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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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Alien Horror Teaser

Alien Horror Teaser – very dark and nervious music for scary project. Will be good for cinematic horror trailer, scary movie, fear game and more

Battle Teaser

Battle Teaser – it’s powerful teaser for any project. Will be good for blockbusters, hollywood trailers and teasers, for intro and outro, radio,cinema and game. Elements: – hybrid effects, mega horns, braams, wooshes, risers, massive toms and kicks, distortion synth and more.

Hybrid Cinematic Teaser

Hybrid Cinematic Teaser – it’s massive epic and hybrid music for hard intro,teasers and more. Will be best for trailers, intro and outro, hybrid teasers, epic video, youtube and more. Instruments: massive drums and kicks, hybrid effects, noise swels and risers.

Massive Distortion Teaser

Massive Distortion Teaser – very strong and havy teaser for distortion and hybrid projects. Will be best for hybrid teaser. Massive, battle and war scenes. Good for cinematic and film. Instruments: distortion effects, hybrid tools, sirens, massive taiko and hits.

Creepy Horror Teaser

Creepy Horror Teaser – it’s scream , massive horror teaser for dark projects. Royalty free music for your dark trailers. Will be good for scary trailers, horror movie, dark titles, hybrid teasers and more. Instruments: Hybrid effects, scary voices, massive percussion and hits, dark long swels, g...

Cinematic Epic Adventures

Perfect or a cinematic film intro, montage, or trailer. The piano adds suspense to the piece up front, eventually accompanied by strings and then falling into a steady drum beat.

PHANTOM (Soundscape Synth Tension)

Atmospheric synths with droning mood. Tensive expectation while exploring an unknown dangerous underworld.

LEGION X (Epic Mission) - Stinger version

Symphonic dangerous epic. Tensive confrontational and heroic impact energy in Hollywood style. Great for videogames, movies, epic and fantasy scenes. Available in: Main version / Narrative (no melodies) / 60sec / 30sec / Bumper / Stinger. Action Adventure Glorious War Army

LEGION X (Epic Mission) - Bumper version

Symphonic dangerous epic. Tensive confrontational and heroic impact energy in Hollywood style. Great for videogames, movies, epic and fantasy scenes. Available in: Main version / Narrative (no melodies) / 60sec / 30sec / Bumper / Stinger. Action Adventure Glorious War Army

LEGION X (Epic Mission) - 30sec version

Symphonic dangerous epic. Tensive confrontational and heroic impact energy in Hollywood style. Great for videogames, movies, epic and fantasy scenes. Available in: Main version / Narrative (no melodies) / 60sec / 30sec / Bumper / Stinger. Action Adventure Glorious War Army

LEGION X (Epic Mission) - 60sec version

Symphonic dangerous epic. Tensive confrontational and heroic impact energy in Hollywood style. Great for videogames, movies, epic and fantasy scenes. Available in: Main version / Narrative (no melodies) / 60sec / 30sec / Bumper / Stinger. Action Adventure Glorious War Army

LEGION X (Epic Mission) - Narrative version

Symphonic dangerous epic. Tensive confrontational and heroic impact energy in Hollywood style. Great for videogames, movies, epic and fantasy scenes. Available in: Main version / Narrative (no melodies) / 60sec / 30sec / Bumper / Stinger. Action Adventure Glorious War Army

LEGION X (Epic Mission) - Main version

Symphonic dangerous epic. Tensive confrontational and heroic impact energy in Hollywood style. Great for videogames, movies, epic and fantasy scenes. Available in: Main version / Narrative (no melodies) / 60sec / 30sec / Bumper / Stinger. Action Adventure Glorious War Army

Epic Celtic

Epic and war scene with a good end. Tense situation with some celtic soldiers preparing for the fight. Instrumental orchestral music, with a celtic tune at the end.

Suspenseful Cinematic Trailer

Orchestral and Cinematic composition, played with piano, strings and percussion. Mysterious and tense. Good for horror and suspense movies, maybe for initial credits. Also good for some advertising audiovisual works.

Cinematic Mysterious Orchestra

Orchestral music, leaded by a piano. Very dramatic and nostalgic, but with a point of suspense and hesitating. Instrumental and big in the final, but keep hesitating. Very descriptive. Very good for TV series, films in suspense situations. Also for advertising in some topics.

