Music in crime drama films or audio books serves as a powerful storytelling tool.
Aside from setting the staple suspense vibe, it helps by enhancing the visual or spoken narrative, eliciting emotions, and contributing to the overall experience. A crime story just isn’t the same within that thrilling, suspense soundtrack!
Hi, I’m Mik, one of TunePocket music composers. I went though our huge catalog of royalty free music and picked some of our best crime drama music tracks filled with cinematic tension or mystery. Watch the video below or jump straight to the playlist.
What background music works best in crime drama content?
The crime drama films, podcasts, and audio books typically revolve around criminal stories, investigations, and the pursuit of justice.
Crime dramas can take various forms, including police and detective stories, heist films, and legal dramas with emphasis on suspense, tension, and intricate plots.
Crime drama music soundtracks commonly feature tense orchestral scores, mysterious underscores, or brooding electronic soundscapes, depending on the film’s setting and style.
However, depending on the story line, you may need to use sneaky music for comic crime skits or news broadcast music if your story focuses on the work of police of investigative journalists.
When looking for the soundtrack for you next crime drama story, focus the music that delivers tension, suspense, and a dark, brooding atmosphere with mysterious or enigmatic tones.
I’ve listed some examples below:
Best crime drama music for videos, films, podcasts, and audio books
All crime drama music in this playlist comes with lifetime royalty free music license. Learn how to license music for crime drama videos, films, investigative documentaries, podcasts, and audio books.
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Dark mysterious royalty free cinematic music underscore with somber brooding suspense feel for spooky video, vlog, horror film, haunting investigative documentary, and commercial business use.
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Pensive cinematic royalty free cinematic music underscore with anxious suspense feel for a somber film background, video, vlog, podcast, reflective game ambience, crime investigative documentary, and commercial business use.
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Funky royalty free background music underscore with whimsical mischievous groovy feel for upbeat video or vlog background, fun action game, crime film comedy, sneaky robber documentary, and commercial business use.
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Tense royalty free cinematic music underscore with dark suspense feel for horror film, scary eerie video, ominous brooding vlog, and commercial business use. Download unlimited royalty free music for videos.
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Anxious cinematic royalty free music with tense brooding feel for a dark drama film, suspense vlog or game, somber or mysterious documentary, and commercial business use. Download unlimited music for videos.
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Somber cinematic underscore royalty free music with sad reflective feel for pensive video, vlog or podcast, crime drama film, sad documentary, and commercial business use. Download unlimited royalty free music for videos.
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Sneaky cinematic underscore royalty free music with mischievous quirky fun feel for silly video, whimsical crime comedy film, playful vlog, funny podcast, and commercial business use.
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Anxious royalty free cinematic rock music underscore with dark tense feel for suspense film, game, reflective documentary, drama, and commercial business use. Download unlimited music for videos.
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Tense royalty free music cinematic orchestra with intense action for dark video, aggressive war or fighting film, ominous vlog, crime or suspenseful TV show soundtrack, and commercial business use. Looking for suspense build up sound effects? Download suspense cinematic sounds.
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Download anxious mysterious royalty free cinematic music with brooding tense feel for eerie video, reflective vlog, podcast, crime documentary, thriller film, and commercial business use.
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Anxious cinematic hybrid royalty free music with tense brooding suspense feel for epic video, chase action film, dramatic documentary, and commercial business use.
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Brooding royalty free cinematic electronica music with mysterious anxious feel for reflective video, tense film, pensive documentary, and commercial business use.
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Eerie somber cinematic music underscore with brooding suspense feel for horror film, haunting video, mystery vlog, and commercial business use. Download unlimited royalty free cinematic music for videos.
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Dramatic cinematic royalty free strings orchestra music underscore with anxious brooding feel for sad storytelling video, epic drama film, somber documentary, and commercial business use.
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Dark ambient royalty free cinematic background music with eerie ominous feel for horror film, suspense vlog, brooding documentary, and commercial business use.
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Anxious royalty free news music with urgent emergency broadcast feel for intense announcement, tense background soundtrack, epic newsflash, action vlog, and commercial business use.
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Brooding royalty free blues rock instrumental background music with somber dark feel for reflective video, dramatic vlog, film, and commercial business use. Download the vocal version with ragged male vocal: Elvira
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Dramatic cinematic royalty free music intro with dark epic feel for video or vlog opener / outro, brooding podcast, film, game, and commercial business use.
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Creepy royalty free background ambiance soundscape / sound effect drone with mysterious horror feel for suspenseful video, spooky game, eerie Halloween or sci-fi film atmosphere, scary sound design, and commercial business use.
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Tense royalty free electronica music with anxious suspense cinematic feel for horror film, anxious vlog or podcast, dark game, mysterious documentary, and commercial business use.
