They Come At Night

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They Come At Night © 2021 by Shane Ivers is licensed under CC BY 4.0 Creative Commons logoCCBY icon

Shrieking strings, wrongly innocent glockenspiel, choir, and industrial drums combine in a Tim Burton-esque dark cinematic epic – genuinely unsettling and brilliantly composed.

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Royalty Free Scary Cinematic Music

They Come At Night has the DNA of Tim Burton stamped all the way through it – that particular combination of genuine menace and dark whimsy that makes something unsettling rather than simply frightening. Shrieking strings arrive with cold alarm, whilst a childlike glockenspiel picks out notes that somehow manage to be both innocent and deeply wrong at the same time. Pounding drums and a distorted guitar bass add industrial weight, and a choir lurks in the background providing grandeur to the darkness. The whole thing builds with cinematic precision towards something large and deeply peculiar – the kind of music that makes you want to check whether anything is standing behind you.

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Ideal for dark fantasy content, horror film trailers, and YouTube videos exploring supernatural or spooky themes with genuine cinematic quality. Works brilliantly for Halloween content that wants sophisticated horror rather than cheap scares - the Tim Burton influence elevates it well above generic scare music. Also effective for video game cinematics in dark or fairy-tale-gone-wrong settings.

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1 review for They Come At Night

  1. Matthew Mcguirk

    I fell in love with this as soon as I heard it, I’ve been using it as the intro to my podcast! With the Pro licence of course!

    I’ll be hitting up Silvermansounds for my next requirements in the future!

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