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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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Through The Mist (30 Sec)

A dark, mysterious and spacious track with haunting atmospheric synth pads, guitar, piano and light percussion. Great for subtle tension / suspense background music. Suitable for a variety of uses including: mystery, adventure, horror, science fiction, crime scenes.

Someone's Watching You

Intriguing and mysterious, this subtle tension track is great for action / crime / mystery / horror / suspense / science fiction uses. Gradually builds throughout with atmospheric pads, haunting deep synths, piano and spacious percussion.

Someone's Watching You (No Bass)

Intriguing and mysterious, this subtle tension track is great for action / crime / mystery / horror / suspense / science fiction uses. Gradually builds throughout with atmospheric pads, haunting deep synths, piano and spacious percussion.

Someone's Watching You (60 Sec)

Intriguing and mysterious, this subtle tension track is great for action / crime / mystery / horror / suspense / science fiction uses. Gradually builds throughout with atmospheric pads, haunting deep synths, piano and spacious percussion.

Someone's Watching You (30 Sec)

Intriguing and mysterious, this subtle tension track is great for action / crime / mystery / horror / suspense / science fiction uses. Gradually builds throughout with atmospheric pads, haunting deep synths, piano and spacious percussion.

Light In The Distance

A mysterious and spacious track with plucked synth melody, haunting atmospheric synth pads, piano and light percussion. Great for subtle tension / suspense background music. Suitable for a variety of uses including: mystery, adventure, horror, science fiction, crime scenes.

Light In The Distance (No Percussion)

A mysterious and spacious track with plucked synth melody, haunting atmospheric synth pads, piano and light percussion. Great for subtle tension / suspense background music. Suitable for a variety of uses including: mystery, adventure, horror, science fiction, crime scenes.

Light In The Distance (60 Sec)

A mysterious and spacious track with plucked synth melody, haunting atmospheric synth pads, piano and light percussion. Great for subtle tension / suspense background music. Suitable for a variety of uses including: mystery, adventure, horror, science fiction, crime scenes.

Light In The Distance (30 Sec)

A mysterious and spacious track with plucked synth melody, haunting atmospheric synth pads, piano and light percussion. Great for subtle tension / suspense background music. Suitable for a variety of uses including: mystery, adventure, horror, science fiction, crime scenes.

Terror On The Streets

Dark and mysterious track with powerful Hip Hop groove, mean low synths, guitar, piano and haunting effects. Great as suspenseful, tense, ominous music for your project.

Terror On The Streets (60 Sec)

Dark and mysterious track with powerful Hip Hop groove, mean low synths, guitar, piano and haunting effects. Great as suspenseful, tense, ominous music for your project.

Terror On The Streets (30 Sec)

Dark and mysterious track with powerful Hip Hop groove, mean low synths, guitar, piano and haunting effects. Great as suspenseful, tense, ominous music for your project.

Dangerous Situation

Anxious, mysterious track with solid percussive groove, dark piano and haunting low strings. Great as eerie, suspenseful music to increase the atmosphere and depth to your project.

Dangerous Situation (No Piano Melody)

Anxious, mysterious track with solid percussive groove, dark piano and haunting low strings. Great as eerie, suspenseful music to increase the atmosphere and depth to your project.

Dangerous Situation (60 Sec)

Anxious, mysterious track with solid percussive groove, dark piano and haunting low strings. Great as eerie, suspenseful music to increase the atmosphere and depth to your project.

Dangerous Situation (30 Sec)

Anxious, mysterious track with solid percussive groove, dark piano and haunting low strings. Great as eerie, suspenseful music to increase the atmosphere and depth to your project.

Jaws Too

A tense, 80's inspired royalty free cinematic theme with brass, harps, strings, flutes, piano and epic drums, best for trailers, suspenseful scenes or endings.

Soured

This is an electronic pulsing tension instrumental, this should evoke feelings of suspense, mystery and tense excitement.

Spectral

This is an electronic heavy tension cue, should evoke feelings of suspense, mystery and tenseness.

To Catch a Body

This is an electronic action tension instrumental, should evoke feelings of suspense and mystery, tenseness.

Tricked

This is a piano and strings tension instrumental, should evoke feelings of suspense and mystery, tenseness.

Breaking out of the Mold

This is an electronic pop tension instrumental, should evoke a feeling of funkiness, suspense and mystery.

More So

This is an electronic rock tension instrumental, should evoke feelings of suspense, mystery and tension.

Know it all

This is an electronic hip hop tension instrumental, should evoke feelings of suspense, tension and mystery.

Guardian

This is an electronic tension instrumental, should evoke feelings of suspense, tension and mystery.

Years of Toil

This is an electronic action tension instrumental, should evoke feelings of suspense, excitement and mystery.

