries and television dramas. [Tempo: Fast / 113 BPM]
A suspenseful and ominous music with elements of mystery, conspiracy, intrigue with intensity throughout. Guitar and electronic elements. Good music for trailers, too. [Tempo: Medium / 120 BPM]
Dramatic hip-hop style with an orchestral element and a spy mystery feel. Deep bass line, dramatic string section and a pounding hip-hop beat gives a 'rough' urban sound and the marching snare gives it a serious edge. Good for inner city, street drama, police, investigation, suspense and action thriller etc. Also great for multimedia, branding and more. [Tempo: Medium / 101 BPM]
Ominous track with vocal pads, breath stabs and a UK style drum'n bass beat that comes in bursts. Unusual, dark, inspiring. Good for intro sequence, Flash intro, commercial or presentation. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 139 BPM]
A hard hitting, wall of noise type, guitar rock track drawing on classic and modern rock styles. Heavy chugging guitars, blasting drums, high energy level. Exciting, rough, dirty and grinding, with a dark edge. Good for things like dangerous stunts, wild sports, raw Nascar racing, extreme engine power, ultimate fighting championship, and much more. [Tempo: Fast / 100 BPM]
A very slow deep-house or deep-funk track with cascades of dusty and pulsating synth textures with electric harp patterns. Moody, sultry, deep groove. [Tempo: Medium / 94 BPM]
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 pensive and mysterious underscore, suitable for crime investigation, dark drama or documentary. Nervous and with a sense of movement, ticking time, hidden clues waiting to be discovered. [Tempo: Medium / 80 BPM]
A pulsing and building mystery cue underscoring anything from an undercover mission to entering a new and suspicious world. Ambient FX, electric bass, strings, brass, rhythmic and mallet percussion. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 87 BPM]
Dark and atmospheric ambient chill, filtered and distorted beats with harsh synth slices and spacious pads, low sub bass, weird time signature, futuristic, sci-fi, science and technology, would also work for contemporary erotic scenes [Tempo: Very slow / 35 BPM]
A mysterious / mystical, somewhat heavenly and eerie film soundtrack piece. Has a certain otherworldly sound, like magic, witches, or strange, beautiful creatures. Mystery, adventure, amazement. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 93 BPM]
Loud and chaotic in places. Synths and complex rhythms create an industrial sound. [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]
Dark, Haunting and Mysterious, imagine the world has ended but somehow you survived and are surrounded by the wreckage as the dust still rises. Features various processed synths, epic drums, haunting vocals and effects. Good for dramas, sci-fi, horrors and video games. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
A fluttering, somewhat strange and alien sounding, ethnic / world soundtrack. Available with or without a soprano vocal track, this piece has a sense of movement, perhaps grand open vistas, awe inspiring sights and locations. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow, Medium / 100 BPM]
An intense modern action instrumental with high-tech synthetic elements. Focused determination great for productions involving suspense, spying, chases, etc. Nice for escalating crime in progress scenes, action sequences and high intensity situations. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 120 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 / 0 BPM]
Electronic music, spatial, deep and heroic mood. Modern electronic sounds, dark and deep pads which morph to electronic grooves and base and synth lines. Electronica, Filmscore/Cinematic. Mysterious/Futuristic, Technologic/Scientific, Spatial, Liquid, Hypnotic. Ambient textures, Synth Pad, Synth Bass, Synthesizers. Tech/Sci-Fi. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
Mixing elements of Hip-Hop, Classical and R&B in a serious, downtempo, urban street track, similar to recent HBO urban series. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 80 BPM]
This track plays for a full 60 minutes continuously. Relaxing, calming, cleansing and soothing ambient music. Although a full hour long, there is very little repetition here, as the music slowly moves through relaxing, flowing soundscapes. Great for relaxation, meditation, nature, peaceful footage, etc. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
Melancholic, piano based soundtrack with strings. A sense of longing, revisiting old times or making a new start. Travelling, passing time, pictures from a life. Good for drama use, opening scenes etc. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 126 BPM]
