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INDUSTRIAL TERROR – Hits & Transitions is a second installment of Industrial Terror series.
It is a collection of dark, distorted, ear-piercing, industrial hits, impacts, crashes and transitions.
IT Hits & Transitions is an expansion pack that focuses in single, sharp hits and transitions rather than evolving, textural impacts and whooshes (as heard in Industrial Terror).
Collection consists of 145 carefully designed and rendered sound effects.
Unique processing of organic field recordings combined with modular processing makes it both grounded in reality and creepy. This collection is a perfect choice for any kind of horror genre.
RECORDED WITH: Sound Devices MixPre 6 + Senhheiser MKH8060 + DPA 4060
CREATED AND EDITED WITH: Pro Tools, Live 10, Reaktor, EOS2, Discord4, Modular
Evil Twin is a Reaktor 5 and 6 ensemble for creating cinematic sound design, BPM synced rhythmic loops, intense impacts, whooshes, glitches, drones, and special effects.
Evil Twin is sample-based and contains a custom 128 sample library from SoundMorph. You can also load your own samples easily. If you own the new Reaktor 6, Evil Twin is a must have.
• Presets by Richard Devine, Ivo Ivanov, Jason Cushing, Yan David and more
• 3 LFOs
• Drawable envelopes
• Complete knob modulation
• Load up to 6 samples
• 3 effects
• Filter
• Grain, Jitter, and Pitch controls
• BPM synced loops
• Included Touch OSC template
• Note: This library requires a full version of Reaktor 5 or 6
Zombie Hordes is a massive sound library designed to bring overwhelming waves of the undead to your projects. Built by the creature vocalization experts at The Monster Factory, this collection captures every terrifying groan, scream, and snarl with cinematic precision.
Whether you’re working on a video game, film, or TV project, this library gives you the power to create hordes ranging from a handful of zombies to hundreds moving as one.
• 8 expert creature performers (4 male, 4 female)
• 4 distinct zombie vocal archetypes covering every style, from slow shamblers to frenzied infected
• 5 unique horde behaviors: Idle, Detection, Excited, Biting, Chewing
• Pre-designed hordes of 25, 50, 100, 250, and 500 zombies — drop-in ready for instant use
• Long and short audio loops for endless customization
• Recorded with 3× Sanken CO-100K microphones for full spectrum detail
• Rich UCS metadata embedded for easy search and workflow integration
• Game Developers – Build dynamic, reactive zombie hordes in real time.
• Sound Designers – Clean, well-organized files that drop straight into your DAW.
• Film & TV – Add terrifying authenticity to your horror sequences.
The undead come alive thanks to The Monster Factory’s trained vocal stunt performers, specialists in safe and sustainable extreme vocal effects. Every groan, shriek, and howl was performed naturally — no digital tricks, just raw vocal power.
Our team has already delivered undead chaos for Fortnite: The Walking Dead Experience, Baldur’s Gate 3, Dead by Daylight, and more. Now, that same expertise is available to you.
Elemental Mutation Whooshes And Impacts is your ultimate toolkit for conjuring intense elemental sound design. Packed with over 1,900 royalty-free sound effects, this library brings together ethereal whooshes, explosive impacts, and immersive magic casts that transform any ordinary moment into pure audio alchemy. Perfect for summoning spells, elemental attacks, or cinematic transitions, each sound is meticulously designed to layer seamlessly into your project — from subtle energy swirls to bone-rattling impact blasts. Get ready to amplify your games, trailers, and fantasy worlds with an arsenal of otherworldly audio that’s ready to cast, conjure, and conquer.
Enter the brutal heart of cinematic terror with Cinematic Nightmares: Impacts Vol.1—a meticulously crafted sound pack designed to deliver raw, unrelenting power straight to your speakers. Packed with thunderous impacts, bone-rattling hits, and layered textures of chaos, this collection is built to elevate your horror trailers, dark cinematic cues, and intense game soundscapes. Whether you’re crafting jump scares, dramatic transitions, or tension-building moments, these sounds will hit with precision and presence, helping you shape unforgettable sonic moments that grab attention and refuse to let go.
Like its whooshing predecessor, this pack is built for flexibility and depth:
● Designed Section – 10 fully layered impact sounds, sculpted and delivered in both wet and dry versions for instant drag-and-drop power. You get 20 ready-to-use files to give your productions immediate punch.
● Layers Section – Go deeper with 49 expertly curated impact layers, each provided in both wet and dry versions. That’s 98 individual files, purpose-built for layering, tweaking, or using standalone.
