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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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Hauntings

Dark brooding horror soundscape featuring piercing strings and an ominous piano motif.

Frozen Tears - Cold Mysterious Landscape

An ambient track full of mysteries, made of of snow, ice and stone. It conveys pictures of cold lands in a dreamy and mystical way. Great fit for meditative and abstract videos, experimental and fantasy projects, nature documentaries, anthropology projects and more.

Alien Encounter

Hybrid electronic and industrial track featuring heavy synthesizers, distorted guitars and aggressive drums. The hard-hitting, tense mood makes this track perfect to use in games, films, trailers or any production seeking an original high quality musical outfit.

The Stupid Things We Did

Driving bass and drums, icy guitar, mournful and haunting male vocals. Recalling the work of post-punk pioneers Joy Division, Kate Bush, The Cure, etc. From the band, Feeding Fingers. Heartbreaking.

Rip and Tear

by Muza
Atmospheric extreme-metal track with synths, duble-kick and low-tuned guitars. Perfect for extreme sport, racing, box and other videos.

No Control

by Muza
Fast, dark, heavy garage track featuring electric guitars, rock drums and bass. Heavy background for your video projects.

Crossfire

by Muza
Modern metal with gained guitars, synths and loud drums

Black Planet

by Muza
Powerful, brutal, and groovy metal track with low-tuned riffs and puchy drums

Restricted Access

Suspenseful background track featuring piano, strings and ominous synthesizer sounds.

The Perfect Storm

by Muza
This is aggressive, energy and powerful rock trailer. Ideal for web videos, advertising, sports, education, travel, trailers, youtube, tv, action movies and commercials.

Across The Universe

by Muza
High-enegry hybrid track with real electric guitars, synths, breakbeat drums and fat synth bass Sport, speed, fight, action, extreme and more - its all about this track.

Frozen Like the Winter

This is a rare song on the album. It talks in Greek about an occupying soldier with burning eyes, who though, is unable to look the occupied in the eye, afraid of feeling compassion. It is based on a groove that I wrote and improvised on and then sent to Dimitris Klonis. What I heard back from him w...

Hidden Symmetry (Intro)

This is the first piece of the album, although not the first one that I started working on. I was writing short pieces for 6 double basses and this one seemed to fit right in what I was looking for as an intro to the album. It is all based on a single motif that slowly evolves through the counterpoi...

The Eyes of the Ghost Within: Dark Ambient Soundscape

The Eyes of the Ghost Within: Dark Ambient Soundscape features synth and elicits tones of reflection and intensity. This clip could help in cartoons, video games, YouTube videos, websites, film projects, radio bits, commercials, tutorials, introductions, explainer videos, advertisements, tech proj...

Tick Tack Doom

An ominous brooding track consisting of ticking elements, dark analog synthesizer sounds evoking a sense of pending doom. There is also a version without the ticking included to cater to your wishes and specific needs.

Industrial Horror Station

An ominous soundscape consisting of horror sounds, menacing synthesizer bass sounds and creepy atmospheric noises.

Creeping Slowly

An ominous suspenseful background track consisting of a haunting piano melody, drenched in analog synth sounds and other tense elements.

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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