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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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Action Orchestra Electronica (Middle Eastern)

The informer has to be relocated... On the way to battle across the huge unending landscape.. Aggressive electronic bass with orchestral topping

Sneaky Mystery Pizzicato

Magical, phantasmagoric and wondrous orchestral piece suitable for film, trailers, advertising, halloween commercials, games and movies. This classical cinematic track has a sinister dark mood but delicate and sweet at the same time, so it can be used for mystery and magic but also for cartoons, sp...

Mystery Cinematic Fantasy

Mysterious fantasy orchestral piece. This dramatic and emotional mystery track is great for trailers, movies, films and documentaries. Featuring instruments: Orchestral strings, brass, ambient pads and synthesizers. Influences: Tim Burton, Danny elfman, Alice in Wonderland

Dark Hybrid Trailer

Powerful & Cinematic dark trailer in the modern hollywood style. This track is perfect for trailers, teaser, TV spot, commercials and advertising. This track will work great in visual media like an action, adventure, dramatic, cyberpunk, thriller, sci-fi and futuristic TV series and films, documenta...

Train of Future Ambient

Instrumental music made for piano, strings and synth pads. The style is very near to dark ambient and the mood is a little bit mysterious and suspenseful. The ambience is futuristic and the rhythm is calm but steady. This music fits perfect in situations with some melancholy and suspense, as a backg...

Dark Cinematic Ambient

Instrumental music made for piano and synthesizers. The style is very near to dark ambient and soundtrack music, and the rhythm is played by a drum machine and electronic instruments. The music starts with the piano playing the main notes of the composition. Later, gains energy with the incorporatio...

Cinematic Dark Trailer

Instrumental music made for piano and orchestra. The music is leaded by a piano, playing the pain notes of the composition. Then, the music gains energy with the incorporation of the rest of orchestral instruments. The mood is at first mournful and threatening, then gains aggressiveness. This music ...

Ambient Suspenseful Calm

Instrumental music made for piano and synthesizers and synth pads. The style is very near to ambient music, with ambiental and ethereal synth pads and leaded at first by the main rhythm and notes of the piano. The mood is calm and relaxed, with a touch of suspense and discreet tension within the qui...

Finding treasure

Triumphant Orchestra with a little of suspense in middle, to end up again confirming the treasure is real.

Tango Intense (Minimalist Tension Building)

Dramatic, well-crafted cue that delivers a minimalist tension inducing feeling. A rising level of anxiety, discomfort, and suspense weaving layers of instrumentation/elements creating dynamics and momentum.

Rising Dark

A dark and brooding piano piece with a haunting tone and cinematic cello and violin accompaniment. It comprises of two parts: a lively, intense fast triplet arpeggio section; and a slower, more measured and reflective section. The piano, violin and cello combine to make a timbre full of drama and s...

Undercover Agent

Atmospheric and mysterious Ambient Electronic track with spacey pads, synth guitars, piano and groovy drums. Great for technology, science, mystery, spy, action, sci fi projects.

My Electro Universe

Futuristic Ambient Electronic track with spacey synth pads, dreamy piano and laid back drums groove. Perfect for projects requiring chilled and atmospheric backing music.

Grieg - Peer Gynt - In the Hall of the Mountain King

The very popular and famous piece, written by Edvard Grieg for the Norwegian play ‘Peer Gynt’ by Henrik Ibsen. It was then selected by Grieg to be the final movement of his ‘Peer Gynt Suite No.1’. This version is arranged for a full orchestra. It begins with a dark and brooding tone and slo...

Fright Night

A creaky, creepy soundtrack inspired track which would work perfectly for an eerie setting which needs some anticipation.

Splash of Colour

A tense interlude style piece which features rhythmic interest from a pizzicato violin. Recommended for underscoring an intriguing visual montage or section.

Modern Technology

Dreamy ambient electronic track with atmospheric pads, spacey synths and a groovy drum beat. A modern, fresh sound with a scientific / technological vibe. Great for corporate videos, mystery / science fiction, and scenes requiring contemporary atmospheric music.

