mysterious background music

mysterious royalty-free film music designed for media projects

With Sonic Liberty’s background music mysterious scenes become rich in atmosphere.


Thrilling, suspenseful and ominous: our assortment of mysterious stock music, free of royalty.


The production music in this segment of our catalog was composed to deliver the right background music for a sense of obscurity and melancholy. Magical electronica mixes with spherical synths, eerie strings, orchestral and piano arrangements. In order to increase the mystery, the tempo is appropriately slow. In addition, we aim at providing you with many different moods; while some tracks are rather low-key, others are slightly upbeat. As a result, with our sound design mysterious sequences are easily mastered.

What can I use your mysterious background music for?
For one, you can use our stock music to endow your cinematic project with a mystical attribution and enigmatic atmospheres. Horror movies, thrillers and eerie suspense films benefit from mysterious music. Our collection offers something for every taste: if you prefer electronica, we provide tracks with heavy usage of synth arrangements. If your project requires more pathos, our orchestral tunes might be more appropriate. We also offer ominous music which is upbeat at the same time: perfect for cliffhangers, trailers and teasers, such music plays with the expectations of your audience. Enigmatic and upbeat tracks can also be used to create a sense of melancholy, making them perfect matches for drama scenes or pastoral landscape shots. In short, the songs in this segment are suitable to create a wide range of atmospheres. In addition, you can use our mysterious stock music to generate the right mood at your lobby or lounge. The calming effect of our piano tunes are great examples of easy listening. Not obtrusive, yet highly efficient, our composers aimed at crafting melodies with a slow tempo to inspire relaxation and comfort when needed. Of course, this applies to waiting loops as well: everybody knows the tediousness of holding the line. Appropriate production music, maybe including catchy piano or synth music, can decrease the likeliness of your customers hanging up on you. Sonic Liberty’s catalog of slow enigmatic music can be used in a great number of environments, for many moods. With the help of our sound design mysterious sequences are guaranteed to succeed. Please feel free to browse through our library and find the right stock music for you today.

456 Tracks Title     /ID Description Duration
Title Description Duration
Shoot Down Bar
ID: KF014515
Album: Percussive Action Vol.1
A futuristic electro-percussion track, gloomy, effect-laden and enigmatic. 02:35
Tree Of Life
ID: KF028703
Album: Orchestral Tales
A magical and positive orchestration with epic choirs and brass 02:34
Kingdom Pt.4
ID: KF021716
Album: Dramatic Orchestra
An increasing orchestra track with playful strings, accompanied by a choir. 02:34
Gothic
ID: KF015904
Album: Uncommon Cinematic Score Vol.1
Organ music, sacral in appearance, with elements of percussion. Gloomy, ceremonial, awestruck. 02:34
Endless Lines
ID: KF011608
Album: Drama
A quiet and spooky piano track plus dark synth sounds. Very atmospheric. 02:34
Sinister Moves
ID: KF011307
Album: Dark Cinema
Very atmospheric and futuristic track with energetic brass and quiet strings. 02:33
Hunters
ID: KF010315
Album: Agents&Spies
Orchestra and piano in a suspenseful, slightly menacing thriller theme. 02:33
Security Cam's View
ID: KF010108
Album: Action Grounds Vol.1
Calm but suspenseful track for a spy film. Melodic strings and winds. 02:33
Servocontrol
ID: KF036207
Album: Retro Technology
A dark piano undertone serves the bass for the glitchy machines and mechanical rhythm featured on this track. 02:32
Ancient Caves
ID: KF033605
Album: Cinematic Emotions
The track opens with a subtle, melancholic violin melody and a mystical progression. A deep bass and synth pluck arpeggiation introduce a sense of dark tension. 02:32
Laser Trip Wire
ID: KF032808
Album: Twisted Trails
A tense and energetic bass line carries the track, while a synth piano lays down a very spy-centered melody. 02:32
New Identity
ID: KF020311
Album: Fusion
Easy rock track with e-guitar and electro elements, in a relaxed, thoughtful atmosphere. 02:32
Weightless
ID: KF011102
Album: Cool Ambience
Bright electric piano sounds with atmospheric electro beats. Some radio voices in the background. Like a journey to the moon. 02:32
New Horizons
