Tension Sound Effects
Tension sound effects, royalty-free and cleared for commercial work. 197 libraries carry this tag, most of them filed under Designed and Drones & Pads.
Recordists here also tag Suspense, Atmosphere and Cinematic, which is worth a look if nothing below fits.
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Blockbuster Trailer 2
$59.00Sold By : epicstockmediaCinematic trailer sound effects spanning 597 files of braams, hybrid braams, impacts, deep hits, risers, transitions, whooshes, energy glitches, and atmosphere drones in 96k 24bit, UCS compliant.
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MEGAHORN – Cinematic Horns & Braams
$69.00Sold By : HorrorSoundCinematic braam sound effects across 330 files, featuring clean and designed low brass, slams, sweeps, signature horn bends, distorted tones, distant sub horns, trombone, flutes, and glass brass atmospheres.
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SENTINEL – Raw Unfiltered Horror
$99.00Sold By : HorrorSoundHorror sound effects spanning over 750 WAV files of braams, impacts, hits, drones, risers, textures and signature elements, plus 430 BPM- and key-labelled tempo-synced loops with stems.
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DECONSTRUCT – LoFi Horror
Original price was: $99.00.$69.00Current price is: $69.00.Sold By : HorrorSoundLo-fi horror sound effects built from analog degradation, tape decay, voltage distortion, glitch bursts, stingers, rising tensions, and signal interference textures delivered at 96kHz/24-bit.
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Sinister Soundscapes SFX Bundle – Loopable Horror Ambiences & Haunted Atmospheres
Original price was: $45.00.$29.00Current price is: $29.00.Sold By : GfxSoundsStudiosHorror ambience sound effects featuring 24 loopable designed soundscapes across haunted locations including asylums, catacombs, graveyards, ghost towns, forests, hospitals, prisons, mansions and underwater shipwrecks in exploration and tension variations.
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Sci-Fi Immersive Bundle
$60.00Sold By : Axis Ambisonic LabSci-fi ambisonic sound effects combining spatialized impacts, weapon blasts, trailer hits, morphing drone textures, and designed soundscapes delivered in 3rd-order Ambisonics, first-order AmbiX, and binaural formats at 96kHz/24-bit.
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Doom Ambiences SFX Bundle – Dark Drones, Apocalyptic Atmosphere, Radiation Zones & Eerie Soundscapes
Original price was: $79.00.$35.00Current price is: $35.00.Sold By : GfxSoundsStudiosPost-apocalyptic ambience sound effects featuring 100 designed elements including deep dark drones, radiation zones, nuclear winters, dying planets, and abandoned world soundscapes in 96kHz, 24-bit audio.
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DEEP ICE – Creaks – Underwater
Original price was: $70.00.$35.00Current price is: $35.00.Sold By : MooBoxUnderwater ice creak sound effects recorded on frozen lakes with an Aquarian H2d hydrophone and Schoeps CCM4, featuring resonant fractures, tension cracks, impacts, and debris in surface, hydrophone, and mixed...
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Spatialized impacts & hits
$79.00Sold By : Axis Ambisonic LabSpatial impact sound effects featuring 800 designed hits delivered in ambisonic and binaural formats, including boom hits, trailer hits, sci-fi weapon blasts, plasma shots, underwater impacts, magic spells, and rock...
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Textures
Original price was: $49.00.$29.00Current price is: $29.00.Sold By : Axis Ambisonic LabGranular texture sound effects featuring 25 spatial compositions built from layered everyday objects - metal, water, glass, paper, machinery, and organic materials - delivered in Third-Order Ambisonic and binaural formats.
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Spatial scifi ambisonic soundscapes
Original price was: $75.00.$55.00Current price is: $55.00.Sold By : Axis Ambisonic LabSci-fi ambisonic sound effects featuring spaceship interior ambiences, morphing drone textures, spectral whooshes, and creature movements delivered in 3rd Order Ambisonics, binaural, 7.1.2, and mono/stereo formats at 96kHz.
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Jump Scares VOL.2
$39.00Sold By : BopAudioJump scare sound effects featuring over 200 files of metallic screeches, acoustic dread, booms, impacts, and suspenseful stingers designed for horror games and trailers at 96kHz/24-bit resolution.
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SALE - 25% OFFSale!
Drone (Mood)
Original price was: $20.00.$15.00Current price is: $15.00.Sold By : SFXAFRIKDrone sound effects featuring 20 designed underscore textures including dark bells, pipes, voice drones, energy hums, and tension tones delivered in 96kHz 24-bit stereo.
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Sounds From The Synth Abyss
$7.00Sold By : InMotionAudioBehringer Neutron synthesizer sound effects featuring 153 rhythmic elements, alarms, frequency shifts, electromagnetic interference, and eerie soundscapes, processed through guitar pedals for sci-fi and horror design.
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ULTIMATE HORROR SOUNDS AND MUSIC
$60.00Sold By : Ben VibrantA horror-themed library of 297 sound effects and music tracks, featuring character vocals, game ambiences, atmospheric tones, action sounds, object interactions, and 10 original compositions.
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Pure Cinema – Mini
$59.00Sold By : 344 SFXThis mini collection of 100+ cinematic sound effects features hits, whooshes, transitions, drones, and drops. Files are provided as 24-bit audio with embedded UCS metadata.
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![Four large, cracked black speaker cones arranged in a square on a dark background. The word “[MEGAHORN]” is centered below the speakers, and “HORRORSOUND” appears above them in small font.](https://cdn.sonniss.com/storage/2026/08/horrorsound.org-MEGAHORN-300x300.jpg)
![Distorted red and black VHS screen displaying glitch effects with the words “Play,” “HORRORSOUND,” “[DECONSTRUCT],” “LO-FI HORROR,” and “VHS” shown in text, reflecting a retro horror style.](https://cdn.sonniss.com/storage/2026/08/horrorsound.org-Deconstruct-300x300.jpg)