Each sound includes 6 variations per file, with both wet and dry processing included. This means you’re not locked into any one sound—you can apply your own reverb, layer them with other effects, or manipulate them into entirely new sonic monstrosities. Total freedom, zero compromise.
Massive Value: 708 High-Quality Sounds
With this pack, you’re not just getting great sound—you’re getting a full arsenal of ready-to-use audio assets:
● Designed Sounds: 120 wet and dry variations (10 sounds × 6 variations × 2 formats).
● Layered Sounds: 588 wet and dry variations (49 sounds × 6 variations × 2 formats).
● Bonus One-Shots: Every variation is also provided as a pre-cut one-shot—clearly labeled and organised within its own folder, drag-and-drop ready for your DAW or sampler, making workflow fast and seamless.
Check out the sound demo here:
All sounds are provided in 24-bit / 96kHz resolution, ensuring industry-standard quality. The total pack size is 5.6 GB, and everything is embedded with full UCS-compliant metadata to keep your sound library organised, searchable, and production-ready.
Friction Mallet_Pack 02 is a pack of friction and impact recordings using a Gongs Unlimited Birthday Party Silicone Rubber Friction Mallet against a plastic cookie container. The container is almost empty with only the leftover crumbs remaining.
Using this Friction Mallet gets you a fun combination of Groans, Guttural Buzz Vibrations, Tonal Rumbles, Impacts, Bounces, Tight and Loose Slides, Swipes, and wild Pitch Bends.
Packed in at 7.35GB, 1628 single triggered sounds totaling around 71 minutes to use as a creature, sound design, vehicle layer or any other layer you can think of!
These sound files were recorded at 32bit, 192kHz using the Sennheiser MKH8050, Sennheiser MKH30 and Sanken CO-100K microphones into a Sound Devices Mix Pre-10ii.
All are metadata tagged using the Universal Category System in Soundminer, and also searchable in Soundly, and Basehead.
This sound library captures the unique acoustics of New Zealand’s caves, abandoned mines, and tunnels, recorded in stereo and surround.
You will find a variety of ambiences, from vast, echoing caverns to narrow passageways with close, damp acoustics. From the delicate trickle of water on mossy stone and heavy drips on dirt to the distant rumble of underground streams and the wind through old miner houses, these recordings bring the underground world to life.
This library reveals the rich echoes and shifting textures of these hidden spaces, where sound bends, fades, and resonates through stone and water.
This library is also available in The New Zealand Collection bundle.
Cover photo by Harry Bradley.
Recorded Locations
Aranui Cave • Ballroom Overhang • Box Canyon Cave • Cave Stream Scenic Reserve • Collins Drive • Denniston Mines • Glenorchy Mining area • Harris Bay Cave • Mangapohue Natural Bridge • Moria Gate Arch • Oparara Arch • Piripiri Cave • Tatare Gorge • Tunnel Hill • Waipu caves • Welshtown
Stereo and Surround
Recorded with double mid-side and AB microphone setups, this library is delivered in 5.0 (L/R/C/Ls/Rs) and Stereo.
Gear used
Zoom F3 • Zoom F6 • Usi Pro • MKH30 • MKH8040
Metadata
This sound library is UCS compliant and comes with fully embedded metadata compatible with Soundly, Soundminer and Basehead.
HorrorSound’s Deep Tock is a unique collection combining two sample packs in one, offering a dynamic selection of stylized clock loops and signature sonic elements.
The Signature section boasts 145 modern horror abstracts and unsettling tones. These tormented and unique bleeps perfectly punctuate modern horror trailers and scores.
Featuring: Twisted Vocals, Signals, Alarms, Bursts, Processed Toy Piano and Glissato Strings.
The clock loops are organized into 8 folders, featuring over 270 tempo-synced loops from 60 to 140 BPM. Spanning classic to experimental, you’ll find everything from ticking mechanisms to haunting chimes and plucks. These incredibly realistic and pristine loops are ready for action horror trailers and suspense underscores.
Ouch! These bone crushing, spinal shattering, and skull crushing sounds will leave you feeling absolutely broken on the inside. With +50 designed anatomical gore sounds, it’ll be hard to get over the traumatic sounds of this library. Added to the pain are +700 source files for you to create your own gut-wrenching sounds from scratch, including lettuce, celery, tomatoes, bell peppers, and cucumbers.
Pain never sounded so fun.
