Royalty Free Dark / Somber Music

Somber and dramatic background music with added ambience, using soft arpeggiated piano and electronic sound design elements. The constant, steady movement helps the piece flow forward, but it('s not until the final section that all the elements combine for the full effect of rich, mysterious and brooding tension. A slow burner, created purely for mood.

Grafitti-style, glitchy atmospheres combined with powerful drums create this action-packed instrumental track.

Old school boom bap beat, with a lo-fi, downtempo vibe and swathes of rich poignancy seeping from its honest core. Calming, melodic piano simply does its thing over a fat, raw beat, filled out by deep synth pads, synth strings and ethereal textures. Pensive ambience with a hip hop soul.

Hollow and desperate piano instrumental, epitomising loneliness and helplessness. Slow, methodical piano meanders throughout, searching for a theme, enhanced by electro sound design elements that reinforce the sound of empty space. Not a piece that's going to brighten your day, unless you've been searching for the perfect accompaniment to your solitude and loss of hope.

Atmospheric hybrid track with a psychological edge. Making good use of cutting synth and string themes for suspense, and a deep, pulsing beat for tension and movement, there remains space for a piano melody to add progressive interest with a deliberately vague and ambiguous feel. An overall steady and tense piece that creates a mysterious, thrilling landscape.

Meditative track of ethereal synth tones, choral pads and wafts of musical air based on the 417Hz frequency - said to help bring about change and new beginnings in life. Essentially just a slowly evolving soundscape, it has a gentle flow and creates an atmosphere of deep tranquility with slightly haunting dissonance at times, meaning we experience the darker, pensive side as well as the transgression to more comforting resolutions.

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.

Enchanting orchestral epic. Magical and mysterious in its gently flowing piano lines and shimmering high strings, it builds on the theme with faster string ostinato and legato melodies, gradually turning into a deeper, more epic interpretation with added brass, woodwind and percussion. Without limiting yourself to the fantasy genre as it works for many other situations, think more 'fairies and elves showing their powers' than 'horsemen of the apocalypse'.

An eclectic downtempo electronic instrumental with rich analog synths, plucked bass lines and mallet leads

Tense orchestral track. Unsettling offbeats and ominous descending themes, mixed with fast, jagged strings, create a world of swirling intensity that cycles round, only momentarily pausing at times to rebuild again. Supported by a backbeat of percussive hits and interjecting brass stabs, it has high energy and movement with a strong gothic, epic feel.

Tranquil piano ambience with a deeply mysterious edge. It's a simple theme using delay and reverb for movement and space, given diversity through unexpected time changes and sprinkled with sound design elements. Definitely dark, but more in wonder and suspense than anything sinister ...... or is it?

An atmospheric mid tempo track, with hints of traditional Asian music mixed with chilled percussion and synth textures. The main theme played on tuned wooden percussion is subtly backed with a granular pad and soft beat, built on with guitar harmonics and synth sweeps to create a mood of mystery, intrigue, suspense and wonder. Relaxing, pensive and enigmatic.

An emotional piano solo with a deep nostalgic feel

Hauntingly tense piano based track. Dark and atmospheric from the start, using a simple repeated piano theme, and enhanced by subtle, dissonant strings and choir to create suspense, the piece remains stable but varied throughout - synth pulses and percussion add movement, cello adds melancholy, glockenspiel adds lightness. The slow pace adds to the dramatic tension so you're left in no doubt that something must be lurking nearby.  

Dark and moody piano instrumental, created as a perfect tension builder with electro splatterings and shimmering overtones. Plenty of sound design elements and creeping pulses add interest and drive to generate the brooding ambient soundscape, without losing its main core of fragile, haunting pianowork that binds it all together. Gentle and mysterious with an underlying sinister feel.

639 Hz - a frequency filled with love, radiance, and positive energy. It's the frequency of the heart, but don't expect James Blunt style whinings. This is a meditation soundscape designed to go much deeper, whistling straight into your inner core with haunting tones and evolving sound design. As useful for cinematic ambience as it is for spiritual energising, it's said to help you build harmonious relationships with others. Might work better than a mix tape of 80's love ballads.

An absolute curiosity of a track. The minimalist beat is cool, diverse and easily relatable. And then there's the rest. Super chilled upright double bass plucks out the laziest of melodies, soon joined by a simple, melancholic acoustic guitar line and the vocal warblings of the world's only Arabic gospel singer. Very relaxed, totally innovative and definitely standout, I can't help but get Mexican funeral vibes with a neo jazz twist. But that's doesn't tell even half the story ....

An epic tension builder. Gritty synths, hard hitting percussion and an industrial feel give way to a more orchestral hybrid sound of ostinato strings, braams and taiko drums, growing in intensity all the time to a drop out and final climactic hit. Intense, powerful and spine tingling.

A sentimental rock track with spacey lead guitar. Major use of tremolo and a big drum beat create movement in an otherwise slower paced piece. An optimistic mood, with a reflective tone.

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.