Royalty Free Dark / Somber Music

An intense industrial electronic track with loud sirens, powerful percussion and distorted vocals

A short solo piece consisting of dramatic descending piano arpeggios, starting with a delicate, fragile ambience and building to a more urgent, tense finale through fuller bass and more animated expression. Relying on it's momentum, chord progressions and constant flow to generate the emotion, it's not a complicated, stand alone track, but intended to fill a need to enhance a mood - one of slight urgency, anxiety, mystery and tension.

Cinematic piece, featuring piano and orchestra. A simple and traditional melancholic piano theme opens, juxtaposed by modern shrill electronic pulses to immediately give a sense of the unusual. It breaks into a lush orchestral theme with legato strings, rich brass and fast moving marimba, building in intensity to a majestic climax with fanfare brass and timpani hits. Not to last, it drops back to the orignial theme and calmer style to finish a piece that has a diverse landscape of emotions, evoking sadness, reflection, wonder and longing.

Dramatic orchestral hybrid. Epic percussion, soaring strings and aggressive brass combine for a theme that's as mysterious as it is glorious. A delicate midsection of keyboard, strings and textures provides a serene contrast and a vehicle to build the music to its intense climax of percussive hits, string runs and fast brass passages. Subtly finished with a light arpeggiated piano theme, it's a dynamically diverse piece covering many moods, but always within the realm of intense cinematic action.

A dramatic orchestral underscore with slow string swells and an overall suspenseful, dramatic feel

Sentimental pop rock track. Starting with an emotional warm piano accompanied by strummed acoustic guitar, the piece builds to its full, heroic, string enhanced chorus while never losing its calm, assured presence. Determined and positive in feel, with an uplifting, heartfelt spirit.

A downbeat suspense theme. Brushed drums and a falling piano sequence create a sense of longing, added strings and pads help to build the intensity. Solo cello subtly creates extra melancholy and nostalgia.

Symphonic fantasy epic. Enchanting and ominous in equal measure, it's a piece full of grandeur with choral melodies accompanied by ever progressing string and brass themes to build to a fulfilling climax. Gentle and lilting only for the start and short ending, the more prominent mood is tension and ever increasing intensity.

Epic dubstep, creating a hybrid genre of cinematic orchestral power and contemporary, hard hitting beats. Building up from a steady paced intro of synth pulses and percussion with risers and textures, adding in the orchestral elements gradually hikes up the tension until it goes full on cinema mode with the grandest of themes, perfect for dramatic tension and trailers. A bold statement of majesty and positivity with a slightly dark, yet utterly confident overall feel.

Contemporary classical duet for piano and flute. Slightly ethereal, slightly playful, its diversity mainly comes from rhythmic changes, dynamic variety and chordal dissonance. Soft, dreamy passages lead to fast, aggressive hits and steady rolling motifs change to uneven, juxtaposed off-beat rhythms to form a modern, classical piece that hints at a sombre, downtrodden mood with a carefree, optimistic side.

If you like your lo-fi chill hop tracks sat right back in the box, this one is for you. Pure simplicity with an arpeggiated keyboard motif, minimalist deep bass line and rock steady beat. Absolute moods without the fancy intricacies.

The 528 Hertz solfeggio frequency is also known as the frequency of health and longevity. And this is quite a long 8 minutes of haunting, penetrating, meditational soundscape. Like a swirling wind of synthesized tones seeping through your ears, it is both sonically immersive and spiritually engrossing, evolving slowly with minimal movement to give time to fully absorb the sensory effects given off.

Slightly mysterious retro rock theme. Acoustic guitar and female oohs feature over a solid drum beat before brass enters for a South American feel and a searing synth lead takes over. Part psychedelia, part spaghetti Western, it's a downbeat track with melancholic vibes.

Creepy melodies, weird sounds and disturbing noises designed to create a send of dread. Featuring scary strings, music box and rhythmic synths to drive it on, it lies somewhere between a deranged ethnic ensemble and a contemporary, cinematic action tension builder. A little bit different, and all the better for it, whilst maintaining its roots in the cinematic horror camp.

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.  

Adrenalin fuelled cinematic track. A rhythmically charged intro of unison piano and string shorts flourishes into a gothic fantasy dance with subtly macabre overtones, featuring choral melodies and later, epic brass. Impacts and percussion drive the piece forward in a swirl of dramatic emotion, rising again through a key change to its conclusion. Darkly romantic with a playful vibe, it is an energetic, all action piece with a grandiose flair.

Mystical EDM track. Atmospheric pads, deep bass and fast, repeated keyboard patterns mix with a light techno beat for a dramatic, futuristic vision of another world. Abstract and high-tech, energetic yet soothing, it's a piece that creates a powerful and evocative mood.

Ghostly goings-on, devilish delights and frolicking phantoms reign in this playful track. Is there an eerie theremin? Of course there is. Is there a toy piano? Of course. Pizzicato strings? Yep. Plodding brass bass line? Sure. Cackling spectres in the background? Don't mind if I do. Hard house rave beat? Don't be ridiculous, that really wouldn't help - we're going for spooky 'what's creeping up on me' with this track and you won't be disappointed. Unless they see you from the shadows.

Cinematically driven background track mixing modern trap elements with gritty distorted guitars and synth textures. Very stylised, with an industrial techno feel, it's designed for its minimalist, noir vibes rather than a melodic hum-along. Dark and gripping with an energetic beat, pounding guitar and shimmering synth, it captures many moods from despair and dystopia to aggression and anxiety.

All action trailer epic, featuring fast string ostinato and grand French horn melodies. Hybrid elements such as synth pulses, sub hits and sound design combine with the orchestral tones to enhance the dramatic movement and slightly sinister vibes set in place by the swelling, slurred trombones early on, breaking into the more triumphant theme as it develops. Powerful, animated and intense.