If you're looking for music for an action film, you may want to check out this track listing. This music can be orchestral, or more techno- or rock based -- or sometimes even a combination of these styles -- and is highly suitable for crime capers, get-away scenes, car chase, running for your life, that kind of thing. Often combining high tempo rhythms with staccato, sometimes dissonant, musical compositions, these track carry a sense of stress, danger, urgency and desperation.
A no messing rock and roll track. Straight for the throat. Huge guitars and a massive throbbing beat... all with a slightly unconventional revolving drum feel and eastern style guitar melodies. The tune gets more gradually intense as it goes on. The mid section breaks down to a tribal tom groove until the final chorus section explodes. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 158 BPM]
Irresistable, crispy and juicy beats from the masters of minimalism. No use resisting, just let go. Cutting-edge and infectious. [Tempo: Fast / 135 BPM]
Heavy metal style guitar riffing and squelchy analog synths. Gritty and punchy. [Tempo: Fast / 104 BPM]
Fast track with big distorted guitar riffs and a busy drum track with drum'n bass elements. [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 175 BPM]
A guitar rock track that's rough, but not hard. Plenty of attitude and grit, but without crossing over into hard rock or metal. Bluesy guitar riffs create a restrained, but gutsy rock feel. Great for sports, challenges and much, much more. [Tempo: Fast / 135 BPM]
A highly intense and gripping suite of action and suspense scoring, underlying anything from the plot of a spy to the chase of an escaped convict. Orchestral in nature with big drums and driving percussion rhythms, in the vein of John Powell's "Bourne" movies and the scores of Hanz Zimmer and Steve Jablonsky ("Batman Begins" and "Transformers"). [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 93 BPM]
Fast sliced drums, melodic bass. Aggressive, energetic, hard. [Tempo: Fast / 168 BPM]
A dark and creepy track suitable for trailers, movie opening scenes and more. Starts with an eerie, almost child like piano melody, then grows into a more horror feel, like evil forces, black magic or a horde of dark warriors. The track appears to end with a crescendo at about 01:12 but it comes back with a creepy closing section, revisiting the main theme. Good for horror, fantasy, dark forces, creepy films and more. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 109 BPM]
An extremely hard hitting guitar rock track. Full-on energy impact, massive power, all-out hard rock warfare. Severely cranking guitars and bass, with a B-part featuring an industrial element. [Tempo: Fast / 120 BPM]
Slamming, aggressive electro-rock with an industrial edge. Mangled and processed beats, distorted guitar licks. Busy, fragmented. Extreme sports, fighting, dirty/grinding footage etc. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 122 BPM]
Up tempo psychedelic funk with heavy wah wah guitar lines, brass, flute and clattering drums. A kitsch retro workout with a contemporary dance music edge. A fun and funky look back at the 1960's and 1970's... [Tempo: Fast / 118 BPM]
Retro rock, surf rock. Twangy guitars with tremolo, cool, genuine and accurately recreated 1960's or early 1970's sound. Style, fashion, history, culture, sports/surfing and more. [Tempo: Fast / 85 BPM]
Charming and quirky retro electro track. 8-bit sounds with a Nintendo-ish feel, video game subculture, the 1980's and digital life. Slightly reminiscent of the work of Kraftwerk. At about 30 seconds a Jean Michel Jarre -like melody comes in. [Tempo: Fast / 125 BPM]
Uptempo, solid techno-trance beat. Good, steady energy level, medium intensity synth patterns with fast and moderately energetic pumping beats. Good for exercise, workout, spacey productions, high speed or action footage, sports and excitement. [Tempo: Very fast / 145 BPM]
Gutsy and tense, progressive rock. Heavy guitar riffs interspersed with 70's style keyboard work and a nervy, pensive bridge part. Good for high energy productions, sports, extreme sports, racing, action filled footage, etc. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 83 BPM]
Hip Hop track with a serious edge. Good for drama, thriller, mystery, action/adventure. Sneaking, stakeout and more. [Tempo: Slow / 90 BPM]
This track is recorded with a real live orchestra. A dramatic, at times disturbing, urgent and very nervy track for action, horror, chase, monsters, epic trailers, fantasy fight scene and more. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 0 BPM]
