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Armageddon

Natural Disaster Sound Effects

Armageddon focuses on destruction at the largest scale: earthquakes, storms, avalanches, collapsing terrain, explosions, and thunder. Disaster scenes in film, TV, and games are what it was made for.

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Armageddon focuses on destruction at the largest scale: earthquakes, storms, avalanches, collapsing terrain, explosions, and thunder. Disaster scenes in film, TV, and games are what it was made for.

Choose Your Edition
ARMAGEDDON | Designed Demo
0:00
ARMAGEDDON | Construction Kit Demo
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ARMAGEDDON | Construction Kit Demo
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ARMAGEDDON | Designed Demo
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3,115
Total Sounds
661
WAV Files
up to 6×
Variations
24bit / 96kHz
Sample Rate
14.3 GB
Size
UCS Compliant
Price range: $145.00 through $275.00
Price range: $145.00 through $275.00
/ year
excl. VAT
3,115
Total Sounds
661
WAV Files
up to 6×
Variation Files
24bit / 96kHz
Sample Rate
14.3 GB
Size
UCS Compliant

ACOUSTIC EVENTS BEYOND HUMAN SCALE

ARMAGEDDON – Natural Disaster Sound Effects at Extreme Scale

ARMAGEDDON is a professional sound effects library centred on natural disasters at extreme scale. Earthquakes, storms, avalanches, collapsing terrain, and overwhelming environmental forces form the core of the library. Alongside this, selected designed content pushes into truly gigantic territory, delivering extra-large events that go beyond real-world reference while remaining usable in serious production workflows.

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Extinction Level Explosion Sounds

ARMAGEDDON focuses on large-scale natural disasters rather than isolated effects. Meteorite impacts, earthquake sound effects, storm sound effects, thunder, collapsing terrain, and environmental destruction are designed as unfolding events that occupy space and time. The emphasis is on scale and movement, not single impacts.

The Krakatoa Eruption Sound

The Krakatoa eruption was the loudest sound ever recorded, but with 180 dB at 160km distance not recordable in a modern cinematic quality. While the library is grounded in natural disaster sound design, parts of the Designed content deliberately extend into gigantic, beyond-reality scale to achieve impact that modern film, television, and games demand.

Aggressive by Design

These 3,100+ sounds are intentionally dense, compressed, and forceful. Distortion and saturation are part of the sound, not an accident. ARMAGEDDON is built to deliver weight and energy that can hold its place in modern cinematic mixes without being buried by music or dialogue.

Scale at Multiple Distances

Although ARMAGEDDON excels at wide, distant, overwhelming events, it also supports closer perspectives. The Construction Kit includes material suitable for more immediate detail, allowing sound designers to move from large-scale establishing moments to physical, close-up destruction.

What’s Inside

Included Sounds – Keywords
Air
Armageddon
Avalanche
Blast
Burning
Collision
Crack
Crash
Debris
Designed
Dirt
Earthquake
Explosion
Fire
Flames
Gravel
Gust
Ice
Impact
Inferno
Lightning
Rock
Rumble
Slide
Snow
Stone
Storm
Thunder
Water
Whoosh
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Armageddon - Construction Kit

Event-Based Destruction Building Blocks

The Construction Kit is organised around events rather than single effects. The 2,800+ sounds are created to be layered and combined to build evolving destruction sequences. This approach supports long-form scenes, gameplay systems, and controlled escalation.

Built for Real Production Workflows

ARMAGEDDON is structured to work quickly under real production conditions. Clear categories, consistent perspectives, and production-ready processing make it easy to assemble complex destruction without excessive editing or corrective work.

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Armageddon - Designed

Gigantic Designed Events

The Designed section goes beyond natural disaster into truly gigantic scale. These 300+ sounds represent forces that exceed any real-world reference, using extreme density and controlled chaos to deliver overwhelming impact. They are intended for moments where naturalism alone is not enough.

Designed Against Picture

Extensive visual research informed the timing and motion of the sounds. Large-scale disaster footage and environmental events were studied to ensure ARMAGEDDON translates convincingly against picture, whether used as distant forces or closer, more physical layers.

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Construction Kit and Designed Content Combined

THE BUNDLE - The best of both worlds at a discounted price.
ARMAGEDDON
combines flexible Construction Kit material with high-impact Designed sounds. This allows sound designers to build custom destruction sequences from the ground up or deploy finished effects immediately, depending on the demands of the project.

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What We Recorded

ARMAGEDDON is driven by research and sound design rather than direct field recording. Real-world disaster footage, environmental references, and physical behaviour were studied to understand motion, timing, and scale. From there, sound design techniques were used to create events that could not be safely or practically recorded.

    What's so special about this library?

    ARMAGEDDON is built for sound designers working at extreme scale. While the foundation of the library is natural disaster sound design, it also includes designed content at a gigantic scale for moments that demand more than reality can provide. Earthquake, storm, thunder, and large-scale explosion sound effects are engineered to read clearly in modern cinematic mixes for film, high-end television, trailers, and games.
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    Product lead Michael Schwendler talks about how we went about creating ARMAGEDDON, a sound effects library built around natural disasters at extreme scale, where so much of the sound is simply impossible to capture. From earthquakes and avalanches to massive storms and large-scale destruction, ARMAGEDDON tackles events that exist far beyond everyday experience. For us, that meant approaching the project very differently from a traditional field-recording-led library. Learn all about the process and the idea behind the product in this blog.
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    Compatible Software

    BOOM Library sound FX come as WAV files. This means you can import and work with them in any software that can handle this file type. Here are the most common audio and video editing software tools that work perfectly with our sound FX.

    Most Common Audio Software


    Logic Pro
    Nuendo
    Pro Tools
    Cubase
    Reaper
    Ableton Live

    Most Common Video Editing Software


    Premiere Pro
    Final Cut Pro
    After Effects
    Vegas Pro
    Media Composer
    Da Vinci Resolve

    UCS Compatible Metadata embedded

    To provide you with the fastest and easiest workflow possible, all files contain extensive metadata like file description & keywords. Metadata can be read and processed by audio management tools. Some digital audio workstations feature an included search tool that can also read embedded metadata. Here are the most common audio management tools:
    Soundminer
    Basehead
    Soundly

    Royalty-Free License

    One purchase. Every project. Forever.
    No per-project fees
    Use in unlimited projects after a single purchase
    No sync reporting
    No PRO registration or broadcast cue sheet required
    Worldwide & perpetual
    No territory limits, no expiry date on your license
    Movie & TV
    Games
    Trailers
    Web
    Advertising
    Music
    Live
    & more
    Sounds may not be resold or redistributed as audio assets.  Studio / team licenses available.
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