This Collection of Room Tones contains Recordings made in empty, abandoned old Buildings and Medieval Ruins. Unsettling Draft Sounds from different perspectives. Wind Gusts heard from inside, Wind Storm echoing in old Chapels or Church, eerie humming inside abandoned spaces, Tonal Draft creating creepy atmospheres… Over 2,5 hours of Urbex type ambiences, containing long files and loops for easy use and variety. Recorded in stereo inside and outside interesting, and secret places, which is a rule for urban exploring ;-)
These are not common Room Tones with only presence of a silent room, but more ambiences that are suited for games/movie where characters are supposed to be in shelter, in abandoned places, in castles, dungeons, prisons, machine rooms etc. Cracks, moving structures, rattling objects are left in purposely to really have a detailed and convincing setting for game, documentary or any visual content. Best is to keep the volume low enough to not overdo the atmosphere.
Care is taken to not have any disturbing human traffic in the recordings, so these will fit for most time periods and geographic locations.
A GMC cable tool Sterdrill Keystone USA (1953) – I found one rusting away in a fjord in Iceland and attached a LOM Geofon and Stille and Klang contact microphones.
The results were varying textured breezes moving long grass and decaying loose metal to create rustling, scratching sounds, resonant knocks and also insect and gnawing rodent like sounds.
Further Library Info
This sound library is included in the Wind Born Movement Library
Multiple Microphone Perspectives : Yes
Type : Source Files – WAV Stereo
Mastered : No
Normalised : No
Looped Files : Yes
Recorder : Sound Devices Mix Pre 10II
Microphones : LOM Geofon, Stille and Klang Contact Microphones
Microphone Perspective : Magnet / Contact
Documentation Included : Copyright, EULA, Images, Metadata (exported in multiple formats)
Metadata : Files are stamped with detailed UCS compliant metadata in Soundminer
License : A Sound Effect EULA / Terms and Conditions https://asoundeffect.com/license-agreement/
These sounds have been designed to suit a large reptile monster – from dragons to dinosaurs and everything in between.
420 files • 96 kHz/ 32 Bit • 3.05Go • 28:53 mins
Torturing Metal is a plus to have to create Metal movement, sword, armor and shield handling, Beast screaming, horror stinger and more impactful sounds. It can be used as a construction kit to build awesome sounds with Metallic texture, sci-fi creature, medieval battle, thrill sequences or to pick as-is sounds or add to your productions.
It contains several sounds such screeching metal, Rubbing, rattle, impact, twist, piercing and scratching manipulations.
Each sound has been meticulously edited individually, All files were recorded and are delivered in 32bit 96kHz Broadcast Wave files, all embedded with metadata information for easy import and ensure fast and easy workflow.
SwishSwoosh presents Rip & Tear: Gore Sound Effects PRO Pack. Experience the squish of torn flesh, bones cracking, and the stickiness of fresh blood—all meticulously recorded with premium equipment – Rode NTG4 and Sennheiser MKH8050 microphones. Crafted specifically for audio professionals, this pack comes with; construction pack, ready-to-use designed assets, and a bundle option.
In this library you will find recordings of old analog television.
Sounds include different type of frequency noises.
These sounds are perfect for sound design in movies, games, documentaries, etc.
Geophonic Instruments Bundle Vol. 2 is our second collection of Geophonic Instruments libraries – this time containing Vols. 4, 5 and 6. These three libraries feature dark, subby tones designed from recordings of unusual interactions between musical instruments and the Lom Geofón. Inside is an assortment of rumbles, risers, impacts, sustains, plucks, drones and tones intended for epic and menacing moments.
Subsonic frequencies as low as 10 Hz were captured from sounds of various instruments (a waterphone, kalimba, harmonica, drum, thunder machine, violin and guitar). Our Audio Craftsmen have manipulated these recording to accentuate the rich, low resonances of each instrument, producing an atmospheric, brooding quality to each collection.
Because of its intense low frequency energy, this bundle is perfect for sci-fi, horror and thriller projects across Film, TV and Game productions.
All sounds included were carefully captured and meticulously edited for maximum sonic quality, enabling you to drop each sample into your projects with no need for further enhancement or modification.
The entire bundle is delivered at 24Bit 192kHz and tagged with extensive Metadata for ease of use.
The Reverses Bundle is a versatile collection of recordings and designed sounds that have been flipped 180 degrees!
To make this bundle, our Audio Craftsmen recorded a vast array of sounds ranging all the way down to subsonic frequencies. Glass, voices, water, impacts, animals, tools, guitar strings, church bells, paper and many more materials and sources were captured, edited and designed. For the pièce de résistance: our Craftsmen made a sonic U-turn and reversed every sound!
