Oppressive, suffocating silence broken by devastating choir and strings. Dark Souls on PS3 and 360 barely has music and that's exactly why it works so well. You wander through "Firelink Shrine" with its fragile, lonely melody and then "Ornstein & Smough" absolutely destroys you with one of the most intense boss themes in gaming history.
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"Gwyn, Lord of Cinder" closes it all out with just a piano, and honestly it might make you cry. Every boss theme earns its weight because you fought silence to get there. "Great Grey Wolf Sif" is heartbreaking once you know the lore.
The final track, "Nameless Song," plays over the credits and feels like waking up from something you can't quite remember. Play this when you need to explain to someone why dying 400 times was worth it.