This is where you'll find our royalty free music for horror films. Horror is a pretty wide ranging term that stretches from old classics like Dracula, via mainstream "slasher" films like the "Saw" and "The Hills Have Eyes" series, via famous Survival style video games such as "Resident Evil" and "Alone in the Dark". The genre is also closely related to science fiction and there have been many great Horror / Sci-Fi crossover films ("The Thing", "Alien", "The Chronicles of Riddick") and games ("Fallout", "F3ar", "Metroid Prime"). The music is will generally be dark and suspenseful, creepy and eerie.
These dark horror cues can be classed either as "music cues" or "sound effects", as in reality they function as both. They are all recorded with a large, live symphony orchestra with the same quality as any soundtrack from big budget movies. The effects are easy to loop and edit, and can be tailored to fit any cue, as they can be used from virtually any point. Consider them a construction kit to score horror, mystery and dark drama. Recorded, mastered, and delivered to you in pristine 24-bit audio. Also look for YS Horror Cues 01-20 and YS Horror Cues 21-40. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow, Medium / 100 BPM]
A dark solo piano piece that has an underlying feeling of menace, danger and horror. Piano sounds like a beating heart at the end as the suspense grows but resolves. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 0 BPM]
A spine tingling, dramatic track of beauty and amazement. Orchestra with choir, in a cinematic, epic sound. The track starts with a slow, lamenting part and then grows gradually towards a grand, emotional, epic crescendo. This is followed by a darker, more ominous section which again also grows to a mighty, passionate crescendo. Also available without the choir. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 60 BPM]
Solo piano. Minimalist fragments of dark tension in the lowest ranges of the piano. Tragic, heavy and ponderous. Think an untimely death, and gruesome crime scene, despair. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
Solo piano. Very minimalist. High piano stabs of tension with lots of spaces. Increasing tension and pace as the cue progresses. Highly editable. Three versions; version 2 is much slower paced, and version 2 is shorter and more dramatic, suitable for a transition or bumper. Good for drama, intrigue, mystery, TV, feature film, suspense, horror. [Tempo: Very slow / 0 BPM]
This horror music bed has apocalyptic, hellish overtones. It would be well suited for, thriller or fantasy footage about paranormal and occult subject matter, as well as video-games and trailers. Its' slow, slithery pace has suggests something evil lurking, and makes for a nice tension builder that features an intense, climactic riser. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 101 BPM]
This track has an eerie mood, yet still suggesting hints of something whmsical, and perhaps mischievous. It would be well suited for footage and video games about horror, fantasy and paranormal subject matter. [Tempo: Slow / 134 BPM]
This frightening music bed has apocalyptic overtones and would be well suited for, horror, thriller, or fantasy footgae about paranormal and occult subject matter as well as video-games and trailers. Its suggests something evil lurking, and makes for a nice tension builder that features an intense, climactic riser. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
Frightening dark ambient horror music bed featuring the sounds of sinister spirits knocking, broken piano, and scary choir. TV static and plenty of door smashes for that extra eerieness well suited for horror, thriller, suspense and fantasy footage, as welll as video games. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
This track has an eerie and deranged mood. It has hints of psychosis and insanity and features the main melody played on a detuned toy music box. It would be well suited for footage and video games about horror, suspense, fantasy and paranormal subject matter. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
This horror underscore has hellish overtones and would be well suited for, horror, thriller, or fantasy footgae about paranormal and occult subject matter as well as video-games and trailers. Its' slow, slithery pace has suggests something evil lurking, and makes for a nice tension builder that features an intense, climactic riser. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
This track has a haunted overtone and pays a subtle homage to the music 'Dexter' in the theme. This cue would work well for film or television, opening credits, paranormal footage and spooky movie trailers. It features detuned piano and haunting choirs that makes a nice ghostly tension builder. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 70 BPM]
This track is a frightening dark ambient music bed that is well suited for horror, thrillers, suspense, fantasy footage, as welll as video games. It has haunting overtones that make a nice tension builder. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
