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Create tension with dark music featuring drones, low strings, and heavy percussion. Ideal for thrillers, trailers, and games. All tracks cleared for use.

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Skeleton Halloween Party

This is a scary and spooky audio track perfect to set a Halloween mood in your project! This track featuring strings and brass sections, harpsichord, percussion. Suitable for any projects, including Halloween films, tutorials, dark holiday videos, web, app, game, radio, TV and Youtube.

This Is Halloween

This is a scary and spooky audio track perfect to set a Halloween mood in your project! This track featuring strings and brass sections, harpsichord, percussion. Suitable for any projects, including Halloween films, tutorials, dark holiday videos, web, app, game, radio, TV and Youtube.

Slow Yearning Emotional Piano And Synthesizers Drone Soundscape

Float in this yearning soundscape and let the piano keys guide you. Avaliable in long and short formats and in a cople of loopable fragments, with or without the piano riff.

I Feel Freedom

Dramatic epic music with modern arrangement for films, games and tv

Paths of Destiny

An anthemic orchestral track with an atmospheric strings and choirs opening, a darker strings and brass middle part, leading to a heroic and emotional finale. Great for films, trailers, advertising, video games and various other productions.

Deep Techno House

by Janevo
“Deep Fashion Minimal Electronic” is stylish, minimalistic, fashionable, energetic, sexy, modern, upbeat and aggressive future techno music with house elements which perfectly fits fashion music, fashion commercial, sexy background, luxury videos, futuristic technology advertising, brutal video,...

Spooky Halloween Night

This is a scary and spooky audio track perfect to set a Halloween mood in your project! This track featuring strings and brass sections, harpsichord, percussion. Suitable for any projects, including Halloween films, tutorials, dark holiday videos, web, app, game, radio, TV and Youtube.

Infinite Black [Scary Halloween]

A spooky dark cinematic track that uses Shepard's tone illusion, with Music Box, metal guitar and frightening sfx. Perfect for trailers, video games, scary films and Halloween contents.

Silver Eyes

Dark electronic instrumental track capturing the atmosphere of a night city & club life. 100 BPM.

Scram Time

A drum-based cinematic instrumental cue, with drums, percussion, and sparse spoken words only. No key, no notes. Perfect for a chase scene.

Up from the Bottom

An indie-funk-rock song with male vocals, an incredibly infectious main guitar hook, and a rhythmic vocal refrain about making the best of your losses, and keeping your chin up high.

M-theory

A slow-building mysterious, eerie instrumental that begins with a digeridoo drone, joined by slowly-building haunting strings that start with a melancholy meander and develop into a rhythmic building ostinato. The piece ends with slow, long unfurling harmonies on the violin.

Anchors

Grunge/90s alternative rock-inspired song, driven by a memorable bass groove. Features melodic guitar lead and male vocals. Dark, brooding vibe. Medium Tempo (108 BPM). Great for high-energy action tv/movie scenes or commercials.

Small Talk

Great for tv or movie scenes dealing with relationship problems or a breakup. Full version of a song rooted in 90s alternative rock, featuring a slight emo vibe. Lyrics deal with relationships, confusion, guilt and remorse. Medium-to-slow tempo (84 BPM). Full band arrangement featuring electric g...

Derail

Great for action-drama TV and movie scenes. Works well in moments of contemplation or suspense. Brooding vibe. 90s-inspired hard rock, with a slow, grinding almost sludgy feel (reminiscent of the grunge/post-grunge days). Features full band ensemble including distorted electric guitars, bass, drum...

Dark Goddess

A very atmospheric orchestral theme with a hint of mystery and intrigue. It features a strong, doomy French Horn melody with rotating flute phrases, gives this piece a feel of a classic cinematic theme introducing a powerful character held in great esteem. This is a dark, fantasy style atmospheri...

Armchair

An unnerving soundscape with distant vocals and subtle themes. Ideal for background tension.

Biome Theme pt.II

An Ambient Classical piece for Cello and Piano with memorable motifs and emotional themes. Ideal for TV dramas.

Dark Music for Tension and Atmosphere

Dark music often relies on low drones, deep percussion, distorted textures, and sparse melodies. It creates an uneasy or mysterious mood, making the listener feel tension, danger, or anticipation. This style works best when atmosphere is more important than melody.

Where to Use Dark Music

Dark tracks are used in projects that need a sense of suspense, mystery, or intensity. In suspense-driven productions, they build tension before a reveal or underscore psychological drama. Within ambient projects, darker textures can create slow-moving soundscapes that add weight and depth without distracting from visuals. This category is also often used in thrillers, horror films, trailers, and games where the music must hint at what’s hidden or unresolved.

Royalty-Free Dark Tracks at Themusicase.com

All dark tracks at Themusicase.com are royalty-free and include a sync license. The collection spans subtle atmospheric cues, heavy sound design, and hybrid scores, giving producers flexible options for film, broadcast, and online storytelling.
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