The Dark Mountain Looms over the Horizon in the New Album from Planet Supreme

Planet Supreme is back with the second Cryo Chamber release, Rule from the Dark Mountain; a celestial tapestry of slow-moving pads and analog textures that help to paint a moving picture of celestial backgrounds in the listener’s mind. Composer Karl Rydby has a distinct musical fingerprint in this style of soundscape creation, and you can hear it manifest in this album, as the overall themes of the textures and sounds bear resemblance to the previous Planet Supreme work, Creation of a Star; his use of analog synths coupled with his style of presentation help this album create a serene fresco of slow-moving ambience, painting vistas of stars and nebulae, of silent planets in distant star systems, orbiting in celestial solitude. Musically, this album has a very cinematic feel, but more as a background piece, reminiscent of a late 1970s to early 1980s sci-fi film, and the album title alludes to some important fact about a dark mountain. The oblique narrative descriptions in this album are told through the song titles, and left to the mind of the beholder as to the actual design of the story, allowing the listener to create their own story in their mind, and with the deft hands of the composer, Planet Supreme have created a great, stalwart addition to the sci-fi soundscape genre. You can pick up Rule from the Dark Mountain in CD Digipak and digital format on the Cryo Chamber Bandcamp page.