Heavy, dramatic FM synth that sounds like a battlefield hymn played through a PC-98. All Sounds of Ragnarokkr is a 1994 soundtrack that goes impossibly hard for hardware that old. Images of the Apocalypse opens with the kind of intensity that makes you sit up straight.
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Bride of Lovely Death has this gothic waltz energy, eerie and beautiful at the same time. And One Swing Is All I Need With My Beloved Old Sword, besides having the best track name ever, delivers a ripping battle theme. The FM chip work here is dense.
Layers stacked on layers, melodies weaving through each other like rival blades. Norse mythology and Japanese PC music colliding... If you want proof that PC-98 sound chips could summon actual atmosphere, start here.