Asbjoern Andersen

Posted by Asbjoern Andersen in New sound effects libraries


Oooh yes… it’s that time of year again. Days are growing shorter here in Denmark, it’s getting cold – and Halloween is just around the corner. Being quite the horror fan, I’ve picked eight new and interesting SFX libraries that will set the right, creepy mood for your Halloween and horror projects.

 

Update: Four more libraries you should definitely check out too:
 
If you’re after horror sound effects, these three libraries are definitely worth a listen too:
 
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    Cinematic & Trailer Sound Effects Bloody Nightmare Play Track 550 sounds included $99

    Bloody Nightmare is a modern horror cinematic library aimed at the most cutting edge bone chilling productions out there.

    Whether you work in sound design, as a composer, trailer editor or as an electronic musician, Bloody Nightmare is a valuable new wave of Horror sounds that will surely cause visceral moments of terror and dread!

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  • Horror Sound Effects Cinematic Darkness – Bundle Play Track 2000+ sounds included $255

    We enter the next round of absolutely striking new SFX! CINEMATIC DARKNESS is the fourth release in our grand CINEMATIC series and is absolutely no less exciting than its predecessors: dirty BLASTS, scary DRONES, digital GLITCHES, synthetic SCREAMS, disturbing STUTTERS, creepy NOISE – the list continues as we have packed more than 15 GB of high-quality SFX into this collection.

    CINEMATIC DARKNESS has been co-produced with sound designer Sebastian Johnson who left his footprints in the world of sound design starting in the 90s with the first commercial library for the Waldorf Microwave and sound design for Ensoniq, Clavia, DSI, and recently for more than 40 blockbuster trailers in the last 4 years such as Gravity, World War Z, Godzilla, Maleficient, The Hobbit, Transcendence, The Dark Knight Rises, Prometheus, Pacific Rim, Resident Evil 5, Star Trek & much more!

    Our new library comes all nasty, disturbing & unsettling. It’ll shake you to the core & without a doubt it will power your next project. Evil, murky, harsh, synthetic and edgy are only a few characteristics of CINEMATIC DARKNESS. You have the possibility to customize this collection to your very own needs: the CONSTRUCTION KIT offers you high-quality source recordings to be creatively processed, while the DESIGNED version comes in handy with pre-designed, “ready-to-use” sounds, ideal for time-scarce projects. CINEMATIC DARKNESS is the next generation of evil SFX – add a wicked new tone to your sound pool!

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  • Gore sound effects
    Gore sound effects
    Cinematic & Trailer Sound Effects Cinematic Gore Play Track 600+ sounds included $55

    If you need sounds of gore, this SFX collection is truly something special. Delivering more than 600 sounds of blood, guts, bone breaks, sword and knife stabs and cuts, splatters, spurts, flesh tears, impacts – and sawing – its gets you a brutally effective collection of sounds to work with, both raw and designed.

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  • Horror Sound Effects Just Transitions | Creepy Trailers Play Track 270 sounds included $14

    Here you find a composite collection of designed, frightening Whooshes, creepy Transitions and haunting Movements to spice up your Trailers, Cut Scenes, Games and Movies.
    From ancient fantasy to futuristic horror projects, here you’ll find the appropriate sound that brings out the goose bumps.
    Subtile haunting movent sounds, roomy squeaks, harsh disurbing noises, magical whooshes, soaking reversed horror, terryfying stingers, …
    All sounds in this bundle were created by heavy sound design, layering and automation. Using hundreds recorded sounds of impacts, scrapes, swishes and anything else that has a unique motion envelope.
    Even breaks, endings and transitions of all different kinds of music will get that extra kick with this sound library – it gets you the sounds that’ll bring out the goosebumps.

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Haunting ambiences:
 
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    Drones & Mood Sound Effects Shadowscapes Play Track 100+ sounds included, 148 mins total $69

    Join us as we embrace the decay of the human psyche with Shadowscapes. This anxiety-inducing 2.6GB sound effects suite features 100 soundscapes inspired by all things maddening, and is intended to add bleak, atmospheric tension to projects in the horror, sci-fi, fantasy, surrealism and music production.

    Come, have a listen to the textures of Shadowscapes and get ready to lead your audience down the path of pure melodic mental mayhem!

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This library from Moon Echo Audio features 100 dark and disturbing ambiences (148 minutes total) – great for setting that sinister, maddening mood.

 

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    Drones & Mood Sound Effects unEarthly Ambience Play Track 74 sounds included, 82 mins total $39

    UnEarthy Ambience features 74 designed ambiences ranging from eerie organic textures, thick industrial machine rooms, and futuristic sci-fi atmospheres.

