Distorted hip-hop beats crashing into full orchestral swells. Taku Iwasaki's second Soul Eater OST is somehow even wilder than the first, throwing genres at the wall with the confidence of someone who knows exactly what sticks.
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"Schlachtschiff" hits with this massive, militaristic stomp that rattles through the whole arrangement. "Kindertotenlied" goes somewhere genuinely unsettling, all dissonance and creeping tension. Then "salve maria" drops in with this gorgeous choral piece that has no business being this beautiful in a show about fighting meisters.
The German-titled tracks alone. Iwasaki jumps from funk to gothic horror to jazz without flinching, and it all somehow works. Essential listening if you've ever felt the first OST wasn't enough chaos.