Soundtrack / Suspense / Tension

Music that creates an air of suspense and tension leaving the listener wondering what will happen next and how it will all end.

• A Narrow Escape

  
  Fast tempo. This peace starts with bells and percussion over a pad of dark sound and the occasional bass thump before bursting into live with rapid percussion and string articulations. This peace is ideal far action, adventure,...more
  

  Standard License Price: £19.95
  Music Maker:Garry Johnston
  Track Length: 1.30
  Additional Versions: none currently
  

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• Night Antennae

  
  A sense of intrigue and suspense in this haunting atmospheric soundtrack. Great for film & tv, a suspenseful underscore for a mystery, drama, thriller. ...more
  

  Standard License Price: £24.95
  Music Maker:Bruno De Angelis
  Track Length: 2.41
  Additional Versions: none currently
  

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• Tribal Attack

  
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  Standard License Price: £9.95
  Music Maker:Mauro Magnani
  Track Length: 0.29
  Additional Versions: none currently
  

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• Analysis

  
  Data and images pop on the screens, ideas float around the room, clues are dissected, minds are in high gear. A slow heartbeat-like bass drum sets the pace for this quiet, intense track while delicate, urgent melodies dance on top...more
  

  Standard License Price: £24.95
  Music Maker:Michele Vanni
  Track Length: 2.33
  Additional Versions: 5
  

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• Behind the Door

  
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  Standard License Price: £19.95
  Music Maker:Garry Johnston
  Track Length: 2.01
  Additional Versions: none currently
  

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• Inside Story

  
  Underscore track for intrigue, crime, conspiracy and troubled times. This film soundtrack style track has both a dark and a light side, with a strong foreboding sense of impending conflict. drama, dramatic, pensive, foreboding,...more
  

  Standard License Price: £24.95
  Music Maker:Bjorn Lynne
  Track Length: 3.34
  Additional Versions: 1
  

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• The Dance of Hadin

  
  Tribal percussion, hand drums, djembe drum and giant drums. Starts from a deep drone and builds in a crescendo to an intense climax with tribal chants and chaotic sounds. ...more
  

  Standard License Price: £24.95
  Music Maker:Bjorn Lynne
  Track Length: 2.23
  Additional Versions: none currently
  

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• Storm

  
  Moderate Tempo. A menacing track starting with a dramatic pulsating synthesiser sound. The percussion is heavy and industrial metallic ...more
  

  Standard License Price: £24.95
  Music Maker:Garry Johnston
  Track Length: 2.10
  Additional Versions: none currently
  

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• Sombre Heart

  
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  Standard License Price: £19.95
  Music Maker:Garry Johnston
  Track Length: 1.34
  Additional Versions: none currently
  

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• House of Glass

  
  Sparse, dark and ominous ambient track. Good for film noir, dark thriller, horror, sci-fi or spy mystery. Pensive strings, deep bass, reverberant congas. suspense, sneaky, undercover, horror, darkness, dark, strings, string, mystery,...more
  

  Standard License Price: £24.95
  Music Maker:Bjorn Lynne
  Track Length: 3.55
  Additional Versions: none currently
  

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• Deadly Mission

  
  Suspenseful thriller underscore. Ticking rhythm giving a sense of counting down. Sneaky strings, spy-like electric piano. International conflict, thriller, inspired by the music in films like 'The Interpreter' and TV series...more
  

  Standard License Price: £24.95
  Music Maker:Bjorn Lynne
  Track Length: 2.22
  Additional Versions: none currently
  

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• Build the Tension

  
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  Standard License Price: £14.95
  Music Maker:Garry Johnston
  Track Length: 1.55
  Additional Versions: none currently
  

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• Dron Piano

  
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  Standard License Price: £24.95
  Music Maker:Valeriy Antonyuk
  Track Length: 2.48
  Additional Versions: none currently
  

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• Productive Lives

  
  Keywords: suspense tense tension intrigue crime conspiracy drama dramatic film score game soundtracks background Tempo: moderately agile. Instuments: strings, percussion, violin, piano, woodwinds, brass, harp, maramba ...more
  

  Standard License Price: £24.95
  Music Maker:The Bar Chord
  Track Length: 4.40
  Additional Versions: none currently
  

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• The Sixth Sign

  
  A dark, pensive and very tense film underscore track using staccato string section, intelligible whispers, ethnic percussion. A very serious tone which sets the scene for crime, thriller, international conspiracies, terrorists, etc....more
  

  Standard License Price: £24.95
  Music Maker:Bjorn Lynne
  Track Length: 3.25
  Additional Versions: none currently
  

