Dark and dramatic modern action theme music with big Zeppelin-style drums, strings, piano, dulcimer, bass and synth. A repeating solo piano riff brings in heavy drums followed by a dramatic explosion of sound before the hammered dulcimer theme enters. Would work well for exciting TV or film intro music, sports footage, library or trailer music (see it against the Watchmen trailer in my visuals section).

Keywords: action, big, beats, brave, climactic, danger, dark, drama, dramatic, drums, dulcimer, edgy, electrifying, epic, exciting, explosive, heroic, instrumental, intense, loud, melodramatic, mystery, piano, sexy, scorpio, sports, spy, strings, sudden, superhero, theme, thrilling, vast

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Track length: 2:13
Tempo: 132 bpm

Exciting and epic orchestral action music with staccato strings, bold sweeping horns, thunderous pounding heavy drums and percussion, punctuated by staccato choirs as the music builds to a frantic climax. Ideal action music for medieval battle scenes, film trailers, TV spots, commercials, stings or promos where intense dramatic orchestral action music is needed (e.g. extreme sports, war scenes, danger, excitement, thrilling chase scenes). See a promo clip here.

Keywords: 300, action, battle, big, brass, climactic, climax, drama, dramatic, drums, epic, exciting, fight, French horn, Greek, Hans Zimmer, heroic, instrumental, loud, machinima, orchestral, percussion, percussive, pounding, production, promo, strings, thunder, thunderous, trailer music, Trojans, war, widescreen

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Total running time: 45:36 (15 tracks)
Tempo: Various

A collection of royalty-free cinematic piano music and dark atmospheric soundtracks perfect for film and documentary makers. 15 individual tracks (over 45 minutes in total) of dark, dramatic and atmospheric piano music and ambient soundtrack beds specially composed for use in film and TV media productions from film and documentary composer Simon Wilkinson. Click here to see the promo video or click the track details link below for full track previews.

From Thomas Newman-style (e.g. similar to American Beauty) gentle sparse piano to dark evolving atmospheric ambient soundscapes and hypnotising background atmospheres; music that’s ideal for dramas, thrillers, student films, documentaries or any film visuals that require a dark, serious, suspenseful or melancholic and atmospheric feel.

This album includes a royalty-free license which allows the user to use the music in an unlimited number of film & documentary productions. Whether it’s for TV broadcast, student/feature films, trailers, personal websites, Youtube, Vimeo, Facebook, Myspace etc. (and up to 1,000 physical copies for retail DVD sales) -- click here for full license details. The ideal audio resource to add to all documentary and filmmakers’ libraries for when you’re looking for the right atmospheric or dramatic music cue to complete your scene. See the promo video clip to the right to hear extracts against atmospheric visuals.

The album contains the 15 full tracks (over 45 minutes) of piano music and atmospheric soundtrack beds which will be automatically available to download as a zip file after purchase.  You can select from mp3 or wav from the dropdown below but please be aware the wav zip file is quite large (430Mb) so make sure your connection is fast enough to handle large downloads. If you’re buying from a country outside of the UK, Paypal will automatically convert the amount from your currency to British Pounds so you can buy from anywhere in the world.

Keywords: airy, ambient, atmosphere, atmospheric, background, CD, cheap, cinematic, copyright, dark, dissonant, documentary, documentary music, drama, dramatic, edgy, emotional, Erik Satie, ethereal, feeling, film, filmmaker, independent, instrumental, library music, license, low cost, melancholy, moody, mp3, music, piano, production, resource, royalty free, sad, serious, soundscape, soundtrack, sparse, stock music, student, suspense, tense, Thomas Newman, tool, TV

Fantastic value -- most royalty-free music companies would charge you the same price for just one stock music track. Get all the 15 tracks (45 minutes) including the full license to use this music in an unlimited number of your films and projects from a dedicated film composer for just one low cost price.

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Track length: 2:54
Tempo: 115 bpm

Exciting and dramatic fast paced electronica with heavy cinematic percussion, frantic action packed drums, big horn swells and arpeggiated stereo synth lines. Ideal action music for car chase film scenes, trailers or tense and exciting pursuit music (see it against a car chase example scene here).

