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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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Wrong Experiment

by Muza
Dark trapped track is perfect for trailers, video games and cinema. Dark hybrid electronic music with mysterious dark synths, orchestral strings, electronic distorted bass and create a cinematic atmosphere in your video project

Save Me in a Dark Fashion

Highly energetic dark "Trap" influenced track consisting of a hard hitting beat, deep synthesizer bass and nice crispy layers of drums and rhythmic elements. Luscious female vocal parts, bells and synthetic leads give the track an ominous and expensive touch. Perfect to use in connection with fashi...

War Machine

by Muza
Agressive epic power track with distortion guitars and heavy drums. Featuring sound design, bass, electronic leads and pulses, pads.

The Meatgrinder

Dark and brutal metal track with extremly low tuned guitars, aggressive bass and drums, a lot of synths and creepy FXs. Suitable for any project that requires more aggression like slasher/shooter video games, extreme sports, trailers, etc.

Sad Energy Tension Background

Energetic and suspenseful background track featuring bass synth, marimba, piano and strings. Perfect to use in games, documentaries or other productions in need of a driving tone.

Nightmare

by Muza
This track is created for your mysterious projects, with a cinematic mood! Background track for your movies, trailers and video games, animations, YouTube content, adventures and more.

Hammer

by Muza
Powerful and energetic heavy guitar track, consisting of aggressive guitar riffs, dirty bass and rickin drums. Perfect for extreme videos, sport and other dynamic projects.

Sad Duduk Dle Yaman

Emotional and Epical, Folkloric and Atmospheric piece of music, featuring 2000 years old Armenian reed instrument called Duduk and a warm synth atmo pad. In the style of Arabic, Folk, Atmo, Soundscape, Meditative. The beautiful Armenian melody will evoke feeling of tenderness. Track is just right fo...

A Place Of Melancholia

Background track featuring a sad piano theme bathing in tense melancholic strings and pads. Additionally there are a few rhythmic elements that give this cue a subtle sense of tension. Perfect to use in drama, documentaries or news items in need of a unobtrusive background music.

Running With The Devil

High tension track to be used in film, documentary or any other production in need of a cinematic suspenseful tone.

Under Pressure Ident

Suspenseful ident consisting of brooding rhythms, piano and synthesizers. Perfect to use in documentaries, investigations, news items, movies or games. If you are looking for an intro displaying a feeling of danger and urgency, this could work very well.

Doubting Decisions Background Loop

Background track with a slightly contemplating tone setting the perfect atmosphere for certain passages in documentaries, film or other productions.

The Forgotten

Slow melancholic distant piano arpeggios with a soft melody and background strings.

Dystopia

A Haunting Piano composition. Invoking visions of a Dystopic world somewhere in the near future, a tale of hauntings and horror, or perhaps an unsolved mystery. A string ensemble supports the haunting melody and provides an air of suspense.

Dramatic Cinematic Strings

A modern dark cinematic string and brass arrangement. With an underlying pulsing tension and climax.

Labor Day International Drill Hip Hop

Labor Day International Drill Hip Hop is Deep and dramatic industrial hip-hop instrumental. Perfect for urban video, street video, gangsta video, workout video, fitness video, body building video, sport video, hip hop video and more project.

Sad Piano Instumental

Sad Piano Instrumental is Extremely sad, slowly moving solo piano piece with string and other instrumental. Fantastic for Youtube, Podcasts, Films, Documentaries etc. Especially great for sad scenes.

Dark Sad East Instrumental

Dark Sad East Instrumental Dreamy, tension, suspense and atmospheric, this music paints the skies with a distant electric piano playing different notes upon an string long and string piccato, flute background.

Stomp it Down

The perfect blend of huge ethnic drums such as Taiko and Djembe evoking emotions of action, adventure, and drama are the driving force of this epic, cinematic arrangement. Layered with ethereal voices, deep choirs and shouts add to the overall mystery and tension. With many edit points and percuss...

