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.

499 Tracks Title     /ID Description Duration
Title Description Duration
Cultural Encounter
ID: KF032003
Album: String Emotions
Ethnic strings in front of warm pads and fine, percussive elements form a cinematic scene with a gradual build-up. 01:47
Nature Recovers
ID: KF032001
Album: String Emotions
Wide, ethnic strings with soft pads come to a climax and connect with the whole orchestra in an emotional melody. A cinematic, carrying and melancholic track with strings in focus. 01:59
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
Enemy Troops
ID: KF030908
Album: Got The Guts
A snare and guitars tap out a military march as the horns call out preparing for war. Higher pitched guitars cover the sounds of frantic screams until the final clash with distortion hits. 02:07
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
Forsaken
ID: KF030408
Album: Cinematic Piano Scoring
This track plays with various emotions on the darker side: Gentle melancholy, uncertainty, mystery. Featuring various acoustic backdrops such as mallet rhythms, solo celli and string ensembles, the track later ends on a rather reflective, restful theme. 02:56
Boo
ID: KF030210
Album: Cartoons & Agents
This track gets progressively spooky in a comical sense as it progresses. An iconic main line carries the arrangement through the ever increasing suspense curve and bizarrely developing instrumentation. 02:06
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
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
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
Flame Of Thrones
ID: KF030108
Album: Dance Rush
Building a pulsating techno bed in the first half, the track presents an iconic synth tune in the middle that stands well on its own. It later merges the two elements together in a ever-developing, dance-inducing beat. 03:06
Drifting Around
ID: KF029912
Album: Black Prophecy Vol.2
This orchestral track seems undecidedly hectic and gliding at the same time. He paints the picture of a calm before the storm. 02:00
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
Losing Ground
ID: KF029713
Album: Black Prophecy Vol.1
A restless, driven orchestral track consisting of four different rhythmic parts. 01:04
Mysterious Path
ID: KF029712
Album: Black Prophecy Vol.1
A mysterious orchestral track that attracts attention with its interesting chord combinations and builds up uncertainty with long held notes. 02:02
Vague Suspicion
ID: KF029709
Album: Black Prophecy Vol.1
A mysterious orchestral track in six-eight time with choral accompaniment, which describes an unknown world in gentle melody lines. 02:02
Sneaky Seduction
ID: KF029708
Album: Black Prophecy Vol.1
A delicate track that unfolds a mysterious world full of uncertainty and receives a passionate depth through the orchestra. 01:35
The King's Final Call
ID: KF029704
Album: Black Prophecy Vol.1
A tense orchestral track that causes uncertainty and fear through jumping and trembling strings. The arrangement is characterized by long sustained notes. 02:06
Crossing the Desert
ID: KF029608
Album: Battlegrounds
A spherical track, which is mainly influenced by the solo violin and continues to build up. 01:28
Armor And Sword
ID: KF029606
Album: Battlegrounds
A marching and percussive track that accompanies the army on its trek through impassable terrain. Every now and then exotic flutes set smaller accents. 01:36
Searching For A Waterhole
ID: KF029604
Album: Battlegrounds
A driven part spheric synthie-track with an oriental inclination. 01:31
Raster
ID: KF029510
Album: Electronic Lounge
This aggressive track sounds like from another, future world. The repetitive bass and the chord pads in the second part are especially characteristic. 03:16
The World Inside
ID: KF029410
Album: Orchestral Colors
This track begins with a delicate flute introduction and rises quickly and briefly to full orchestra size before being completed by the woodwinds. 01:01
