Nebula
Guitarist Eddie Glass and drummer Ruben Romano formed Nebula in 1997 after breaking away from desert rock pioneers Fu Manchu, eventually recruiting bassist Mark Abshire. This power trio specializes in feedback-drenched heavy rock, incorporating liberal doses of Black Sabbath riffery, psychedelia, and space rock. The band released a number of EPs before moving onto full-length albums like 1999's To the Center and 2001's Charged. They've mainly distinguished themselves as a very hard-working live unit. ~ Ed Rivadavia, All Music Guide[more]
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Nebula's first non-EP, full-length release, To the Center is another retro-psychedelic heavy rock platter, long on stripped-down riff muscle and surprisingly technically adept guitar jams. The results sometimes meander, which probably isn't of much consequence if this brand of metal is your bag, since this is what you'd expect in this perception-expanding context. What matters more than tightly structured songs are riffs and atmosphere, and both of those are present in abundance. ~ Steve Huey, All Mus [ read more ]
CD $11.38
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LA-based Nebula have returned to Tee Pee Records with Heavy Psych, an album which exhibits an inebriating wonder world of inherent ingenuity. The band strays leagues away from the province of processed, microchip-generated instrumentals. They're the minimalists of music - the way rock began. No big expensive effects racks, pop-up drummers, or voice manipulators. They're vintage and they're proud!
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CD $13.99
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Nebula's second true full-length album, Charged begins to reign in the previous extended jams somewhat, improving the consistency of the band's songwriting. Nebula's fusion of Blue Cheer and Mudhoney is very much intact, and Eddie Glass' limited vocal range still resembles a stoned, mellowed-out Mark Arm -- all of which means that Nebula hasn't exactly evolved into the hookiest band on the planet. But the sheer power of Nebula's riffs has never been quite as focused as it is on {^ [ read more ]
CD $14.23
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Nebula are the full embodiment of heavy-psych rock: high-energy electric blues, lead-footed psychedelic warriors, rock & roll road dogs and the best damned band to come down the pike in a long, long time. If you're unconvinced, their latest havoc-inducing platter, Atomic Ritual, will send you preaching at the pulpit of Nebula.
CD $12.99
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With Kyuss now long gone, Monster Magnet traveling distant galaxies, and Fu Manchu driving their graffiti-decorated vans over groove-rock desert highways somewhere in the distance, are Nebula the last of the prototypical stoner rock Mohicans? Strictly speaking, no, since they themselves were relative late arrivals to the scene, having sprung fully formed from the bowels of the aforementioned Fu Manchu in 1997 -- but in terms of the mostly unadulterated '90s-style stoner rock ({ [ read more ]
CD $15.18
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Although they have never broken out beyond the rock underground, Nebula became somewhat favorites of the U.K.'s famed Peel Sessions radio show, having performed two live-in-the-studio sets between 2002 and 2004 (as well as an additional Radio 1 Rock Show appearance). And wouldn't you know it, all three have been documented several years later, in the form of 2008's Peel Sessions. Nebula have always been one of stoner rock's most loud and proud bands, but while many groups of the ge [ read more ]
CD $16.13
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Nebula's second true full-length album, Charged begins to reign in the previous extended jams somewhat, improving the consistency of the band's songwriting. Nebula's fusion of Blue Cheer and Mudhoney is very much intact, and Eddie Glass' limited vocal range still resembles a stoned, mellowed-out Mark Arm -- all of which means that Nebula hasn't exactly evolved into the hookiest band on the planet. But the sheer power of Nebula's riffs has never been quite as focused as it is on {^ [ read more ]
CD $43.68