A busy, excited, funky and edgy combination of Hip-Hop, Funk, Breakbeat and Industrial tech. Fast tempo, with lots of stuff going on, to create a very busy, bustling, exciting jazz-funk-electro fusion track. Funky, brash, audacious and hotheaded. Good for many types of projects including sport, house makeovers, any high energy / busy / urgent production. [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 125 BPM]
A cutting edge mash-up of Funk, Drum'n Bass, Tech-Step and Breakbeat. Good as an action theme, or a theme for Crime / Spy / Secret Agent. Up-tempo beats with funky bass and guitar with more swirley, trippy synth pads, give the track an Edgy feel. Also good for sports, X-sports, mechanicals / motorsports and more. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 135 BPM]
Epic trailer / Epic soundtrack for a grand uprising, a majestic victory or an epic battle. Good for fantasy / adventure / sci-fi / cinematic trailers and also for sports, extreme sports, fight sports etc. Full orchestra, epic drums, with choir joining in the later stages. Also available as a Rock Mix, with the additional bite of heavy rock guitars and drums. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 100 BPM]
An urgent, dramatic, epic trailer track. A sense of urgency or time running out. Great hordes of warriors on the move. Majestic and menacing, threatening. Perhaps the uprising of a huge army. Powerful stuff. Also available as a Rock Mix, with additional heavy rock guitars and rock drums. [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 100 BPM]
A very dramatic, epic, victory / battle soundtrack. Good for epic trailers, massive armies, battle scenes and more. Fantasy, sci-fi or epic sports footage. Also available as a Rock Mix, with the additional punch of heavy rock guitars and drums. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 153 BPM]
Epic soundtrack / Epic trailer material. Glorifying, majestic. Victorious heroes, epic adventures. Heroic and emotional. Full orchestra, epic percussion and choir. Also available as a Rock Mix with the added element of rock guitars and drums on top, for extra power. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 110 BPM]
An emotional, epic trailer track with a strong sense of heroics and grand victory. Amazement, courage, glory and honor. Great for epic trailers, sports / achievement, action and adventure. Also available as a Rock Mix, with the additional punch of heavy rock guitars and drums. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 100 BPM]
This dramatic, epic trailer track starts off with a melancholic, sorrowful and emotional single female vocal line, and erupts into a huge, volcanic, majestic arrangement of tribal / orchestral percussion, full orchestra and choir. Very intense and heroic, with a sense of sadness or awe / amazement. Also available as a Rock Mix, with additional heavy rock guitars and rock drums. [Tempo: Slow, Fast, Very fast / 120 BPM]
An epic, majestic and glorious track suitable for epic trailers, fantasy & scifi, battle and heroics. Grand, couragous, dramatic. Full orchestra with choir. Also available as a Rock Mix, with the additional punch of heavy rock guitars and drums. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 136 BPM]
A fiery and dramatic, epic, massive impact track. Urgent, desperate, intense and violent. Huge pounding percussion, full orchestra and choir. Also available as a Rock Mix, with additional heavy rock guitars and rock drums. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 122 BPM]
An intense modern action instrumental with high-tech synthetic elements. Focused determination great for productions involving suspense, spying, chases, etc. Nice for escalating crime in progress scenes, action sequences and high intensity situations. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 120 BPM]
A slowly marching, staccato, methodical, unstoppable force. Orchestral march with a sense of darkness, determination, glory and victory. Dark heroes or evil hordes. Good for dramatic trailers / epic trailer, battle or marching scene, fantasy fights, war and conflict, epic scenes and more. [Tempo: Slow, Medium, Fast / 120 BPM]
An urgent, dramatic and glorifying track for dramatic trailers, fight scenes, epic battles and grand heroes or warriors. Orchestra, epic battle percussion, full choir. Good for epic trailer, scenes of epic battles or charging armies. Dramatic or dangerous situation, rescue mission, fantasy fight, etc. [Tempo: Medium, Fast, Very fast / 150 BPM]
This dynamic track starts with unsettling intrigue and suspense, and develops into a flight-for-life. A broad orchestral theme tugs at the heart as the prey is mercilessly pursued. A sustained chord at the end leaves this track unresolved. Good for suspense, drama, thriller, horror. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow, Medium / 0 BPM]
