Suspense music is filled with tension. There’s a dissonance usually and there’s a sense of unease. Something is about to happen…but what? It’s the moment before we, as the audience, knows what’s happening. It’s the moment before the action. It’s just before the killer strikes.
These tracks share that sense of spine-tingly danger is lurking feeling.
Artist/Composer: Kenton Gilchrist
Eerie etherial underscore in the style of Thomas Newman.
KEYWORDS:orchestral, symphonic, classical, hybrid, underscore, slow, 54 bpm, 54, strings, pads, piano, evolving, vocal effects, vocal,mysterious, eerie, unsettling, unnerving, sinister, frightening, hair-raising, dreadful, creepy, ominous, sombre, touching, lament,romance, midnight, twilight, hans zimmer, zimmer, danny elfman, elfman, james horner, horner, thomas newman, james newton howard, newton-howard, john williams
Composer: Jonathan Atkinson
Chillout ambience in the tone of Angelo Badalamente's Twin Peaks. With a dark bass line static chords backwards beats and a spooky tremelo guitar line. Deliciously minimal. Perfect for your own David Lynch psycho-drama.
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,
Composer: Jonathan Atkinson
Dark tense and slightly spooky underscore of synth pads strings and a long drone. Useful for many cinematic experiences including suspenseful X-files type science edge and even ancient Egypt period pieces or Indiana Jones archeological digs.
Composer: Sebastien Morawietz
Dark spooky orchestral electronica trailer music with a vocal on top. There's also a version without vocals. Gotham City meets Baghdad.
Composer: Sebastien Morawietz
Dark spooky orchestral electronica trailer music. Gotham City meets Baghdad.
Artist/Composer:Robert Wayne Johnson
Coming to you straight from the exotic jungles of Africa. This track has a tribal, mellow and mysterious vibe
Keywords: Instrumental Bed Africa, jungle, rainforest, Amazon, Brazil, Guinea, Congo, mysterious, mystery, sinister, mellow, soft, exotic,
Composer/Producer: Brad Halverson
This piece starts out with an eerie Bassoon feature (think John Powells Bourne Identity opening credits) building into an ominous and evil brass and string melody similar to scores of Bernard Hermann. This piece is perfect for suspenseful thrillers horror pieces or trailers.
Composer/Producer: Brad Halverson
Picture an infantry unity moving covertly through hostile territory to their extraction point. You want a piece with a dark atmosphere driving indigenous percussion and heavy grungy brass and guitar to back them up as they work their way toward their objective. This is that piece.
Composer: Andrew Ingkavet
Dark brooding moody. Orchestral brass swells over a jerky marcato cello line and a spooky repetitive piano.
Artist/Composer: Jean Paul Zoghbi
A classic and authentic, spine-chilling suspense film music with full orchestra. With several tense passages, the cue builds and raises until reach a fantastic climax at the end. Foreboding, ominous, dangerous, powerful. Perfect for movie trailers, video games, horror, tension, thrillers, sci-fi.
KEYWORDS:orchestral fantasy sci-fi sci-fi movie soundtrack symphonic cinematic trailer filmscore film score dramatic horror Hollywood science fiction dark danger scary
Haunting Piano Ballad with evocative Armenian Duduk with contemplative mood
Composer: Justin Mather
A slow and sparce crunchy electric guitar melody over an atmospheric organ pad. With some dissonant chords throughout each phrase ends with a mysterious resolve.
Artist/Composer: Kenton Gilchrist
Dark menacing orchestral hybrid underscore with hit at 1:18.
KEYWORDS:orchestral, symphonic, hybrid, fusion, industrial, electronic, synths, synth, percussion, drums, glitchy, lead synth, screamer, ripper, string bass, cello, slaps, pizzicato, viola, violin, piano, sfx, sound effects, sound design, metals, underscore, eerie, unsettling, ominous, dangerous, credits, montage, reveal, encounter, menacing, brooding, dark, ominous, sinister, dangerous, adrenaline, doom, failure, death, dying, injury, supernatural, ghosts, ghost, angels, spirits, demons, dangerous, sci-fi, science fiction, robots, androids, machines, being chased, chase, chasing, being pursued, pursuit,
Composer/Producer: Brad Halverson
Our hero has one last job to do. He reflects on his career and the family waiting back home then heads off to make the pickup. This piece follows his covert actions to retrieve the package without getting caught in order to be reunited with his family once and for all.
Composer: Proofsound
Tense scary ambiguous cinematic underscore music.
Composer/Producer: AudioQuattro
Heavily inspired by Massive Attack«s "Antistar" this is a mysterious and disturbing electronica trip with oriental influences leading into a raging finale with distorted guitars and glitchy beats. Works well with moody film and documentary scenes.
Artist/Composer:Martin Sebastian Holm
An enigmatic, slow and foreboding track, featuring vibraphone, piano, pads, drums, bass and some ambience and reverse effects. Ideal for thrillers, mysteries and strange, dark scenes of drama. Crime scene, plotting planning kidnapping. Bad feelings, suspicious, fearful, afraid lonely
Keywords: Cautious, Dramatic, Mystical, Questioning, Dangerous, Slow, Suspicious, Atmospheric, Haunting, Strange, Mysterious, Suspenseful, Dreamy, Menacing, Secretive, Foreboding, Dark, Disturbing, Eerie, Creepy, electronic, mystery, thriller, tension, crime, cryptic, riddle, murder, solve, obscure, night, hidden, foreboding, CSI, uneasy, depressed, menacing, depressing
Composer/Producer: Brad Halverson
Inspired by the final battle in Shakespeares Henry V. This is a powerful piece filled with tension and sadness. It builds to a powerful climax with a somber end
Composer: David Bradstreet
Electric guitar lead, electric piano, bass, drums
KEYWORDS:edgy
Composer/Producer: Brad Halverson
I absolutely love the epic rock fusion style of E.S Posthumus. I wanted to compose a piece that reflected their style with my own influences as well. Keeping with my normal intentions there is also a very present cinematic feel to it.
Composer/Producer: Dave Klotz
Mad whimsical halloween carnival waltz with 1930's production. Think Little Rascals dancing skeletons and you will get the idea. Killer theremin organ and xylophones create an authentic traditional macabre vibe. Keywords: Macabre Halloween Evil Carnival Axe murder Theremin Pipe organ. Satanic Horror Silly.