menacing background music

menacing royalty-free film music designed for media projects

Sonic Liberty’s background music menacing compositions are made for movies.


With our sound design menacing scenes of any duration become palpable.

Everybody knows the forewarning tunes of John Williams’ legendary composition for the evil Galactic Empire in Star Wars. It combines just the right mixture of suspense and menace, making it one of the most memorable threatening orchestral scores in film history. It is also a prime example of how the right soundtrack can evoke the desired emotions in an audience. The looming orchestral film music of John Williams is a great inspiration to every composer. Sonic Liberty’s library for menacing sound design aims at providing you with an equally professional music for your film project. Not only do we offer orchestra music, but also all variations of tension-building, dark and ominous stock music. Our production music comprises intimidating strings, stately drums and tense piano tunes. Coming in any duration, our production music delivers the right tracks for horror films, actioners, thrillers and other cinematic projects featuring suspenseful themes.

Which genres are covered by this library?
Virtually any genre’s soundtrack can benefit from our menacing compositions. Once you have determined the direction you want your project to go intake, it is very easy to find royalty-free stock music for any suspenseful scenario within Sonic Liberty’s library. For example: an action scene involving a car chase and heavy gunfire might demand a frantically paced, high-octane track with dominant drums and distorted bass. Horror films may require claustrophobic soundtracks with eerie strings - just think of Hitchcock's legendary Psycho. A documentary with heavy exposition footage frequently utilizes looming, militaristic orchestra music. Our stock music is of course not limited to a motion picture score: video games, advertisements and radio plays can equally benefit from a forewarning soundtracks. With our sound design menacing scenes become outright threatening. In addition, using our production music is probably the easiest part of your project: while you browse and explore our database, single out potential candidates and chose the ones you would like to implement, we are dealing with the legal side. We take care of the boring stuff, keeping you from losing focus from the essential part of your project. Enjoy our extensive library and find the right soundtrack for you today.

528 Tracks Title     /ID Description Duration
Title Description Duration
Creepy Cave
ID: KF025401
Album: Orchestral Suspense Vol.3
Rhythmic strings and percussions, perfect for a suspenseful scene. 03:00
Crossfire
ID: KF012308
Album: Epic Rock Vol.1
Action track for orchestra and electric guitar. Fast and dynamic with strings. 02:01
Crossing the Desert
ID: KF029608
Album: Battlegrounds
A spherical track, which is mainly influenced by the solo violin and continues to build up. 01:28
Crushing Sensation
ID: KF025603
Album: Destructive Trailers
Tense, eerie, pulsating, almost industrial percussion with an epic rise towards the end. 00:41
Dangerous Jungle
ID: KF019219
Album: Orchestral Suspense Vol.1
Sunspensful film music with threatening, insidious strings, impelling rhythms and roaring brass. 03:01
Dark City
ID: KF014307
Album: Modern Suspense
Threatening, sinister orchestra sound within a terrifyied, desolate atmosphere. 02:04
Dark Forces
ID: KF025607
Album: Destructive Trailers
Dark, foreboding strings, massive percussion and alarming brass entries. Thrilling, dazing and tremendous. 00:48
Dark Ocean
ID: KF017007
Album: Calm Orchestra
Calm, sinister and smouldering music with cello, electric piano, piano, rain stick and flute. Some isolated xylophone tones. 03:07
Dark Pitch
ID: KF019305
Album: Orchestral Suspense Vol.2
Calm, low strings and creepy synthie sounds define this sinister track. With unpleasant moments of tension. 02:41
Dark Planet
ID: KF021706
Album: Epic Dimension
A spooky piano and a roaring bass. Music like from an other world. 01:02
Dark Side
ID: KF011514
Album: Dark Orchestral Mainthemes
Menacing timpanis and dark brasses. Contemplative orchestral piece. 01:21
Dark Sky
ID: KF015912
Album: Uncommon Cinematic Score Vol.1
A sinister, quiet track with some threatening action elements. 02:22
Dark Stars
ID: KF011511
Album: Dark Orchestral Mainthemes
Hopeful and modern orchestra track. Positive beginning, dark and threatening at times. 02:49
