Every track named after a phase of the moon, and the music shifts just as gradually. This second volume of the Shingetsutan Tsukihime anime soundtrack from 2004 is pure atmospheric scoring for one of TYPE-MOON's darkest stories.
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"Dark Moon" opens with this hollow, aching emptiness that fits the vampire hunting tone perfectly, and "Frosty Moon" introduces a cold string arrangement that just won't let you get comfortable. "Eclipse" is the standout.
Heavy, dramatic, the moment where everything in the narrative collapses inward. The way the tracklist moves from "Yoi-Zuki" through "Gibbous Moon" to "Oboro-Zuki" mirrors a full lunar cycle, and the emotional arc follows that same trajectory.
Waxing tension, peak intensity, slow dissolution. "Akatsuki-Zuku-Yo" near the end catches that pale morning-after feeling when the worst has already happened. Nineteen tracks of mood painting that never breaks character.
If you watched Tsukihime and the atmosphere stayed with you longer than the plot, this is why.