Ghoul's Night Out - More Whimsical, Eerie Halloween

From playful ghosts to eerie ghouls - these whimsical yet haunting melodies, inspired by great composers like Danny Elfman, enhance any Halloween experience. Perfect for trick-or-treating, pranks, monster comedy, and all Halloween-themed shows.

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Black Cat Lane - Whimsical, Eerie Halloween

When ghosts and ghouls walk through town, and witches and monsters go trick-or-treating, these tracks bring the perfect playful eerieness. Drawing from composers like Danny Elfman and movies like "Beetlejuice" or "The Nightmare Before Christmas," these are great for whimsical Halloween pranks, Halloween-themed shows, and light horror.

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Desert Lullaby - Even More Guitar Tension

From Daltons to Bonny & Clyde: These guitar-centered tracks give you the perfect music for old-time and modern outlaws, gunfights and deserted mining caves. All the vibes from eerie ghost towns to modern gangsters.

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When It's Dark - Acoustic Guitar Suspense

From light suspense to melancholy drama, these acousstic guitar tracks offer perfect sonic ambience - from crime to dramatic encounters, anticipation to seedy bars.

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Struggling For Evidence - Mystery And Tension

Criminal investigations, stalkers, and intruding agents - thsese are the ingredients for these dark, suspenseful tracks. Perfect music for (True) Crime, suspense scenes, and intense reality formats.

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Outlaw In Town - More Guitar Tension Volume 4

Outlaws, guns and deserted ghost towns: With these guitar-driven tracks you get the perfect music for all vintage and modern cowboys, seedy saloons, and lawless desert towns. From the city jungle to the old west, from gunfighters to lurking gangsters.

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Secrets and Evidence - Suspense Drones

Ominous figures in dark alleys, secret hiding places, and crime evidence. These minimal, droning tension cues support the suspense in (True) Crime, Documentaries, Adventure Quests, and more.

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Twist of Fate - Cinematic Tension

With a hint of classic film composers like Bernard Herrmann, these orchestral score pieces evoke drama and suspense. Often with an epic vibe, sometimes more playful and whimsical, they are perfect for drama, crime and documentaries.

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Foreboding Beats - Dark Synth Tracks

When weird creatures roam the night, and mad scientists work on dangerous potions, these dark synthwave tracks provide the perfect underscore. From harsh synthesizer to eerie and quirky sounds - always foreboding, suspenseful and driving.

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Desperado Showdown - Guitar Tension

Lawless towns and scorched deserts: These guitar-focused tracks perfectly bring high noon duels and outlaws to life. From wild west vibes to modern desperados, from deserted ghost towns to the city jungle.

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Pulsing Tension 14

When tensions rise and the suspense is unbearable, these pulsing tracks are the perfect musical cues. From dark and menacing, to nervous, dramatic and suspenseful. Perfect music for true crime, documentaries, thrillers, and reality formats.

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Fire, Passion and Glory - Cinematic Rock

These immersive and epic Cinematic Rock tracks bring all the emotions, grittiness, and action needed for intense scenes, sports promos, trailers and more.

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Trailer Smash 5 - More Sound Design Trailers

Big Drums, harsh Braaams and otherworldly effects: These trailer tracks focus heavily on sound design, supporting the dramatic impacts for action, suspense, thriller trailers and promos.

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Sensing Danger 3

From crime scenes to investigations in dark laboratories and mysterious strangers: These tension cues bring the suspense. Often pulsing, always panic inducing.

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Trailer Smash 4 - More Epic Trailer Tracks

Crashing the gates, these big and epic trailer tracks always deliver: large orchestras, big brass and braams, quiet and eerie parts - rising to big finales. Perfect music for film trailers, action, extreme sports, science-fiction and more.

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Trailer Smash 3 - More Sound Design Trailers

More epic trailer tracks focussing on sound design. Harsh and relentless, with big Braams and hard hitting impacts to support action, suspense, thrillers and eerie atmosphere. Perfect for Blockbuster trailers and TV promos, as well as any action, sports or fight scene.

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Reality Check - Light Drama & Tension

When first tensions show up, and a drama is slowly unfolding, these tracks underscore the emotions unobtrusively. Underscore for crime, drama, reality and other formats.

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Trailer Smash 2 - Sound Design Trailers

Harsh and relentless - these trailer tracks focus on heavy sound design, from big Braams to cutting hits. Feeling the action, suspense and eerie atmosphere. Perfect for Blockbuster trailers and TV promos, as well as any action, sports or fight scene.

