Flamenco guitar shredding over a full orchestra while a choir chants like the world is ending. Ace Combat Zero dropped on PS2 in 2006 and its soundtrack is the most intense the series has ever been. "ZERO" is the final boss theme, Spanish guitar dueling against orchestral swells in a track that has no business going that hard.
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"The Round Table" carries this weight of legend, like every note knows it is scoring something mythic. And "Avalon" builds slow dread into a full assault on your senses that matches the tunnel run it accompanies. The "Testimony" interludes between missions give the score a documentary quality nothing else in the genre has tried.
If you ever wondered why Ace Combat fans never shut up about this game, press play on ZERO and you will understand in four minutes.