ID: KF027511
Album: Automotive Vol.1
A building dubstep-track with bass-driven synths and worldly, hypnotizing violin melodies 02:31
Crystal Healing
ID: KF034503
Album: Timeless Horizons
The meditation begins with a woman's soft mystical singing followed by two harrowing piano chords. Perfect for scenes of reflection and introspection. 02:30
Age Of Aquarius
ID: KF032004
Album: String Emotions
Quiet pads and subtle sound design feature smooth and warm ethnic strings in the foreground. A calm and cinematic track. 02:30
Fight
ID: KF036402
Album: Sinister Machinations
An aggressive, bass-filled beat and distorted guitars forges this industrial ambient track. 02:29
Long Hallway
ID: KF036401
Album: Sinister Machinations
Haunting tones and drifting effects build up to a reese bass-guided dark ambient sound. 02:29
Adrift
ID: KF031006
Album: #Weekendvibes
This jazzy electric piano picks up the groove as a blended flute/trumpet sound pipes in the missing parts of a melody. After the drop, it picks up with a straight bass and a super chilled EP vibe. 02:29
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
Mobilize Your Strength
ID: KF010507
Album: Ambient&Drones Vol.1
Scary atmospheric track spiced with electronics and horror SFX. 02:29
Technical Display
ID: KF033806
Album: Wave & Vice
A piano opens the track with a more modern techno percussion groove. The synths quickly add in that nostalgic touch. 02:28
Her Majesty's Number One
ID: KF030204
Album: Cartoons & Agents
Soulful, classy and posh. This track alternates between soft passages and shining big band performances. The perfect blend between expensive pleasure and the dazzling spotlight. 02:28
Beneath Glaciers
ID: KF029403
Album: Orchestral Colors
A spherical, floating orchestral track, which is characterized by an atmospherically shimmering sound carpet. Solo instruments appear again and again. 02:28
The Ice Melts
ID: KF028705
Album: Orchestral Tales
A moving orchestral piece that fills the scene with a sense of awe and wondrous revelation. 02:28
Icy Cave
ID: KF036006
Album: Nostalgia
Pushed along by drums dripping with rich filters, this ambient track opens with a long, rising drone accented by sin waves bleeping like radar pings. 02:27
Walking Alone
ID: KF033709
Album: This World
A piano taps out a feeling of solitude, while electronic percussion steps the track forward. A distorted harmony accompanied by a tinkling arpeggiation delivers an otherworldly appeal. 02:27
White Room
ID: KF013518
Album: House
House track with vocal part, bongos and oriental elements. 02:27
Valid Data
ID: KF010101
Album: Action Grounds Vol.1
Orchestral music and synthesizer grooves. Dark, driving and mysterious. 02:27
Extraterrestrial
ID: KF035201
Album: Beyond The World
An ocean of synths slowly builds to a climactic finish with electronic percussion and resonant filters. 02:26
Digitized
ID: KF034601
Album: Automotive Commercial
Sine synths play out a suspenseful motive over energetic drums and a repetitive bass line that’s an unsolved mystery. 02:26
Interrogation
ID: KF030703
Album: Sci-Fi Noir
The track starts with a cryptic melody and builds up to a dark electronic dance between machines and men, with a heavy bass underlying the passion. 02:26
Shady Places
ID: KF036405
Album: Sinister Machinations
A dark ambient track with haunting echoes and heavy distorted guitar articulations build up a criminal suspense. 02:25
Champions Of Light
ID: KF028709
Album: Orchestral Tales
An epic orchestral tale that follows the peaks and valleys of a steady and heroic rise to a greatness, complete with subtle moments of tension that simmer and fester before bursting into a dramatic finale. 02:25
Visible Aura
ID: KF038403
Album: Ethereal Echoes
Embark on a sonic journey with gentle pads and shimmering synths with an ambient track that creates a sense of serenity and movement. 02:24
Dark Companion
ID: KF035409
Album: Scoring Dramedy
Played over a deep legato synth bass, this modern cinematic track stirs up the tension and anxiety. 02:24
Energetic
ID: KF027510
Album: Automotive Vol.1
An emotional, melodic track with present piano and melodious strings topped with ethereal voice samples and a subliminal trip-hop beat 02:24
Emergency Call
ID: KF038704
Album: Piano In The Spotlight
This atmospheric composition is a somber and moving duet between piano and strings that leads into a touching finale. 02:23
Blood Dawn
ID: KF033807
Album: Wave & Vice
This darkwave track begins with a driving detuned bass and a brilliant, high-pitched arpeggiation. 02:23
Finger Marks