This track is a high Intensity action / chase cue with a primal, menacing tone. It's full of suspense and works well for footage of battles, war scenes, chases, and beasts. It's also well suited for video games and builds into a riser at the end that has a cinematic impact great for film trailers. Apocalypto meets Jurassic Park. [Tempo: Fast / 125 BPM]
This track is an intensely dark orchestral piece with apocalyptic overtones and will work great with horror, thrillers and sci-fi. Its' ominous, foreboding tone has an epic intensity that would suit battle scenes, video-games, and fantasy footage as well. [Tempo: Slow, Fast / 90 BPM]
This cue is eerie and haunting with a cinematic tone. Ethereal choirs grace an underscore of subtle electronic percussion. It fuses influences from composers such as Hans Zimmer and John Powel and versatile enough to work in horror, suspense, espionage or something calling for a cue with a mysterious nature. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 100 BPM]
Useful for animation and short animated story. To show the character or main hero who looks out and trys to find enemies or bad guys lurking somewhere out. Mysterious and enigmatic, with percusive ethnic instruments, more agressive and dynamic in second part, preaparing for some kind of climax part which has will happen soon after... a battle or combat. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 88 BPM]
Exciting, epic, bouncy, driven, intense, dark, powerful & explosive stadium metal track full of tension, drama & mean forward momentum & energy. Gritty, weighty, muscular & melodic. Would suit action / thriller / extreme sports / fighting type projects. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 182 BPM]
Dark, brooding, beautiful, edgy, nervous, spacious, tense, moody & highly atmospheric & scary track with a haunting sense of impending danger & foreboding. Would suit mystery / espionage / dramatic / horror type projects. Cinematic & filmic. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 110 BPM]
Dark, edgy, powerful, tense, trippy, menacing, wicked and towards the end, very heavy track with great foreboding and malice. Scary, evil, menacing, crazed & climactic but with simple repetitive melodies. Would suit action / horror / thriller / projects. [Tempo: Slow, Fast / 130 BPM]
Exciting, powerful, thrilling, intense electro-rocker. Raw, gutsy, passionate, fiery, gritty & explosive. Would extreme sports / action / adventure / battle / combat type projects. [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 162 BPM]
Dark, tense, drama-soaked, heavy, epic, malevolant, bombastic, intensely-climactic rock track that builds and builds until it explodes into a ball of blindingly concentrated sonic might. Would suit epic thriller / action / extreme sports / discovery / horror type projects. [Tempo: Slow, Fast / 138 BPM]
Dark, dramatic, evil, climactic, spacey, malevolant, sinister, mean, tribal, foreboding, scary rock track with atmospheric and menacing synths meshing with pounding, dynamic, heavy drums. Would suit thriller / action / crime / horror / halloween / space / cinematic / extreme sport type projects. [Tempo: Slow / 112 BPM]
Very slow hypnotic beat with mega heavy guitar riffing. Dark, powerful, pumping and sizzling. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 124 BPM]
Dark, evil, wicked, sinister, unnerving, cinematic, haunting, disturbed soundtrack to impending danger. Scary, edgy, bleak, ominous, doomy soundscape for use in horror / halloween / space / crime / murder type projects. [Tempo: Slow / 100 BPM]
Heavy, powerful, brutal, driven, dark, rhythmic and intense, brooding modern rock track. Monster guitars, huge drums and crazed, searing lead work combine to make crushing music suitable for extreme sports / action / thriller / combat / war type projects. Can you handle it? Reminiscent of White Zombie & Helmet. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 140 BPM]
This track combines strange noises with unusual, repeated, freaky piano melodies. This would work well as part of a freaky dream or nightmare sequence. It also could work quite well in the horror genre or during a haunting. Also quite perfect for Halloween and haunted houses. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
Eerie, tense, percussive soundscape with a relentless spooky melody, dark metalic FX and flute sweeps. Atmospheric with a sense of suspense and imminent danger. Menacing and sinister. 48 hours, The Mentalist, Castle, Alien Invasion, crime drama, horror, Sci-Fi. [Tempo: Slow / 9 BPM]
Battle drums / war drums / tribal drums. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 75 BPM]
A disturbing and horrific piece of music for use with horror, fright, terror and tension. Available in various different versions / mixes / lengths. [Tempo: Slow, Medium, Fast / 150 BPM]
Percussion only, war drums / battle drums track. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 75 BPM]
Sinister orchestra over an urban beat and retro style theremin. Spooky and atmospheric perfect for contemporary halloween and horror projects. [Tempo: Slow / 80 BPM]
A dark, edgy and gritty, slow but aggressive Dubstep royalty free music track. Mangled and distorted synthesizers stutter and pump, with a mechanical, robotic, relentless and hard edged beat. Atmospheric, unstable, nasty. Good for hardcore material including scifi, extreme sports, extreme motorsports, conflict and mayhem. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 60 BPM]
