Massive, dark orchestral forces and choral chanting from a world that wants to kill you. Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures launched on Windows in 2008 with a score by Knut Avenstroup Haugen that sounds way too good for an MMO.
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"Nighttime Journey through the Eiglophian Mountains" is this long, brooding piece that makes you feel genuinely cold. "Hymn for King Conan" carries a weight and reverence that earns every second of its runtime. "Echoes of Atlantis" goes somewhere ancient and drowned, pulling in textures you don't expect.
The track titles read like chapter headings from a Robert E. Howard novel, and the music lives up to every one of them. "Field of the Dead" is exactly as grim as it sounds. If you want orchestral fantasy music that actually has teeth, this is where you start.