Dark Vengeance
ID: KF017504
Album: Epic Rock Vol.2
Sinister, impelling track with hard electric guitar, accompanied by a sonorous orchestra. 02:07
Dark Vikings
ID: KF015913
Album: Uncommon Cinematic Score Vol.1
Epic orchestral music, very energetic, agitating, threatening and ceremonial. 02:07
Dark Waters
ID: KF015901
Album: Uncommon Cinematic Score Vol.1
Action track with quiet, gloomy introduction, then agitated and fast-paced in the process. In the background, the sound of grinding of sword blades. 02:45
Darkening
ID: KF011705
Album: Dramatic Orchestra
A dramatic, powerful orchestral piece for epic battles and combats. Accompanied by choir. 01:26
Dead Freight
ID: KF025604
Album: Destructive Trailers
A series of cinematic hits furiously swelling to a raging percussive climax. 00:44
Dead Reckoning
ID: KF019309
Album: Orchestral Suspense Vol.2
Suspenseful strings combined with heroic brass and theremine. Gentle but threatening. 02:39
Death Doors
ID: KF013220
Album: Heavy Metal
Very fast and aggressive metal track with melodic guitars, with sirens in between. 01:29
Death Tutor
ID: KF017511
Album: Epic Rock Vol.2
Rocking orchestra and choir track, combined with hard electric guitar riffs, electro beats and oriental singing. 02:09
Deep Under
ID: KF018909
Album: Night Scenes&Suspense
Sinister spy atmosphere with impelling rhythm and bright melodies. 02:05
Defender
ID: KF017505
Album: Epic Rock Vol.2
An energetic, aggressive and partly funky rock and orchestra track. Cool and full of action. 02:05
Density
ID: KF016715
Album: Action Grounds Vol.2
Energetic, melodic orchestra track with intense string and brass sounds and soft piano tones. 01:21
Deserted Village
ID: KF021809
Album: Calm Ambience
Calm, dark Background-Track with deep, monotone Timpani, acoustic guitar and unsettling soundscapes. 01:07
Divine Intervention
ID: KF014109
Album: Massive Orchestra
A dramatic rock and orchestra track, very energetic and loaded, a piano with it. 02:03
Divine Shot
ID: KF015010
Album: Rock Grounds
Action-rock track combining hard electric guitars and electro sounds in manner of a spy movie. 02:04
Don't Be Fancy
ID: KF011904
Album: Electrified Orchestra
Sci-fi action track with hard rhythm and energetic and menacing strings. Exciting and dangerous. 02:06
Doomsnight
ID: KF012320
Album: Epic Rock Vol.1
Resounding music with a calm beginning. For the big orchestra, accompanied by an e-guitar with very catchy riffs. 02:25
Downhill Biking
ID: KF011903
Album: Electrified Orchestra
Dynamic science fiction track with many electro / synth elements and a pulsating rhythm. 03:10
Drive Shaft
ID: KF013214
Album: Heavy Metal
Thrash track with rapid drums and polyphonic electric guitars. Very aggressive. 01:42
Drone Attack
ID: KF019414
Album: Percussive Action Vol.2
modern hybrid action-Track with massive grooves and strong orchestral themes. In the second half the tempo rises abruptly. 01:00
Drum Race
ID: KF013215
Album: Heavy Metal
Aggressive, persistent heavy metal with fast electric guitars and rapid drums. 01:31
Dry Bones
ID: KF019706
Album: Spooky Orchestra
Dark orchestral fantasy track. Spooky, with marching style and a touch of undead horror. 01:41
Dynamite
ID: KF011310
Album: Dark Cinema
A fast futuristic electro/orchestra track. Threatening, spooky and unsettling. 02:22
East To West
ID: KF019605
Album: Rough Grooves Vol.2
Groovy electro action track with hard rhythms, accompanied by a relaxed electric guitar. 02:22
Easy March
ID: KF014207
Album: Military
Orchestra music, an announcement of an upcoming battle. Thoughtful and slow, with the sound of sword blades clashing in the background. 01:37
Electrified
ID: KF018408
Album: Massive Trailer Vol.1
Energetic drum beats against a background of exotic, heroic brass and strings. High tension until the last tone. 01:51
Empty Faces
ID: KF013407
Album: High Action
Hard rock track with aggressive electric guitar, fast and threatening. Accompanied by electro elements and energetic drums. 01:43
Enduring War
ID: KF016711
Album: Action Grounds Vol.2
Clear, melodic piano, dramatic strings, brass and drums. The music breaks up several times, only to swell up again with an energetic sound. 02:47
Engines
ID: KF010502
Album: Ambient&Drones Vol.1
Eerie track with growling metal percussion and screeching stingers. 00:55
Ensorcelled
ID: KF012407
Album: Epic Trailer Vol.1
Orchestra msuic with oriental elements, accompanied by a powerful choir. Energetic and threatening. 01:52
Entry Of Evil
ID: KF012002
Album: Emotional Trailer
