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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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Prelude

An atmospheric, repetitive and light piano piece with a simple melancholic theme.

Trick Or Treat (Halloween Orchestral Cartoon)

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.

Prom Committee

Dramatic atmospheric piano instrumental with strong motifs and a building climax.

Procession

Atmospheric haunting Cello and Piano piece with a steady pulse and simple melody.

Reflection on desolation (Lo-fi, Electronic, Guitar, noise, Atmosphere, Wander)

A guitar riff accompanies the typical atmosphere of loneliness and desolation. Perfect for farewell scenes, or contemplation of empty and desolate landscapes.

Smoke (disturbing, evil, crime, drug, triphop, bad)

Disturbing music. Perfect for a scene with an evil character, for a catastrophe, or as a background for images of destruction, squalor, crime, drug addiction.

Cloud Compass

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

Catch The Vibe

Upbeat easy mood house track. Perfect for fashion backstage, fashion review, design, fashion event, podium, fashion show openeing, photography backstage, club promo, neon luxury party, premium branding, VIP zone, showroom, showreel, catwalk, TV, fashion review, glamour promo, beauty brand, branding,...

Darkwave Horror

Gloomy, doomed and dark composition for your video, audio collections and other projects!

Satie - Gnossienne n. 3

Mysterious, catchy and a bit disturbing. Classical piano masterpiece by Erik Satie (1866-1925).

Satie - Gnossienne n. 2

Delicate, harmonic and a bit bizarre. Classical piano masterpiece by Erik Satie (1866-1925).

Night Escape (Tension Suspense)

Dark landscape & eerie suspense in slow tempo for orchestra. Good for tension mysterious situations or psychological thriller & crime in progress.

Logo11, Aggressive Dark

An aggressive and dark with glitchy hybrid textures and strong beats. Perfect for movies such as SFX, Action, Horror, Fantasy, etc.

Round Round

A banging trap track with male rap and vocals. About getting nowhere and self reflection..dark and swaggy vibes with a hint of R&B

Magical Adventure (Hybrid Trailer, Ominous Music, Psychedelic Ambient)

A melancholy dark ambient cinematic experimental track with beautiful acid sounds, glitch, and noise. Its item will evoke feelings of horror and mystery. This item created for different space videos, presentations, websites, films, YouTube videos, tutorials, slideshows, meditation, horrors and more....

Super Strength

An inspiring, motivational cinematic theme, bold royalty free epic track with awesome quality and well mastered sound. Includes cinematic strings and brass, epic drums, deep piano chords, synths, pads and transition effects. Great choice for cinema, trailers, teasers, sport and motivational videos, ...

Quirky and Spooky

An eccentric classical Halloween track featuring strings like violin, viola, cello, bass, and woodwinds like piccolo, bassoon, flute, and clarinet. It is perfect background music for movies, cartoons, TV shows, video games, commercials, advertisements, and more.

Surreal Dark Ambient (Glitch Hybrid, Melancholy Cinematic, Psychedelic Ambient)

A melancholy dark ambient cinematic experimental track with beautiful acid sounds, glitch, and noise. Its item will evoke feelings of horror and mystery. This item created for different space videos, presentations, websites, films, YouTube videos, tutorials, slideshows, meditation, horrors and more....

Dark Hybrid Glitch Ambient (Space Music, Dark Experiment, Horror Film Scene)

A melancholy dark ambient cinematic experimental track with beautiful acid sounds, glitch, and noise. Its item will evoke feelings of horror and mystery. This item created for different space videos, presentations, websites, films, YouTube videos, tutorials, slideshows, meditation, horrors and more....

Menace

A forceful and tense heavy metal logo track. It features an electric guitar with overdrive and punchy drums. Perfect for intro/outro video sequences, short ads, broadcasting, trailers, teasers, action movies, video game content, commercials that portray intensity, speed and adrenaline, extreme sport...

Wandering Tear

A reflective and somber ambient piano track that is dark and introspective. Contemplative and ruminating Underscore for TV/Film and thought provoking media

Six Feet Under

Dark background music for all kind of themes like crime, thriller, mystery and horror.

Building The Tower

A suspenseful, orchestral hybrid track, featuring insisting strings, epic brass, tickling ethnic percussion and huge drums. Styled for factual documentary background and historical and news underscore. For ads, promo, commercials, corporate, trailer, youtube videos and media projects about history, ...

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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