A hard and heavy rock track with a real gritty sound and drive. Featuring multiple layers of heavily distorted guitars, powerful drums and driving bass, this track should give some oomph to your project but without being too dark or overpowering. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow, Medium / 65 BPM]
A slow, sizzling, determined beat meets up with retro funk riffs, metal guitar chords and slow, methodical synths to create a sizzling, pumping, 'rough & tumble' style Big Beat track. This track has a feeling of something relentless, unforgiving and unstoppable. Something that will just keep going, undeterred, until everything in its way has been crushed into submission. Cool, gritty, rough and tough, determined and dominant. Good for inner city brawl, conflict, mechanoids or transformers, high tech warfare, modern weapons, bad-ass tough guys, etc. [Tempo: Medium / 84 BPM]
Huge drum n' bass percussion collides with orchestral breaks and extreme FX stabs. Evoking visions of speed, excellence and hybrid technology. Well matched with the Elliot Simons track 'Metallic Wasteland'. [Tempo: Medium / 81 BPM]
Impending doom that builds with cinematic awe to a climactic chasm at 01:09. Suspenseful, tense, foreboding, nervous. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 130 BPM]
Rough / Classic Rock / Fun Sports: A rough, determined and slightly dirty, uptempo rock track with a moderate energy level and a good forward drive. Suitable for racing / motorsports, offroad / rally, skating, gritty teenage sports / X-Games, fun sports and more. Slight punk element, combined with a classic rock sound. [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 147 BPM]
Retro rock. Twangy guitars with tremolo, cool, genuine and accurately recreated 1960's or early 1970's sound. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 60 BPM]
Dark and ominous event, eerie sounds, threatening and edgy, sustains with aggressive internal percussive events. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 100 BPM]
Action thriller track made with synths, effects, orchestra and percussion. Atmosphere, tension, suspense and action - with a modern or futuristic feel. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 90 BPM]
A tense and suspense track starting with a dramatic bell sequence. Rising sounds bring more power to it. The track grows and increases towards the end, joined by an intense and powerful brass section. Dramatic, staccato, serious. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 90 BPM]
A dramatic and hard hitting rock track, with a wild / unhinged feel and a sense of immediate danger. Fast and furious. [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 165 BPM]
A swag and gutsy rock / blues-rock track with attitude and grit. [Tempo: Medium / 88 BPM]
Heavy and epic blockbuster track featuring loads of energy, risers and hits. It is a mixture of cinematic, industrial and metal music. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 120 BPM]
A nasty electro-breaks / glitch-hop track with a main synth bass that warps and glitches into an industrial-rock sounding payoff section. Forthright and triumphant, suited to fast editing, ideal for gaming videos, motorsport, mechanics and hi-octane action scenes and also works great with extreme sports and more. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 110 BPM]
An other-worldly hybrid D&B track featuring distorted sirens and swirling synths builds and drops into a snarling dubstep type bass line. Fat sounding and epic yet snappy and fast moving, suited to gaming cut-scene type videos, Japanese anime, fast edits and also space wars and fantasy, extreme sports and dangerous adventures. Edgy and dangerous. [Tempo: Medium / 90 BPM]
This orchestral cinematic cue contains two parts/sections. The first 30 seconds has a strong tension and a rhythmic pulse, with a foreboding, dark tone. The second part, from about 30 seconds onwards, is more melancholic, sorrowful and wistful, with a sense of loss or realization. [Tempo: Slow / 90 BPM]
A powerful and upbeat rock / metal track with guts and attitude, and with a bluesy edge. [Tempo: Medium, Fast, Very fast / 124 BPM]
A hard hitting, straight to the point, all guns blazing, gut busting, hard rock track. Tough and direct. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 134 BPM]
A deep, low-down, gritty and gutsy, fiery and hard hitting rock / metal track. High energy level. [Tempo: Medium, Fast, Very fast / 92 BPM]
A hard hitting metal rock / hard rock track, with a heavy impact and big attitude. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 140 BPM]