The Lost Ragnarok chapter goes darker than the other PotK expansions, and you feel it immediately. "Haruka naru Gensou no Kuni" opens with this distant, dreamlike quality that the rest of the soundtrack spends its time corrupting.
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"Heavy Rain" and "Hiding noise" build tension through restraint before "Back to back" unleashes it. The beast-themed tracks ("Ooinaru Kemono no Souga," "Uketsugareshi Kemono no Ketsumyaku") are primal and heavy. "Sword: Reconquista" hits with militant intensity.
"Itsuwari no Rakuen" (False Paradise) is hauntingly beautiful in a way that makes you uncomfortable. "Kuro ki Seigi no Juurin" mirrors the original's "white justice" march but twisted into something menacing. If you've followed PotK's music through all its chapters, this is where the saga earns its darkness.