Dark Suspense Thriller Underscore Track

Thriller rather than horror: there is a pulse in this one, low and steady, and the harmony is dark but functional instead of abstract. It behaves like an underscore, holding a scene together while events happen on top of it.

Fits investigations, heists, stakeouts, political drama and any true-crime segment that needs momentum rather than dread. The steady pulse also makes it straightforward to cut picture to.

At eighty-nine beats per minute in C major it is the most conventional piece here, and that is deliberate: it behaves like music rather than like sound design, so an audience stops noticing it after a few seconds.