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• Attrition

  
  Keywords: dark, tension ...more
  

  Standard License Price: £24.95
  Music Maker:BSM Publishing
  Track Length: 2.38
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• Anxious 3 min bed

  
  Moderate tempo. Sustained strings with percussion and an eerie electronic sound make this track quite menacing and tense. Additional Versions ...more
  

  Standard License Price: £24.95
  Music Maker:Christopher Page
  Track Length: 2.53
  Additional Versions: 3
  

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• Ominous 2 min bed

  
  Moderate Tempo. An eerie combination of synthetic high-pitched noises and unusual percussive sounds. Additional Versions ...more
  

  Standard License Price: £24.95
  Music Maker:Christopher Page
  Track Length: 2.37
  Additional Versions: 3
  

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• Hidden Agenda

  
  Mysterious, pulsating underscore track with a sense of danger or impending discovery. Crime investigation, undercover spy, agent, secret mission, breaking in or exploring a crime scene etc. smooth, atmospheric, soundtrack, movie,...more
  

  Standard License Price: £24.95
  Music Maker:Bjorn Lynne
  Track Length: 2.27
  Additional Versions: none currently
  

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• Piece by Piece

  
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  Standard License Price: £24.95
  Music Maker:Brett McKee
  Track Length: 3.08
  Additional Versions: none currently
  

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• Crashed

  
  A dark, suspenseful and futuristic ambient track. Good for a sci-fi, dark thriller or horror. ...more
  

  Standard License Price: £24.95
  Music Maker:BSM Publishing
  Track Length: 2.09
  Additional Versions:
  

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• Suspense

  
  An eerie soundscape of percussive brushes, bells and other metallic sounds. Slow tempo. Additional Versions ...more
  

  Standard License Price: £24.95
  Music Maker:Christopher Page
  Track Length: 3.00
  Additional Versions: 3
  

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• The Abyss

  
  Keywords: suspenseful suspense tense tension mysterious ...more
  

  Standard License Price: £24.95
  Music Maker:BSM Publishing
  Track Length: 2.33
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• Haunted House (B.Mckee)

  
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  Standard License Price: £24.95
  Music Maker:Brett McKee
  Track Length: 3.10
  Additional Versions: none currently
  

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• Deep

  
  Keywords: Suspense, atmospheric ...more
  

  Standard License Price: £24.95
  Music Maker:BSM Publishing
  Track Length: 4.42
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• Mookie

  
  Medium fast track with elements of suspense and a dark atmosphere. ...more
  

  Standard License Price: £24.95
  Music Maker:BSM Publishing
  Track Length: 2.04
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• Search For The Missing Boy

  
  Moderate Tempo. Starts with eerie synthesised voice sounds before being accompanied by a host of percussive sounds and some deep low strings. The track progresses with the woodwind and brass elements. Quite a dark feel. ...more
  

  Standard License Price: £24.95
  Music Maker:Garry Johnston
  Track Length: 2.24
  Additional Versions: none currently
  

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• Who

  
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  Standard License Price: £19.95
  Music Maker:Henry Gorman
  Track Length: 1.39
  Additional Versions: none currently
  

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• Film Cues 1 Suspense

  
  A barrage of ear piercing fast moving strings and percussion. Additional Versions ...more
  

  Standard License Price: £14.95
  Music Maker:Mr Gelly Bean
  Track Length: 0.49
  Additional Versions: 4
  

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• Watching You

  
  Slow tempo, discordant and disjointed with a meandering melody. ...more
  

  Standard License Price: £19.95
  Music Maker:Martin Bayliss
  Track Length: 2.04
  Additional Versions: none currently
  

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• Dead End Street

  
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  Standard License Price: £24.95
  Music Maker:Brett McKee
  Track Length: 3.08
  Additional Versions: none currently
  

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• Into the Void

  
  Dark and sinister strings with incidental melody. Moderate tempo. ...more
  

  Standard License Price: £24.95
  Music Maker:Martin Bayliss
  Track Length: 2.16
  Additional Versions: none currently
  

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• Brooding Orchestral Minimalism

  
  Brooding, minimalist track. Atmospheric, classical strings with electro influences...more
  

  Standard License Price: £24.95
  Music Maker:Alex Plowright
  Track Length: 2.53
  Additional Versions: none currently
  

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• Cher No Beel

  
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  Standard License Price: £19.95
  Music Maker:Mauro Magnani
  Track Length: 1.33
  Additional Versions: none currently
  

