48 to 192 kHz, 32-bit. Formats: Mono, Stereo.
Resonant metal sound effects captured with Korg CM-300 and AKG C411 PP contact microphones at 192 kHz, spanning barbed wire rubs, fence shakes, rope creaks under tension, and door hinges.
Sound effects tag
Tension Sound Effects
Tension sound effects for the bit just before something happens. A heartbeat picking up speed while metal groans somewhere under load. Ice creaking underfoot. Rising tones that seem to climb forever without getting anywhere, a lovely trick for a slow walk down a dark corridor. And voices straining as someone hangs on.
- Libraries
- 206
- Publishers
- 75
- Formats
- Mono, stereo, M/S, surround, ambisonic
- Sample rates
- 44.1 to 192 kHz
- Licence
- Royalty-free for commercial work
- Price range
- $3.50 to $247
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All 206 libraries tagged Tension
192 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
A high-fidelity collection of metallic sound effects sourced from a suspended steel cable, featuring resonant impacts, harmonic oscillations, overtones, and detailed frequency sweeps.
-69%
96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Mono.
A library of 99+ sound effects featuring extreme guitar techniques and unconventional objects, used for creating suspenseful build-ups, distressed tensions, cacophonous crescendos, and drops.
Was $29.99, now $9.00
Add Metal Tensions to cart48 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
This expansive collection features 20 scenes and 121 stems of intense sound effects, providing composers with unsettling, cerebral elements for crime and thriller productions.
-16%
96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
Professional, eerie sound effects featuring 62 ambient drones and pads, each running three minutes long, crafted for horror productions through meticulous sound design and atmospheric textures.
Was $49.00, now $41.00
Add Tonal Elements: Atrox – Horror & Tension Elements to cart-25%
96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
Professionally crafted sound effects blend field recordings with designed elements, offering 130 cinematic stingers, whooshes, drones, and impacts for intense multimedia productions.
Was $39.00, now $29.00
Add KINETICS- Cinematic Tension to cart-25%
44.1 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
This versatile collection delivers 213 dark soundscapes, unnerving ambiences, and detailed sound effects, featuring ethereal atmospheres and industrial-ambient textures for cinematic and atmospheric productions.
Was $22.00, now $16.50
Add Cinematic Tension Sound Effects to cart96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
Organic designed sound effects fusing metal, stone, wood, air and glass source material with layered synthesis, including risers, impacts, explosions, drones, whooshes, glitches, magic and sci-fi weapons across 450 files.
96 kHz, 16 to 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
Trailer hit sound effects featuring 218 designed booms, anvil hits, risers, stingers, bass drops, swooshes, and horror transitions with metal, cymbal, sword, and chain details at 96kHz.
-50%
96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Mono, Stereo.
Horror violin sound effects featuring 171 source recordings of scrapes, squeaks, staccato and legato bowing plus 131 designed risers, stingers, drones, braams, glitches and creature vocals.
Was $20.00, now $10.00
Add Sinister Textures 6 to cart-20%
96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
Dark drone sound effects featuring 300 files of cycling, rotating, and voice drones, pulsating sweeps, and noise soundscapes, created on a hybrid analog-digital hardware synthesizer with seamless loop versions.
Was $15.00, now $12.00
Add Dark Drone Soundscape Vol.1 to cart96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
Dark ambience sound effects spanning 41 short futuristic atmospheres, drones, hums, and textures for building tension, mood, and space, delivered as 96 kHz / 24-bit stereo WAV files.
-20%
96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
Violent feedback sound effects spanning warning blasts, electrical disruptions, metal strikes, tension risers, vinyl crackle, degraded tape textures, and drones across 500+ handcrafted files at 96kHz/24-bit.
Was $99.00, now $79.00
Add METROPOLIS - Signature Sfx to cart-33%
96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Mono.
Glass cracking sound effects recorded at 96 kHz / 24-bit in a professional Foley studio, covering slow tension builds, window cracks with impact, pressure squeaks, floe crackles, and loose shards.
Was $15.00, now $10.00
Add CRACKING SOUNDS to cart-33%
96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Mono.
Glass smashing sound effects across 279 UCS-compliant files covering cracking, shattering, window breaks, pressure and tension builds, loose shards and bottle smashes, recorded dry in a pro foley studio.
Was $30.00, now $20.00
Add BREAKING GLASS to cart-20%
96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
Cinematic 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.
Was $59.00, now $47.20
Add Blockbuster Trailer 2 to cart-28%
96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.![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)
Cinematic 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.
Was $69.00, now $49.00
Add MEGAHORN - Cinematic Horns & Braams to cart-30%
48 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.
Horror 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.
Was $99.00, now $69.00
Add SENTINEL - Raw Unfiltered Horror to cart-30%
96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Stereo.![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)
Lo-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.
Was $99.00, now $69.00
Add DECONSTRUCT - LoFi Horror to cart96 kHz, 24-bit. Formats: Mono, Stereo.
Electromagnetic interference sound effects recorded at 96kHz from active shipboard equipment including boiler panels, engine control room indicators and purifiers, capturing pulses, buzzes, glitches, whines and digital noise.
Tension is about holding back. The sound promises something without delivering it, so the audience leans in. A rising tone that never arrives, or a long creak that stops just before it breaks. The libraries here cover the designed side, drones and risers built for trailers, and the organic side, real materials under strain that feel uncomfortably physical. For darker scenes there's Horror, and Suspense covers the quieter, more puzzling kind of unease. Keep it low. Tension falls apart the moment it gets too loud.
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