Dramatic orchestra with hard drums and timpani hits. Threatening brass and a powerful choir. 01:13
Eternal Wrath
ID: KF012319
Album: Epic Rock Vol.1
Energetic orchestra music with hard electric guitar riffs and choir. Uncompromising and intimidating. 01:56
Ethnic Fights
ID: KF010209
Album: Action Orchestra
Menacing, exotic percussion-laden orchestral action piece. 01:04
Evil Intent
ID: KF016813
Album: Ambient&Drones Vol.2
Three creepy orchestral stingers. Quietly threatening, with strings, brass, timpani and synthies. 00:40
Evolution
ID: KF011506
Album: Dark Orchestral Mainthemes
Mysterious and powerful film music. 02:01
Exclusive Access
ID: KF012418
Album: Epic Trailer Vol.1
Strings, brass and choir. Reminding of epic battles. 01:29
Explode
ID: KF022701
Album: Electrified Rock'n'Pop
An impulsive rock rhythm with drums, synth pads and solo synhts. Backed up with a distorted bass guitar. 03:51
Facing The Enemy
ID: KF022003
Album: Dark Tales
soft action with staccato-strings and low timpani-hits. Suspense without being pushy 01:14
Fantastic Journey
ID: KF012605
Album: Fantastic Orchestra
A mysterious, medieval sounding orchestra music. Energetic strings and tender transverse flute. 01:16
Fast Lane
ID: KF027609
Album: Automotive Vol.2
Driving dubstep track with an emotional guitar intro and atmospheric synths 01:53
Fate Of Victory
ID: KF018413
Album: Massive Trailer Vol.1
Film music, melancholic and heroic at the same time: tender female voice vs. energetic choir against a background of insistent drums and impressive strings. 01:43
Fear
ID: KF010210
Album: Action Orchestra
Short and to the point, the perfect introduction to a spy thriller. 00:26
Feel The Astonishment
ID: KF020111
Album: World Tales Vol.2
Spanish rhythms, castanets and acoustic guitar define this energetic, impelling, still solemn track. With percussion and calm strings. 01:37
Fervid Trail
ID: KF011905
Album: Electrified Orchestra
Action track with orchestra and electric guitar. Very dramatic and energetic. 02:52
Fiction Fight
ID: KF017306
Album: Dark Orchestra Vol.2
Orchestra track with spy film attitude, full of action and threatening. 02:59
Fight No Matter What
ID: KF019108
Album: Orchestral Landscapes
An exotic, mysterious track for orchestra and piano, combined with oriental vocals. Energetic and sonorous. 02:59
Final Lockdown
ID: KF025609
Album: Destructive Trailers
Cutting synth and massive, frightening percussion combined with wailing background elements. A claustrophobic dungeon sequence. 00:24
Finger Marks
ID: KF014316
Album: Modern Suspense
Quiet, scary strings, accentuated with occasional beats. Sinister and disturbing. 02:23
Fingers Twisted
ID: KF013205
Album: Heavy Metal
Speed-metal track with harshly threshed drums and heavy guitar shreds. 02:14
Follow Me
ID: KF027610
Album: Automotive Vol.2
Atmospheric dubstep track with rhythmic strings and diverse sounds 02:00
For The Greater Good
ID: KF018407
Album: Massive Trailer Vol.1
Melancholic, calm music at the beginning with strings, harp and a distant choir. Merging into a dramatic, combative final part with energetic brass and strings. 01:38
Foreign Territory
ID: KF020115
Album: World Tales Vol.2
Suspenseful orchestra track. Hectic, threatening and mysterious, like a danger from foreign areas. 02:07
Foreshadowed
ID: KF018808
Album: Native American
An atmospheric, breathy track with shaky reed pipe, strings and harp. Threatening and mysterious. 01:44
Forged March
ID: KF011402
Album: Dark Orchestra Vol.1
This music is threatening and mystic. The acoustic guitar gives the track an exotic character. 02:08
Foul Slaughter
ID: KF019405
Album: Percussive Action Vol.2
A rock action track with a fast, energetic rhythm and short electric guitar riffs. 01:01
Four Horsemen
ID: KF014102
Album: Massive Orchestra
Energetic, dramatic orchestra and rock band music. Long orchestral intro and rock finale. 02:25
Frantic Chevy
ID: KF018509
Album: Massive Trailer Vol.2
Very suspenseful orchestra track full of action. Impelling drum rhythms and strings, combined with powerful brass and synthies. Sounds like a fatal hunt. 02:32
Full Attention
ID: KF016717
Album: Action Grounds Vol.2
Thrilling and dramatic music for a secret mission: dramatic strings as lead, combined with drums, synthies and piercing sounds. 02:37
Full Sails
ID: KF029603
Album: Battlegrounds
A fast-paced orchestra-track, characterized by objections of male voices and a melodyline of a cello. 01:56
Gain Control
ID: KF013619
Album: IDs&Jingles Vol.1
