Industrial percussion slamming into gothic horror vocals like nothing else on PS2. Yoshitaka Hirota composed most of this with Yasunori Mitsuda contributing tracks, and the result is one of the most aggressively dark RPG soundtracks from that era.
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"Brain Hopper" is a battle theme that sounds like machines eating themselves. "Destruction -Noiz of fangs-" hits with this distorted wall of sound that has no business being in a turn-based RPG. Then Mitsuda drops "Rice field of light" and suddenly everything is warm and gorgeous.
That contrast between beautiful and destructive is the whole point. The PS2 sound hardware gets pushed to its absolute limit here. If you think JRPG soundtracks are all strings and piano, this will rewire your brain.