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
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
The Seventh Passage
ID: KF017509
Album: Epic Rock Vol.2
A dramatic, powerful orchestra track, intensified by a loud-voiced choir and energetic electric guitar sounds. 02:07
Nine Lives
ID: KF017507
Album: Epic Rock Vol.2
Powerful, aggressive music for orchestra and electro elements. Strings and brass as pivotal elements. 02:19
Invincible
ID: KF017506
Album: Epic Rock Vol.2
An epic action track with orchestra, choir and synthies. Very energetic, thrilling and futuristic. 02:10
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
Dark Vengeance
ID: KF017504
Album: Epic Rock Vol.2
Sinister, impelling track with hard electric guitar, accompanied by a sonorous orchestra. 02:07
Words In My Head
ID: KF017503
Album: Epic Rock Vol.2
Aggressive, energetic and threatening rock track. Hectic electric guitars, synthies and beats. 01:12
Steel Desert
ID: KF017502
Album: Epic Rock Vol.2
Weird and energetic rock film track with synthies and distorted electric guitar. Intense and threatening. 01:18
The Destructor
ID: KF017501
Album: Epic Rock Vol.2
Richly aggressive, roaring rock track with loud, distorted electric guitars, hard drums and sinister electric piano sounds. 01:34
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
Awaking The Abyss
ID: KF017309
Album: Dark Orchestra Vol.2
Sinister orchestral Fantasy-Action-track with massive brass, evil choirs and an unholy feeling. 02:22
Fiction Fight
ID: KF017306
Album: Dark Orchestra Vol.2
Orchestra track with spy film attitude, full of action and threatening. 02:59
Inscrutable Haze
ID: KF017304
Album: Dark Orchestra Vol.2
Orchestral graveyard menace, with slight choirs and organ. 03:48
The Dark Lord Arrives
ID: KF017303
Album: Dark Orchestra Vol.2
Dark, portentous marching orchestral music with low brass, deep male choirs and rhythmic strings. 01:59
Hidden In The Swamp
ID: KF017302
Album: Dark Orchestra Vol.2
Dark and sinister orchestral fantasy-music with choirs, massive percussions and ethnic flutes (Shakuhachi, Duduk). 02:29
Hellspire Ravens
ID: KF017301
Album: Dark Orchestra Vol.2
Sinister Fantasy-Action-track with massive brass, evil choirs and marching drums. 02:11
The Cloaked Man
ID: KF017113
Album: World Travels Vol.2
Exotic adventure track with Arabian leanings, the perfect music for games, films or travel documentaries. 02:21
Rising Moon
ID: KF017108
Album: World Travels Vol.2
Loud, hard drum and timpani beats combined with very sensitive, heroic strings. An exotic, wild and emotional music. 02:14
Wooden Suspense
ID: KF017107
Album: World Travels Vol.2
An untamed, aggressive music, sounding like wild animals and djungle. With drums, flutes and human voices. 01:23
Thai Folksy
ID: KF017105
Album: World Travels Vol.2
Oriental sounds and Far-Eastern elements. An exotic track which spreads a positive, enchanting atmosphere. 01:44
Spain Artistic
ID: KF017103
Album: World Travels Vol.2
An emotional, lively and vivacious music, with a Spanish style. Acoustic guitar and orchestra, combined with rhythmic castanets. 01:33
The Mothership
ID: KF017011
Album: Calm Orchestra
This dissonant and unsettling orchestral piece has a wide variety of dynamics. The themes are building up slowly, often disturbed by clusters and silence. 04:18
Uncovered
ID: KF017008
Album: Calm Orchestra
Calm, sinister and scary film music with strings and oboe. Reminds of foggy darkness. 03:01
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
Vicious Echoes
ID: KF016819
Album: Ambient&Drones Vol.2
Three creepy orchestra stingers with low strings and scary synthie sounds. Intrusive and sinister. 00:39
Infernal Tones
ID: KF016818
Album: Ambient&Drones Vol.2
Three threatening, sinister and calm orchestra stingers with insistent brass and strings. 00:37
Wicked Waves
ID: KF016817
Album: Ambient&Drones Vol.2
Three short, quick stingers with electric piano and synthies. Creepy and spine-chilling, like a swooshing danger. 00:26
Mean Falls
ID: KF016816
Album: Ambient&Drones Vol.2
Creepy synthies combined with weird strings, divided into three stingers. Full of suspense and threat. 00:32
Malicious Waylay
ID: KF016815
Album: Ambient&Drones Vol.2
Three creepy and intense orchestra stingers. Calm and threatening at the same time. With brass and strings. 00:38
Lethal Coercion
ID: KF016814
Album: Ambient&Drones Vol.2
Three orchestra stingers with brass, synthies, electric piano and strings. Intrusive, annoying and creepy. Like being pushed into a corner by an evil force. 00:43
Evil Intent
ID: KF016813
Album: Ambient&Drones Vol.2
Three creepy orchestral stingers. Quietly threatening, with strings, brass, timpani and synthies. 00:40
In Cold Blood
ID: KF016812
Album: Ambient&Drones Vol.2
