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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Iridium Impact - Orchestral Hybrid Action & Tension

From alien planets in outer space, explorers in dark jungles, and action-filled spy dramas, these orchestral tracks bring the tension, heroism and victorious vibes. Perfect, epic music for trailers, science-fiction, crime, sport, and documentary.

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Brazen - Heavy Metal Hardcore

With influences from Heavy Metal and Stoner Rock, these songs keep it hard, edgy, rocking and loud!

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Pulsing Tension 13

Dark corners, suspenseful situations, and dramatic turns. With these pulsing, often mysterious and dramatic tension tracks, true crime, documentaries, thrillers, and reality formats get the best musical background.

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Sensing Danger - Volume 2

When tensions rise and panic spreads, these mysterious, often pulsing tracks bring the supsense. From action and crime to documentaries and reality shows .

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Pulsing Tension 12

Spies, cold cases, and mysterious incidents - these dark, pulsing tension cues offer the best musical background. Suspense and drama, perfect for true crime, documentaries, thrillers, and reality formats.

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Weirder Tales - Electronic Tension Score Volume 4

Another visit to retro mystery and horror with these 80's inspired synth-spiked tension tracks. From Cold War spies to eerie creatures, from dark crimes to sinister mysteries.

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Pulsing Tension 11

Dramatic turns, unwilling suspects, and strange mysteries are the fuel for these dark tension tracks. Always pulsing and suspenseful - perfect for reality and crime shows, drama, and documentaries.

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Suspicious Trails - More Dramatic Piano/Cello Score

Dark woods, dramatic caves and suspicious noises - all the tension and drama comes with these piano and cello centered score cues. Perfect for drama, true crime, documentaries and more.

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Suspicious Coast - More Dramatic Piano/Cello Score

Foggy beaches, murder on the moors, and sinister suspects running through dark alleys. These dark, ominous score cues with main instruments piano and cello get the tensions going - from crime and drama to reality and documentaries.

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Suspicious Woods - More Dramatic Piano/Cello Score

Blood on snow, ominous signs in the fields, or suspicious strangers lurking on the corner. These somber, minimal score cues with main instruments piano and cello bring the melancholy, drearyness and Perfect for crime, drama and documentaries.

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Suspicious Town - Dramatic Piano/Cello Score

From ominous tensions and mysterious dramas to cold-blooded crimes - these minimal score cues feature piano and cello, sometimes with sparse drones and percussion. Perfect for crime, drama and documentaries.

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Pulsing Tension 10

Dark tensions, ghastly crimes, and ominous mysteries are the ingredients for these pulsing, suspenseful and eerie tracks. Perfect for Reality, True Crime, Drama, and more...

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Back Baby - More Gritty Female Hard Rock

Sassy and fierce - these gritty female-fronted Hard Rock & Blues Rock songs go great with outlaws, seedy bars, and southern swamps. From crime to adventure and back again.

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Pulsing Tension 9

Mysteries, strange occurences, and eerie crimes - these suspenseful, pulsing tracks are perfect for true crime, thrillers, darker documentaries and more.

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Weirder Tales - Electronic Tension Score Volume 3

Back to the eerie world of 80's inspired electronic tension. From dark crimes to creepy monsters, from ghastly creatures to sinister spies - perfect score for suspense, horror, mystery.

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Pulsing Tension 8

From cold cases and suspenseful mysteries to tense dramas and weird signs. These pulsing, often mysterious tracks are great for darker scenes, true crime, thrillers and more.

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Ungodly Spirit - More Creepy Horror Suspense

The creatures strike back, stalking their victims and infusing terror into the hearts of unsuspecting people. These new horror and suspense tracks are perfect for the tension in movies and TV - from crime to horror to mystery.

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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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