The result is a sonic emporium of avant-garde, dynamic sounds ideal for tension-building and flashback scenes in your Film, TV & Game projects.
The entire bundle is delivered at 24Bit 192kHz and tagged with extensive Metadata for ease of use.
LAPSE is a collection of 134 trailer clocks (24 Bit / 96 kHz, WAV, UCS). Is a simple and straightforward library for creating the famous and well know trailer clock sound.
This pack is a powerful kit of designed ticks, ready to be dropped in your session and create a tense and dark track.
You will find the classic ticks and more. LAPSE is a great addition to your collection.
Geophonic Design Vol. 6 features our biggest, heaviest-sounding recordings captured with the Lom Geofon. This collection is a real speaker shaker!
The frequencies captured with this microphone extend all the way down to 10Hz resulting in more mysterious, complex and darker elements; perfect for game and film design.
Our Audio Craftsmen have predominantly taken recordings from a gramophone, and manipulated them to create a plethora of unique and versatile sound effects.
All sounds are delivered in 24Bit 192kHz format allowing further sonic manipulation and have been meticulously edited and tagged with extensive UCS compliant metadata for ease of use.
The Ultimate Horror SFX Bundle brings you our top selling Monsters, Jump Scares, Screams and much more. Fill your next horror scene with over 7.8GB of quality recordings. Whether it’s a scary track or a scene in a film, this bundle will provide everything you need to shock your audience.
Our Audio Craftsmen have carefully edited each sound for maximum sonic clarity so that you can drop each sound directly into your project timeline and get down to work with minimal fuss.
INCLUDED LIBRARIES:
Zombie Specimines Vol. 1
Zombie Specimines Vol. 2
Monster Movement
Supernatural Ghosts
Torture Chamber
Jump Scares
Flesh, Bones & Gore
Screaming Vol. 1
Screaming Vol. 2
Screaming Designed
Sacrificial Chants
The ultimate sound pack featuring dark ambient sound textures for your project. This ambient sound pack includes 9 royalty free .wav tracks, ready to use background music. These dark and mysterious music track include deep pads, eerie melodies and a mysterious ambiance. Great background music for videos, mysterious cave music and mysterious film music.
EN POINTE is a collection of 200 sounds (24 Bit / 48 kHz, Wav) aimed for horror productions.
Musical boxes recordings (musical notes and mechanical sounds) were digitally tortured using distortion, compression, extreme pitch shifting and other sound design techniques to provide you with a nice selection of rare and powerful textures.
You will find: Broken boxes, dissonant textures, atmospheric elements, glitches, tense loops (scenes, clocks, interference, mechanical malfunctions) energetic bursts and wind-up key movements.
EN POINTE is an exploration in sound design. You will find effects with a very clear musical box sound but also extreme ones with unrecognizable reminiscences of the original sources.
Check the demos to have a clear vision of what you will get.
Cinematic Feel is a plus to have for your cinematic productions and to add loudness to your mix. A package of Bass Drop, Boom, Bram, Downshifter, Drone, Riser, Rumble, Stinger, Whoosh and more. Dark, Light, Electronic and Natural feel.
All that you need to make it huge!!
Each sound has been meticulously edited individually, All files were recorded and are delivered in 24bit 96kHz Broadcast Wave files, all embedded with metadata information for easy import and ensure fast and easy workflow.
INFORMER is a collection of signature cinematic pings. 84 files (24 Bit / 48 kHz, WAV) of intense ping sounds.
If you are a trailer composer these cinematic pings will inject urgency and tension in your tracks. You will find a unique palette of sonic textures that can help you to grab people’s attention and evoke urgency in your track. You will find clean and distorted pings and some insane bends. These are great sounds to inspire you to compose.
Features:
-84 Sound effects
-24 Bit / 48 kHz, WAV
-310,2 MB
-Key information
-Universal Category System (UCS) compliant
If you want to terrify your audience - whether it's for a game, movie or another project that calls for bone-chilling sounds - the horror sound effects libraries from the independent sound community are a fantastic tool for making that happen.
They give you everything from haunting ghost sounds, gruesome and gory sound effects and demonic possessions, to frightening and disturbing ambiences, screams, whispers and grotesque zombie sounds - making sure your audience will get a sonic experience that's sure to leave a mark.
