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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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Positive Energetic Modern Rock - 13 Versions

An energetic and upbeat rock track, with catchy guitar reefs and powerful drums. It will certainly work well with TV commercials and sports ads.

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.

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.

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

Still Alive

This is an emotional feel minimal track. It invokes feelings of thoughts after something horrible occurred or a situation where a decision must be made that will change life forever. it uses electric keys, guitar and has a human heartbeat to emphasize the human side of the emotions.

Journey

build, suspense, running, chasing, sports, athletic, happy ending, inspirational, journey, family, brotherhood

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.

Escape

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

Time

Powerful and energetic rock track. Created with the help of electric guitars, synthesizers, piano and backing vocals.

Just stay

Quiet melancholic track played on the piano. Perfect for your video memories, social advertising, for Valentine’s Day projects or just to listen.

In The End

"In The End" - a track that incorporates the traits such as drama, epic, anxiety and action. It is perfect for your movie, trailer or games

A Dark Suspenseful Revelation Background

Brooding strings, big suspenseful rhythmic elements and an ominous piano theme paint a dark atmosphere that will work very in the background of your film, documentary or other production.

The Tarot Reader: Create Mystical Mind-Bending Vibrations

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, adv...

Ethnic Historical Ident

Ethnic sounding audio logo featuring cello, duduk and bansuri. Perfect to use in documentaries or other production that need a sting with a historical sounding twist.

Epic Industrial Distorted Ident

This short aggressive intro sets a dark and ominous mood. It consists of guitars and epic drum sounds. Perfect to use in your game, commercial or trailer that needs a powerful statement.

Sad Discovery Background Cue

A quiet melancholic piano melody combined with marimba and various other synthesizer sounds create this slightly suspenseful and sad background piece. Perfect to use in your film, documentary or any other production seeking a dense tone.

Analyzing Results Tension Cue

An inspiring background track slowly building up in excitement as if someone is getting answers to their questions. The track consists of marimba, piano, synthesizer pads, ticking sounds and more. Composed and produced to give your production a consistent high quality score.

State of Melancholy

Melancholic piano set in dark sad cinematic sounds. Perfect to use in trailers or other productions that need a big reflective tone.

No Hope Left Cinematic Background

Desolate sad cinematic track consisting of piano, strings and ominous sounds. This track was composed and produced to fit perfectly in documentaries and films seeking a desperate dramatic unobtrusive tone to complement a narrative. The atmosphere is sad, melancholic and tense.

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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