Orchestral synth with a dark fantasy weight. Legend of Crystania is a 1993 anime spinoff from the Record of Lodoss War universe, and the soundtrack pushes that high-fantasy tone into something more ominous. Presentiment of the Beginning opens with slow, building tension that sets the mood before anything happens.
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Chain of Sorrow does exactly what the title says, heavy and mournful. Pastoral pulls everything back into something briefly warm before the dread creeps in again. Ten tracks total, including an instrumental version of the opener and a track called Guided that just trails off.
Short and focused. If you are into early 90s fantasy anime scores and want something darker than Lodoss War proper, this is where you go.