Royalty Free Horror / Scary Music

This suspenseful atmospheric soundtrack features a heart-beat and evolving states of a wicked mind.

With a title like this, you've probably guessed what to expect, and you're right: a happy-go-lucky ukulele track with an super catchy glockenspiel melody, perfect for summer picnic moods. In fact, what you really get is a gritty, intense dark noise horror track full of twisted sounds and gruelling vocal samples. It's a slow burning, dark and subtle piece, gradually evolving through deep drones and interjected sound design elements, creating a lurking presence with a dose of spine-chilling suspense. Very atmospheric and deeply disturbing.

Stylish take on a trap beat. Featuring a classic hip hop/trap beat, the instrumentation gives a more cinematic feel, with ambient, reverbed piano themes and orchestral string backing. It is the synth lead however that is the most prominent, as it interplays with the deep bass, chord stabs and vocal samples to create a mysterious sounding track, fresh and intriguing with a sense of curiosity.

A mysterious, scary ambient orchestral track with a strings section crescendo, celeste fills and haunting female chorals

A mysterious mix of classical and electronic styles to create a solemn, ambient vibe. A pulsing kick drum beat adds tension and movement under the suspense of light strings and an enchanting female vocal melody, enhanced by light brass, harp and vibraphone to blossom into the finale. Dreamily dark, sinisterly intriguing and a little bit mesmerizing.

A dark and moody hybrid track with a mix of brooding doom and stoic heroism. Throwing the full power of the orchestra over a backdrop of synth pulses, it builds steadily and solidly into a rich soundscape of percussive hits, string ostinato and legato brass evoking a foreboding power, with an uncertain sinister edge that can also be interpreted as a fierce determination.

Spooky goings-on and creepy encounters guaranteed with this one - with a mix of playful kitsch and genuine horror soundscape, it has a bit of everything. Starting with a light glockenspiel and piano theme to set a tone of mystery and an air of suspense, things turn ugly for a disturbing mid section of synth warps and panicked effects, which never completely goes away as the main theme returns. Dramatic and familiarly chilling.

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

Fantasy hybrid orchestral theme. With it's strong sense of the mysterious, feel the gothic vibes through lush string melodies and shimmering harmonics, sprinkled with harp and celeste runs and enhanced with dark choral spirits. Backed by an industrial percussive beat with a string ostinato for an animated sense of action and adventure, deepened by the brooding brass, it's sure to create a magical and tense world of mystical imagination.

It all depends on how you're feeling. On the one hand, this is a deep, soul searching soundscape of profound, inner vibrations - an electronic soup of slowly evolving tones, drones and unresolved mutations that leads you to mysterious places and intriguing discovery, safe in the knowledge that at this pace, you'll have the time to fall into it's myriad hypnotic states. On the other hand, it's the soundtrack to your worst, most isolated horror nightmares and the darkest, creepiest underworld you never want to visit. The choice is yours - it's just a question of context.

Tense orchestral hybrid track. Male and female choir chanting, cinematic percussion and deep synth textures marry with a full range of orchestral techniques and dynamics for an epic, jagged piece that is action packed, unsettling and dramatic. Dark and gothic due to the choral elements, it captures an energetic and panicked spirit with a sense of struggle and fight.

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

Background horror soundscape incorporating orchestral clusters and swarms, choral effects and various textures in order to create a tense atmosphere. Also using slow building risers and hits makes this more than just an ambient piece, giving a useable, more diverse track to match visuals to. Dark and agitated, perfect for horror, suspense and thriller genres.

Unsettling soundscape of distorted bass swells, clean guitar and textures. An underlying percussive rhythm section attempts to ground the piece in a lounge jazz style, but is never allowed to dominate due to the interjecting effects - some natural, some synthesized. A tense and exploratory piece with dark overtones.

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.

Sometimes it's the innocent simplicity that hides the darkest terrors. With a menacing detuned piano theme penetrating your brain over a backdrop of atmospheric vinyl crackle, string swarms and percussive metal hits, this horror trailer track has the brooding sense of witnessing something you really don't want to see. Very dark, very atmospheric, and very horror.

A dark, mysterious-sounding ambient track featuring a celeste lead and a beautiful string ensemble

Panic and run, or stay focused and calculated? That's your dilemma here as the clock ticks on, generating a cinematic soundscape of tension and suspense, building to a crescendo of deep, dark industrial impacts, sub drops and warps. An ever building, reverb soaked swarm of cavernous time pressure in rhythmic and musical form.  

Dark and suspenseful ambient track with piano and electronic elements

Ghostly goings-on, devilish delights and frolicking phantoms reign in this playful track. Is there an eerie theremin? Of course there is. Is there a toy piano? Of course. Pizzicato strings? Yep. Plodding brass bass line? Sure. Cackling spectres in the background? Don't mind if I do. Hard house rave beat? Don't be ridiculous, that really wouldn't help - we're going for spooky 'what's creeping up on me' with this track and you won't be disappointed. Unless they see you from the shadows.