Three short, threatening stingers with aggressive brass, combined with synthies, cymbals and timpani. 00:38
The Awakening
ID: KF016811
Album: Ambient&Drones Vol.2
Three wavelike synthie sounds. Scary, intrusive and threatening. Like the emergence of evil spirits. 00:30
The Tunnel
ID: KF016807
Album: Ambient&Drones Vol.2
Sinister horror ambience with disturbing noises and drones. 01:38
The Mansion
ID: KF016806
Album: Ambient&Drones Vol.2
Sinister and mysterious ambience, perfect for unsettling horror scenes. The lonely melody is played by a scary piano and often disturbed by soft string clusters. 01:47
Burning Ground
ID: KF016804
Album: Ambient&Drones Vol.2
Menacing apocalyptic future sounds with pads and dark orchestra. 02:07
Trust Nobody
ID: KF016718
Album: Action Grounds Vol.2
Dramatic, sinister and energetic string music with quiet piano and insistent drums, bass line and synthies. A gloomy track. 02:40
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
Towards The Light
ID: KF016716
Album: Action Grounds Vol.2
A thrilling, dramatic track, threatening and msyterious - reminds of a spectacular escape through the canal system… Synthies, dramatic strings and drums. 02:52
Density
ID: KF016715
Album: Action Grounds Vol.2
Energetic, melodic orchestra track with intense string and brass sounds and soft piano tones. 01:21
The Shield
ID: KF016714
Album: Action Grounds Vol.2
Disturbing and aggressive orchestra track with percussions and brass section, combined with synthie sounds. 01:31
Immersed
ID: KF016713
Album: Action Grounds Vol.2
Unusual orchestra track with suspenseful, rhythmic strings, bright xylophone and electric guitar sounds. 01:39
High Energy
ID: KF016712
Album: Action Grounds Vol.2
Dramatic brass and strings, alternating volume. Energetic, exciting and heroic orchestra composition. 01:58
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
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
Shock And Awe
ID: KF016708
Album: Action Grounds Vol.2
An exciting orchestra track with impelling strings, timpani and melodic brass. Like a heroic deployment of armed forces. 01:38
Before The Close
ID: KF016705
Album: Action Grounds Vol.2
Muffled synthies full of action combined with calm strings. Brass opens up and increases towards an epic end. 01:11
Interception
ID: KF016702
Album: Action Grounds Vol.2
An electro track with orchestra elements: billowing, futuristic synthies combined with rhythmic strings. Full of action and thick in sound. 02:30
Lands Of Heathen
ID: KF016416
Album: World Tales Vol.1
Dark orchestra piece, oriental flavor, with a dangerous, mysterious atmosphere. 03:02
Lands Of Ludlow
ID: KF016415
Album: World Tales Vol.1
Dark, exotic orchestra and choir music, deep and menacing. Rising at the end. 04:56
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
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
Monolith
ID: KF016401
Album: World Tales Vol.1
Sinister, menacing orchestral music with oriental elements. Ever-changing between sostenuto and impulsive. 02:10
Jungle Tales
ID: KF016217
Album: World Adventure Vol.1
A track out of the jungle. Dangerous, exotic and adventurous. 00:52
Moving Pipes
ID: KF016204
Album: World Adventure Vol.1
Action-packed exotic music. Hard drums and percussion, with ominous orchestra and bagpipes. 01:45
In The Side
ID: KF015914
Album: Uncommon Cinematic Score Vol.1
A sinister, weird piece. Ghostly strings and dark beats of timpani and anvil. 01:35
Dark Vikings
ID: KF015913
Album: Uncommon Cinematic Score Vol.1
Epic orchestral music, very energetic, agitating, threatening and ceremonial. 02:07
Dark Sky
ID: KF015912
Album: Uncommon Cinematic Score Vol.1
A sinister, quiet track with some threatening action elements. 02:22
Black Trees
ID: KF015911
Album: Uncommon Cinematic Score Vol.1
This orchestra track speaks of darkness and direct threatening. With piano oriental elements. 02:01
Weeping Willow
ID: KF015910
Album: Uncommon Cinematic Score Vol.1
A mysterious, dark orchestra music with a supporting tune, accompanied by chimes. 02:35
Medieval Fright
ID: KF015909
Album: Uncommon Cinematic Score Vol.1
A sinister, dark orchestra music with ghostly choir voices, paired with dark wind players and timpani. 03:07
Cornered Thrill
ID: KF015902
Album: Uncommon Cinematic Score Vol.1
Metallic and futuristic track with a gloomy, sinister atmosphere. 03:10
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
Tunnel Run
ID: KF015612
Album: Surf Vol.1
A motivating electric guitar surf track with energetic bass and catchy hookline. 02:15
Wave Guide
ID: KF015503
Album: Sports Rock Vol.2
A threatening, aggressive rock track with a lurid electric guitar. Energetic and liberating. 02:19
Hysteria
ID: KF015501
Album: Sports Rock Vol.2
