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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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Nights Draw In

Floating and solemn music background with mysterious elements, featuring somber strings and piano that create a pensive, ominous mood. Ideal for movies, trailers, video games, cinematic projects and more.

Anticipation

Smooth and melancholy, featuring dark strings, piano and brass swells that create a solemn, haunting mood. Ideal for scenes of investigation, research and the passing of time.

Threatening Instability Background

Ominous and suspenseful background track consisting of strings, synthesizers and sound design elements. Evoking a dark and threatening atmosphere to complement your production.

Ninja Ritual

An ethnic mysterious song with Japanese instruments like Shakuhachi flute. Suitable for games, trailers and vlogs dealing with ninjas and Japan.

Slightly Doomed

An eerie, ambient royalty free cinematic score, with dark strings overlaying a sparse rhythmic backdrop, ideal as an ominous opening theme for horror films, paranormal footage, or games.

Looking Back

Reflective and bittersweet track, with cello, harp and clarinet. Ideal for thought provoking, melancholic scenes in documentaries and films.

It's Over

Spacious and reflective ambient track, featuring bass guitar, piano, cello and clarinet. This track creates a thought provoking, meditative mood.

Insomnia

Chilled out dreamy ambient soundscape, with piano and pulsing bass, interspersed with atmospheric guitar riffs.

clockwords vocal

vocal version of the song "clockwords" inspirational,discovery,future,dreamy... dark

Blues Rock Background

'Blues Rock Background' is a blues rock background music track featuring acoustic piano, electric guitar, hammond organ, bass and drums. It wil work for product presentattions, vlogs, commercials, films, movies, commercials etc.

Mistery

A dark and suspenseful cinematic track with creepy melodies and ethereal sounds. Conveys danger, investigation, doom and more. Great fit for suspens, horror and spooky productions in games, films, trailers, intros and many more.

Ominous

A dark and brooding theme that conveys mistery and danger. It features a felt piano, synthesizers, psaltery, tubular bells, ethereal fx and percussions. Great fit as an intro, trailer or theme for dark drama, thrillers, sci-fi, horror and any media that requires a dark and hypnotic background music.

Final Lap

by Muza
Action track with guitars, bass, drums and FX’s Perfect for action videos, sports, racing, box and other extreme videos.

Kick Em All

by Muza
This is so much agressive hardcore track. There are agressive riff, blactbeats, and crazy punching drums! Perfect for videos, games, wrestling and other extreme.

Tragic Event

This is a tragic and sorrowful piano tune with a deep emotional atmosphere and dark dramatic sound. Good background for sad videos, grievous loss, funeral events, despair and hopelessness videos, heroic death, prayers, memorial videos, and many more.

Friday Night Party Anthem (30 sec)

Energetic, uplifting Electronic Dance Pop track with a night club party vibe. Catchy synths and punchy drum / bass groove, this track is great for projects needing celebratory "summer fun" Pop music.

Friday Night Party Anthem (60 sec)

Energetic, uplifting Electronic Dance Pop track with a night club party vibe. Catchy synths and punchy drum / bass groove, this track is great for projects needing celebratory "summer fun" Pop music.

Friday Night Party Anthem (no lead)

Energetic, uplifting Electronic Dance Pop track with a night club party vibe. Catchy synths and punchy drum / bass groove, this track is great for projects needing celebratory "summer fun" Pop music.

Friday Night Party Anthem

Energetic, uplifting Electronic Dance Pop track with a night club party vibe. Catchy synths and punchy drum / bass groove, this track is great for projects needing celebratory "summer fun" Pop music.

Ominous Beauty

by Sideway
A gentle and engaging royalty free piano and strings track, bulding to an emotional climax with warm orchestral pads and soaring synth. Best for documentaries, evocative landscapes and scenes of strong emotional content.

Dark Emotions Emerging

by Sideway
A dark, orchestral royalty free cinematic score, with an airy piano, harps, cellos, and dramatic strings. Best for horror games, intros, trailers, or intense scenes.

Abandoned Shipyard - (Calm Dark Synth)

Dark looping synth and bass, very simple and laid-back. Perfect for crime, horror, war or alien invasion. Investigation, science or dramatic content is also a good fit.

Bluesy Late Night Mystery

This laid-back, sexy blues track has a subtle sense of mystery and intrigue. Great as complimentary backing track to enhance your project. Guitar, organ, bass and drums.

Bluesy Late Night Mystery (no lead)

This laid-back, sexy blues track has a subtle sense of mystery and intrigue. Great as complimentary backing track to enhance your project. Guitar, organ, bass and drums.

Bluesy Late Night Mystery (no drums)

This laid-back, sexy blues track has a subtle sense of mystery and intrigue. Great as complimentary backing track to enhance your project. Guitar, organ, bass and drums.

dark retro jazz

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.

Electro Cyberpunk

Futuristic, aggressive and modern electro with many percussion, fx, bass, vox, synth, drums. Mood: fantastic, aggressive, action. Cool for: advertise, presentation, promo, commercial, intro, opener, sports, design, motion graphics, extreme, broadcast tv.

Evolving Tension - (Pulsating Mysterious, Suspense)

** Also check out the loop version WITHOUT drums and WITHOUT evolving into a bright part! ** Pulsating dark and scary drone that evolves to be more and more aggressive and bright to the end of the track. Perfect for crime, horror, war or alien invasion. Investigation, science or dramatic content is...

Spaceship Cargo Hold - (Scary, Mysterious, Suspense)

Pulsating dark and scary atmosphere drone sprinkled with low volume critter / insect like sounds far out there in the corner of the alien spaceship. A slow ominous deep bass keeps going through the entire track until it fades out. Perfect for crime, horror, war or alien invasion. Investigation, scie...

Sad Emotional Piano Strings

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.

Dark Space

A dark ambient soundscape that conveys cosmic dread and pictures of mysterious and cold planes in strange galaxies. Great fit for sci-fi and horror productions in films, games, documentaries and any project that needs a dark ambient background 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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