Dark Music Royalty-free & Sync licensed Royalty-free: Pay once, no ongoing royalties.
Sync licensed: License includes rights to pair the music with video, film, ads, and apps.

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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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The Heist

This one is a nice, groovy funk track. It features an Upright bass, some horns and tons of percussion! Perfect for commercial, advertisements, heist movies or trailers and other video content. Enjoy!

Somber Ambient Piano Trailer

Real doomer track for your project! It features piano, strings, percussion and lots of ambient tones to make your video deep, mysterious and emotional. Perfect for trailers and video games but will also do nicely for any other content in need of the right mood. Enjoy!

Sad and Slow Piano and Cello

A really depressing slow track, only purpose of which is to make your cry like a little B**.. Baby. i meant to say baby. Featuring piano and a bunch of cellos it`s atmospheric and it sure can set a mood. Perfect for videogame defeat moments, melancholic movies, or for crying in a blanket. REAL ...

Wounds Of Words

Dark, suspenseful underscore music for themes like crime, thriller, heartbreak, leaving, decision-making and self reflection.

Welcome To My Nightmare

A super dark, scary royalty-free music theme, with ticking sounds, SFX, eerie piano, bowed strings, and demon screams, ideal for horror trailers, nightmare scenes, or Halloween content.

The Evil Rises

A dark, disturbing royalty-free action theme, with heavy hits, SFX, string plucks, screams, braams, and stutter risers, ideal for horror/sci-fi trailers, game promos, openers, or tense scenes.

A Grave Conversation

Dark, ambient underscore music with piano and strings for all kind of crime, thriller, drama and horror themes.

Jack In The Box

Dark, scary background music with female vocals, piano and music box for all kind of circus horror themes.

Eclipse of Tears (Celestial Piano Journey)

A captivating dark piano melody supported with spacious, lush textures. This track is seamlessly looping.

Stranger Danger

A dark and heavy electropunk track with fast gritty male vocals, driving distorted guitars and bass, and electronic drums and synths. Big, edgy, and angst driven about urban hostility and dangers

Ruler of Shadows

A dark hybrid track with a combination of piano, ambient sounds, synths and celeste creating a tense and mysterious background with a slight shimmer of light towards the end. Great for tension scenes, trailers, videos and any project requiring anxious atmospheric music.

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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