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Epic Cinematic Rock for Trailers
Audiosocket's epic cinematic rock collection is royalty free rock music built for trailers and action content, fusing driving electric guitars with electronic production, heavy percussion and layered strings. The mood is angry and dramatic rather than upbeat, closer to Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross scores than radio rock, and most tracks are instrumental. Jarkko Hietanen's Mammoth Tank and Alex Cuervo's Self Destruct Sequence Initiated suit trailers, extreme sports edits, game promos and superhero teasers.
9 tracks24 minUpdated Oct 8, 2026
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Most of it is: roughly three quarters of the tracks in this cinematic rock collection are instrumental, which is why it works under narration and trailer voiceover. The exceptions with vocals are Death Race by Wolfram Gruss and Elemental Contagious by Justin Marcellus, both better suited to montage and title-card moments where a voice adds attitude rather than competing with dialogue. Filter for instrumental if your cut has a narrator.
Cinematic rock here means rock instrumentation scored like a film cue. Every track leads with electric guitars, but they sit alongside electronic production and heavy percussion, with strings and keyboards on about half the tracks and brass on a few. The tagged reference points are Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, Hans Zimmer and Two Steps From Hell, not rock bands. The result is angry, dramatic build-and-release rather than verse-chorus songwriting, tagged mostly as action-adventure and suspense-tension.
Tracks average around two and a half minutes, so a 30 or 60 second trailer usually means editing to a section rather than using the whole cue. Because the collection leans dramatic and suspense-tension, the practical approach is to locate the biggest hit in the track, place it on your title reveal, and cut backwards to the slate. Audition Breaking Point by Travis Geer and Self Destruct Sequence Initiated by Alex Cuervo as two starting points.
It is tagged for action, superhero, extreme sports, stadium sports and game promo work alongside trailers, with a single horror cue and a crime-mystery cue for darker edits. The dominant moods are angry and dramatic, with exciting close behind, so it is a poor match for lifestyle or comedy content but a strong one for game trailers, fight-scene edits, sports hype packages and hard-hitting product reveals. Mammoth Tank by Jarkko Hietanen and The Killing Fields by Justin Marcellus show the range.
A Content ID claim can occur even on properly licensed music, and it does not mean you have done anything wrong. Every track here is cleared for monetized YouTube video under the license purchased, so if a claim appears you dispute it through YouTube and state that the track was licensed through Audiosocket. Licenses are perpetual for the finished video they cover, so a dispute resolved today stays resolved.