Pure suspense with lots of tension and a thumping heartbeat. Think a horrific crime scene, or a deadly chase through a dark forest. Repetitive motifs but constantly building and evolving to enhance the drama and suspense. Synth swells are presented separately to allow for dramatic placement anywhere in the track. Good for crime, suspense, drama, TV, film. [Tempo: Slow, Medium, Fast / 0 BPM]
A slow, restrained and understated, hip-hop style beat provide the basis for this somewhat dark track somewhere between electronica, hip-hop and cinematic soundtrack. This track will go well with a dark corporation or with forensics / investigation / crime solving etc. Has a slightly ominous or malevolent feel, combined with the methodical and calculated. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 75 BPM]
An epic and rousing track for fantasy, adventure, scifi and epic productions. Relentless pounding rhythm, with an ever increasing intensity and ever building, growing chords, rising towards a crescendo / climax. Big orchestral sound with choir and epic battle percussion. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 115 BPM]
Very creepy orchestral soundtrack with epic strings and sinister sound effects. Highly suitable for horror scenes. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 124 BPM]
Somber and mysterious. An hypnotic and suspenseful piano with dark and shadowy strings. Great for suspense documentaries or crime scenes depiction. [Tempo: Slow, Fast / 120 BPM]
Energetic percussion/electronic track with impelling synth riffs, huge orchestral drums. Perfect for action films, extreme sports and trailers. [Tempo: Slow, Fast / 120 BPM]
Hard hitting, fast, relentless and ruthless techno / industrial style material. This track is high on energy and packs a mean punch. Suitable for film chase or fight scene, extreme sports, racing, raw power, sci-fi and much more. [Tempo: Slow, Fast / 86 BPM]
This soundtrack is written in the best traditions of the genre of spy James Bond. Anxiety, uncertainty, analytical thinking, investigation, crime mystery. Symphonic orchestra, medium tempo, cinematic. Well suite for the movie project and video background too. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 140 BPM]
Experimental electronica using all new sounds. Eerie underscore. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 128 BPM]
This cue is a dark tension builder that is designed to set a suspenseful mood. It is reminiscent of eerie soundtracks such as Saw, Dexter, Silent Hill etc. It has paranormal overtones and peaks with a massive, intensely cinematic stinger. It would be well suited to horror, psychological thrillers and scenes requiring an unsettling suspense. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
A thrilling cinematic trailer cue that is epic and intense. It starts with a haunting vocal a la Hans Zimmer's Gladiator score and erupts into a gripping and chilling cinematic trailer that ends with massive, bold loud dramatic impacts and explosions. [Tempo: Slow, Medium, Fast / 0 BPM]
A thrilling, cinematic trailer Sting that is epic and intense. It starts with rising orchestral clusters that begin ecalating into massive, terrifying, dramatic impacts that are designed to have your viewrs on the edge of their seat. This would be excellent for trailers, tv, movies and film, promos, bumpers and video games. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 0 BPM]
A thrilling cinematic trailer Sting that is epic and intense. It starts with rising orchestral clusters that begin ecalating into massive, terrifying, dramatic impacts that are designed to have your viewrs on the edge of their seat. This would be excellent for trailers, tv, movies and film, promos, bumpers and video games. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 100 BPM]
Run For Your Life. is a thrilling cinematic trailer that is epic suspenseful and intense full of tension and terror. It starts with a sad and haunting mid eastern vocal reminiscent of Hans Zimmer's Gladiator score and erupts into a gripping and chilling cinematic trailer that ends with massive, bold loud dramatic impacts and explosions. Excellent for trailers, action sequences, halloween and horror, extreme sports footage or clips requiring a track that leaves your audience on the edge of their seats. [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 0 BPM]
A fully loaded pulsating, action packed trance track. Builds from a deep dark atmosphere into a fast and energetic trance tune. Will work well in night-time scenes, cityscapes, action scenes, futuristic environments and dance scenes. [Tempo: Fast / 140 BPM]
Stalkers, serial killers, crime scenes, murder, twisted plots and Investigation Discovery shows. The chaotic and evil sounding prepared piano and sound design creates evil thoughts of Halloween, ghosts, cults and the supernatural. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 120 BPM]
A reality TV type tension track featuring bells, synths, and percussion. Builds throughout for a sense of forward motion while maintaining intensity. Think of any reality TV series where elimination rounds are involved. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 84 BPM]