Heavy bronze-age weight in every note. Tyranny's 2017 soundtrack from Obsidian carries the oppressive authority of a world where evil already won and you're just deciding how to enforce it. "Kyros" sets the tone immediately with this imperial dread that never lets up.
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"Burning Library" somehow makes the destruction of knowledge sound beautiful and terrible at the same time. Then "Bleden Mark" creeps in like a blade you don't see coming. The Bastards Wound DLC tracks extend the Oldwalls atmosphere into something even more claustrophobic.
And those end slides in "The Cost of Victory" force you to sit with every decision you made. If you played Pillars of Eternity and wanted something darker, meaner, and more morally suffocating, start here.