The Forgotten Land
ID: KF029409
Album: Orchestral Colors
This track captivates with its sophisticated harmonic twists and turns and conveys the feeling of a strange world. 01:01
The Burden To Bear
ID: KF029408
Album: Orchestral Colors
This elegiac track makes the listener feel great doubts. The orchestra is very reserved and carries the solo instruments that tell of lost battles. 02:08
Game On
ID: KF029407
Album: Orchestral Colors
An orchestra-track, which sparkles over the whole length with thurst for adventure and the feeling of a fresh start. It begins with solo-piano and closes with the full orchestra. 01:01
Shimmer In The Woods
ID: KF029406
Album: Orchestral Colors
A mysterious orchestral track that carries the listener off to legendary places. 01:01
A Medieval Morning
ID: KF029404
Album: Orchestral Colors
An orchestral track describing an early summer sunrise in a forgotten city. The sublimity of the city is expressed as well as the many battles that have left their mark. 02:08
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 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
Stockholm
ID: KF029313
Album: Hybrid Tension
A restless yet contemplative track which combines spheric synthetic moments with a solo-cello. 01:27
What's Going On
ID: KF029312
Album: Hybrid Tension
A spheric hybrid-track, which in the second half grows into an pushing, half-time agent-and-spy-theme. 03:13
Breathing Again
ID: KF029311
Album: Hybrid Tension
An energetic yet spheric track, which consists mainly of a reverberated piano, high staccati-strings and a driving beat. 01:07
Wait And See
ID: KF029306
Album: Hybrid Tension
A pulsing however cautious and waiting hybrid-track, which invites observing the city. 02:05
Getting Shudders
ID: KF029302
Album: Hybrid Tension
A gloomy and mysterious synth-track in half-time, veiling unwanted intrigues. 01:14
Realm of Shades
ID: KF029103
Album: World Tales Vol.3
A hovering and mysterious world-track, carried by plucked instruments, strings and female voices. 01:33
The Caravan
ID: KF029101
Album: World Tales Vol.3
A serious and sinister, also percussive track that spreads rush and haste. The ethnic songs and instruments are mysterious. 01:00
Hide And Seek
ID: KF028711
Album: Orchestral Tales
Beautiful and playful orchestral music that scalates with epic percussions and a strong brass line 01:08
Dramatic Goodbye
ID: KF028710
Album: Orchestral Tales
An epic orchestral track full of heroic passages and nostalgic elements. 01:03
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
Armed Prayer
ID: KF028708
Album: Orchestral Tales
A peaceful yet ominous orchestral backdrop that culminates with a confident and decisive flourish. 02:16
Stealing The Medallion
ID: KF028707
Album: Orchestral Tales
An epic orchestral track with a playful interlude and a heroic ending. 01:30
Fountain Of Youth
ID: KF028706
Album: Orchestral Tales
A dramatic orchestral score that gently blossoms into a full story with moments of trepidation, fulfillment, and fascination. 01:10
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
Journey To Another World
ID: KF028704
Album: Orchestral Tales
A lush orchestral work instilling heroic quests with inspirational determination. 02:41
Tree Of Life
ID: KF028703
Album: Orchestral Tales
A magical and positive orchestration with epic choirs and brass 02:34
Endless Horizon
ID: KF028702
Album: Orchestral Tales
A delicate intro provides moments of reflection, before the tension rises dramatically and ultimately resolves into an emotional ending. 03:15
Magical Flickering
ID: KF028701
Album: Orchestral Tales
Beautiful orchestra music, starts with an emotional vibe to suddenly rush into an epic finale. 01:03
Open and Wide
ID: KF028409
Album: Synesthesia
A Filmscore song with a aello as the main character, epic and exalted. 02:04
The Red Pill
ID: KF027807
Album: Ambient and Lounge Vol.2
A big beat rhythm and atmospheric synths are paired with orchestral sounds and piano melodies, in the style of "Clubbed To Death" 03:13
