Heavy Spanish religious dread turned into video game music. Blasphemous came out in 2019 and the soundtrack sounds like a cathedral that wants to hurt you. "Give me your torment" opens with this oppressive choral weight that never fully lets up.
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"Taranto to my sister" brings in flamenco guitar in a way that feels genuinely sorrowful, not decorative. "Couplets of incense" layers liturgical textures over dark ambient tones. Everything sounds like incense smoke and old stone.
"Saetas of high balconies" leans into the Andalusian folk influence so hard it stops feeling like game music and starts feeling like a ritual you wandered into. The track names alone tell you something specific was happening here.
If you want a soundtrack that feels like crawling through a cursed basilica at midnight, this is the one.