Spooky background music

A haunting scene always needs an unsettling soundtrack that lingers in your audience's memory. Anyone can cut together a simple video of a creepy hallway or a misty graveyard, but the right music is the difference between a run-of-the-mill horror clip and something that actually gives people chills.

Mubert's AI-generated spooky background music is built to help creators with no production experience add a haunting atmosphere to their projects.

How AI-Generated Spooky Background Music Can Enhance Your Content

Great horror is as much about what you hear as what you see. With Mubert, you don’t have to choose from generic stock tracks that sound alike. The platform’s AI listens to your creative direction (words like "dungeon drone", "haunted house hum", or an image of a creepy location) and serves up an original royalty-free track, loop, mix, or jingle at a length you choose. You can test variations (darker, thinner, more space) until the track supports the picture instead of distracting from it.

The Best Creepy Background Music Options to Elevate Your Videos

Deep suspense and psychological unease in your horror films or YouTube shorts can only be created using these or similar AI-generated sounds:

• sub-bass drones;
• music-box or toy motifs;
• piano + tape hiss;
• strings and royalty-free classical music tunes;
• retro synth;
• stingers, risers, and whooshes.

Mubert's got a copyright-licensed library of spooky, dark, and suspenseful generated tracks for all types of media content, including YouTube shorts, walkthroughs, podcasts, and Halloween event hype reels. You'll find them in the Spooky Ambience and Halloween Epic curated playlists. They are created for the season: haunted, atmospheric, and a little theatrical. But if you want to create music with AI on your own, no matter the genre, just describe the atmosphere you want, and Mubert’s AI will create something tailored.

Simple Steps to Create and Upload Spooky Music for Your Videos

Using Mubert's background music in your projects is simple, even if you've never done it before:

1. Browse playlists, or open Mubert’s generator. Write a one-line mood or drop in a reference photo, match the track length to your scene, and hit render.
2. Import the track you generated, place it beneath the voice or key moments, then set the volume to back the story, not compete with it.
3. Save changes and publish the video.

The background tracks are royalty-free for uses covered by your plan, so you're licensed to sync the music for your video (the copyright remains with the owner). Save your license or receipt with the project and don't upload the raw audio to libraries.

Some advice for you: scary isn't always loud, so leave air between sounds and let the silence work. Sync AI-generated music with visuals and don't overdo it.