Mysterious Entity (Light Mix)

Mysterious and intriguing, this suspenseful track is great for action / crime / mystery / horror / suspense / science fiction uses. Atmospheric synths, spacious strings, haunting piano melody and solid driving beat.

Mysterious Entity (No Drums)

Mysterious and intriguing, this suspenseful track is great for action / crime / mystery / horror / suspense / science fiction uses. Atmospheric synths, spacious strings, haunting piano melody and solid driving beat.

Mysterious Entity (No Lead)

Mysterious and intriguing, this suspenseful track is great for action / crime / mystery / horror / suspense / science fiction uses. Atmospheric synths, spacious strings, haunting piano melody and solid driving beat.

Mysterious Entity

Mysterious and intriguing, this suspenseful track is great for action / crime / mystery / horror / suspense / science fiction uses. Atmospheric synths, spacious strings, haunting piano melody and solid driving beat.

LUKE SKYWALKER (Battle Action) - Stinger version

John Williams Star Wars battle style. Energy battlefield with strong brass, fanfare and constant high tension. Available in: Main version / Narrative (no melodies) / 60sec / 30 / 15 / Bumper / Stinger.

LUKE SKYWALKER (Battle Action) - Bumper version

John Williams Star Wars battle style. Energy battlefield with strong brass, fanfare and constant high tension. Available in: Main version / Narrative (no melodies) / 60sec / 30 / 15 / Bumper / Stinger.

LUKE SKYWALKER (Battle Action) - 15sec version

John Williams Star Wars battle style. Energy battlefield with strong brass, fanfare and constant high tension. Available in: Main version / Narrative (no melodies) / 60sec / 30 / 15 / Bumper / Stinger.

LUKE SKYWALKER (Battle Action) - 30sec version

John Williams Star Wars battle style. Energy battlefield with strong brass, fanfare and constant high tension. Available in: Main version / Narrative (no melodies) / 60sec / 30 / 15 / Bumper / Stinger.

LUKE SKYWALKER (Battle Action) - 60sec version

John Williams Star Wars battle style. Energy battlefield with strong brass, fanfare and constant high tension. Available in: Main version / Narrative (no melodies) / 60sec / 30 / 15 / Bumper / Stinger.

LUKE SKYWALKER (Battle Action) - Narrative version

John Williams Star Wars battle style. Energy battlefield with strong brass, fanfare and constant high tension. Available in: Main version / Narrative (no melodies) / 60sec / 30 / 15 / Bumper / Stinger.

LUKE SKYWALKER (Battle Action) - Main version

John Williams Star Wars battle style. Energy battlefield with strong brass, fanfare and constant high tension. Available in: Main version / Narrative (no melodies) / 60sec / 30 / 15 / Bumper / Stinger.

BACK TO EDEN (Mystic Adventure) - Stinger version

Dawn illuminates the day, The Returned can begin to come back to light ... Orchestral soft epic mystic adventure. Available in: Main version / Narrative (no melodies) / 60sec / 30sec / Bumper / Stinger.

BACK TO EDEN (Mystic Adventure) - Bumper version

Dawn illuminates the day, The Returned can begin to come back to light ... Orchestral soft epic mystic adventure. Available in: Main version / Narrative (no melodies) / 60sec / 30sec / Bumper / Stinger.

BACK TO EDEN (Mystic Adventure) - 30sec version

Dawn illuminates the day, The Returned can begin to come back to light ... Orchestral soft epic mystic adventure. Available in: Main version / Narrative (no melodies) / 60sec / 30sec / Bumper / Stinger.

BACK TO EDEN (Mystic Adventure) - 60sec version

Dawn illuminates the day, The Returned can begin to come back to light ... Orchestral soft epic mystic adventure. Available in: Main version / Narrative (no melodies) / 60sec / 30sec / Bumper / Stinger.

BACK TO EDEN (Mystic Adventure) - Narrative version

Dawn illuminates the day, The Returned can begin to come back to light ... Orchestral soft epic mystic adventure. Available in: Main version / Narrative (no melodies) / 60sec / 30sec / Bumper / Stinger.

BACK TO EDEN (Mystic Adventure) - Main version

Dawn illuminates the day, The Returned can begin to come back to light ... Orchestral soft epic mystic adventure. Available in: Main version / Narrative (no melodies) / 60sec / 30sec / Bumper / Stinger.

Epic Dramatic Trailer

Great for a wide range of applications, including action, dramatic, epic, fantasy, horror, battles and other intense visual scenes. This track is perfect for use in any project which requires an epic soundtrack to accompany it.

Desperately Lonely

A mysterious, dark and spacious track with haunting piano, atmospheric synth pads and light percussion. Great for subtle tension / suspense background music. Suitable for a variety of uses including: mystery, suspense, horror, science fiction, crime scenes.

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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