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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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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.

driving

this music rejects our increasingly mechanized, frenetic and "on" lifestyle, and has given it glacial rhythm melodies that seem to slip in and out of focus, just like sleep. Relaxing,reflective atmospheres full of acoustic instruments and synths that accompany

cinema2 cyber

this music rejects our increasingly mechanized, frenetic and "on" lifestyle, and has given it glacial rhythm melodies that seem to slip in and out of focus, just like sleep. Relaxing,reflective atmospheres full of acoustic instruments and synths that accompany

anno del contatto

this music rejects our increasingly mechanized, frenetic and "on" lifestyle, and has given it glacial rhythm melodies that seem to slip in and out of focus, just like sleep. Relaxing,reflective atmospheres full of acoustic instruments and synths that accompany

epic strings 5

A modern classical music genre derived from a large number of musical genres (in this case orchestral). These are productions that generate strong feelings that can range from euphoria to drama or even joy to terror. Orchestral soundtracks,string ensembles.

epic strings 2

A modern classical music genre derived from a large number of musical genres (in this case orchestral). These are productions that generate strong feelings that can range from euphoria to drama or even joy to terror. Orchestral soundtracks,string ensembles.

wuhan

What would a horror film be without its music? Fear resembles the last wrong piece of a puzzle The most typical characteristic of horror film music is that it is dissonant, that is, it is based on intervals that do not sound stable and complete. Instead, they have a suspended sound, and in this way...

tamburi 2

What would a horror film be without its music? Fear resembles the last wrong piece of a puzzle The most typical characteristic of horror film music is that it is dissonant, that is, it is based on intervals that do not sound stable and complete. Instead, they have a suspended sound, and in this way...

suspense

What would a horror film be without its music? Fear resembles the last wrong piece of a puzzle The most typical characteristic of horror film music is that it is dissonant, that is, it is based on intervals that do not sound stable and complete. Instead, they have a suspended sound, and in this way...

darkness

What would a horror film be without its music? Fear resembles the last wrong piece of a puzzle The most typical characteristic of horror film music is that it is dissonant, that is, it is based on intervals that do not sound stable and complete. Instead, they have a suspended sound, and in this way...

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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