    Add a polished layer of subtle tension, evolving textures, otherworldly roomtones, complex soundscapes or natural environments twisted into new spaces. UnEarthy Ambience gets you 2.8 GB of dark, futuristic, organic, designed drones and soundscapes from original field recordings and modular synth sampling in total.

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Unearthly Ambiences is WhatisValis’ first foray into independent sound effects, and what a debut. It features 27 haunting ambiences made from field and modular synth recordings.
 

Gore and screams:
 
A classic from sound designer Chuck Russom: When you need gore, this library provides 477 blood-dripping sounds to build from.
Need more gore? Look here.

 

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    Creature Sound Effects Screams & Shouts Play Track 873 sounds included $15.20

    This release features 873 screams, shouts, moans, grunts, hisses from female/male humans, zombies, monsters and creatures. Fantastic for horror, suspense, thrillers, action movies and games

    All sounds are 100% dry. Reverb was just applied for the demo.

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If you need blood-curdling screams, you get no less than 870+ sounds here. Great for creature sounds – or just for cries of terror that’ll shock your audience.
 

Unsettling sounds:
 
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    Drones & Mood Sound Effects Around Bridges 1 (Dresden) Play Track 70 sounds included, 30 mins total $35

    Around Bridges introduces the inner sound of various bridges.
    The steel components of a bridge transmit the vibrations caused by passing cars or pedestrians in a fascinating manner.
    So this library contains the sounds of excited beam barriers, noise barriers, expansion gaps and a lot more steel components that bridges are made of.
    Also included are takes of footsteps, rain and wind – ordinary noises that get a certain magic when recorded at a handrail.
    To round up this library several high quality AB-stereo ambiences of the acoustical surroundings of bridges are included.

    Read the story behind the library

    Around Bridges features sounds organised into 10 categories:

    Ambience Below • Ambience Top • Beam Barriers • Expansion Gaps • Footsteps Handrails • Noise Barriers • Rain • Steel Structures • Wind

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Recordist Stephan Marche found a unique source of haunting, ghostly sounds – recording sounds from bridges (!). Check out the demos to hear just how it turned out.

 

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    Drones & Mood Sound Effects Bowed Cymbals Play Track 49 sounds included $25

    Bowed cymbals are one of those sound effects that just never get old.

    Perhaps it's the chilling sound of bow on bronze that puts us on the edge of our seat that we love so much. Or maybe it's the hauntingly beautiful tones that ring from a large ride cymbal with a large bow.

    Add some real bronze to your project today:

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Bowed cymbals can provide some truly unsettling sounds – and in this release from Tonal Gurus, you get lots of strange, creepy cymbal sounds for your horror project.
 

Eerie and dark soundscapes:
 
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    Industrial Ambiences Industrial Ambiences – Night & Day Disquiet Play Track 53 sounds included $75

    Industrial Ambiences – perfect for realistic industrial settings, adjacent to factories, dockyards, warehouses. Subtle intricate backgrounds, eerie man-made areas and horror ambiences. All files at least four minutes in length.

    Industrial Disquiet highlights:

    • 53 Tracks Total (25 Day time Tracks, 28 Night time Tracks)
    • High Resolution Photographs of Recording Locations Included
    • Thorough UCS compatible metadata included in all files
    • All tracks recorded and edited at 24bit, 96kHz
    • Each Track around 4 Minutes in Length
    • 6.9 GB compressed download, 7.5 GB uncompressed

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If your project calls for subtle, disturbing backgrounds, Industrial Disquiet delivers more than 200 minutes of ambiences. It features 25 day-time tracks and 28 night-time tracks, giving you a great range of strange soundscapes from industrial sites.

 

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    Drones & Mood Sound Effects Drones Play Track 40 sounds included $20

    40 Two Minute Long Drones

    Drones are essential for every sound designer and composer. Combine and layer Drones to add more depth, tension, and suspense to your track. Drones can act as a great background to any sci-fi scene and make your music more interesting.

    Bonus:
    This library includes the Suburb Rain SFX collection at no extra cost - featuring almost 50 minutes of rain recordings
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Need unsettling drones? This library comes packed with 40 drones, each two minutes in length. So if your horror project seems a little too light and cozy, this pack will help fix that.
 

 

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Need more horror sounds?
Hope you found some useful stuff above! And if you need more horror sounds, don’t miss last year’s highlight of 13 terrifying SFX libraries:

Click to hear the 13 horror sfx libraries

 


   
 
 
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