A short, energetic orchestra track in the style of an action movie with fast strings and hard rhythm. 00:28
Gasoline Thurst
ID: KF013413
Album: High Action
Fast, aggressive action track with rocking electric guitar and fast drums. The middle section is more quiet and melancholic. 02:04
Get Ready Now
ID: KF018905
Album: Night Scenes&Suspense
Thrilling orchestral music with rhythmic strings and sci-fi-like loops. 01:41
Get The Grip
ID: KF010208
Album: Action Orchestra
Quiet, eerie passages alternating with dramatic, beat- and brass-heavy action sequences. 01:35
Getting Shudders
ID: KF029302
Album: Hybrid Tension
A gloomy and mysterious synth-track in half-time, veiling unwanted intrigues. 01:14
Ghost Stories
ID: KF022004
Album: Dark Tales
Calm and dark underscore-Track , dark strings and unsettling atmospheric synths. After the build-up in the middle there´s a melodic part with harp and etheral female vocals. 01:16
Gigantic Thoughts
ID: KF010512
Album: Ambient&Drones Vol.1
Swells, stingers, rises and impacts form this SFX-laden suspense track. 01:32
Gloomy Sky Front
ID: KF010703
Album: American Landscapes
Acoustic guitars and strings are the basis of this nice track with piano-arpeggios. 02:06
Gods And Demons
ID: KF011406
Album: Dark Orchestra Vol.1
The powerful choir is fighting against the thunder of the drums and brass. 02:13
Going For Desaster
ID: KF019212
Album: Orchestral Suspense Vol.1
A scary, dramatic track with sinister staccato strings and xylophone. Suspenseful and threatening, still melodic. 01:50
Golgatha
ID: KF014101
Album: Massive Orchestra
At first, sinister piano music. Strings and drums amending in the second part and finally a hard electric guitar with it. 02:31
Gone Emotions
ID: KF016409
Album: World Tales Vol.1
Orchestral track with mystical atmosphere revolving around a meditative chant, with a dramatic turn around at the end. 01:44
Good And Evil
ID: KF012317
Album: Epic Rock Vol.1
Heroic, emotional action track with orchestra and synthetic elements, combined with choir accompaniment in the background. 02:06
Got Trapped
ID: KF014521
Album: Percussive Action Vol.1
Exotic drum music, reminding of djungle and wilderness. Bongos and percussions. 01:46
Gotham Under Siege
ID: KF015005
Album: Rock Grounds
Exotic orchestra track with quite oriental vocals and pervading percussion. 02:10
Gotterschlacht
ID: KF014302
Album: Modern Suspense
Sinister spy track, with orchestra and electric guitar. 02:03
Green Sahara
ID: KF016406
Album: World Tales Vol.1
African drums and flutes in a profound, atmospheric track. The sound of the hot desert. 02:26
Grenade
ID: KF011701
Album: Dramatic Orchestra
A dramatic, threatening orchestra track with choir and droning brass. 01:05
Grinding Fists
ID: KF018806
Album: Native American
Track with energetic drums and percussion, calm strings, rain stick and flute with it. Like forceful fists in a fight. 03:07
Groove System
ID: KF015203
Album: Rough Grooves Vol.1
Electro track with a hard breakbeat and dynamic sound effects. Reminds of modern spy movies. 02:23
Grounded Explosion
ID: KF015001
Album: Rock Grounds
A track with a pulsating groove as basis, which works up to a beautiful hook with sensitive guitar play. 01:40
Hairy Beast
ID: KF014408
Album: Orchestra of War Vol.1
Threatening orchestra music with military drums and trumpets. Accompanied by an energetic, dramatic choir. 01:06
Hard Hit
ID: KF025611
Album: Destructive Trailers
Thrilling, dark, disturbing. Perfect for dark and strange trailers. 01:19
He's Coming
ID: KF017310
Album: Dark Orchestra Vol.2
Dark and uneasy Orchestral-Horror. Sinister Themes are disturbed by string-Clusters and haunting piano-melodies. 01:45
Head On Collision
ID: KF014107
Album: Massive Orchestra
Action music for orchestra and electric guitar. Dramatic, aggressive towards the end. 02:14
Heavy Machinery
ID: KF016709
Album: Action Grounds Vol.2
A thrilling action orchestra track with fast string passages, impelling brass rhythms and drums. Energetic and dramatic. 01:28
Heavy Metal Roaring
ID: KF013417
Album: High Action
Resounding electric guitars paired with futuristic electro elements. A modern action track. 02:17
Heavy Weapons
ID: KF018406
Album: Massive Trailer Vol.1
Energetic, threatening music with powerful brass and strings, with few individual flute sounds. Aggressive, with the sound of sword blades and heroic choir. 02:39
Hellspire Ravens
ID: KF017301
Album: Dark Orchestra Vol.2
Sinister Fantasy-Action-track with massive brass, evil choirs and marching drums. 02:11
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