Shade of Dread: Dark Ambient Horror Drone SFX
A slow, suffocating dark ambient drone that fills any scene with dread and foreboding. Ideal for horror games, cinematic trailers, and paranormal atmospheres.
Free for personal and commercial use. No account, no payment, no attribution required. Read the full license
0:14
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About this sound
Thick, abyssal tones rise from the silence like something vast and unseen drawing closer. 'Shade of Dread' is a 14-second dark ambient drone that wraps the listener in a cold, oppressive atmosphere, suggesting a world where light has long since failed. The sound carries a cinematic weight that suits horror game loading screens, tense cutscene underscores, and the opening moments of a paranormal podcast episode. Indie game developers building dungeon crawlers or dark fantasy RPGs will find it slots seamlessly into underground corridors, cursed ruins, or netherworld transitions. TikTok and YouTube creators producing Halloween content or horror reels can use it to instantly shift tone and unsettle an audience. Download this royalty-free drone and let the dread speak for itself.
The file
- Duration
- 0:14
- Format
- WAV
- Sample rate
- 44.1 kHz
- Bit depth
- 16 bit
- Channels
- Stereo
- File size
- 2.3 MB
- Category
- Dark Ambience & Drones
- Type
- Sound or atmosphere
Free for personal and commercial use
You may
- Use these sounds in commercial and non-commercial projects: games, apps, films, ads, YouTube, TikTok and Twitch, podcasts, audiobooks, music, theatre, school and university projects
- Edit, trim, pitch, layer and process them, even beyond recognition
- Ship them inside your finished game, app or film
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- Use them in your own work made with AI tools, for example in Suno or AI video and audio tools
- Use them as often as you like, in as many projects as you like, for as long as you like
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- Use the voices in sexual content, or the sounds in anything pornographic, hateful or illegal, or to harm real people
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"Shade of Dread: Dark Ambient Horror Drone SFX" by Alesia-Davina, https://alesiadavina.com/sound/shade-of-dread-dark-ambient-horror-drone-sfx/