Royalty Free Dramatic Music
These are dramatic background music tracks written specifically for any type of scene with tense or suspenseful setting.
Royalty free dramatic music moments between participants in these tense and dramatic situations.
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- 20's / 30's / 40's / Cabaret
- 50's / 60's / 70's / Retro
- Acoustic Guitar
- Action / Thriller
- Ambient
- Ambient Chill
- Americana / Blues
- Big Beat / Techno
- Bossa / Brazilian
- Christmas / Holiday
- Comedy / Fun / Kids
- Corporate / Positive
- Country Music
- Dance / House / Club
- Drama / Tension
- Dramedy / Lifestyle
- Dubstep / DnB / Uptempo
- Electro / Breakbeat
- Fantasy / Mystery
- Film Music / Trailer Music
- Funky / Groovy
- Hard Rock / Heavy Metal
- Hip Hop / Trip Hop
- Horror / Suspense
- India / Bollywood
- Indie Rock / Punk / Surf
- Irish / Celtic
- Island / Tropical
- Jazz / Modern
- Jazz / Traditional
- Laid Back / Downtempo
- Latin / Salsa
- Logos / Stingers
- Middle East / Africa
- Music Loops
- New Age / Meditation
- News / Technology
- Orchestral Music
- Orient / Asia
- Percussion / Drums
- Piano Music
- Pop Music / Uplifting
- Progressive Rock
- Reggae / Ska
- RnB / Urban
- Romantic / Sentimental
- Sci-fi Music
- Travel / Documentary
- Unique / Different Music
- Violin / Fiddle
- Vocal Music w/lyrics
- World - Europe
Dark intensity great for building suspense in reality,crime,spy,action drama
composer: Joseph Olimpio Pignato | duration: 64 seconds
A dramatic and moving orchestral arrangement which conveys tension. Menacing but with a sense of resolution, a cyclical harp and guitar motif provide a backing for serious themes.
composer: Patrick Coen | duration: 60 seconds
Beautiful and laid back uplifting track with soft percussion, acoustic guitar and piano rhodes. Atmospheric sounds create a wonderful mood, slowly developing the theme but keeping the softness of the music. Suitable for scenes of contentment, emotion and satisfaction.
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composer: Darko Saric | duration: 100 seconds
A mysterious and tense crime drama cue with a dark, mysterious tone full of tension and suspense, but with a gritty, aggressive attitude. It's a nice suspicious bed that escalates and builds to a massive impact and would be great for scenes in the lab, investigations, action and trailers, as well as a dramatic medical, scientific and technological underscore.
composer: Justin Crosby | duration: 60 seconds
Dark, Mysterious, & tense. A dark dramatic track written in the style of The Vampire Diaries, Pretty Little Liars & CSI. Well suited to add a feeing of dread, suspense and tension to any TV show, advertisement, video game, film, television trailer or video project.
composer: Ciaran Birch | duration: 117 seconds
A sweet, orchestral light drama track. Perfect for scenes involving childhood, or a blossoming romance.
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composer: Mark Petrie | duration: 79 seconds
A strong and powerful track that combines contemporary, digital and futuristic sounds with orchestral elements. Continuously builds and grows towards an intense and dramatic finish. Perfect for videos, presentations and trailers with high-intensity content!
composer: Clearsound Music Production | duration: 132 seconds
This is an elegant piece of music played by piano, strings, bass and deep orchestral drums. Amongst many uses this track would work well with commercials about e.g. luxury and high end products as well as for any inspirational and motivational projects.
composer: AudioQuattro | duration: 139 seconds
Usefull for animation and short animated story of two parts. Anxiety and mystery, thrill and unanswered riddle in first part. Then it quickly switches to second part which has more tension and is more dynamic, pefect for telling sad story about kind of bad thing which happened somewhere.
composer: Wojciech Panufnik | duration: 34 seconds
Vary dark and atmospheric Tribal/Ethnic piece with obscure, expansive pads, didgeridoo, shamanic ghost voices, ethnic rhythm track and other worldly happenings. Good for Dark drama, mystery, horror, sci-fi, documentaries, thriller, adventure, goth, period, cultural and anything requiring an ethnic ghost vibe.
composer: Dan Pound | duration: 514 seconds
A melodic loop with various rhythmic accents, and a continuing beeping sound. Works great with visuals related to the passage of time.
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composer: Hayim Kobi | duration: 146 seconds
The royalty free music track used in this video is called Sacrificed by Crypt of Insomnia
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Crypt of Insomnia