Thundering choir vocals crashing in like a wall of fire. Dante's Inferno on PS3 and 360 went all in on the orchestral horror, and this 2010 score is absolutely relentless about it. "Dies Irae" sets the tone immediately with that classic liturgical fury.
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"Crossing the Styx" has this slow, suffocating darkness that builds into full panic. And "Phlegyas Ravages Dis" is pure seventh-gen chaos, brass and percussion tearing everything apart. The score covers all nine circles and you can feel each one shift the mood.
Lust sounds different from Greed sounds different from the flaming tombs. Thirty-two tracks of descent into increasingly awful places. For anyone who thought God of War needed more Catholic guilt and literal hellfire in the mix.