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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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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.

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.

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.

Diagnose

Inspirational and reflective background track to use in your documentary, podcast, tv show or other program. Marimba, celeste and piano create a quiet and considerate atmosphere. My portfolio is protected by Identifyy. After you buy a license to one of my tracks it is extremely easy to clear it vi...

Uncertain Times Tension Cue

Pulses, drones and ticking make up a tense atmosphere. Perfect to use in your news item, documentary or any production in need of a light suspenseful tone. The track never gets overwhelming and is designed to easily blend in with other elements. My portfolio is protected by Identifyy. After you bu...

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.

Calm Space Ambient

Atmospheric relaxing music for space video, meditation, relaxation, sleeping, stress relief, dreaming, video about nature, massage, spa, healing therapy, and for complete peace of mind.

Eerie Ambient Corporate Background

Instrumental music made for piano and synthesizers. The style is electronic ambient music and the mood is upbeat suspenseful. This music is a perfect background for corporate and advertising projects, also for productions with suspenseful futiristic and mysterious tòpics

Dark Piano Trailer

A dark cinematic trailer music with a gloomy terrifying vibe, featuring scary piano tune, dark synths, braams, big pads and fxs. Good for horror or thriller trailers, openers and intros.

Horror Trailer

This is a horror/thriller trailer music for creating a terrifying vibe in your videos.

I Can Smell Your Fear

A dark horror/thriller track with anxious and terrifying vibe. Featuring spooky piano, thriller strings, brass and synths. Perfect for horror film scenes, trailers, videogames and other videos.

From The Darkness

This is a dark horror track with an anxious vibe. Perfect for thriller and horror trailers, videos, films and other projects that need an atmospheric spooky background music.

Thriller Trailer

This is a dark and gloomy ambient horror track, suitable for trailers, halloween videos and more.

The Courage Gate (Horror Fantasy Mystery Dark Epic Trailer)

by Epikton
Making a scene appear scary require many psychological tricks, but your music choice can be the most influential element. This track is recklessly designed to trigger the deepest fears of your audience and amplify the tension. Potential use cases; horror movie trailer, cinematic film and gaming sou...

Crime Trap

by Muza
Crime gangsta trap. The most current musical style of the 21st century. Music of the streets, music of the ghetto, music of the underground. Stylish, fashionable, modern. Suitable for both advertising and video blogs. Powerful bass, sharp beat.

Collecting The Components

by A4D
A soft digital track with piano, strings and an inspiring vibe great for technology projects, digital media, advertising or startup.

The Long Railway

by A4D
A deep and developing cinematic composition with melodic marimba, epic strings orchestra, solo violin, brass section and a subtle percussion great for documentary project, travel or nature movie, films and inspiring messages.

Mournful Orchestral Background

Instrumental music made for piano and orchestra. The style is Classical Soundtrack music and the mood is mournful and sad. The rhythm is steady and determined. This music is a perfect background in films, tv series and other productions with sadness and dramatic scenes.

Horror Territory

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

Cool Futuristic Trailer

Dark futuristic trailer music that slowly builts until it leads into a strong and energetic rhythm part, followed by a short break and ends with powerful accent.

Torn To Pieces (No Lead)

Atmospheric, light-tension track with haunting melody, spacey synth pads, pulsating bass and percussion. Builds gradually throughout. Great as theme music for mystery / sci fi / suspense / crime drama projects.

Torn To Pieces (No Perc)

Atmospheric, light-tension track with haunting melody, spacey synth pads, pulsating bass and percussion. Builds gradually throughout. Great as theme music for mystery / sci fi / suspense / crime drama projects.

Torn To Pieces

Atmospheric, light-tension track with haunting melody, spacey synth pads, pulsating bass and percussion. Builds gradually throughout. Great as theme music for mystery / sci fi / suspense / crime drama projects.

Never Should Have Happened (No Lead)

Mysterious, melancholic track with spacey pads, delicate melody, bass and percussion. Gradually builds throughout into a slightly more optimistic, hopeful feel with lush sweeping strings. Perfect for a variety of uses.

Never Should Have Happened (No Percussion)

Mysterious, melancholic track with spacey pads, delicate melody, bass and percussion. Gradually builds throughout into a slightly more optimistic, hopeful feel with lush sweeping strings. Perfect for a variety of uses.

Never Should Have Happened

Mysterious, melancholic track with spacey pads, delicate melody, bass and percussion. Gradually builds throughout into a slightly more optimistic, hopeful feel with lush sweeping strings. Perfect for a variety of uses.

Bad Intentions (No Lead)

Mysterious, spacious track with haunting guitar, percussion and atmospheric synth pads. Great for dark, dramatic music for mystery / suspense / horror  / crime drama / sci fi projects.

Bad Intentions (No Perc)

Mysterious, spacious track with haunting guitar, percussion and atmospheric synth pads. Great for dark, dramatic music for mystery / suspense / horror  / crime drama / sci fi projects.

Bad Intentions

Mysterious, spacious track with haunting guitar, percussion and atmospheric synth pads. Great for dark, dramatic music for mystery / suspense / horror  / crime drama / sci fi projects.

From Beyond

Let this piece of music take you away to other worlds far beyond ours. Perfect for media about meditation, space, relaxation or other spiritual topics. It is also suitable as background music for several types of documentaries.

Southern Twang Mystery (No Drums)

Spacious, dark, mysterious track with a Southern twang feel. Great as suspenseful, haunting background track for your project.

Southern Twang Mystery

Spacious, dark, mysterious track with a Southern twang feel. Great as suspenseful, haunting background track for your project.

Timelapse Rock Memories

This is a time machine rock track, perfect for memories scenes and time-lapse videos.The mood is melancholic, time lapsed, emotional and perfect for videos about memories.Background music for media projects, perfect for promotional videos, sports projects, fashion, festivals, openers, presentation,...

Documentary Ambient

A spacey, mellow royalty free ambient track, with piano, marimba, strings, airy guitar, vocal bits, synth, and glitchy percs, best for documentaries, timelapses, vlogs, or film endings.

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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