Epic Sadness

Orchestral dramatic music, leaded by violins and strings. The melody is featured by a cello and the mood is very sad at first but then goes up, getting a lot of energy without changing the tempo. Very good for films and advertising. Also for any media that requires a mix of sadness and energy.

Inspiring Cinematic Orchestral

Nice romantic song composed for orchestra. The mood is quiet and serene, but it is suspensful in some point. Very good for films and TV Series in fantasy and epic genres.

Epic Drama

A dark road to a battle. Instrumental music composed for orchestra and leaded by a strings section. Other featured instruments are harp, flute and classical percussion. This music is very near to Epic soundtrack style and the mood is very dramatic but determined, so it can fits perfectly in epic and...

Travel to War

Instrumental music composed for orchestra, mostly as a soundtrack in war and epic films. The mood is at first suspensful, dark and though and describes a dramatic scene. In a next step, the music changes to a triumphalist mood. This music can be very useful in epic war Films and TV Series in scenes ...

Psycho Horror

Instrumental music made with synthesizers, mainly for horror movies, in the open titles.

Mysterious Melancholic Piano

Piano solo composition. The mood is melancholic and the rhythm is free and slow. This piece is based in an improvisation and pictures sad and melancholic scenes with very poor action but some feelings of loneliness and some depressive discomfort. It has some mysterious and suspense feelings.

Epic Orchestral Travel

Instrumental music made for orchestra, the style is very near to soundtrack. It’s quite epic and the mood is energetic. The music is leaded by strings and the melody is featured by flute and other wind instruments. The composition is very percussive, and fits very well on epic scenes in films and ...

Sad Reflection and Grief Piano

Piano solo composition. Slow and quiet, the composition transmits sad and unhappy emotions with some melancholy. Very sentimental and down with grief emotions. Also reflective and relaxed.

Dark Piano and Cello

Piano solo composition. The music is leaded by a piano and a cello in the background. It has a slow and marked rhythm with low notes. The mood is strange, annoying and it has a touch of suspense and tension. It also has some melancholic and depressive feelings. Very good for dark scenes in films and...

Voices from the Depths

Ambiental instrumental music made for strings and some percussive soft effects. The music is made in order to create relaxed and foreboding ambiences, maybe for mystical and calm environments. It has a voice effect edited and mixed with a large reverb. The mood is quite dramatic and the rhythm is ve...

Mysterious Cinematic Background

Instrumental music made for piano and synth pads. The style is soundtrack cinematic music, and the mood is mysterious and calm. The music starts with the piano playing the main notes of the composition, in a melancholic and down mood. Then, the orchestral instruments and the deep pads helps to incre...

Ambient Suspenseful Background

Instrumental music made for piano and synthesizers. The style is Soundtrack Ambient music, and the mood is suspenseful with a big dose of relaxed dramatism. The music starts with a deep piano playing the main notes. Then, the composition gains energy and dramatism with the incorporation of sound eff...

Cinematic Mystery Love

by Sonica
Mysterious and sad cinematic orchestral. Suspenseful and melancholic short soundtrack with quiet symphonic percussion, reflective and sad piano melody. Dark, moody and atmospheric, pensive dramatic cue.

Time To Act – Powerful Cinematic Hybrid Trailer

Powerful and exciting hybrid trailer music with pulsing synth, epic choir and massive drums. Great for action, games, drama, presentation, trailer and more.

Cold Winter

Epic orchestral track with dramatic feeling starting with a cello melody and finishing with big strings, horns, choirs and huge percussion section. Perfect for trailers, intros, advertisements, animations, tv shows and more.

Epic Cinematic Underscore (with guitar)

A very grand and passionate cinematic-style orchestral piece with flowing strings, horns and electric guitar. Great as underscore for projects requiring epic, adventure, romantic, dramatic tension music.

Epic Cinematic Underscore

A very grand and passionate cinematic-style orchestral piece with flowing strings and horns. Great as underscore for projects requiring epic, adventure, romantic, dramatic tension music.

Infiltrators

Suspenseful cinematic track with a rather quiet intro and a dramatic part with drums.

Spooky Cinematic Trailer

A dark orchestral cinematic track with plenty of dynamics and scary moments. Evil feeling.

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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