Long Ago
ID: KF027712
Album: Piano Works
A mysteriously as well as imaginatively arranged track in 3/8 time 01:26
Highway Dawn
ID: KF027611
Album: Automotive Vol.2
Emotional piano lines culminate in an earth-shaking dubstep track with diverse beats, topped off with epic strings 05:12
Metropolis
ID: KF027603
Album: Automotive Vol.2
An almost stripped-down downtempo track with deep bass wobbles, atmospheric synths and sound effects 02:43
Lucid Dreaming
ID: KF027512
Album: Automotive Vol.1
A dreamy yet energetic dubstep track with classical orchestration and dynamic build ups 03:09
New Horizons
ID: KF027511
Album: Automotive Vol.1
A building dubstep-track with bass-driven synths and worldly, hypnotizing violin melodies 02:31
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
Vortex
ID: KF027509
Album: Automotive Vol.1
Processed bells and atmospheric synths are combined with dubstep sounds 01:40
Blankets Resurrection
ID: KF027504
Album: Automotive Vol.1
A bass-driven epic track with classical female voice and dubstep elements on top 01:52
Stay Tuned
ID: KF027502
Album: Automotive Vol.1
A hypnotizing and atmospheric track that consists of dreamy strings, voice effects as well as a trip-hop beat and piano chords 02:04
Open Your Eyes
ID: KF027405
Album: Ride and Relax
In this track hip hop beats and piano are paired with atmospheric synthies 02:42
Under The Influence
ID: KF026513
Album: Spherical Mood
Atmospherical soundscapes with dissonat stings deliver an thrilling and yet emotional ambience. 02:07
Inexplicable
ID: KF026512
Album: Spherical Mood
Atmospherical soundscapes with dissonat stings deliver a thrilling and yet emotional ambience. 02:07
Expanding Slough
ID: KF026507
Album: Spherical Mood
Dark atmosphere with emotional plucked instruments. Emotional, dreamy and yet dramatic. 02:59
Home To Another
ID: KF026506
Album: Spherical Mood
Wide and atmospherical piece with some exciting melodic passages. 03:58
Lash Out
ID: KF026504
Album: Spherical Mood
Slightly atonal und percussive ambience. Dark, weird and thrilling. 02:08
Before They Came
ID: KF026503
Album: Spherical Mood
Slightly atonal und threatening ambience. Dark, weird and thrilling. 02:08
Harsh Trade
ID: KF026502
Album: Spherical Mood
A subtle, thrilling piece of music. Dark, driving and mysterious. 02:00
Aurora Polaris
ID: KF025501
Album: A Fantasy Story
Spherical, mysterious music, gradually developing in dramaturgy with soulful string melodies and echoing percussion. 02:38
Voodoo Jungle
ID: KF025412
Album: Orchestral Suspense Vol.3
Intense, suspensful track with a dominant rhythm and playful marimba. 02:00
Pioneering The Jungle
ID: KF025411
Album: Orchestral Suspense Vol.3
Restless atmosphere with driving tension through percussive instruments, mixed with atmospherical strings. 02:00
The Magical Forest
ID: KF025212
Album: Epic Fantasy
This track is both mysterious and magical, dreamy and calm. The soundscape consists mainly of a subtle string-bed, harp and celesta. 01:09
The Headless Horseman
ID: KF025211
Album: Epic Fantasy
Dark, fairytale-like orchestral piece that start calm and thrilling but builds up to an evil unsettling climax. 01:00
Strange Island
ID: KF025210
Album: Epic Fantasy
dark, fairytale-like orchestral piece with bass-clarinet, alto flute and harp. Very calm and depressing, with a magical touch. 01:41
Enchanted Forest
ID: KF025209
Album: Epic Fantasy
Soft, magical piece with Celesta, harp and soft orchestra. Dark and mysterious. 01:41
The secret Chamber
ID: KF025208
Album: Epic Fantasy
Menacing sounds of a legendary chamber told by a dark orchestra. 00:47
The Forest Realm
ID: KF025207
Album: Epic Fantasy
Mystical sounds from far lands full of wonder and beauty. Glittering spaces, hornes and a female choir. 01:34
Magical Journey
ID: KF025201
Album: Epic Fantasy
A fast voyage through magical realms painted by playful strings and dramatic orchestra. 01:15
Sssshh!