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• Blind Panic

  
  Horror, scary suspense, frustration, stressed up, the clock is ticking....more
  

  Standard License Price: £19.95
  Music Maker:Niklas Ahman
  Track Length: 1.21
  Additional Versions: none currently
  

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• DramaTaps

  
  Subtle, with quiet intensity, suitable for corporate and documentaries....more
  

  Standard License Price: £19.95
  Music Maker:Niklas Ahman
  Track Length: 1.41
  Additional Versions: none currently
  

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• No Go Area

  
  Mystic and suspenseful background texture....more
  

  Standard License Price: £24.95
  Music Maker:Niklas Ahman
  Track Length: 2.13
  Additional Versions: none currently
  

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• On Post

  
  Mystic, dark, spy, surveillance, echoes, pulses & ticks....more
  

  Standard License Price: £14.95
  Music Maker:Niklas Ahman
  Track Length: 0.38
  Additional Versions: none currently
  

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• Thin Line

  
  Suspenseful hybrid of strings, piano, fx and percussion....more
  

  Standard License Price: £19.95
  Music Maker:Niklas Ahman
  Track Length: 1.05
  Additional Versions: none currently
  

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• Dark Hour

  
  Cinematic, suspense, tense theme, with big drums....more
  

  Standard License Price: £14.95
  Music Maker:Dmitry Lifshitz
  Track Length: 0.59
  Additional Versions: none currently
  

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• Tunnel

  
  Unusual, with a lot of kitchen metallic percussions. Clock ticking in background, spooky feel....more
  

  Standard License Price: £19.95
  Music Maker:Dmitry Lifshitz
  Track Length: 1.43
  Additional Versions: none currently
  

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• Silent Movie Villain

  
  Vintage piano, heroine in trouble....more
  

  Standard License Price: £24.95
  Music Maker:Gavin Courtie & Liz Radford
  Track Length: 2.35
  Additional Versions: 2
  

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• Against The Enemy

  
  A darkly ambient, threatening and unnerving underscore. Suitable for tense and pensive drama scenes, reality show, documentary, dangerous situations, nervous undertow....more
  

  Standard License Price: £19.95
  Music Maker:Lynne Publishing - Alexander Khaskin
  Track Length: 1.05
  Additional Versions: none currently
  

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• Broken Promises

  
  A pensive and mysterious underscore, suitable for crime investigation, dark drama or documentary. Nervous and with a sense of movement, ticking time, hidden clues waiting to be discovered. ...more
  

  Standard License Price: £24.95
  Music Maker:Lynne Publishing - Alexander Khaskin
  Track Length: 3.08
  Additional Versions: none currently
  

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• Continuing Dilemma

  
  A very dark film soundtrack underscore cue featuring bowed metals, drones and a subdued percussion section with a tribal feel. A few well placed Spanish guitar tones adds a sense of drama and emotion. Great for thriller, crime mystery,...more
  

  Standard License Price: £14.95
  Music Maker:Lynne Publishing - Alexander Khaskin
  Track Length: 0.54
  Additional Versions: none currently
  

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• Hiding In The Dark

  
  Underlying tension. A dark and creepy underscore track for horror or dark drama, criminal documentary or crime scene investigation. What gruesome discovery lies behind the next turn? A nervous, pensive background track. Clanky percussion,...more
  

  Standard License Price: £19.95
  Music Maker:Lynne Publishing - Alexander Khaskin
  Track Length: 1.40
  Additional Versions: none currently
  

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• Intrusion

  
  A strange and unsettling semi-orchestral film underscore. Nervous and uncertain, swirling and clangy. Suitable for a very tense and pensive moment in a dark drama, horror, crime thriller or documentary. Carries a sense of hidden evil or a...more
  

  Standard License Price: £24.95
  Music Maker:Lynne Publishing - Alexander Khaskin
  Track Length: 2.09
  Additional Versions: none currently
  

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• Last Minute Thoughts

  
  Weird underscore soundscape for thriller, dark drama, crime scene investigation or documentary. Hints of screeching metals, deep thuds and strange twisted melodies from a dark place. A disturbing sound montage like a hidden evil or...more
  

  Standard License Price: £19.95
  Music Maker:Lynne Publishing - Alexander Khaskin
  Track Length: 1.58
  Additional Versions: none currently
  

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• No Way Out

  
  Sneaky and darkly pensive underscore for drama or dark mystery. Perhaps crime scene investigation, criminal activity, lurking danger. Suitable for documentary, film score, TV drama or nervous tense moments etc. Sneaking pads, dark bass...more
  

