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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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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...

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 ...

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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