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.
Steady and spaced-out synthwave music. Pulsing / Uplifting / Dreamy / Smooth music. Retro 1980's feel. [Tempo: Slow / 70 BPM]
A mysterious, investigation music track, but not too dark or heavy. Semi-light, intrigue, data processing, clues and mystery unfolding. Great music for documentaries. [Tempo: Medium / 117 BPM]
Dark, spacious, beautiful, ethereal, mysterious, atmospheric.eerie track filled with intrigue and introspective questioning. Moody, dreamy, haunting & powerful. Would suit psychological thriller / dramatic / espionage / documentary / crime / cinematic type projects. [Tempo: Slow / 72 BPM]
A track of uneasy discord and mysterious twists and turns. A disturbed mind, a fragile sanity? [Tempo: Medium / 120 BPM]
An introspective, haunting, film / drama score with a sense of loss, longing and desolation. Cold and dejected. Use for Drama, History, Storytelling. Perhaps true stories, courtroom drama. [Tempo: Slow / 88 BPM]
Exotic, dark, atmospheric and adventure track made with various eastern percussion, native middle eastern instruments, strings and more. Exotic, mystical, foreboding, haunting. [Tempo: Slow / 110 BPM]
Tense underscore for thriller, crime, stakeout, sneaking, breaking and entering, etc. Dark, scary, tension. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
Dark ambient track for underscore use in horror, sci-fi or thriller material. Few notes, occasional reverberant metallic percussion, single deep bass note, heavily processed guitar sound in the distance. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
17 parts of film or TV soundtrack, underscore music. These go well together, or separately. It provides the backdrop for suspense, pensive action, sometimes dark fused with a variety of sound effects of bell tolls, haunting pads, jailhouse door slams to complete the scene. Each piece was written with a whole film in mind enabling the user with the tools to blend tracks to their own making or for each to stand alone in its own right. Mystery, intrigue, conflict, investigation, etc. [Tempo: Slow / 58 BPM]
A dark solo piano piece that has an underlying feeling of menace, danger and horror. Piano sounds like a beating heart at the end as the suspense grows but resolves. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 0 BPM]
A mysterious and dark sounding solo piano piece. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 80 BPM]
Warm pads, bells and a mysterious Eastern wind instrument, the Sarangi flute. Great background music for travel and mystery, adventure and excotic places. Foreboding, underlying mystery music. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 0 BPM]
Slow brush drums hitting softly with distorted long sounds and some scary sounds. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 60 BPM]
A feeling of suspense and eerieness. Chase, suspense, urgent, uneasy, tension, anticipation. Sneaky tension. World percussion, strings, horns, synths. [Tempo: Medium / 83 BPM]
An introspective and lonely track featuring guitars, bass and electric piano. Suitable for drama, story telling, and more. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 110 BPM]
A hard rock track with a powerful punch and a big pair of cojones. Feelgood, uplifting and positively forward driving and highly suitable for action footage, extreme sports and car racing, powerful football cuts, destruction and mayhem, etc. [Tempo: Medium / 132 BPM]
Inspired by film maker and composer John Carpenter, this is a homage to his masterpiece The Thing, starring Kurt Russell. Ominous blend of synthesizers and orchestral horns, with a repetitive tense motif. [Tempo: Slow / 93 BPM]
African drums & singing. World acoustic, mystical, lively. [Tempo: Medium / 100 BPM]
This track is Jekyll and Hyde. The tense intro has techno beats and synth sequences which build in intensity until all hell breaks loose and the guitars enter with a hellishly ferocious and relentless riff. Contains synths, drum machines, guitars and bass. [Tempo: Medium / 127 BPM]
Tense, indecisive, foreboding, listless and restless. Swell near end delivering to lingering tension that can resolve or be left hanging. Good for drama, intrigue, moral dilemma, daytime drama, troubled romance. This track is recorded with a real live philharmonic orchestra. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
Short, medium tempo orchestral piece full of suspense and unknown destiny. Contains small string section of violas and cellos... Also a haunting piano melody and percussion. [Tempo: Medium / 71 BPM]
Ominous and tense. Orchestra, drums and haunting textures build suspense throughout. [Tempo: Medium / 156 BPM]
A somewhat bizarre, and slightly creepy, 1980's themed instrumental production with big synths and drums. Big and spacious - like travelling back in time. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 74 BPM]
Tribal royalty free track with a dangerous edge. Features didgeridoos and Australian percussion with drums. Groovy and primitive. The Didgeridoo gives the track an Australian reference, but it's not necessarily limited to Australia, as this can be a nice track for any location, when you need that 'Jungle fever' feel. Available in several different mixes/versions. [Tempo: Medium / 107 BPM]
