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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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Medieval King

An atmospheric, acoustic piece, inspired by the Middle Ages. Featuring authentic medieval instruments such as flute, lute, hurdy gurdy and hand drum. Perfect for ancient and historic scenes and settings in film, games and documentaries.

Intense Suspense

Suspenseful dark background track presenting an intense sense of urgency. Will work great in media seeking tension and suspense.

Under the Illusion

An ominous, suspenseful, soundscape of pulsating synth pad layers. Unobtrusive, yet tension-building.

Found In Faith

A dark, foreboding, mysterious, dramatic and cinematic background track featuring piano, electric guitar swells, synth layers and a subtle percussion loop, all building up to a powerful climax. Perfect as a dramatic underscore to a story of inspiration and discovery.

Anticipation

This track opens with unsettling minor chords and a pulsing heartbeat, and builds energy with strings and the sound of a ticking clock.

In the Deep Darkness

A dark, moody, mysterious background track. Someone is searching for answers in the depths of their soul.

Dark Water Voyage

An ominous, somewhat anxious track featuring pulsating synth pad layers and strings. Ideal as a dark cinematic background.

Edgy Contingency

Hold on to the edge with this contemporary strings, piano, and percussion piece! Featuring tense solo violin and cello, coupled with piercing orchestral strings and raw percussive elements. Useful in suspenseful documentaries and trailers with building tension.

Cyber Sunny Future - Futuristic Synthwave Inspiration

Ambient, chill, experimental, electronic and eclectic retrowave pop audio background! Perfect for movie trailers, photography tutorials, tech tutorials, gaming intros, gaming shows and twitch presentations, music streams, synthwave live shows and club videos, sport documentaries, architecture logo...

Tense And Dense

Suspenseful atmospheric background track featuring ominous strings, guitar, piano and synthesizer. Will work well in the background of documentaries, commercials or any other media. The instrumentation and production are made so that it blends easily with other elements like narration.

Suspenseful Thoughts

Suspenseful background track featuring celeste, piano and strings. The track is driven forward by tense rhythmic elements and will work well supporting a variety of media seeking ominous, worrying sounding musical support.

Urban Investigation Electronic Tension Background

A suspensful hip-hop infused electronic tension track, featuring synth melodies, trap beats, brass stabs and 808 bass, great for TV series, documentaries, investigative journalism, vlogs, or podcasts.

Arcade Of Secrets - Easygoing Synthwave

Ambient, chill, experimental, electronic and eclectic retrowave pop audio background! Perfect for movie trailers, photography tutorials, tech tutorials, gaming intros, gaming shows and twitch presentations, music streams, synthwave live shows and club videos, sport documentaries, architecture logo...

fazzoletto

This volume explores how music and sound articulate the fantastic in cinema and contribute to the creation of fantastic narratives. The magical within music as a means to achieve what would be impossible in our reality. In the album the atmospheres are serene,sweet,and magical,rich with string an...

About Time (Vocal Soul Ambient)

Warm, space groove with timeless feel. Submerges in relaxable, contemplate atmosphere. Suitable for waiting moments. Has a jazzy feeling, Instrumental, RnB, Groove

Joyful Moments | Hip Hop Electronic / Dark Quirky / Cinematic, Background

Premium Electronic, Ambient Instrumental full track in Hip Hop electronic genre. The Audio is Mastered with Elite Analog Hardwares. Mood of this track is dark quirky frantic chill optimistic bold. Emotion/Mood Valence: negative. Energy: medium. Energy Variation: medium. Tempo: Medium. BPM: 100. BPM ...

Resistance

A tense, atmospheric royalty free music theme with dark hits, eerie fx, hybrids and dramatic ending strings, ideal for crime/thriller trailers, intros, openers or games.

Dark Prophecy

An orchestral track with strings ostinato and glockenspiel background and low strings melody, creating a dark and mysterious atmosphere. Great for a variety of projects, like films, videos, commercials or documentaries needing a strong and suspenseful music background.

Book of Mysteries

A dark glockenspiel and strings first part with a second part with light pulsing pads and string ostinato, creating a mysterious atmosphere and a sense of anticipation. Great for documentaries, videos, films and various other productions needing a touch of mystery.

Entangled Concern

Tension and timely concern are evoked through worrying string harmonies, ticking percussion, and pulsing kick drum and bass. Useful for film scenes where the character feels uncertainty about future events.

Trailer

Dark and epic trailer intro with dramatic mood. Powerful hits, impacts, drums and staccato strings. Perfect for openers, intros and trailers.

Vapidly Lonesome

Inspired by “The Revenant Main Theme” (by Ryuichi Sakamoto), this is a dark, vapid, and spacious, minimalist piece, for intense inner drama and turmoil, with orchestral strings, horns, and drones.

O Come O Come Emmanuel (Guitar)

An acoustic guitar rings out clear into the ‘night’, yearning and rejoicing, with this intimate rendition of the Christmas classic, “O Come O Come Emmanuel”.

Facing Challenges

Suspenseful background track featuring piano, strings and light percussion. Towards the middle a choir is introduced to enhance the tension some before ending with a subtle piano motif.

Black Cello

A dark classical ensemble that features an intense cello, violin, viola, and powerful percussion. It is perfect for movies, films, video games, commercials, and advertisements.

epic cinema 11

Is a kaleidoscope of sounds, ranging from orchestral soundtracks to intimate, peaceful compositions and string ensembles. The album is a journey of sounds and one that draws each piece, despite variations in sensibility and color, into a coherent musical experience.

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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