An atmospheric groove and guitar track that's calming and inspiring at the same time. A repetitive, jazzy bass pattern supports floating pads and sensitive guitar melodics. Somewhere between lounge, chillout, smooth jazz and blues. Tasteful and appealing. [Tempo: Medium / 81 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]
'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]
Mechanical, Serious, Industrious, Machinery, Strong, Confident. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 119 BPM]
Futuristic, powerful, with a dark edge. Technology, cutting edge. [Tempo: Slow / 100 BPM]
Deep drones, dark synth pulse, glass pads. Horror, scary, science fiction. Airy, ethereal strings over deep piano wire clanks. [Tempo: Slow, Very slow / 96 BPM]
A sparse track with a dark, grimy, gloomy, foreboding, raw, naked sound. Features heavily distorted guitar and ambient percussion. [Tempo: Slow / 104 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]
A very slow and dark, pounding rhythm. Resonant distorted guitar, monotonous bass line and slow pounding acoustic drums. Images of dirty machinery, dark future. [Tempo: Very slow / 53 BPM]
Cool and groovy Indian Banghra mixed with hip-hop styles. Catchy, unique, exotic, fresh and funky. Great production from Project 2020. This track is available both with and without Indian vocals. [Tempo: Medium / 115 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]
Rough, funky guitar riffs. Determined, forceful, aggressive, confident. Big Beat style rhythm, taking no prisoners and combining elements of techno, post-industrial techno, mech/tech, raw power, etc. Good for hard edgy visual presentations, sports / extreme sports, fighting and brawling, gritty motorsports, filmscore / action or chase scenes and more. [Tempo: Fast / 90 BPM]
Unique blend of regal strings and horns and hefty guitars. The verse is a slow grooving electro beat which builds slowly via a b section of clean swirling guitar and lamenting vocal loops into an explosion of guitars and drums. Very filmically dramatic, intense and quite unexpected. [Tempo: Slow, Fast / 75 BPM]
Imagine being able to levitate high above the earth. Imagine the exhilaration and power it would bring. Spacey synth bells introduce this tune. All on a soft bed of fluffy white cloud-like-pads. The chorus ups the intensity with a huge bouncey groove. Think Nine Inch Nails meets the Cure meets U2. Contains synth of many kinds, drums and piano. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 69 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]
Deep, thumping hip-hop beat. Inner city, gritty and grinding hip hop style. Low-rider / gangsta, gang culture. Slightly off, skewed, psychedelic music. Big electric bass guitar, doomish rhodes licks, psych guitar licks, occasional scratching. Also available as an Underscore version, with only the basic beat, bass and low-level pads. [Tempo: Medium / 90 BPM]
Hip Hop track with a serious edge. Good for drama, thriller, mystery, action/adventure. Sneaking, stakeout and more. [Tempo: Slow / 90 BPM]
A futuristic & contemporary down tempo bass and groove support a fairytale-ish music box that dips and glides over deep, warm pads. A mid section breakdown leads to a breath taking leap as the track lifts again in the final third. Depicts wide open spaces, heightened senses and ecology moving hand in hand with new technology. With its state-of-the-art chill out groove, this is very suitable for commercials and visual presentations. Similar in style & instrumentation to the track Three Little Wishes. [Tempo: Medium / 80 BPM]
Slow, mellow & peaceful piano-lead, modern orchestral track. Sombre, sedate, serene and with an air of melancholy to it. Contains piano, strings & synth fx. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 50 BPM]
A dark, mysterious / mystical and slightly sinister Hip Hop / Urban funk beat. Hip-hop drums and deep sub-bass with dark Rhodes licks and swirly guitar. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 123 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 / 0 BPM]
A softly sweeping orchestral cue with melancholic, emotional, strings, harp and oboe. Personal reflection, memories, storytelling. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 60 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]
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 / 0 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 / 0 BPM]
A modern sounding and also ambient, yet melodic track that evokes a serious, but also lighter feeling. The tracks starts off with pads and other synths but a lighter beat also enters later. Fits nicely to either presentations of all sorts - including medicine, science and education, but would sit equally well behind a weather forecast. [Tempo: Medium / 100 BPM]