Royalty Free Dark / Somber Music

Stylish take on a trap beat. Featuring a classic hip hop/trap beat, the instrumentation gives a more cinematic feel, with ambient, reverbed piano themes and orchestral string backing. It is the synth lead however that is the most prominent, as it interplays with the deep bass, chord stabs and vocal samples to create a mysterious sounding track, fresh and intriguing with a sense of curiosity.

Hybrid orchestral track with a dark and melancholic feeling. The texture evolves, becoming more dense at the end.

Ambient cowboys and cinematic moods - it's a slow, brooding track of tense atmosphere with a strong Western theme and no strict tempo. Deep, resonant pads lay the base with a soulful, sparse and highly reverbed electric guitar lead freely meandering over the top.

Dreamy, spaced out indie ballad. Unhurried and intimate, the soulful vocals float over a lazy backing of drums, bass, guitar and theremin to form a hypnotic and repetetive experience. Super chilled and easy going, with smooth, intimate vocal harmonies and melodies, it's one to take your time with on your long journey into outer space.

Epic dubstep with a cinematic edge. Get ready for a taste of tension and heroic drama with this energetic track featuring synth pulses and rhythms, marked strings and big brass melodies over a slamming beat. Inspirational and dramatic, with a sense of corporate determination.

A soft, dramatic composition led by a beautiful grand piano and an ambient synthesised pad. Slightly haunting but mostly melancholic and pensive with a hint of optimism, it is, as the title suggests, a rich and enveloping piece with a gentle, ambient tempo and calm sense of grandeur. Its ambiguity of mood lends itself perfectly to many different uses, but remains a dramatic, atmospheric composition of depth.

If you like your epic orchestral tracks with a heavy dose of sound design, this is the one. With all the usual cinematic tricks of string ostinato, huge brass lines and strong rhythmic accentuation, this adds an evident electro synth element right at the front. Sweepers, drops and pulses abound, it maintains its hybrid style for a relentless adrenalin fuelled attack of drama, tension and grandiose intrigue.

Calm ambient guitar track. Heavily reverbed and delayed clean electric guitar laments over a soft bed of synth pads, bass and gently pushing kick drum and percussion while textures build tension all around. Lo-fi effects add an introspective feel, aided by the cinematically arthouse stylings for a track that is full of wonder and soothing tranquility.

Short cinematic hip hop theme. A dark, urban track with a solid, mid-tempo menace building from aggressive bass and synth brass stabs to a rhythmically fuller sound by pushing the percussive intensity - claps, off beat accents and vocal hits all play their part to set the mood. Just one main theme, taking care of business.  

Orchestral carnival theme with a sense of the macabre. Very animated, with all the instruments of the orchestra featured for a dynamic and at times, deliberately hectic and manic feel, it captures both the fun, comical side of the circus with the darker, more horror themed associations we've come to see on the big screen. Hauntingly enjoyable.

A short track telling of a sudden change of sorrow with piano, strings and percussion

Tense and edgy cinematic track with a battle-ready feeling. A marching, percussive crescendo with short string stabs leads us into the full theme - string ostinato, shorts and a macabre sense of doom from the gothic choral chanting. Add in a few risers, sound design effects and tribal drums and the effect is complete: high intensity action with a sinister edge.  

Hectic and chaotic cinematic orchestral track. Hitting the listener with diverse rhythms and playing styles from all angles, from off-beat choral chants to random instruments stabs and percussive hits, it creates an unsettling and jarring effect throughout. An underlying double bass line unerringly marches on to give a stable bed to the devilishly playful madness going on above, creating an uneasy and threatening hostility that never relents. High energy tension for the slightly deranged.

Gothic orchestral romance at its fullest and darkest. Deep, rich tones from the legato strings, playful glockenspiel motifs and elegant, metronomic piano themes melt together in a swirling pot of mystery and suspense. Timpani hits and string shorts add drama, harp glissandi adds sparkle, chordal modulations add intrigue - and a final solo violin and piano section adds a touch of tragedy to complete the story. Deeply passionate and compelling.

Edgy orchestral track. Starting with a fast moving string theme and percussion, deep chimes ring in the ominous dread approaching. Building in intensity, and dropping out, become able suspense techniques throughout, as does contrasting the doom with light playful passages on strings, woodwinds or xylophone. Slurred legato violins apply textured expression and rich brass adds an aggressive feel to create a dramatic, mysterious and epic composition.

A moving orchestral cinematic piece featuring a piano lead, orchestral strings and overall somber, nostalgic feel

Ethereal light orchestral piece for strings, piano and harp. Starting with a magical, fantasy feel through high legato strings and fast harp, it soon turns to a more mystical orchestration, melancholic cello becoming more prominent, and introducing a stately motif - something that is boldly developed into a majestic statement as the flow of the music unwinds. Peaceful and steady, while maintaining the grandeur and wonder of an unknown infinite universe, it's a gentle study of questions without answers.

A short, spooky horror theme with a vintage, lo-fi feel to evoke those darkest of unwanted memories from times best forgotten. Hollow and brittle, but hypnotically repetitive, there are small subtleties to lift it - detuned instruments, dropouts, jagged string stabs and pizzicato - with a near constant deep brooding bass to rumble your bones. An edgy and mysterious, fast moving track that works great as a tension builder or scene setter.

A gentle yet powerful aural representation of calm expanse. Lilting piano and smooth strings meander through the space backed by darker underlying sonic textures, creating an ambiguous mood - somewhere between mesmerisingly tranquil and ominously infinite. Not long, but just enough to act as a builder thanks to it's smooth riser and epic, ethereal tonal qualities.

Indie garage rock song, with lots of added synth grit. Steady paced and rock solid, it features a cool bass groove over a strong beat with off beat electric guitar and warped synth textures and leads. Background vocals add harmony to the main male vocal, growing more distorted throughout the song for a dirty, lo-fi effect that adds intensity and interest to a track full of swagger and attitude.