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Trailer Smash 1 - Epic Trailer Tracks

Big and epic, these trailer tracks smash the screen! With large orchestras, big brass and braams, quiet and eerie parts, rising to their biggest final climaxes. Perfect for action, extreme sports, science-fiction and more.

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Into The Unknown - Dark Electro Wave

Modern electronic styles like Synthwave and Vaporwave are found in these Synth-infused tracks, often with a hint of suspense. Perfect for reality formats, unscripted shows, tension and action.

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Avant-Garde Drama & Tension

Drawing inspiration from composers like Bernard Herrmann or Frank Zappa, these tracks use unusual sonic colors. Strings and Brass mix with modern Percussion, but these 3-act cues are still rooted in the more experimental style of classic and modern avant-garde composers. Perfect for sophisticated drama and suspense.

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Bittersweet Reflections - Modern Cello Tension & Drama

Sophisticated Cello meets modern Beats and Piano. These often somber and tense tracks offer music for drama, fashion, crime and more - sometimes with a touch of Jazz, sometimes with a little glimmer of hope, but always capturing and immersive.

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We Wish You An Eerie Christmas - Traditional Christmas Piano with a Dark Twist

When Santa Claus shows his dark side and the Christmas elfes turn mad. These eerie, somber piano versions of beloved Christmas classics (all Public Domain) will haunt your Yule festivities. Perfect for Christmas-themed Horror, and melancholy memories of seasons passed.

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On Fire - Gritty Hard Rock Instrumentals

Gritty, Southern-influenced Hard Rock with swagger and attitude. Perfect for sleazy bars, outlaws, motorbikes, drag races, tough sport, and more…

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Poignant Atmospheres - Ominous, Sad & Eerie Score

From dark, sweeping vistas to small-town drama, these score tracks are perfect for poignant, pensive, sad, and ominous moments. Sometimes with a cold feeling, often in the vein of Nordic composers, they bring out the melancholy and eerieness that elevates drama, true crime, and ghost stories.

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Are You That Somebody?

Paul Lichtenauer feat. Heather Collins

Aaliyah's hit song in a dark, Industrial-Metal infused version, that brings out the eerie vibe. Starting slow and building up to a heavy guitar-belting climax. Perfect for trailers, promos, intense scenes...

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People Are People

Rising Voices

Orchestral-Rock cover version of Depeche Mode's classic, benefitting BLM/Social Justice organizations.

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Bad Guy

echoekill

Harsh Industrial cover version of the Billie Eilish hit.

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Lovesong

no:carrier, Mills, Nadia S.

Epic, orchestral cover version of The Cure's Goth Rock classic.

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Bad Moon Rising

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Dark, eerie, electronic cover version of the Creedence Clearwater Revival hit.

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The Boys Of Summer

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Dark, eerie, electronic cover version of Don Henley's hit song.

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California

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Dark Pop cover version of Belinda Carlisle's melancholy song.

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Room With A View

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Melancholy, eerie cover version of Tony Carey's hit about being homeless in LA.

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She Moved Through The Fair

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Eerie cover version of the Irish traditional.

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Top Tracks

Some of the most licensed tracks from the Counter Communications catalog. From Dark Atmospheric cues to (True) Crime tracks to Tension and Adventure...

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Best of Pulsing Tension 1-11

Pulsing, suspenseful and tense music from Counter Communications (CNTR) - perfect for reality and crime shows, drama, and documentaries. For more check out all eleven albums in the PULSING TENSION series!

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Science & Forensics

Sterile laboratories, forensic research, and scientific drama - these tracks from Counter Communications (CNTR) are often quirky, electrifying, curious and dramatic. Everything you need for scientific formats, true crime forensic investigation, and laboratory scenes.

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Crime & Investigation

Cold cases, murder investigations, and detectives in hot pursuit - these cues are perfect for True Crime, Cop Shows, Investigative formats, and Reality drama.

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Contagion Playlist

With the Corona virus spreading, and other, still unknown dangers lurking in the shadows, this playlist offers the best music for dramatic news coverage, tense forensic investigations, science, and sterile laboratories.

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Gothic Rock and Dark Pop

Music for dark souls - from Electro to Gothic Rock and Dark Wave.

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Aliens and Ancient Cults

Emotive, tense and eerie soundtrack for everything alien, fantasy, science fiction, history, and adventure. From ancient ruins to far-away star systems - these songs take you on an exciting journey.

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Halloween Playlist 2020

Just a few more weeks until it's Halloween - and we have the perfect music for your horror movie, haunted house, and creepy nightmares.

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