The ghosts are howling and the kids are trick or treating… here are some properly dark musical themes for your Halloween-time content!

Halloween is coming and it will soon be the season for scary content. Keep your videos and podcasts in the right ghoulish mood with our spooky tracks and thrilling effects. Below, we’ve put together a collection of our favorite albums that include a touch of the macabre. Remember that with Smartsound, every track is customizable. Need only the feint screeching of a violin or the sinister pulsing of the bass? No problem! You can easily do this with the mixer, just pulling down the layers as you need them.

Check out this short tutorial to see just how versatile and easy Smartsound’s mixing feature is.

Spooky Halloween Stock Music

Thrilling Trailer

Terrify your audience with these nightmarish tracks from darker domains. Including drones and pulses, tension-filled staccato strings, horn blasts and choral warnings of terror. Be afraid, be very afraid. But not so afraid that you miss changing the mix and length of every track to fit your chilling scenes using Smartsound’s hellishly awesome technology.

Tales of Horror

Use these cues to jangle the nerves. Eerie and ethereal with dissonant strings, creepy effects and stabbing brass punctuation to make you afraid…very afraid.

Sci Fi Noir

This dark ambient collection, trickled with hints of dubstep and industrial, will bring your audience into terrifying crime scenes and exhilarating chases. From drones and wobbling basses to dripping reverbs and mechanical clacks, these tracks propel the listener into places where the lawbreakers could be menacing robots or time-traveling bandits.

Dark Textures

Epic. Dramatic. Heroic. Armed with a strong lineup of modern orchestral sounds, this album will set the scene for your cinematic experience and provide a defining soundtrack; whether it be for trailers, games or film.

Got The Guts

A powerful set of tracks featuring exquisite live orchestra and vocals designed for highly dramatic sequences where audience immersion and high emotional involvement are sought. Using a variety of dramatic sonorities, these musical monuments vary from high-octane action, to heroic and more, all with a beguiling intensity.

Dark & Intense Drama

Rich, full, live-orchestral music that stirs the soul and awakens emotional memories. Great for adding intensity and depth to a variety of characters in the throes of dramatic change. These lush tracks are delivered in Smartsound’s unique multi-layer format giving you access to the tracks’ components and instruments to shape the dramatic texture precisely to your video’s needs.