ID: KF022811
Album: Children's Corner
Jumping, sneaking Bass with high strings. Marimba, piano and percussion. 01:28
Waiting For The Door To Open
ID: KF022508
Album: Tension Cinema
Tensious, lurking soundtrack with shivering strings and deep piano. 01:46
Infiltration
ID: KF022507
Album: Tension Cinema
Threatening track with a menacing mood. Dark and thrilling like the soundtrack of a horror movie. 02:20
Breaking And Entering
ID: KF022506
Album: Tension Cinema
thrilling modern Ambience with synthetic soundscapes, high strings, low Booms and subtle Rhythms. Perfect fit for Thriller-/Mystery- and Stealth-Scenes! 02:04
Animal Transformation
ID: KF022505
Album: Tension Cinema
The track starts with a cacophonic and menacing orchestral mood and changes to a dark melody played by flute and harp. Mysterious and fairy-tale-like. 01:09
Squad Plan
ID: KF022107
Album: Modern War
Dark, futuristic track with spheric synths and percussions. Soft strings in the middle part. 01:07
Eastern Patrol
ID: KF022105
Album: Modern War
Moving orchestral piece with military influences. An mysterious chorus in the background gives an epical atmosphere to the track. 02:40
Tank On Patrol
ID: KF022104
Album: Modern War
Spheric film music, military but reserved. Bright strings and dark horns. 02:37
Tank Two
ID: KF022103
Album: Modern War
Dark and variety film music with changing rhythms 02:37
Mission Alphy
ID: KF022101
Album: Modern War
Dark agent theme with melodic strings. Rising intensity and a thrilling part in the end. 03:14
Misty Paths
ID: KF022012
Album: Dark Tales
Dark, brooding string patterns with slight traditional Japanese elements. 02:11
The Monk's Secret
ID: KF022010
Album: Dark Tales
soft, magical piece with zither and atmospheric soundscapes. Dark and mysterious. 01:48
The Lost Room
ID: KF022009
Album: Dark Tales
Calm and dark underscore-Track with harp, dark strings and unsettling atmospheric synths. 01:09
The Frozen Lake
ID: KF022008
Album: Dark Tales
airytale-like and slightly atonal orchestral piece with bass-clarinet, alto flute and harp. Very calm and depressing, with a magical touch. 02:04
Secrets Of The Harp
ID: KF022006
Album: Dark Tales
Sad and dark orchestral piece with strong melodic ideas, mostly carried by the harp. Atmospheric soundscapes (waterphone) in the background. 01:44
Mysterious Death
ID: KF022005
Album: Dark Tales
This dark modern underscore-Track starts with a subtle piano, accompanied by a hybrid soundscape (orchestral, synthetic and choral colours). In the end, soft strings take over. Mysterious and sad feeling. 01:46
Ghost Stories
ID: KF022004
Album: Dark Tales
Calm and dark underscore-Track , dark strings and unsettling atmospheric synths. After the build-up in the middle there´s a melodic part with harp and etheral female vocals. 01:16
Egyptian Tombs
ID: KF022002
Album: Dark Tales
Subtle atmospheric soundscape with oriental/arabic influences. 01:43
Searching For Trails
ID: KF021803
Album: Calm Ambience
Calm, dark background track with acoustic guitar and unsettling soundscapes. 01:50
Endless Winter
ID: KF021801
Album: Calm Ambience
Dark and hopeless Fantasy-Track with acoustic guitar and orchestra. In the end there is a huge crescendo with choirs. 01:01
Kingdom Pt.4
ID: KF021716
Album: Dramatic Orchestra
An increasing orchestra track with playful strings, accompanied by a choir. 02:34
New Approach
ID: KF021711
Album: Epic Dimension
Suspenseful orchestra track, starts with a suspensful guitar and changes with a drop to a darker and more dramatric mood. Calm again in the end. 01:42
Rise Of The Brave
ID: KF021709
Album: Epic Dimension
Rising to the sun. An emotional orchestra with increasing intensity. 01:12
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