Royalty Free Dark / Somber Music

Futuristic and apocalyptic track. After starting with a pulsing, time-ticking build up to generate tension and a suffocating intensity, the pounding industrial percussion, screaming synth leads and grinding sub bass are let loose to fry your brain. Staggered and disruptive throughout but somehow generating an underlying rhythmic stability, it's certainly an effect rather than a melody.

Contemplative fingerstyle acoustic guitar track with a soft, rolling lilt. Certainly creating a mood of longing, love and nostalgia, it keeps moving on, through its continuous background split chords and phrasal solo melodies. Ambient and deep, it leaves an emotional trace behind while keeping a light and airy passion.

Serence vocal harmonies and massive synth bass dominate this spacey, psychedelic track. Heavy synth swells, bells and xylophone all add to the trip-hop-turned-rock beat to mould a track that is down tempo yet hard hitting. At times mellow, at times aggressive, it's as cheerful as it is frustrated.

Deep and brooding soundscape made up of sub bass tones and synth design elements. Minimalist and airy with a sinister and impending tension.

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.

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.

A dark, mysterious-sounding ambient track featuring a celeste lead and a beautiful string ensemble

Dramatic and powerful track, full of cinematic tension. To start, it's a soft piano creating an ambient, pensive mood, helped by solo cello and violin lines, by the end it's a brooding, dark drama piece backed by metronomic percussion, string shorts and rich brass for a full and dynamic sense of evolving dilemma and unravelling denouement.

Dark, mysterious piece with an urban/industrial loop and synth pad.

Atmospheric cinematic track. With a metronomic feel thanks to the constant arpeggiated piano, it has an unhurried sense of movement and flow, calmed by long string legato lines and intensified by a subtle backdrop of violin harmonics. Very serene - gentle with a sense of enigmatic curiosity.

A melodic rock song mixing heavily distorted guitar with indie pop vocals. Lots of fuzz and feedback give an over the top, chaotic feel to the track while the pounding drums keep it grounded. Add in softer arpeggiated guitar and tuneful vocals to the verses, and you have a contrasting sense of soft playfulness and out of control energy.

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.

A mysterious soundscape to explore the wonders and curiosities of the world. Slightly techy and scientific in feel, with a subtle organic background seeping through, it's a constant evolution of sounds, generating an unstoppable, constant momentum. Tuned percussion - marimba and vibraphone, mellow piano, pizzicato strings and rhythmic percussion blend for a mellow yet animated ambience of the natural, and technological, world.

Hard hitting orchestral hybrid teaser. Short, and very direct, it launches distorted synth missiles into our ears while pounding us with industrial cyber drums. Sweetening the pain with some fast violin ostinato won't save us, just increase the intensity until our insides disintegrate from the final sub bass drop. All very dramatic, you'll agree.

Blending a hip hop groove with a retro soul vibe and adding a jazz fusion guitar hookline gets us started, before adding in lazy, slurred trumpet themes and a retro hammond organ filling. Over the funk of the drum beat and the progressive chirping of the piano chords, it's a classy track with a real confident swagger.

A soft, mid paced orchestral track with a sombre side. A gentle, pulsating string and harp intro featuring solo viola, cello and oboe flourishes into life with string shorts, harp glissandi and orchestral runs before dying down again for the ending. Good use of the vibraphone creates a dreamlike quality to help set an intense, melancholic and nostalgic mood, tinged with a sense of reflection and regret.    

Melodic percussion set to a mysterious ambient soundtrack. With a strong gamelan influence, it certainly has an ethnic feel to it, but mixed with a cinematic piano releasing deep overtones and soaked in reverb it takes on a more modern feel. Light, gentle and calming, with a sense of tension and suspense, it is rhythmically steady and continuously moving forward.

Guitar focused track that captures an atmospheric beauty contrasting with a more dramatic dynamic. Starting gently with clean plucked guitar harmonics and melodic lines, and gradually building with piano, it finally breaks into the full theme with big drums and pounding guitar strums to drive the piece relentlessly forward. One simple theme, layered and contrasted for maximum diversity while keeping the original familiarity and lush vibe.

Cinematic orchestral track with a strong sense of action and mysterious intrigue. Building on a brooding start of rich brass and choral aahs, the theme develops through percussion and strings to become a fully symphonic motif. A gentle midsection of silky strings and subtle harp calms the situation temporarily before hitting back with the returning theme - sweeping strings, flutter-tongued brass and marching percussion combining to create a tense finale.

I'm going to call this one garage metal due to its overall raw old school tone, but it still has a modern punch, thanks mainly to the powerful, compressed assault you get from the drums. Aggressive, distorted and at times dissonant, it has all the angst and energy associated with the heavier end of the genre - fast rhythm picking, double bass blast beats and downtuned bass guitar all playing their part to bring you an unsettling and tense instrumental of dark heaviness.