Royalty Free Dark / Somber Music

A deep EDM bass track, featuring a trap beat, strings and ethnic elements. Pretty chilled, with a slightly abstract approach and ethereal quality that blends a feeling of wonder and awe with laid back nights, the result is a modern and dynamic cut interweaving between soft beats, sparse vocal samples, marimba leads and smooth string passages. Curious and intriguing.

Sultry New age Lounge instrumental with a smokey, jazzy feel. A rich backing of organ pads, picked guitar, electric bass and rimshot drumbeat support the muted trumpet solo which takes centre stage. Meandering loosely throughout the piece, it has a downtempo, chilled, and slightly ambiguous vibe as if uncertain of its next step, creating a sense of melancholy and a journey into the unknown.

Futuristic ambient soundscape. Perfect as background music in science fiction movies, games and videos thanks to its digital sense of expanse and meandering openness, it's built on haunting synth tones and interjecting glitch effects and textures. No real rhythmic feel, just a dark and mysterious vibe with a hint of suspense.

A modern hip hop beat to be used selectively. Effectively in 4 sections, with everything showcased in the final part, it's dark, moody and atmospheric while retaining an urban vibe through the beat. Deep synth bass, and a simple keyboard melody soaked in reverb form the main bed but the added touches of guitar and synth strings with an old school wavering tape effect give it a mysterious and retro feel. Chilled, curious and almost haunting.

Trippy, dissonant mindscrew spanning the full stereo spectrum to leave your ears wondering what goes where. Simple, repeated piano motifs get layered with sub bass, sound design elements and rhythmic pulses to destabilise and agitate the natural flow of things, whilst somehow managing to stay coherent, albeit in a creepy, foreboding way. An unusual soft soundscape with momentum and tension.

A lovely soundtrack with European waltz influences and playful bell sounds

Enchanting orchestral epic. Magical and mysterious in its gently flowing piano lines and shimmering high strings, it builds on the theme with faster string ostinato and legato melodies, gradually turning into a deeper, more epic interpretation with added brass, woodwind and percussion. Without limiting yourself to the fantasy genre as it works for many other situations, think more 'fairies and elves showing their powers' than 'horsemen of the apocalypse'.

A moody tension builder, pure and simple. Synth based, with a very strong unrelenting pulse, it's a slow burner with a determined, unshifting focus that grows in dramatic tension to include a techno beat and ostinato strings. Nothing fancy like a chord progression here, just an arrow like, eyes forward approach to reaching its goal.

A melancholic piano and strings ambient track. In a perfect example of 'less is more', what you get is a tragically fragile and delicate piece of cinematic, reverbed piano woven with muted strings and harmonics. Isolation, yearning, loss, sorrow ..... it's dark in feeling but light in texture, expressing vulnerability with perhaps the slightest hint of optimism. Moody stuff indeed.

A melodic rock song mixing heavily distorted guitar with indie pop vocals. Lots of fuzz and feedback give an over the top, chaotic feel to the track while the pounding drums keep it grounded. Add in softer arpeggiated guitar and tuneful vocals to the verses, and you have a contrasting sense of soft playfulness and out of control energy.

Slightly mysterious retro rock theme. Acoustic guitar and female oohs feature over a solid drum beat before brass enters for a South American feel and a searing synth lead takes over. Part psychedelia, part spaghetti Western, it's a downbeat track with melancholic vibes.

Cinematic hybrid track with an ever shifting mood. Starting gently with strings and horns, it gives an impression of mellow reflection which soon turns more sinister with the introduction of bolder brass and timpani. It turns once again, with solo violin making a yearning, mournful appearance over string ostinato before becoming more rock styled through a prominent electric bass line and percussive beat. With the suspense and intensity building, the string melody becomes dominant, spearheading the epic final assault and resulting in a piece that delivers drama, mystery and contrast.

Dark, industrial electro track - not the manic, super hyped style but instead, a relentless march through aggressive synth lines and pounding beats creating a sinister and foreboding menace with a future styled flavour. You know the robots are rising up against us with this.

Rhythmically and musically diverse orchestral piece. Interesting to the point of experimentation due to the dissonances and jerky rhythms, it is inherently a classically inspired composition with 20th Century music influences. A sense of the bizarre mixed with battle drum percussion, you have fast, chaotic woodwinds interjecting with off beat brass stabs and a prominent choir echoing and mirroring the main themes. A strong military feel, with a mix of gothic darkness and mischeivous endeavour in a cinematic package.

Gloriously ambient track with a heavy cinematic leaning. Building a bed of tension through soft piano and strings, it breaks into an expressive outpouring of reflective emotion, using a dynamic cello lead and chiming guitar. It's a theme that returns with more complexity and intensity, but manages to keep it's fragile, delicate sensitivity with a calming yet weighty vibe. Slow paced, and all the more powerful for it.

Laid back soft rock track. A bluesy clean guitar lead becomes the focus after a bass and drum intro, backed also by gated synth pads and accents. The steady driving backbeat grounds the piece, the reverb and effects open it up to create an overall cool, chilled vibe with a sense of purpose and optimism.

741 Hz Solfeggio frequency is used for solving problems and awakening intuition in meditation. This light, sparkling soundscape is more delicate at this frequency, it's gentle, overlapping tones smoothly evolving like slow moving clouds dispersing and reforming in new ways. The occasional zinging synth keeps you alert and in the moment, with a calming backdrop of ever present drones and ethereal sonics to keep you grounded. Fulfilling and wholesome.

A soft, melancholic acoustic track, featuring guitar, piano and strings. Opening with arpeggiated guitar accompanying a simple, yearning melody, the piece plays on the theme as it builds with piano and eventually the legato strings to solidify the overall ambience of regret. Bittersweet in its mood, with lots of question/answer phrasing, the piece is a thoughtful study of a traumatised mind.

Intense electronica with a real pump to give it a strong industrial edge. Pulsating bass and gritty synth set the tone, with the odd quirky dissonance thrown in to unsettle you and generate a darker atmosphere. Add in the hard hitting beat, distorted guitar riffs and digitised synth textures and you've got a full-on track that packs a dramatic punch with a brooding, action based epicness enveloping it.

An uncomplicated yet profound piece of meditational soundscape that's equally at home as a thought-provoking, new age track as it is the background to a disturbing psychological scene, such is the potential for intrigue and tension in such a minimalist, dark electronic piece. The 285 Hz frequency targets your energy field and supposedly helps in the fast healing of burns, fractures, sprains and cuts - somewhat ironic if it ends up in the soundtrack to a psycho-gore flick.