Metal scraping sound effect work covers a specific kind of unease — that nails-on-blackboard frequency band that the brain physically dislikes, plus the lower drag of one surface refusing to slide cleanly over another. These 31 scraping SFX clips work both registers: metal-on-metal drag from pipe lengths and steel sheets, pipe scrape against concrete, slow wood scratch with audible grain, and the rhythmic boom-stand drag familiar from foley sessions.
Horror and thriller editors reach for the slower metal-on-metal takes because the tension sits in the duration, not the volume. Game audio uses the shorter scrape stings as enemy-approach cues or object-drag foley. Industrial scene work grabs the pipe-and-concrete material as honest environmental texture. Each clip is dry and trimmed, with no baked-in reverb fighting your mix. Free to grab for any project, no signup, no attribution required.