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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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Evil Bells Laughter Ident

Ghastly church bells accompanied by evil laughter, draped in dark atmospheric sounds. The perfect Halloween Horror Ident for your production!

George The Flying Bat Orchestral Halloween

A whacky manic orchestral piece sonically draped in everything that is Halloween. A spooky theremin melody is carried forth by haunting strings, children's choir, frantic woodwinds and sinister brass outbursts. If you listen closely you can hear George the Bat spreading his wings on Halloween nigh...

Die achte Sünde

Powerful theme with energetic rhythm and German speech supported by electronic elements. Recommended for action scenes, racing, and action games as well as for movie and film trailers, wherever energy is needed.

A Terrible Omen

A creepy experimental background with a mysterious frightening atmosphere and a mood of fear. In combination with mystery, suspense, thriller, horror, commercial projects, etc.

Lost Hope

A melancholic and rather dark melody, gradually building and rising on strings and brass, reaching an emotional climax. Ideal for projects needing an emotional and rather dark atmosphere.

Space Dreams

A instrumental dark ambient track with a predominant delay electric guitar. Perfect for soundtracks.

Ethio Jazzing

An instrumental repetitive Jazz track with an African vibe. Perfect for vlogs and soundtracks.

Swing From the Desert

An instrumental fast Jazz track with a Middle Eastern vibe. Perfect for vlogs and soundtracks.

Inception

by Muza
Epic hybrid trailer with drums, strings, pads and electronics. An excellent choice for action modern intro, logo, movement idents, short advertising, driving sci-fi logo reveals video games, futuristic motion pictures and for any type of media projects.

Suspenseful Research Background

A tense melancholic background track consisting of different real played pianos, ticking and other suspenseful sounds. Perfect to use in the background of your documentary, corporate video, film or any other production seeking a supportive tense and mellow tone. The theme carries a touch of sadn...

Surrounded by darkness

A creepy electronic background with a mysterious frightening atmosphere and a mood of fear. Combined with mystery, suspense, thriller, horror, commercial projects, etc.

Lo-fi Hip-Hop Jazz with Catchy Vocal Hook

A relaxing jazzy hip-hop inspired song with a catchy vocal hook targeted towards young people, but with and old feel.

Dangerous games

A tense ambient background with a dark frightening atmosphere and a mood of fear. In combination with mystery, suspense, thriller, horror, games, animation, commercial projects, etc.

The Saga Begins Epic Cinematic Soundtrack

Epic orchestral track starting out on an emotional note, gradually increasing in density and working towards a big adventurous climax. Perfect to use in your film, trailer, game or other production seeking a grand orchestral background score.

Mystery Land

An instrumental ambient track with a Thriller/Horror show vibe. Perfect for soundtracks.

Full Moon Lullaby

Full Moon Lullaby is a soft lullaby theme, with some dark elements creating a mysterious and sometimes haunting atmosphere, featuring music box, piano, celeste and pads. Ideal for use in movie trailers, mystery documentaries, Halloween specials, film scores, YouTube videos or computer games.

Prepare for War - Dark Ominous Action

A dark, ominous, yet adventurous track. This piece is perfect or a cinematic film intro, montage, trailer or video game. The strings and percussion are driving this piece toward a climax elevated by vocal samples and ominous brass lines.

A terrible dream

A creepy electronic background with a dark frightening atmosphere and a mood of fear. In combination with mystery, suspense, thriller, horror, commercial projects, etc.

Secrets of the depths

A mysterious ambient background with an anxious atmosphere and a mood of expectation. In combination with mystery, suspense, thriller, research-video, commercial projects, etc.

Night of Horrors

An disturbing electronic background with a dark frightening atmosphere and a mood of fear. In combination with mystery, suspense, thriller, horror, commercial projects, etc.

At Breaking Point (short version)

A very powerful and punchy track with pounding piano, dark synths and solid Hip Hop drum beat. Great for action, adventure, dramatic, sports, epic, suspense, tension projects.

Storm Heros

An epic, uplifting orchestral trailer that combines cinematic brass, chorus, strings and percussion with synths, bass, and electric guitar to create an inspirational, heroic atmosphere.

Painful Sad Background

Truly sad emotional track consisting of piano, cello and violins painting a desperate cinematic background. Perfect to use in your film, documentary or other production seeking a profound sorrowful tone.

Orchestral Tension

Tense and edgy music for the suspens and action build ups. Features powerful brass shots, fast violin tremolos, deep low strings, percussions and timpani. An evolving tension builds up with different epic yet unnerving themes including an beatiful and mysterious bridge. Perfect to create a tenseful,...

Desolate Background Soundscape

Lonely desolate and dark sounding soundscape made up of synth pads, effects and a gloomy piano. Perfect to use in games, documentaries or films. Also works in 'space' themed productions.

Horror Industrial Drone Background

Dark atmospheric horror background track consisting of industrial sounds, brooding effects and ticking. Perfect to use in the background of a game, movie, documentary or any other production seeking a dark evil suspenseful tone. Will work really well in first person shooters or horror games as ...

Deep Cinematic Hit

Heavy deep cinematic and epic sting to use in your production. Perfect for trailers, games, films or other productions in need of a big impactful marker.

The perfect Horror movie

A creepy electronic background with a mysterious frightening atmosphere and a mood of fear. Combined with mystery, suspense, thriller, horror, commercial projects, etc.

Internal fears

A disturbing mysterious background with an intimidating atmosphere and a restless mood. Combined with detective stories, suspense, thriller, exciting videos, commercial projects, etc.

Dramatic Hip Hop

by Muza
Energy and dark hip-hop track, with dramatic strings and groove drum beat. Good for short video trailer and intro usage.

Horror Futuristic Ambient Atmosphere

Dark eerie futuristic horror atmospheric soundscape. Perfect to use as background track in a game or other horror or tension oriented production.

Dramatic Background Film Cue Drone

A dark and dramatic background piano theme sitting in an arrangement of strings, pulsating synthesizers and desolate pad sounds. This works best in productions that need a dramatic and mild suspenseful tone. Think in terms of psychological drama, thrillers or investigations. The piano melody also ha...

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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