Find the best royalty-free Halloween music in 2024 with Epidemic Sound
Get ready for the spooky season and find the best Halloween music for your content with Epidemic Sound.
As the spooky season approaches, it’s worth getting your haunted house in order and finding some Halloween music for your content. After all, music can make the difference between a video being blood-curdling or rib-tickling.
You probably wouldn’t soundtrack a ghost walk video with German trance, nor would you pace through a house of horrors with Enya blaring in the background. You need to nail that emotion and express it with some scary music that chills your viewers to the core.
Here are some quick tips for finding the best Halloween songs for your content.
Follow the below steps to find the perfect songs for Halloween videos
- Open the Epidemic Sound player – if you’re not signed up, you can get started here.
- Think about what tone your Halloween music should have. From trick-or-treating to R-rated movies, the freakiest month of the year covers a whole range of emotions. You can search the Epidemic Sound Player for a specific vibe – browse moods including Sneaking, Suspense, Scary, and Fear.
- Consider the kind of genres that would make the best Halloween music for your content. As much as we love a massive pop banger, it might not fit your atmospheric graveyard video. Try looking for genres like Horror, Amusement Park, Chase, Mystery, Supernatural, and Circus & Funfair.
- If you’re struggling for ideas, why not dig into our specialized Horror & Thriller page?
Want to give it a try? We’ve got more than 50,000 tracks to choose from – check out the catalog below.
Looking for a shortcut?
If you just want to pick and choose the best Halloween music from a playlist, we’ve got you covered. Our music experts at Epidemic Sound have compiled themed playlists for:
These playlists include everything from Salsa and Dubstep to Latin and Electro. Check them out, then read on for the best Halloween songs for your content, chosen personally by our music curation team.
The top 5 Halloween songs for your content
Ready to haunt your viewers’ dreams? Here are five Halloween-style tracks that ought to do the trick, selected by Epidemic Sound’s elite-tier Music Curation team — we’ve heard they sleep upside-down. And in coffins. And in graveya- anyway. Get inspired!
Luella Gren – Sleep Forever
When you think of the glockenspiel, you’ll likely imagine gorgeous Californian landscapes. Maybe some Beach Boys, a bit of Weezer blasting from a boombox down the promenade. Luella Gren clearly didn’t get the memo — Sleep Forever is a ghastly, goosebump-inducing soundscape, angling glockenspiel around cautious harpsichord and some Treehouse of Horror-style theremin. It’s instrumental Halloween music crafted with a clear love for the season, making it perfect for anything from in-store experiences to social media shorts.
Ruiqi Zhao – Behind You
Watch out! It’s behind you! No, seriously — it’s Behind You, by Ruiqi Zhao. It’s all ominous, discordant pizzicato until it’s not — strings and woodwind crash like waves, giving way to unsettling bouts of piano and nightmare-fueled choral vocals. Deliver your establishing shot with a bang, soundtrack a high-octane chase, play this in the background of anything to flood it with dread. Behind You is straight-up scary music, and if you don’t mind, we’ll keep the light on tonight, thanks.
Hampus Naeselius – Bounty Hunter
Hampus Naeselius sells spooky, but in a different way. Bounty Hunter kicks off all high-drama and tension, folding into a synthwave-inspired orchestral track that’d slot snugly into the latest season of Stranger Things. This would work a treat in any ‘challenge’-style content you might have lined up, echoing the ebb and flow of facing and solving a problem — it could work year-round, come to think of it.
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons, Violin Concerto in F Minor, Op. 8 No. 4, RV 297 "Winter": I. Allegro non molto
Vivaldi isn’t scary…is he? The Italian composer may not have lived to catch Saw and The Shining in theaters, but his compositions remain. The Allegro non molto ‘Winter’ section of The Four Seasons is one of his most recognizable, often used to portray stately, aristocratic characters in film and television. That doesn’t mean it can’t be used to shock, though. Think of movies like A Clockwork Orange, Black Swan, and Shutter Island, all of which employed iconic classical tracks to terrify viewers.
This spine-tingling version of Vivaldi’s signature piece will inject class into your content — contrast it with something horrific on-screen for a real crowd-pleaser. And if Vivalidi isn’t quite your tempo, don’t sweat it. You’ll find a treasure trove of world-famous classical renditions in the Epidemic Sound Classical Essentials collection. You’re welcome.
Alcónes Negros – El Calaveras
On the Day of the Dead — or Día de Muertos — death does not represent absence, but life. This celebration of death has been around since the pre-Hispanic era, now typically observed on November 1 or 2. It’s a holiday to spend time with family and eat in honor of the dead.
Alcónes Negros’ El Calaveras will chime with any Día de Muertos content you might have. It’s a low-tempo, somber son jarocho instrumental track with some genuinely beautiful moments. Like the previous two examples, you could probably use this in content beyond Halloween, too.
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