Grimy, reverb-drenched cave rock that sounds like a band recorded it three floors underground. From Grotto and Niilo Takalainen built Noita's first volume around live guitar and percussion that perfectly matches the pixel-physics chaos above.
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"Enter the Caves" sets the tone immediately with this crunchy, descending riff that just pulls you down. "Holy Mountain Theme" is the one moment of calm, that brief safe zone feeling between biomes where you catch your breath.
"Lava Lake" radiates heat through distortion and tension. There's something about "Audition of the Fungi King" that's both silly and menacing, which is basically the whole game. The out-takes sprinkled in feel like b-sides from a Finnish garage band.
If you've sunk hundreds of hours into Noita and never actually listened to the OST properly, fix that tonight.