Royalty Free Dark / Somber Music

Moody indie rock track, built on a bed of palm muted guitar, wailing synth, laid back bass and steady rock drums. Intimate male vocals help create the atmospheric and melancholic feel. It stays hypnotically stable throughout, adding a slight intensity and angst towards the end as the synth lead developes.

Cinematic piece, featuring piano and orchestra. A simple and traditional melancholic piano theme opens, juxtaposed by modern shrill electronic pulses to immediately give a sense of the unusual. It breaks into a lush orchestral theme with legato strings, rich brass and fast moving marimba, building in intensity to a majestic climax with fanfare brass and timpani hits. Not to last, it drops back to the orignial theme and calmer style to finish a piece that has a diverse landscape of emotions, evoking sadness, reflection, wonder and longing.

A mysterious soundscape to explore the wonders and curiosities of the world. Slightly techy and scientific in feel, with a subtle organic background seeping through, it's a constant evolution of sounds, generating an unstoppable, constant momentum. Tuned percussion - marimba and vibraphone, mellow piano, pizzicato strings and rhythmic percussion blend for a mellow yet animated ambience of the natural, and technological, world.

Epic dubstep with a cinematic edge. Get ready for a taste of tension and heroic drama with this energetic track featuring synth pulses and rhythms, marked strings and big brass melodies over a slamming beat. Inspirational and dramatic, with a sense of corporate determination.

An atmospheric mid tempo track, with hints of traditional Asian music mixed with chilled percussion and synth textures. The main theme played on tuned wooden percussion is subtly backed with a granular pad and soft beat, built on with guitar harmonics and synth sweeps to create a mood of mystery, intrigue, suspense and wonder. Relaxing, pensive and enigmatic.

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.

Spooky, skeletal track with a captivating atmosphere. Stripped to the bare bones, it's quite minimal, but uses the space to great effect, allowing the darkness to weave through the gaps. All the creepiest instruments are there: music box, glockenspiel, echoing percussion ... all leading and accompanying the playful strings, ghostly piano, lurking bassoon and carnival accordion for an unnerving experience of delicate, haunting beauty. Chills.

Action/fantasy hybrid orchestral track. Fast, skittish passages contrast with sweeping legato for a dynamic and fast moving feel, further helped by a dramatic percussive beat. Highly charged and tense throughout, only pausing for breath at the midpoint and the outro, it sets a mysterious, nervous mood full of cinematic suspense.

Electronic horror-themed track with arpeggiated keyboard, underlying light trap beat and synth pulses

With an urban music style and powerful orchestral elements this electronic track displays an epic transformation.

A tense action epic. The title may be a bit misleading if you're expecting the classic John Williams score, but there's certainly dramatic tension and plenty of big screen atmosphere. Accentuated off-beat rhythms using percussion and strings, raspy brass swells and enhancing woodwinds all contribute to an edgy, pointed piece with a dark and sinister side.

A tense and anxious cinematic synth sequence. Building from a pulsing bass start, and adding dramatic percussive hits and impacts, the slow crescendo of a riser and dissonant cluster signals the impending climax and subsequent unexpected cutoff. Full of suspense and nervous energy for those stressful situations.

An epic orchestral track with increasing intensity brass horns and powerful, heart-pounding percussion

Futuristic and apocalyptic track. After starting with a pulsing, time-ticking build up to generate tension and a suffocating intensity, the pounding industrial percussion, screaming synth leads and grinding sub bass are let loose to fry your brain. Staggered and disruptive throughout but somehow generating an underlying rhythmic stability, it's certainly an effect rather than a melody.

Sweet piano piece with haunting undertones. Never quite certain if it's a gentle lullaby or a sinister horror soundtrack, its multi-level nuances come from the slightest interval changes in the piano melodies. Backed by evolving cello textures and enchanting bells, it's a lilting track of sweet dreams ....... and perhaps sweeter nightmares.

A melancholic acoustic folk love song with emotional male vocals, rich pads and subtle glockenspiel melodies in the background

Dark electric guitar riffage for those times when you want an uncomfortable ear bleed. Edgy and atmospheric at first, building to a deeper, more dissonant texture of distorted chugs, it's a mix of prog metal with a cinematic depth. Brutal and raucous but with an occasional mellower underbelly, great as a tension building track or backdrop to dramatic, aggressive scenes.

Slightly mysterious retro rock theme. Acoustic guitar and female oohs feature over a solid drum beat before brass enters for a South American feel and a searing synth lead takes over. Part psychedelia, part spaghetti Western, it's a downbeat track with melancholic vibes.

Epic symphonic track. Packed with action, intensity and a strong battle feel, it uses string ostinato and lots of snare percussion to generate a dramatic and, at times, chaotic ambience. Split into 2 halves to allow for a dynamic change and subsequent build up, the heroic brass adds tension thoughout under the screaming violins and relentless basses. Tense, bold and soaked in impending doom.

Horror soundscape theme. What starts as an atmospheric horror build up of risers, metal hits, orchestral swarms and harmonics, harp glissandi and random percussive elements finally breaks into a short, off-beat orchestral string theme. Diabolically dramatic with no sense of tempo but a strong sense of tension, it's a track to catch you off guard and keep you guessing.