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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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Contemplative acoustic loopable track with duo acoustic guitars. Suspenseful and somber. Suitable for tv/film underscore, dramatic vlogs and documentaries, and dramatic commercials/ads

Heavy Heart

Sad acoustic loopable track with duo acoustic guitars. Somber and emotional. Great for dramatic tv/film underscore, documentaries, and reality tv

WTF Game Show

Avant Garde Comical track that is querky and weird. Starts with dissonant keys and ends with dogs barking and African drums. Great for dark comedies and avant garde themes.

Wicked Prance

Driving hard rock track reminiscent of headbangers ball days. Gritty and edgy. Great for auto racing and sports, tv/film action shows, and travel content

Why Am I Here

Confusion and bewildered tension cue. Suspense, crime/investigation, horror, and mystery genres would work great for this track. Sparse and eerie.

We Three Kings

Orchestral Metal version of a classic christmas song in 6/8 time. Dual chuggy guitar leads and rhythm accompanied by choral and brass section. Aggressive epic vibe. Suitable for christmas and holiday action and adventure content. Cool vlogs, and sports

Watch Your Step

tense and suspenseful post rock track starts with a foreboding guitar riff. Distorted guitars and hard rock drums. Suitable as underscore for crime, drama, mystery, documentaries, and suspense

Warfreaks

Hard hitting nu metal track with chugging riffs, thunderous drums, and a thriller suspense vibe. Great for sports, action, adventure, and urban lifestyle content

Trappin Fappin

gritty trap hip hop urban track that starts with a wah type guitar riff. Cool abnoxious attitude vibe complete with orchestral hits and synth drones. For sports/action themed content or lifestyle entertainment programming

The Stalker

tension cue with an overwhelming vibe of danger and anxiety, great for mystery and crime scenes. Great for crime and investigation programming, suspense content, and documentaries

Stand Down

Hip hop style with sampled vocals. Defeated and negative undertones that starts with acoustic guitar and groovy drum pattern. Great for TV/Film and ads that need a dark sad urban vibe

Something Strange

Rock tension underscore track with 16th hihats, guitar slides, and bass riffs. Thrilling and suspenseful vibe. Suitable for tv/film underscore, crime investigative content, and reality programming

Something Puzzling

Suspenseful and gritty post rock track that gives a tense, foreboding vibe. Droney guitars and ambient drums. Suitable as underscore for crime, drama, mystery, documentaries, and suspense

Solitary Feud

A modern classical string quintet piece full of mystery and intrigue. Dark and serious vibes from 2 violins, viola, cello, and double bass with elegance and dramatic textures. Suitable for promos, trailers, tv/film drama, mystery, and even horror, travel, and drama documentaries

Slow Reveal

tension cue with an "unveiling" or bewildered vibe. Pads, keys, and ambient effects gives slow suspenseful feeling. Great as underscore for tv/film programming such as crime and investigation, horror, suspense, and documentaries

Sinister Newborn

Horror cue filled with evil and ominous atmosphere. Industrial bangs and an eerie music box melody hinting evil lullabye. great for suspense and horror genres

Sinister Departure

a hauntingly tense piano piece that transitions from dark and ominous to light and positive resolution. Suitable for dramatic content, crime and investigation, and horror, suspense TV/ Film underscore

Sinister Children

dark and ominous track with children choir, ambient and textural sounds, percussion, pulses, morphing brasses, and droning plucks. Evil, scary, and chilling. Great for horror and halloween content, mystery suspense tv film programming, and dark themes

Scene City

Dark macabre hiphop track with boys choir, dark piano, & acoustic guitar...Ominous Depressing Vibe good for horror, mystery, and thriller content. Also good for ads and commercials

Sad Depressing Guitar Weeping

Hopeless, misery, desolate, depressing, and nihilistic post rock guitar track. The vibe is very dark,defeated, and sparse. Suitable for post apocalyptic programs, death and despair themed content, and dark commercial/ads

Problem Solver

Tension cue for suspense, mystery and crime dramas. Guitar orchestrated arrangement with a ticking element that resolves in a climactic end with big orchestral drums

Heartbreak Lane

Dual solo guitars with a sad, depressing vibe. Slow tempo with a feeling of defeat and hopelessness. Great for TV/Film montages with this emotionally charged piece

Evil Awaits

Rock tension underscore with thunderous toms and ominous guitar riffs. Suspenseful and unsettling vibe. Suitable for tv/film underscore, crime investigative content, and reality programming

Driving Miss Crazy

Driving hard rock track with thunderous drums, heavy distorted guitar riffs, & organ leads with an aggressive, abraisive vibe. Perfect for motosports, action packed content, and mens lifestyle commercials

Defeated Soul

Tension cue full of sadness and defeat. Synth textures and piano guitar melody lines encompass this underscore style track. Somber vibe great for TV/Film underscore or theme song

Dagpond

EDM Synth based track fit for suspense, crime, and intrigue. Tension cue with an eerie investigative vibe great for crime dramas and tv/film theme music

Bewildered

Swampy slide guitar ambient dark tension cue straight from the south. With droning vocals and slide lead gives an eerie, confused, drugged out vibe. Suitable as underscore for tv/film crime and investigation, documentaries, and horror genres

Baroque Guitarer Brain Massager

Duo guitar classical based track with a contemplating vibe for thinking or problem solving. Suitable for mystery, problem solving, and trivia content, historical documentary, and technology programming

Ballistic Chant

Vocal EDM chant style track. Haunting female vocals with electronic drums, ambient pads, and synth bass. Ominous and mysterious vibe great for TV/Film with a modern cinematic theme

Anomaly

mysterious dark tension cue with classical guitar and piano chruning tense chord progression. Great for TV/Film underscore and for docudrama

Anaheim Chill

EDM chillwave track with hypnotic synth and drum groove. Relaxed calm and chill vibe great for underscore, relaxation meditation, and corporate technology content

confusion

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.

ansia

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.

il grido

wide and lush atmospheres and open textures. Ambient music has always been able to create opportunities for listeners to interpret emotions in a variety of ways, and each song can mean so much different from one set of ears to another. It comes from all kinds of angles: love and friendship, hope ...

find

wide and lush atmospheres and open textures. Ambient music has always been able to create opportunities for listeners to interpret emotions in a variety of ways, and each song can mean so much different from one set of ears to another. It comes from all kinds of angles: love and friendship, hope ...

At Halloween

This track will perfectly fit for inspirational videos and motivational videos, YouTube videos, films ,TV, nature videos and photo slideshows,commercials, corporated videos, movies and more.

An Epic Suspenseful Climax

Suspenseful track featuring cinematic, ticking and orchestral elements slowly building to a big climax.

subzero

The atmosphere (from ancient Greek ????? ( atmós) "vapor, steam" and ?????? (sphaîra) "sphere") is a layer or layers of gas that envelops a planet and is held in place by the planet's gravitational body. In the music "Spirits" takes you inside these layers of gas, placing the listener inside it, ...

spirits

The atmosphere (from ancient Greek ????? ( atmós) "vapor, steam" and ?????? (sphaîra) "sphere") is a layer or layers of gas that envelops a planet and is held in place by the planet's gravitational body. In the music "Spirits" takes you inside these layers of gas, placing the listener inside it, ...

spirits 5

The atmosphere (from ancient Greek ????? ( atmós) "vapor, steam" and ?????? (sphaîra) "sphere") is a layer or layers of gas that envelops a planet and is held in place by the planet's gravitational body. In the music "Spirits" takes you inside these layers of gas, placing the listener inside it, ...

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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