Royalty Free Dark / Somber Music

Calm ambient guitar track. Heavily reverbed and delayed clean electric guitar laments over a soft bed of synth pads, bass and gently pushing kick drum and percussion while textures build tension all around. Lo-fi effects add an introspective feel, aided by the cinematically arthouse stylings for a track that is full of wonder and soothing tranquility.

639 Hz - a frequency filled with love, radiance, and positive energy. It's the frequency of the heart, but don't expect James Blunt style whinings. This is a meditation soundscape designed to go much deeper, whistling straight into your inner core with haunting tones and evolving sound design. As useful for cinematic ambience as it is for spiritual energising, it's said to help you build harmonious relationships with others. Might work better than a mix tape of 80's love ballads.

A soft, melancholic acoustic track, featuring guitar, piano and strings. Opening with arpeggiated guitar accompanying a simple, yearning melody, the piece plays on the theme as it builds with piano and eventually the legato strings to solidify the overall ambience of regret. Bittersweet in its mood, with lots of question/answer phrasing, the piece is a thoughtful study of a traumatised mind.

Moody tension builder that constantly shifts direction and flavour whilst maintaining its gripping minimalist core. Based around a light, bouncing piano motif, the key changes, instrumentation and electro sound design regularly turn down a side street as the music tries to evade being locked down to any single identity. Mysterious, intriguing and almost playfully evasive, it's an ambient piece that keeps you on your toes whilst sitting confidently in the background.

An epic suspense-building orchestral track with a powerful string section and deep, percussive timpani strikes

Atmospheric cinematic track. With a metronomic feel thanks to the constant arpeggiated piano, it has an unhurried sense of movement and flow, calmed by long string legato lines and intensified by a subtle backdrop of violin harmonics. Very serene - gentle with a sense of enigmatic curiosity.

Dark alt country/Americana rock, with a swing beat. Soft and intimate through the dreamy vocals and reverb soaked slide guitar, yet energetic enough through the bouncing bass line and solid drums, the track manages to marry dark lyrics with melodic leads for a slightly mysterious and even psychedelic, hypnotic overall feel.

We're not talking James Bond villain here, this is much more like a futuristic, younger Machiavellian plotter of misdemeanour with a penchant for cyber crime. A techno beat, echoey synth themes and slightly eerie progressions mix with more upbeat passages of cunning hooks. At times industrial, almost corporate, but for the background vocal samples and effects that add a more sinister layer of intrigue.

Symphonic fantasy epic. Enchanting and ominous in equal measure, it's a piece full of grandeur with choral melodies accompanied by ever progressing string and brass themes to build to a fulfilling climax. Gentle and lilting only for the start and short ending, the more prominent mood is tension and ever increasing intensity.

Fantasy adventure track. Using the complete orchestra to generate an organised chaos, this fast paced piece features themes from all directions - string runs, woodwind answering phrases, brass interjections and relentless percussion all combining to create a circus of sounds with a hint of the macabre. A whirlwind of symphonic fantasy.

Relaxed instrumental featuring classical guitar and piano. Subdued throughout, enhanced by pads and strings, the gentle flow comes from the repeating eighth note pattern in the guitar. A plucked upright bass gives an organic depth to a piece that creates calm, mystery, romance and reflection.  

Serence vocal harmonies and massive synth bass dominate this spacey, psychedelic track. Heavy synth swells, bells and xylophone all add to the trip-hop-turned-rock beat to mould a track that is down tempo yet hard hitting. At times mellow, at times aggressive, it's as cheerful as it is frustrated.

Short, pulsing drone theme to conjure up dark and foreboding terrors - a dark, ambient soundscape built of layered synth textures and sprinkled with atmospheric, tension building effects.

Fast moving, hard hitting cinematic track with a full-on intensity and underlying aggression. Mixing the sinister with the heroic, it's dark, it's dramatic, it's epic - and uses all the usual ingredients of stabbing string ostinato, deep brass swells, pounding percussion and rhythmic pulses to create the mood. Very energising.

Glitchy and ambient future house track, leaning towards chill hop. Its minimalist approach gives it a strong technological feel and a cold, hollow vibe that is much more soundscape than beat driven accompaniment. Very spacious, synth based moods with contrasting high and low accentuations.

A hybrid orchestral instrumental with acoustic guitars, string section and a mysterious feel

Dark suspense track. With gothic overtones thanks to the choral themes and cinematic fantasy thanks to the repeated glockenspiel and piano motifs, the horror seeds are planted early on to generate the brooding atmosphere. With a deep, rolling bass line and booming percussion enhanced by synth drops, brass rasps and jagged strings, it soon becomes a nightmarish mix of ominous energy and overwhelming helplessness.

Simple, chilled hip hop track. Ideal as a backdrop, it alternates passages of reverbed guitar and keyboard chords with beat driven passages for contrast. Nothing fancy, but sets a certain tone of reflection and calm stability with an urban chic.

Ambient soundscape. Drones, pads and filtered sounds combined with heavy reverb create a slow paced and mysterious atmosphere of isolation and wonder.

I'm going to call this one garage metal due to its overall raw old school tone, but it still has a modern punch, thanks mainly to the powerful, compressed assault you get from the drums. Aggressive, distorted and at times dissonant, it has all the angst and energy associated with the heavier end of the genre - fast rhythm picking, double bass blast beats and downtuned bass guitar all playing their part to bring you an unsettling and tense instrumental of dark heaviness.