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Build anticipation with suspense music featuring pulses, strings, and sound design. Ideal for thrillers, crime series, trailers, and gaming.

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The Darkest Hour Suspenseful Soundscape

Very tense soundscape evoking a bleak terrifying atmosphere. The track consists mostly of real analog synthesizers that collectively contribute to the organic quality of this track.

Nightmare Lane

A dark, creepy and unnerving track featuring disturbing cellos and violins techniques, ethereal choirs and other dark sfx. Great fit for horror, thriller and scary productions or any project that needs an ominous background music.

Haunted Violins

Very lively and powerful chamber string piece for suspenseful and moody productions. It is played in a contemporary style and features fast string spiccatos, powerful double bass and cellos and an evolving tension with different strong and virtuostic string sections. Great fit to create a tense and...

Concerning

An assertive sounding string ensemble is driven forward by rhythmic elements, mellow synths and piano. A curious short theme to complement your production.

Escape

Powerful, energetic and pushy industrial metal for your video, audio collections and other projects! Enjoyable listening!

Deeply Concerned

Suspenseful background track evoking a sense of worry and concern. The piece consists of multiple real recorded elements that give the whole an organic quality.

Beginning

This track is like the beginning of something creative and incredible. The epic middle of the track, like the birth of a new star, strives for the highest goal with its energy. Choral parts, orchestral violins combined with synthesizers and percussion effects convey the mood of new life and freedom.

a Nightmare: Dark Atmospheres

This is a dark ambient soundscape that features numerous eerie electronic flourishes and synth. Eliciting a haunting, scary vibe, this is a very versatile instrumental. This clip could help in cartoons, video games, YouTube videos, websites, film projects, radio bits, commercials, tutorials, introd...

Sorrow

Lyrical, sad and exciting progressive metal for your video, audio collections and other projects! Enjoyable listening!

The Return Of The Hero

A cinematic piece of music which starts with a nice harp, builds up to a huge dramatic orchestra and ends with a nice harp outro. Perfect for trailers, video games, documentaries, presentations and any media relating to heroes.

Time Travel Hallucination Soundscape

This is an electronic psychedelic soundscape that elicits intrigue, wonder, and curiosity. Perfect for a wide array of projects, this clip could help in film projects, radio bits, logos, cartoons, video games, YouTube videos, websites, commercials, tutorials, introductions, explainer videos, adve...

Deciphering Classical Tense Theme

Classical theme painting a curious and tense mood. Perfect to use in investigative media, documentaries, films or any other productions seeking a thoughtful musical score.

Trippy Psychedelic Cinematic Electronic Soundscape #11

This is an electronic psychedelic soundscape that elicits intrigue, wonder, and a dreamy vibe. Perfect for a wide array of projects, this clip could help in film projects, radio bits, logos, cartoons, video games, YouTube videos, websites, commercials, tutorials, introductions, explainer videos,...

Echo

A soft, slightly tense and mysterious track that can make a movement in your movie or video. Created with the help of a soft piano, synth, vibraphone, spatial platforms, sweep effects and surrounding percussion drums.

Orchestral Horror Rise

This orchestral rise is perfect for the horror game or horror movie genre. It creates tension and makes you feel like something evil is coming closer. It ends with two big hits.

Mystic Rainforest

A mystical, ethnic piece of music featuring asian gong, koto, flute and threatening synth drones. Join the expedition into the deep of the rainforest. Feel the presence of the unknown and let the music lead you into the mystic world of wood and leaves.

Tension Rises

Full mystery orchestra combines with cinematic percussion and FX as the piece builds and grows more epic and heroic. Ads suspense to your video, audio or gaming project.

Not A Waltz

Delicate and passionate, featuring pleasing strings, piano and brass that create a touching, intriguing mood. This track builds throughout to a powerful, feel good climax.

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.

Flavour Of Despair

Anticipatory and engaging, featuring lush strings, organ and piano that create an uneasy, intriguing mood.

Bittersweet Fantasy

Smooth and lush with adventure elements, featuring delicate strings and vocal oohs that create a stimulating, mystical mood.

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.

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.

Frantic In The Big City

by Sideway
A fast, rhythmic royalty free ambient track, with acoustic guitars, orchestral strings & brass. Best for city timelapses, corporate, cinematic, or aerial footage.

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.

In Orbit Suspenseful Sound Design

Tense and ominous sounding background track that gives you a sense of space and suspense. The main piano theme is carried forth by real analog synthesizers giving the piece an organic quality.

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...

Time Out

suspenseful orcherstral track that would work well with a medieval fight scene

Suspense Music and Building Tension

Suspense music uses pulsing rhythms, low strings, drones, and sparse percussion. The sound is designed to create unease and anticipation, holding the listener in a state of expectation.

Where to Use Suspense Music

This style works best in thrillers, documentaries, and investigative pieces where the music needs to add tension without giving away the resolution. If you need something heavier and more atmospheric, dark music is a strong alternative, pushing the mood toward fear and mystery. On the other hand, when you want to create quiet pressure with fewer elements, minimal tracks can achieve the same sense of suspense while staying subtle, making them suitable for voiceover-driven scenes or slow-building edits.

Royalty-Free Suspense Tracks at Themusicase.com

All suspense tracks at Themusicase.com are royalty-free and include a sync license. The catalog covers cinematic pulses, investigative underscores, and tense ambient cues ready for film, broadcast, and online use.
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