  Standard License Price: £19.95
  Music Maker:Lynne Publishing - Alexander Khaskin
  Track Length: 1.26
  Additional Versions: none currently
  

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• Provoked

  
  A short film or television drama cue, suitable for crime thriller, mystery or an intense drama. Ticking rhythm, pensive movement, building to a crescendo. Perhaps a terrible realization or a gruesome discovery. ...more
  

  Standard License Price: £14.95
  Music Maker:Lynne Publishing - Alexander Khaskin
  Track Length: 0.43
  Additional Versions: none currently
  

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• The Hour Before Midnight

  
  A pensive, rhythmic underscore for a dark thriller, drama, crime mystery or documentary. The percussion carries a slightly ethnic or tribal feel, while the wailing, screeching metallic pads give the track a sense of fear, anxious waiting...more
  

  Standard License Price: £19.95
  Music Maker:Lynne Publishing - Alexander Khaskin
  Track Length: 1.15
  Additional Versions: none currently
  

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• Unexpected Guest

  
  An ambient film soundtrack cue with a very mysterious edge. Pensive, slowly moving soundscape, like hiding, sneaking, or breaking and entering. A subtle rhythmic element enters about half way through along with a deep drone, giving the...more
  

  Standard License Price: £19.95
  Music Maker:Lynne Publishing - Alexander Khaskin
  Track Length: 1.06
  Additional Versions: none currently
  

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• Unfortunate Results

  
  An unsettling and nervous film or television underscore cue. A repetitive rhythm gives the piece a pensive feel and the uneasy drones and pads brings a sense of terrible realization or an unfolding mystery. Great for crime investigation,...more
  

  Standard License Price: £19.95
  Music Maker:Lynne Publishing - Alexander Khaskin
  Track Length: 1.09
  Additional Versions: none currently
  

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• Waiting For Outcome

  
  This very dark film or TV drama underscore cue builds slowly in tension, but keeps a steady ticking pattern throughout. Subtle screeching metals and a nervous, repetitive rhythm make for a very unsettling, pensive wait. Suitable for crime...more
  

  Standard License Price: £19.95
  Music Maker:Lynne Publishing - Alexander Khaskin
  Track Length: 1.23
  Additional Versions: none currently
  

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• Campbell

  
  Overdriven guitar, edgy pads and delayed percussion....more
  

  Standard License Price: £24.95
  Music Maker:Richard Heacock
  Track Length: 2.34
  Additional Versions: none currently
  

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• The March of Science

  
  Retro synth arpeggios with synth sweep transitions....more
  

  Standard License Price: £24.95
  Music Maker:Richard Heacock
  Track Length: 3.06
  Additional Versions: none currently
  

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• Cloud Burst

  
  Filmic ambient piece with orchestral flourishes in the style of Steve Reich or Brian Eno....more
  

  Standard License Price: £24.95
  Music Maker:The Sound Room
  Track Length: 2.36
  Additional Versions: none currently
  

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• Dramarama

  
  Dramatic and sophisticated groove perfect for drama, TV, film and production music. ...more
  

  Standard License Price: £24.95
  Music Maker:The Sound Room
  Track Length: 2.33
  Additional Versions: none currently
  

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• Spy With Drums

  
  Dramatic and funky TV investigation, crime scene type theme....more
  

  Standard License Price: £24.95
  Music Maker:The Sound Room
  Track Length: 5.42
  Additional Versions: none currently
  

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• Always On The Run

  
  Dark, pulsating thriller underscore. Deep percussion, orchestral sweeps, synthesizer pulses; a great combination of symphonic and electronic elements with big percussion. Suspenseful thriller, crime, spy mission material....more
  

  Standard License Price: £24.95
  Music Maker:Lynne Publishing - Pierre Gerwig Langer
  Track Length: 3.32
  Additional Versions: 5
  

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• Dark Waters

  
  Ominous and tense, semi-orchestral action or sci-fi track. Danger or evil forces. Also suitable as music for TV Reality Drama, crime, accidents, fire or other extreme danger....more
  

  Standard License Price: £24.95
  Music Maker:Lynne Publishing - Pierre Gerwig Langer
  Track Length: 2.44
  Additional Versions: 5
  

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• Fiction Fight

  
  Tense and busy semi-orchestral, semi-rhythmic danger underscore. Urgent, dramatic battle or accident footage. Great for sci-fi or Reality TV Drama, police action, rescue operation, extreme danger and drama. Also good for sci-fi battle,...more
  

  Standard License Price: £24.95
  Music Maker:Lynne Publishing - Pierre Gerwig Langer
  Track Length: 2.58
  Additional Versions: 5
  

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