ID: KF014316
Album: Modern Suspense
Quiet, scary strings, accentuated with occasional beats. Sinister and disturbing. 02:23
Modern Suspense
ID: KF014314
Album: Modern Suspense
Mysterious strings accompanied by metallic beats and chimes. 02:23
Elbenland
ID: KF013003
Album: Grand Themes Vol.1
An epic, powerful music for grand orchestra. Energetic, courageous and heroic. 02:23
Sweeping Bass
ID: KF011915
Album: Electrified Orchestra
Action track with mystic ambience, menacing and dark. 02:23
Jump All Day
ID: KF038606
Album: Hyped Crowds
A bass-heavy trance track with driving rhythms, a pulsing drop and rise, and an overall dark tone is perfect for late-night club settings, raves, and action. 02:22
Smooth Escape
ID: KF033805
Album: Wave & Vice
This downtempo synthwave track keeps up the energy with a solid four-on-the-floor and minimalist synth arpeggiator. The spacey pads bring an immersive effect. 02:22
Born This Way
ID: KF032906
Album: Movement
A grooving downtempo dance track with an infectious, high synth melody line carried over claps and keys. 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
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
Dark Sky
ID: KF015912
Album: Uncommon Cinematic Score Vol.1
A sinister, quiet track with some threatening action elements. 02:22
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
Jet Flow
ID: KF034610
Album: Automotive Commercial
This hard-hitting psytrance track keeps changing between cybernetic pulsations and driving distorted guitars. 02:21
Riddle Theme
ID: KF032802
Album: Twisted Trails
Soft synth drums lay the bed under a piano that asks more questions than it answers. 02:21
Tango Molto
ID: KF016505
Album: World Travels Vol.1
A calm and thoughtful tango piece featuring a beautiful solo piano, 02:21
Shut-in
ID: KF010111
Album: Action Grounds Vol.1
Eerie, melodic track, orchestra combined with sporadic beats. 02:21
Native Lands
ID: KF038408
Album: Ethereal Echoes
A tranquil blend of enigmatic textures and a delicate piano melody carried by a gentle, modern beat invite reflection and contemplation. 02:20
Into The Light
ID: KF034705
Album: Cinematic Curiosity
A shimmering piano arpeggiation lays the root for this slow and tantalizing track that builds up with full horn and string sections. 02:20
Infiltration
ID: KF022507
Album: Tension Cinema
Threatening track with a menacing mood. Dark and thrilling like the soundtrack of a horror movie. 02:20
Around Every Corner
ID: KF032804
Album: Twisted Trails
A distant horn plays the melody over a rumbling drone, while various elements join in to raise the tension. 02:19
Adept
ID: KF016411
Album: World Tales Vol.1
Atmospheric,very slow music, exotic, with wooden flutes and strings. 02:19
Well Collected
ID: KF016312
Album: World Pop
A far-eastern touch, atmospheric synthie track with drum'n'bass appeal and electric zither. 02:19
Golden Orb
ID: KF036702
Album: Epic Trailer Hybrid
Beginning with a dark and mysterious droning, a synth kick pulses a slow beat taken over by tense strings and percussion. 02:18
Air
ID: KF014805
Album: Relax
A quite oriental, spheric lounge track, positive, with violin and acoustic guitar. 02:18
Don't Haste
ID: KF011301
Album: Dark Cinema
Soft strings and woodwind instruments accompanied by relaxing synthetic noises. Some piano sounds at the end of the track. 02:18
Balkania
ID: KF016319
Album: World Pop
Balkan beats with dubby basses and and synthesizer. 02:17
First Person
ID: KF037208
Album: Press Start
This intense science fiction track is led by pumping pads and ripping synth arpeggios, laced with cryptic vocals fading in and out. 02:16
Armed Prayer
ID: KF028708
Album: Orchestral Tales
A peaceful yet ominous orchestral backdrop that culminates with a confident and decisive flourish. 02:16
Wide Sands
ID: KF016412
Album: World Tales Vol.1
Mystical and sinister track with arabic drums and flutes. 02:16
From Mumbai To Kolkata
ID: KF016306
Album: World Pop
Deep marimba sounds and an exotic flute, accompanied by a steady drum rhythm. A mysterious, soothing track. 02:16
Pet Detective
ID: KF030201
Album: Cartoons & Agents
This soft, downtempo piece sets the scene for some moderate, investigative action. Vibraphone, piano, plucked strings, muted trumpet and a gentle rhythm section keep things interesting while creating a relaxed, thoughtful atmosphere. 02:15
One Last Orchid
ID: KF016502
Album: World Travels Vol.1
A calm and peaceful, slightly mystic track with strings, flute and an asian zither. 02:15
Mystic Highlands
ID: KF016219
