Dark Music Royalty-free & Sync licensed Royalty-free: Pay once, no ongoing royalties.
Sync licensed: License includes rights to pair the music with video, film, ads, and apps.

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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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On The Prowl (no melody)

Dark and mysterious, this suspenseful track is great as mood enhancing music for a variety of uses. Pulsing synths, haunting atmospheric pads and percussion.

On The Prowl

Dark and mysterious, this suspenseful track is great as mood enhancing music for a variety of uses. Pulsing synths, haunting atmospheric pads and percussion.

An Intriguing Mystery (no piano)

Mysterious, spacious track with a brooding, haunting feel. Pulsating synths, dark pads, piano and percussion make this a great light tension track for your project.

An Intriguing Mystery (Ambient Mix)

Mysterious, spacious track with a brooding, haunting feel. Pulsating synths, dark pads, piano and percussion make this a great light tension track for your project.

An Intriguing Mystery (60 sec)

Mysterious, spacious track with a brooding, haunting feel. Pulsating synths, dark pads, piano and percussion make this a great light tension track for your project.

An Intriguing Mystery

Mysterious, spacious track with a brooding, haunting feel. Pulsating synths, dark pads, piano and percussion make this a great light tension track for your project.

Run Away

A fast and dramatic short classical piece. Its tension and intense character is made of strings ostinato phrases, timpani and other orchestral instruments.

Dark experiments

A tense minimal experimental background with a creepy atmosphere and an anxious mood. In combination with detective stories, suspense, thriller, disturbing videos, commercial projects, etc

Disturbing events

Disturbing dark electronic music with an atmosphere of suspense and a frightening mood. Combined with horror, suspense, thriller, tense videos, commercial projects, etc

Halloween is close

Fast scary music with a dark tense atmosphere and a Halloween mood. It is combined with videos dedicated to Halloween, as well as projects that require a dark, gloomy and frightening atmosphere, suspense, horror, etc.

Secret Society

Mysterious music with a gloomy atmosphere of expectation and an anxious mood. It is combined with videos dedicated to Halloween, as well as projects that require a dark, gloomy and frightening atmosphere, suspense, horror, etc.

Scheming in the Dark

Ominous ticking, brooding strings and a melancholic piano theme towards the end make up this suspenseful background track. It will work very well in documentaries, serious news items, games or films seeking an investigative and mysterious tone.

Ominousz

A dark Drill Hiphop type instrumental. It's called Ominousz because that's the feeling you'll when you hear it.

Dark Cavernous Drone

A dark and suspenseful cinematic ambient track with disturbing sound design and ethereal drones. Great fit for science fiction, abstract projetcts, horror films, ethereal atmospheres in videos and more.

Darkness

by Muza
Dark and mystic hybrid electronic music with mysterious synth and dark atmospheric sounds and deep bass. This music track is perfect for trailers, video games and movies.

Biohazard

by Muza
Slow scary track. Perfect for trailers, videogames, youtube and mach more Massive synths, amazing industrial parts, nice ambient elements, punchy groove and high-quality sound

Halloween Evil Trap Logo

A spooky royalty free music Logo with Harpsichord, Pizzicati Strings, Music Box and creepy sfx and demoniac laugh. Perfect for ads, intros, openers, scary idents or Halloween promos. Available in 2 different versions, with and without Sound effects.

Daunting Trailer Intro

Epic foreboding cinematic intro. Works perfectly in relation to suspense, horror or any other production seeking an ominous dark impacting theme.

A Darker Tension Bed

This is a dark ominous tension bed consisting of different elements like piano, synth, bass, guitars and strings to raise suspense. The addition of real recorded instruments give this piece a creepy edge. Will work very well in your game, documentary, film or other media seeking a suspenseful musica...

Anxious expectations

An unusual mixed background with a dark, frightening atmosphere and an unsettling mood. Combined with mystery, suspense, thriller, horror, commercial projects, etc.

Unsolved mystery

A mysterious ambient composition that creates an atmosphere of expectation and an anxious mood. In combination with documentaries, detective stories, thrillers, suspense videos, slide shows, social and other projects.

Tension Bed 1

Epic tension track consisting of percussion, strings and other elements to create an intense brooding feeling. Perfect to use in your game, game show, app or other media production that needs suspense music.

Crouching Halloween

A mysterious, scary, creepy, halloween music. Alarming beginning, then gradually there is a dynamic, emotional, but smooth development. Perfect for house and corporate parties, YouTube videos, commercials, upcoming Halloween projects, mysterious, nightmare, cartoons, monsters, social media, bac...

Escape

This track is a mix of electronic and rock music. Floating bass and drums make this composition a very powerful and aggressive.

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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