Brooding, expansive orchestral darkness with serious weight behind it. Darksiders II gave Death a full open-world adventure and Jesper Kyd scored it with this thick atmospheric approach. The Makers Theme carries warmth and ancient power, a real contrast to the bleaker tracks.
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Into Eternity sets the tone early with slow-building tension that never quite resolves. The Corruption sounds exactly like what it describes, this festering wrongness creeping into the music. Crystal Spire and The Floating City bring some breathtaking scale.
City of the Dead is appropriately haunting, all hollow echoes and distant chanting. Lord of the Black Stone closes things out with heavy finality. The whole score balances dread and wonder in a way that keeps pulling you forward.
Worth throwing on if you need a reminder that Death was always the coolest horseman.