Bones breaking, breathing, chains rattling, creaking doors, demonic laughter, footsteps, ghostly whispers, gore splatter, heartbeats, knife slash, monster roar, music box, screams, screeching violins, siren, stabbing, thunder, water dripping, wind howling, zombie groan
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Q: Are these sounds royalty free?
A: Yes, they're royalty free, and no attribution is required
Q: Who has recorded and designed these sounds?
A: They're created by the independent sound community, and have been recorded by some of the best recordists and sound designers on the planet. There's a constant flow of brand new sound libraries coming from the community, giving you the absolutely freshest sound effects available anywhere. Oh, and by getting sounds from the community, you support individual sound designers and sound recordists – that’s a pretty cool thing too.
Expand the timbre of your horror violins and cellos with CIRCUS, a sinister sample pack featuring 180 WAV sounds of screeching or high-pitched string noises, perfect for horror music and dark sound design.
This collection offers a curated selection of screeches, high-tension tremolo, heavy jeté strokes, dark demonic textures, finger patterns, chaotic string elements, clock loops and bow accents.
Create haunting atmospheres, perfect for horror, thriller or experimental soundtracks. Every element has been designed to unsettle and disturb, blurring the line between music and noise.
The asset list includes but is not limited to: hippos, hyenas, vultures, dwarf mongooses, elephants, African cranes, parrots, tigers, pigmy hippos, rhea ostriches, brown bears, pheasants, wildebeests, African wild dogs and many more. The content has been recorded at 192KHz with a Sanken CO100K, an Avisoft CMPA and a Sennheiser 8050 for center plus two Sennheiser MKH8040 for stereo image.
The resulting ultrasonic spectrum is rich and allows for truly extreme manipulation of the content.
Unleash the raw power of fire, water, earth, and air with this comprehensive 9 GB sound library featuring 3050 high-quality sound effects across 630 files. Whether you’re designing cinematic soundscapes or enhancing video games Four Elements delivers the tools you need to harness the energy of the natural world.
A treasure trove of raw, organic, and processed sounds including seamless loops divided into Fire, Water, Air, Earth and Explosion categories. Customize every detail with an extensive selection of sound components.
Game-ready sound layers featuring Impacts, Whooshes, and Textures as seamless loops. Elevate transitions and enhance atmospheres with loops and pre-designed sound layers.
A collection of ready-to-use sound effects divided into Attack, Bend, and Explosion categories for quick integration into your projects. Perfect for high-energy scenes and immersive storytelling.
Four Elements gives you complete creative control, blending organic recordings with processed sound layers to meet the demands of any project. Master the forces of nature with Four Elements. Let your creativity ignite.
Keywords:
Elements, Fire, Water, Earth, Air, Wave, Water, Liquid, Rock, Cast, Stone, Pebble, Torch, Gas, Flame, Campfire, Sizzle, Burst, Scrape, Whoosh, Impact, Texture, Attack, Bend, Bending, Explosion, Processed, Surge, Quake, Hit, Flow, Burn, Ignite, Drop, Smack, Destruction, Rumble, Hiss, Blow, Wind, Cloth, Movement, Underwater, Bubble, Ocean, River, Lake, Firework, Firecracker, Bang, Blast, Detonation, Magic, Fantasy, Forces, Fire Magic, Water Magic, Earth Magic, Fire Air, Fire Effect, Fire Whoosh, Water Whoosh, Seamless Loop, Loop, Fire Cast, Water Cast, Earth Cast, Air Cast
Hyper Thunder is a colossal collection of thunder and lightning, 100% crafted from the ground up using innovative synthesized technics and props recordings. Not a single real life thunder recording was used. using synthesis and props manipulation crafted to deliver impact far beyond natural recordings. Built entirely from innovative synthesis and props recordings, this library pushes the boundaries of weather sound design—perfect for when you need the raw energy of a storm dialed up to cinematic extremes.
Featuring over 800 files, Hyper Thunder spans everything from subtle distant rumbles and rolling thunder to razor-sharp lightning strikes and earth-shaking impacts. With both designed hits and source layers, you have full control—drop in ready-to-use power or sculpt your own stormscapes using the source recordings.
Created in collaboration with Bruits.Studio’s Vincent Fliniaux and Tibo Csuko—longtime SoundMorph contributors to acclaimed libraries like Robotic Lifeforms 2 and WATER— Hyper Thunder blends technical mastery with bold creativity.
From atmospheric detail to explosive drama, Hyper Thunder gives you thunder and lightning that are bigger, subtler, and more versatile than nature itself.
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