Modern Technology (no drums)

Dreamy ambient electronic track with atmospheric pads, spacey synths and a groovy drum beat. A modern, fresh sound with a scientific / technological vibe. Great for corporate videos, mystery / science fiction, and scenes requiring contemporary atmospheric music.

Modern Technology (60 sec)

Dreamy ambient electronic track with atmospheric pads, spacey synths and a groovy drum beat. A modern, fresh sound with a scientific / technological vibe. Great for corporate videos, mystery / science fiction, and scenes requiring contemporary atmospheric music.

Modern Technology (30 sec)

Dreamy ambient electronic track with atmospheric pads, spacey synths and a groovy drum beat. A modern, fresh sound with a scientific / technological vibe. Great for corporate videos, mystery / science fiction, and scenes requiring contemporary atmospheric music.

Australian Outback

The Aussie Outback - a vast rugged terrain where kangaroos roam free! This track takes you on a wild adventure with authentic didgeridoo, pulsating native percussion, atmospheric synths and live drums. A blend of traditional sounds with a modern twist. Great for travel, documentaries, adventure, cul...

Australian Outback (no flute)

The Aussie Outback - a vast rugged terrain where kangaroos roam free! This track takes you on a wild adventure with authentic didgeridoo, pulsating native percussion, atmospheric synths and live drums. A blend of traditional sounds with a modern twist. Great for travel, documentaries, adventure, cul...

Australian Outback (Didgeridoo and Percussion)

The Aussie Outback - a vast rugged terrain where kangaroos roam free! This track takes you on a wild adventure with authentic didgeridoo, pulsating native percussion, atmospheric synths and live drums. A blend of traditional sounds with a modern twist. Great for travel, documentaries, adventure, cul...

Australian Outback (60 sec)

The Aussie Outback - a vast rugged terrain where kangaroos roam free! This track takes you on a wild adventure with authentic didgeridoo, pulsating native percussion, atmospheric synths and live drums. A blend of traditional sounds with a modern twist. Great for travel, documentaries, adventure, cul...

Australian Outback (30 sec)

The Aussie Outback - a vast rugged terrain where kangaroos roam free! This track takes you on a wild adventure with authentic didgeridoo, pulsating native percussion, atmospheric synths and live drums. A blend of traditional sounds with a modern twist. Great for travel, documentaries, adventure, cul...

Atmospheric Adventure

A spacious, atmospheric track with an edgy, fresh sound! Ambient synths, cool percussion, catchy guitar riff and mysterious low guitars. Great for adventure, mystery, sci fi, corporate uses.

Atmospheric Adventure (no lead guitar)

A spacious, atmospheric track with an edgy, fresh sound! Ambient synths, cool percussion, catchy guitar riff and mysterious low guitars. Great for adventure, mystery, sci fi, corporate uses.

Atmospheric Adventure (60 sec)

A spacious, atmospheric track with an edgy, fresh sound! Ambient synths, cool percussion, catchy guitar riff and mysterious low guitars. Great for adventure, mystery, sci fi, corporate uses.

Atmospheric Adventure (30 sec)

A spacious, atmospheric track with an edgy, fresh sound! Ambient synths, cool percussion, catchy guitar riff and mysterious low guitars. Great for adventure, mystery, sci fi, corporate uses.

Twin

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.

Toy

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.

Lamp

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.

Flower

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.

Anxious Event

This is anxious, dramatic and dark epic cinematic music with futuristic alarming atmosphere. This royalty free track can be perfect background for any dramatic videos, sad and tragic events, epic and cinematic movies, trailers, sorrow and anxious moments.

Hear My Story

Cinematic Orchestral piece with piano and strings to create a dramatic mood.

Enigmatic Harmonics

Enigmatic Mood and dramatic stage setter. Piano, guitar harmonics and arp with mysterious percussion and action strings in the background.

Drum Hit Drama

Orchestral piece with dramatic drum triple hit, strings, piano intro for a dramatic cinematic mood with increasing tension and release.

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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