and other big Hollywood films
Don’t have time for a great custom score? You can use one or all of these royalty free music tracks in moments. And they sound custom, though not for your piece. They were all originally written for some great film so they have drama, action and emotion built right into them.
Use this music for your independent film or cinematic moments in your advertising, webisode, podcast and beyond. All instantly available for download in seconds. Need more ideas? Check out these sections:
film music, music for trailers, underscore drama, cinematic action/drama
Update March 16, 2015
Here’s a bunch that just came in.
Artist/Composer:Martin Sebastian Holm
Epic action at hand! A cinematic, building, very rhythmic orchestral track that starts ominously with bass, horns and percussion and build up to a more intense section with a full orchestra. Great buildup and many different energy levels. Great for scenes leading to battle or other action or adventure scenes.
Keywords: Dark, Determined, Dramatic, Epic, Forceful, Intense, Dangerous, Majestic, Brave, Tension, Energetic, Powerful, Rhythmic, Dynamic, Heroic, Menacing, Foreboding, Adventurous, Escalating, Building, action, cello, timpani, orchestral, hans zimmer, james horner, howard shore, trailer, cinematic, tense, tension, ominous, foreboding, heroic, fight, fighting, battle, war
Artist/Composer:Martin Sebastian Holm
Modern, epic hybrid action/adventure/drama track with a great buildup. Starts out tense and edgy with cellos, arp synth and electronic drums and builds until 1:25, adding horns, strings and perc, then takes of into an all out grand, heroic, epic adventure track. Like the Oblivion soundtrack by M83.
Keywords: Batman, Hans Zimmer, Inception, M83, Oblivion, The Dark Knight, action, adventure, big, buildup, cinematic, dramatic, electronic, epic, foreboding, futuristic, grand, heroic, hybrid, intense, ominous, orchestral, powerful, sci fi, score, soundtrack, suspense, tense, thriller, trailer, medium tempo
Artist/Composer:Martin Sebastian Holm
A powerful, emotional and epic orchestral piece with a light touch of electronic hybrid elements, Hans Zimmer style. First half is more held back, building up to the second half which is soaring with all out epic orchestral glory and massive percussion. The ideal background track for any adventure!
Keywords: Adventurous, Brave, Building, Celebratory, Climactic, Dramatic, Dynamic, Emotional, Epic, Forceful, Gladiator, Glorious, Grand, Hans Zimmer, Heroic, Howard Shore, James Newton Howard, Lord Of The Rings, Majestic, Orchestral, Soaring, Spacious, The Dark Knight, The Hobbit, Triumphant, Wondrous, action, adventure, adventurous, big, chevaliers de sangreal, cinematic, dramatic, hero, huge, hybrid, journey, king, massive, nature, patriotic, powerful, quest, regal, romantic, royal, trailer, triumph, medium tempo
Artist/Composer:Martin Sebastian Holm
A powerful epic hybrid score piece, with multiple dynamic levels. Starts out dark, gloomy and threatening - danger is drawing near. Builds to a bigger and dramatic section that turns into an all out intense action sequence. Then backs of again to a softer, touching part. Vintage and modern synths and guitars mixed with massive percussion and large orchestra. Cinematic!
Keywords: The Dark Knight, action, adventure, adventurous, batman, battle, big, building, chaos, chase, cinematic, conspiracy, dark, darkness, deception, destruction, distorted, doom, dramatic, epic, escalating, fighting, foreboding, futuristic, fuzzy, hans zimmer, hybrid, impending, inception, intense, large, loud, mission, mysterious, mystery, oblivion, pounding, quest, race, sci fi, score, soundtrack, suspense, suspenseful, tense, thriller, trailer, underscore, violent, war,
Update September 11, 2013
Here’s some new staff picks, you can also find more in our Heroic section or the Film Trailer/Book Trailer.
Composer: Jonathan Geer
An emotional, rousing dramatic track that blends together vocals, synth and full orchestra. Would be great for trailers or films requiring an epic, courageous sound.
KEYWORDS:vocal, female, vox, strings, synth, epic, hybrid, trailer, film, soundtrack, emotional, epic, inspiring, courage, courageous, heroic, powerful, dramatic, drama, suspense, rousing, tense, uplifting, motivational, horns, brass, motivating
Artist/Composer: Jean Paul Zoghbi
An Heroic and epic orchestral piece, with a sense of impending danger. Pounding and cinematic, builds towards a climax at the end. Full orchestra and choir. Highly suitable for movie trailer, reality TV, game trailer, film intro sequence, extreme and dangerous sports, preparing for battle, etc. Instrumental, Action Music, Action Impending Orchestral
KEYWORDS:movie trailer, reality TV, game trailer, film intro sequence, extreme and dangerous sports, preparing for battle, etc. Instrumental, Action, Impending, Orchestral, war, epic, magical, mystical, majestic, powerful, hopeful, hope, tense, dark, aggressive, ominous, fantasy
Composer: Jonathan Geer
A slow-paced ambient track that has a dreamy ethereal vibe. Synths, strings, drums and effects blend together to create a smooth chilled-out groove.
KEYWORDS:ambient, space, effects, synth, electronic, mellow, cool, cold, drums, ethereal, pretty, laid-back, chill, new age, film, tv, commercial, corporate, ad, advertisement, science, technology, beautiful
Original selections:
Composer: Sebastien Morawietz
Dramatic militaristic march music full of honor and pride. Sounds similar to the Gladiator soundtrack. Orchestra with choir.
Keywords: Gladiator music march music cinematic music music from Gladiator film music.
Composer: Marinho Nobre
Mysterious moody dark and ambient film music. Minimalist tension-building but NOT frenetic and bombastic-rather the calm before the storm.
Composer: Marinho Nobre
A fight scene - swashbuckling orchestral heavy metal in the vein of Batman or Iron Man or HellBoy or something dark gothic and furious.
Composer: Guy Zerafa
Filmscore Pensive Tension Ominous. Instrumentation includes: Synth Strings Percussion Gamelan. Duration: 1:38:00
Composer: Sebastien Morawietz
ACTION Action Action! Cinematic action with big drums and full orchestra. Big Hollywood blockbuster sound.
Composer: Sebastien Morawietz
Magical fantastical gentle and cinematic.