Planet Supreme – Rule From The Dark Mountain (Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Cinematic, Dark-Ambient.
Format: Digital, CD.
Background/Info: Karl Ture Rydby has accomplished his fourth full length album to date under the Planet Supreme moniker. It’s the second production released by Cryo Chamber.
Content: Planet Supreme moves on creating deeply, Ambient sound atmospheres. The work features different, crispy, little noises and other field recording impressions while carried by retro-like strings. There’s an interesting contrast between relaxing passages and darker, mysterious, parts.
+ + + : The main strength of the album is for sure its deeply, Ambient, sensation. It’s quite diversified and even a bit schizophrenic switching from deeply, relaxing, moments into darker, menacing, parts. “Enter Lucid Field” is one of these dark exposures and definitely my favorite one for reaching a climax.
– – – : I’m less convinced by the ‘classical’ Ambient side of the work although I’m sure this is maybe what will appeal for a wider audience.
Conclusion: This work gives me the vision of a beautiful and graceful feather driven by a bleak wind.
Best songs: “Enter Lucid Fields”, “A Northern Blaze”, “Shuttle”.
Rate: 7½.
Artist: www.planetsupreme.se / www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063630746830
Label: www.cryochamberlabel.com / www.facebook.com/CryoChamber
About Planet Supreme
Planet Supreme is the dark ambient project of Swedish sound designer Karl Ture Rydby, an active composer at Elektronmusikstudion (EMS) in Stockholm. The project debuted with the self-titled album “Planet Supreme” in 2019, followed by the double album “Order of the Star in the East / Holy Mountain” in 2020 and “Creation of a Star” in 2021. “Rule From the Dark Mountain”, the project’s fourth full-length and its second release on Cryo Chamber, followed in 2022. Planet Supreme has since released “Destruction of a Star” in 2023 and “Descending Dark Star” in 2025.
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