Planet X by Cubic Nomad
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Cubic Nomad - Planet X
A silent wanderer drifts through the void—unseen, yet inevitable. Its gravity reaches across the abyss, shifting tides, unravelling the fragile order of Earth. The sky darkens, the ground fractures, and fire erupts from within. Oceans rise to swallow cities; winds reshape continents in mere hours.
As the celestial intruder moves on, the scars remain—ash blankets the land, the air grows thin, and time itself bends to a new rhythm. The world will never be the same. The ancients warned us. The cycle begins again.
This ominous vision sets the tone for Planet X, Cubic Nomad’s fourth full-length album in his darker, rhythm-driven discography. Across 14 tracks, he sculpts a sonic landscape shaped by the darkest variants of hardcore and exploratory electronics — always delivered with compositional discipline, emotional weight, and conceptual clarity. Planet X is a full commitment to his signature strain of structured chaos.
Several tracks build on the foundation laid by the Unearthly Stranger EP, carrying forward its hypnotic sci-fi tribalism, while new material expands the scope: punishing kicks, contorted beats, eerie atmospheres, and melodies that emerge like traces of light in a collapsing orbit.
Key collaborations inject further vitality: Genetic Prophecy, with Dep Affect, pushes percussive programming to a breaking point — a twitching mass of sound and tension. In The Void Of Space, with Synapscape, matches slow-motion propulsion with Tim Kniep’s unmistakable vocal performance. Darkening Clouds sees Emma Susanne return, her treated vocals woven into a slower, gritty pulse — both unsettling and magnetic. Sensation of the Mind transforms the anthemic trance-hybrid of the original Embryonic collaboration into something more restrained, more aligned with the bleak cohesion of the album’s arc. And finally, Captain Walker — the latest and arguably most powerful instalment in the long-running Walker series — fuses Cubic Nomad with his own alter ego The Relic, crafting a self-collaboration of brutal precision and imaginative twists. A culmination, and a personal milestone.
For all its stylistic variety, Planet X stands out for its coherence: each track feeds into the next with gravitational pull — from crushing beats to atmospheric collapses, from self-referential space drama to the slow creep of existential dread.
Planet X is not a place, but a presence — one that alters everything in its wake.
Tracklist
Credits
All tracks written & produced by M. Pinkster
Mastering by Musicmastering. nl
Art & Design by R23