Keywords: action, car chase, delay, dramatic, drive, driving, edgy, electronic, escape, exciting, extreme, fast, frantic, hunt, instrumental, pulse, pulsing, pursuit, rush, rushing, soundtrack, speed, stereo, synths, tense, track, trail, trailers

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Track length: 2:21
Tempo: 162 bpm

Pounding epic orchestral action track with contemporary thunderous heavy drums, percussion and sweeping strings building to a dramatic and frantic climax. Ideal instrumental action music for film trailers, TV spots, commercials, stings or promos where intense dramatic orchestral action music is needed (e.g. extreme sports, danger, exciting, thrilling, chase scenes).

Keywords: 24, action, big, builds, chase, climactic, climax, dramatic, drums, epic, exciting, excitement, Hans Zimmer, heroic, instrumental, loud, machinima, orchestral, percussion, percussive, pounding, production, promo, pursuit, strings, thundering, thunderous, trailer music, widescreen, Zahara

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As heard in the TV trailers for Seasons 7 and 8 of Fox’s hit show 24!

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Track length: 4:24
Tempo: 90 bpm

Uplifting and inspirational instrumental music track featuring acoustic guitar, strings, cello, piano, drums and bass. Would make ideal inspirational music for olympic or sports montage videos needing emotional and optimistic climactic background music.

Keywords: acoustic guitar, athletics, cello, climactic, climax, contemplative, elegant, emotional, gymnastics, highlights, hopeful, inspirational, inspiring, instrumental, motivational, moving, olympics, optimistic, piano, positive, rousing, sporting, sports, stimulating, stirring, strings, strum, thoughtful, uplifting, violin, wistful

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Track length: 3:41
Tempo: 70 bpm

Epic cinematic strings, piano and subtle low horns with big and heavy medium tempo Zeppelin-style drums and percussion give the music a dark feeling of impending danger and survival. Has an epic, atmospheric, icy winter feel that could work well for TV nature/history trailers; think modern Lawrence Of Arabia but with snow instead of deserts. See it against the trailer for John Carpenter’s classic film The Thing here.

Keywords: beats, big, brave, cold, courageous, crisp, danger, dark, drama, dramatic, drums, electronic, epic, exciting, forbidding, frozen, grand, heavy, heroic, hostile, ice, icy, impending, imposing, instrumental, large, loud, melodramatic, nature, strings, survival, thrilling, valiant, vast, wind

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Track length: 2:11
Tempo: 100 bpm

Dark and tense atmospheric music suitable for urban thrillers/dramas in the vein of ’24′. Stalking and brooding dramatic electronica with deep bass, haunting minimal piano and cinematic trip-hop beats with a Massive Attack style feel. Imagine snipers or spies stalking a target, with a similar menacing feel to modern cop/spy film soundtracks, e.g. Miami Vice etc.

Keywords: anxious, atmospheric, bass, brooding, cinematic, dark, downtempo, drama, edgy, electronic, impending, instrumental, menace, mystery, mysterious, piano, sniper, spy, suspense, tense, thriller, unease

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Dark and mysterious instrumental music track featuring harp arpeggios and washes of dark background atmospheric synth. Ideal for political thrillers, dramas, documentaries or trailers needing a mood of impending trouble, paranoia and subversion.

Keywords: ambience, anxious, arpeggio, atmosphere, atmospheric, cinematic, contemplative, dark, documentary, drama, dramatic, edgy, escape, fear, harp, impending, instrumental, introspective, melancholy, moody, mysterious, mystery, paranoia, paranoid, plucked, political, soundtrack, shadows, shadowy, tense, thriller, unease, warning

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Track length: 0:30
Tempo: 98 bpm

Dramatic orchestral action film trailer music. Heavy filmic drums, percussion and orchestral stabs increase the excitement and tension as the track builds to its climax at 30 seconds. Ideal for TV, video games or film trailers.

Keywords: 30 second, action, assault, attack, battle, big, carnage, climactic, climax, combat, dramatic, drums, epic, exciting, fight, fighting, filmic, Hans Zimmer, heavy, instrumental, loud, machinima, medieval, onslaught, orchestral, percussive, pounding, production music, short, stabbing, thunderous, trailer music, war

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