Aggressive hard rock track with fast-paced electric guitars, interrupted by a soft interlude of synthies in the middle of the song. 02:20
Rough Cuts
ID: KF015217
Album: Rough Grooves Vol.1
Electric guitar track with lots of synthie-elements. A blend of rock and electro. 02:13
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
In Time You Will Know
ID: KF015201
Album: Rough Grooves Vol.1
Trance-action music with a hard electro beat and spheric synthie melody. Vivid and dynamic. 02:22
Bigger And Better
ID: KF015109
Album: Rocktronica
Energetic rock track full of synthies. Futuristic, activating and aggressive. 02:11
Street Worker
ID: KF015014
Album: Rock Grounds
Metal track with fast electric guitars combined with hard drums and percussions. 01:32
No Confusion
ID: KF015013
Album: Rock Grounds
Aggressive hard-rock track, hard electric guitar riffs and electric guitar soli, powerful drums and enigmatic effects. 01:32
Outcome
ID: KF015012
Album: Rock Grounds
Hard, stomping electric guitar track with lots of percussion and drums. 01:36
Water Footage
ID: KF015011
Album: Rock Grounds
Rock track with energetic electric guitar and powerful percussions. Groovy, aggressive and powerful. 01:39
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
Arising Pain
ID: KF015007
Album: Rock Grounds
Aggressive hard-rock track with dramatic electric guitar and strong, evil drums. 01:50
Gotham Under Siege
ID: KF015005
Album: Rock Grounds
Exotic orchestra track with quite oriental vocals and pervading percussion. 02:10
Mostly Grey
ID: KF015004
Album: Rock Grounds
A threatening heavy metal track, very energetic and powerful, presenting a high tempo. 01:33
Sections
ID: KF015003
Album: Rock Grounds
Hard rock music with fast electric guitar riffs and energetic drums. Aggressive and lively. 01:27
Low Scoring
ID: KF015002
Album: Rock Grounds
Action-rock track with hard electric guitars and pervading drums and percussions. 01:08
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
Got Trapped
ID: KF014521
Album: Percussive Action Vol.1
Exotic drum music, reminding of djungle and wilderness. Bongos and percussions. 01:46
Samurai Yell
ID: KF014520
Album: Percussive Action Vol.1
Percussion track with numerous drums, timpani and gong. A Far Eastern-spectacle. 01:48
Vigorous Strangle
ID: KF014519
Album: Percussive Action Vol.1
Exotic and untamed drums and bongos, partly accompanied by a synthesizer. An energetic, futuristic mixture. 01:05
Stoned Tossed Far
ID: KF014517
Album: Percussive Action Vol.1
Percussion, electro beats and synth-bass mingled into a minimalistic, mechanic track. 02:13
Keyhole
ID: KF014514
Album: Percussive Action Vol.1
Exotic, metallic percussion track with drums, rattles and piano effects. Gloomy and cold. 01:12
Trial By Fire
ID: KF014513
Album: Percussive Action Vol.1
Powerful film music with percussions, drums and timpani. Aggressive, energetic and unyielding. 02:03
Tribal Theory
ID: KF014512
Album: Percussive Action Vol.1
An exotic music, reminding of primeval forests. With drums, timpani and bongos. The atmosphere is dangerous and threatening. 02:28
Wild Chase
ID: KF014511
Album: Percussive Action Vol.1
Synthies and drums create the aggressive dynamic of this track, orchestral percussion round it off. 02:03
Runners Of Evil
ID: KF014508
Album: Percussive Action Vol.1
Dramatic, elemental orchestra music. Energetic strings are accompanied by jungle-drums and percussions. 01:08
Alteration
ID: KF014507
Album: Percussive Action Vol.1
A track full of energy with timpani, drums and percussions in a fast, driving rhythm. 01:50
City Stabbing
ID: KF014506
Album: Percussive Action Vol.1
Action track with rocking electric guitar, pervading drums and modern electro elements. 01:26
Swelling Drums
ID: KF014505
Album: Percussive Action Vol.1
A powerful mixture of percussions, timpani and drums. Exotic and threatening. 01:05
Color Range
ID: KF014504
Album: Percussive Action Vol.1
A dramatic, continually accelerating track with drums, timpani, percussions and gong. 01:36
Past Times
ID: KF014502
Album: Percussive Action Vol.1
Energetic, wild percussion track with a sinister melodious accompaniment in the background. 01:39
Smithers
ID: KF014501
Album: Percussive Action Vol.1
Track with percussion and drums with driving synthie beats and gloomy bass. 01:40
Machinehead
ID: KF014412
Album: Orchestra of War Vol.1
Heroic, solemn orchestra track, military in appearance. 01:55
The Gate
ID: KF014411
Album: Orchestra of War Vol.1
Agitating and threatening orchestra track with energetic choir. 00:35
Intertwined
ID: KF014409
Album: Orchestra of War Vol.1
Orchestra sounds, resembling gun shots, accentuated with a powerful choir in a gloomy, threatening atmosphere. Danger is near. 01:06
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
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