Tension movie

by Muza
Powerful, slightly scary, modern Trap-track. All sounds are chosen so as to cause tension and a sense of danger. Ideal for musical accompaniment film or documentary program.

The Contemplation Game Tension Cue

Suspenseful, dramatic and slightly melancholic background track featuring piano, pizzicato strings and various rhythmic elements. The track paints a picture of contemplation, doubt and reflection and works very well in documentaries, drama, or any other production in need of an original tense music ...

Doubting Decisions Background Loop

Background track with a slightly nervous contemplating tone setting the perfect atmosphere for certain passages in documentaries, film or other productions.

Powerful Sport

Powerful energetic sports track. A mix of Drum and Bass, Breakbeat and Dubstep. Powerful guitar riffs. Fresh, sharp synths and trendy sound. Ideal for music voicing of sports events and other energetic scenes. The archive includes two versions.

Horror

by Muza
Powerful heavy trailer track. Perfect for horror, action, thriller movies and trailers. Included sound design, rockin drums, heavy guitars and electronic pads.

Dissolution (Cinematic Epic Action Drums Trailer Intro)

by Epikton
There are not many music tracks that grab attention from the beginning and last it for the end. However, this track is specifically created to satisfy your audience in that manner and give them goosebumps while building up to a powerful ending note. Potential use cases; epic movie trailer, film and...

Horror Epic Trailer

A powerful track using synthesized effects, low siren, staccato strings, cinematic drums for action-horror trailers, games and other visual projects.

The Background Is Mechanical

Industrial sounding background track consisting of various rhythmic elements. Piano and cello give the track a slightly reflective character. Perfect to use in corporate videos, games, documentaries or other productions that need an energetic and mechanical tone.

Very Cautious

A dark and brooding ominous suspense track that creates a nervous atmosphere. Perfect for documentaries, films or other productions in need of high quality tension background music.

An Ongoing Investigation

Suspenseful background track consisting of cello’s, synthesizers and other tense elements. This track starts without an introduction and this makes it perfectly suited to use in a film or documentary or any other production where a quick switch to suspense is needed.

Mysterious Investigation Theme Ident

Dark and ominous suspenseful theme that builds to a climax. The piano motif is easily recognizable and therefore perfect to use as a leader for documentaries or other investigative productions. My portfolio is protected by Identifyy. After you buy a license to one of my tracks it is extremely easy ...

Epic Trailer for Horror

A powerful, alarming epic track using electronic sounds, a string section, horror effects (sub FX) and a cinematic rhythm section. This is a good choice for trailers, horror, advertising, games, action videos and other projects.

Epic Dangerous

“Epic Dangerous” is a pulsating, large-scale orchestral piece at medium tempo – specially designed to create a dark, exciting and driving mood. Use this score to accompany dramatic scenes of great challenges, tough competitions, tremendous effort, threatening or violent situations, crises like...

Cyberpunk

Cyberpunk is an aggressive, electronic track for action games, dynamic video, advertising, presentations and your other projects.

Cinema Thriller Orchestra

Gloomy, disturbing music! For cinema, trailers and another in style the thriller, horror, action etc.

Northern Road

Dark and instrumental yet emotional track. Very melodic and somber, accompanied by piano, chamber strings and percussion. While being classical in its core nature, the orchestration also uses subtle synths and modern sound elements.

Resilience

Epic and tensed emotional track. While being more dark and somber, it is later accompanied by a higher solo violin and a melodic harmony. The track sounds modern because of its hybrid orchestra elements, big trailer hits and driving percussive patterns. Very dynamic and instrumental dressed in big o...

The Message

Engaging adventurous epic track, rather vibrant with trailer effects and energetic drums. Interestingly arranged to maximize impact, mid-part introduces long string chords and a rather beautiful melody. This modern hybrid, dense and heroic track is the best suitable for big cinematic moments, traile...

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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