An eerie, cold and subtle underscore track for thriller, crime or mystery. Slow / Suspicious / Questioning. [Tempo: Very slow / 0 BPM]
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: Medium / 110 BPM]
Sparse and beautiful, with meditation bell and resonant pads. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
Thoughtful and insightful, subtle orchestral/melodic underscore. Putting the pieces together, thoughts or insights. Slightly mysterious. [Tempo: Very slow / 73 BPM]
Dark, eerie, mystical soundscapes, with a tribal, ethnic, jungle feel. Mystery / Suspense / Tension. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 0 BPM]
An ominous and foreboding suspense music, starting slowly and then rising into an emotional, epic piece. Featuring full orchestra combined with piano and pulsating synths. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 155 BPM]
Music for a grand adventure. Semi-orchestral arrangement, rich on emotion and sweeping melodies. [Tempo: Slow / 58 BPM]
Heavy Hip Hop beat with powerful strings and cool synths. Urban yet dramatic, with a very strong "gangsta" feel. [Tempo: Slow / 75 BPM]
Horror Mystery Soundtrack. Dark / Violent / Chaotic / Insanity / Twisted. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 0 BPM]
An ominous horror track that features ambient synths and creepy, high-pitched, animal-like noises. A heavy, repetitive drum beat enhances the sense of foreboding midway through the end. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
This track features a catchy action-drama theme that will keep your production on the edge. An intense yet subtle track with driving orchestral percussions and strings, a dark orchestral attitude, and an uncertain yet heroic purpose. [Tempo: Very fast / 120 BPM]
A pair of brooding, dark, ominous pieces. Perhaps a dark sorcerer... Suitable for black magic, fantasy/sci-fi, visual presentations and more. Each one climaxes towards the end. [Tempo: Very slow / 94 BPM]
A dark and ominous track featuring choir and piano. Mysterious, chanting, perhaps occult séance or dark magic. [Tempo: Slow / 52 BPM]
Sparse, dark ambient track, like a derelict factory or underground parking house where danger lurks. Sneaky, slightly metallic feel. Useful for horror or thriller material. [Tempo: Very slow / 92 BPM]
A spooky, creepy, darkly atmospheric track in orchestral arrangement. Starting with creepy celeste and evolving into dark, atmospheric orchestral landscape, it makes a great fit for your horror or mystery project. Think classic dark mysteries. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 80 BPM]
Ominous and powerful theme music featuring distant trumpet, orchestral trumpet and strings creating an enticing atmosphere. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 104 BPM]
One in a series of 10 eerie and mystical short cues, where Sci Fi meets Horror meets Dark Fantasy. Deep, disturbing, nightmarish sounds that curl, twist and attack the unsuspecting listener with razor-like precision. These short music cues are modern and visceral, eerie and cold, in the style of modern TV series and films. To find the other 9 pieces in this series, search 'Dream Valley 10 Horror Cues'. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
Mysterious electronic underscore, for moments of uncertainty and problem solving. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 85 BPM]
A dreamy and ambient background piece with driving feel-good percussion and a hopeful sense of magic, building to an inspiring climax. Perfect for documentaries, corporate videos and commercials. [Tempo: Slow, Medium, Fast / 125 BPM]
Dystopian, sinister steampunk dubstep track with dark synthesizers and brutal beats. [Tempo: Slow / 140 BPM]
Hollow synths and eerie sustained vocal notes dominate and then swell together in the revealing conclusion to this suspenseful track. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
A slow, eerie and mystical Ambient / Cinematic track with a cold feel of wonderment and amazement. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 70 BPM]
Hypnotic, Chill out, curious. Drum'n Bass feel. A song about the curiosity of wanting to know what someone you did know thinks of you. Do they still think of you, have they changed their minds, do they hate you. Available as a Vocal version and an Instrumental version. [Tempo: Medium / 121 BPM]
Downtempo, rough hip-hop track with a sense of mystery, danger, maybe undercover mission, etc. [Tempo: Medium / 90 BPM]
A dark ambience to hi-light the grim features of serious moments. For crime-related scenes and situations, dark drama, psychological drama. Also for scifi. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
Emotional and reflective cinematic music track featuring dreamy piano, strings, bass and modern drumbeat. Begins with a slightly melancholic melody and evolves to a more dramatic contemporary orchestral hybrid sound. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 125 BPM]