Album: World Adventure Vol.1
Flutes and stringed instruments join the orchestra in this thoughtful, melancholic piece. 02:15
Devastated Soul
ID: KF014111
Album: Massive Orchestra
Hard electric guitars and a quiet piano, combined with strings increasing in volume. A powerful, emotional ballad. 02:15
Run Down
ID: KF011702
Album: Dramatic Orchestra
A menacing, agitated orchestral track with lots of action and drama. 02:15
Rainbow Ride
ID: KF034606
Album: Automotive Commercial
Reverb-dripping synths chime over a vibrating reese bass in this downtempo yet epic electronic track. 02:14
Suspicious Guys
ID: KF030209
Album: Cartoons & Agents
A classic "sneaking about" track. Clarines, trumpets, baritone sax, vibraphone and a steadily intesifying arrangement give the piece an "endearing bad guys" touch. 02:14
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
Detroit
ID: KF037503
Album: City Rhythm
This track exudes a chill atmosphere that draws heavily from trip hop, featuring a deep, dank bass and whining synth melodies. 02:13
Infinite Space
ID: KF029907
Album: Black Prophecy Vol.2
Slowly this orchestral track oscillates back and forth between two tonal centres and floats likewise between the worlds. 02:13
The Fellowship
ID: KF029401
Album: Orchestral Colors
This track captures the anticipation of a great adventure and the fantastic world in which it takes place. 02:13
Maharadja
ID: KF016506
Album: World Travels Vol.1
Mystic oriental piece of music driven by percussion and a haunting lute pattern 02:13
Army Of Shades
ID: KF011712
Album: Dramatic Orchestra
Sinister Fantasy-Action-track with massive brass, evil choirs and marching drums. 02:13
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
Silk & Smooth
ID: KF011205
Album: Dance
Minimal dance music - sober but energetic. 02:13
Plug-In Card
ID: KF014518
Album: Percussive Action Vol.1
A percussion track with enigmatic synthie accompaniment. 02:12
Lost Place
ID: KF010112
Album: Action Grounds Vol.1
Orchestral Action track featuring a marimba - calm yet steadily driving onwards. 02:12
Laser Rays
ID: KF010105
Album: Action Grounds Vol.1
Enigmatic, mysterious track, strings and piano combined with percussion and synthesizers. 02:12
Platforms
ID: KF037203
Album: Press Start
Trailer FX meets dubstep mayhem -- the track lays down science fiction foundations of thundering stutters, massive bass drops and mystical vocals. 02:11
Traffic Lights
ID: KF034603
Album: Automotive Commercial
This understated acid track with an ambient repeating vocal line takes the listener back to the dark action thrillers of the late 90s and sequels of a certain comic book vampire. 02:11
Misty Paths
ID: KF022012
Album: Dark Tales
Dark, brooding string patterns with slight traditional Japanese elements. 02:11
The Last
ID: KF019218
Album: Orchestral Suspense Vol.1
Dramatic film music with clarinet as lead voice, accompanied by sedate strings and powerful timpani. 02:11
Mayday On Mars
ID: KF017307
Album: Dark Orchestra Vol.2
Charged atmosphere, characterized by low, threatening brass sounds with a staccato, rushing rhythm. 02:11
Hellspire Ravens
ID: KF017301
Album: Dark Orchestra Vol.2
Sinister Fantasy-Action-track with massive brass, evil choirs and marching drums. 02:11
Dummy Star
ID: KF014516
Album: Percussive Action Vol.1
Electronic drum and percussion track with threatening atmosphere and dynamic. 02:11
Doomed
ID: KF037507
Album: City Rhythm
This track boasts a brooding reese bass and pulsing hats that come together to create a gritty, nocturnal atmosphere perfect for any urban-themed projects. 02:10
Nights Of Uncertainty
ID: KF020117
Album: World Tales Vol.2
An exotic, scary and threatening track with melodic strings, brass and flutes, combined with rhythmic tambourine, harp and castanets. 02:10
Ancient Sanctuary
ID: KF019102
Album: Orchestral Landscapes
Dark orchestral fantasy-music with choirs, massive percussions and ethnic flutes (Shakuhachi, Duduk). 02:10
National Park
ID: KF016512
Album: World Travels Vol.1
Harps and flutes in a beautiful, mystic piece. 02:10
Reign The Eternal Woods
ID: KF016404
Album: World Tales Vol.1
Epic, soulful flute music with mystical marimba- and drum sounds. Exotic and aloof. 02:10
Monolith
ID: KF016401
Album: World Tales Vol.1
Sinister, menacing orchestral music with oriental elements. Ever-changing between sostenuto and impulsive. 02:10
Gotham Under Siege
ID: KF015005
Album: Rock Grounds
Exotic orchestra track with quite oriental vocals and pervading percussion. 02:10
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