Take everthing from 70's rock and add a little weight
If you can't get enough of that kind of music then this is a must buy. Nebula are one of a number of bands from the last 10 years that have taken up the 70's rock resurgence, often doing it better than the bands from the 70's. If you have a passing interest I would reccomend finding a site that offers Nebula downloads and pick the individual songs you like.
Charged is probably the best Nebula disc but honestly they are so consistent you can't go wrong with any of them.
Now Re-Entering Earth's atmosphere!
I immediately noticed a distinct difference between the two records. I was a huge fan of Nebula's "To The Center" album so I rushed out and bought this as soon as it hit the racks. To my surprise this record was much more earthbound than its predecessor. "Charged" is a much more stripped-down high-energy record. It's more "Raw Power" than "Hall of the Mountain Grill"
The reviewer who compares them to Black Sabbath has not done his proto metal research very well. "Charged" takes its cues from old scuzz rockers like Blue Cheer, MC5, and the Stooges. They reference proto metal giants like the Yardbirds in thier lyrics. Their dynamic is more of a power trio sound derived from The Jimi Hendrix Experience and Cream. I don't see a huge Sabbath influence other than a desire for heaviness and distorted riffage.
If you want a more modern comparison, you might say that they sound like a cross between Fu Manchu and The Mooney Suzuki. If you liked the Stooges and Randy Holden cover songs from "To the Center", then you will probably love this record. .
Just saw these guys play...
I work at the Majestic in Detroit, and tonight when I got off of work, I decided to go upstairs to have a beer while I waited for a ride home. I just got home from work. The headline band was the Bellrays, who I had seen all kinds of press hype about, but they weren't on yet. I decided to watch the band that was playing for a few minutes before getting a beer, and I ended up standing there slack-jawed until they finished their set. They turned out to be Nebula, and they were the greatest live act I have seen since the last show the Laughing Hyenas did before they broke up. That is incredibly high praise from me, as the Hyenas were the greatest live band EVER for my money. . . I saw the LHs more than forty times, and what's more, I paid to get in for most of those gigs, which is something I have rarely done.
Anyway, Nebula f------ blew me away with their almost unbelievable intensity. The sheer power of this band is just amazing for a three-piece. In terms of style, they fit in quite well here in Detroit; One of the guys I work with, Nick, was standing sort of in front of me, and I tapped him on the shoulder and told him that Nebula reminds me of Funkadelic (i. e. Super Stupid), and he reponded that Black Sabbath and Blue Cheer were what they reminded him of. The thing is, we were both right. Nebula sounds like an amalgam of those three bands, and that's exactly the kind of music we love in this city.
When my band was gigging regularly, between 1990 and 1998, I would frequently play a sort of half-assed bass solo underneath my guitar players when they soloed. That was kind of cool, but what the guys in Nebula do is that whenever the guitar player solos, the bass player does also, and they stomp on their wah-wah pedals and just RIP IT UP!!! That is one of the coolest things I've ever seen any band do. All three members of the band are great players, and coupled with their general intensity and pretty good songs as well, it makes me say GO SEE THIS BAND AS SOON AS YOU GET THE CHANCE & BUY THEIR CDS NOW!!!!!
Dimestore Liam.
Sack Blabbath
I purchased this based on some ravings I read that described Nebula's sound as psychedelic. When I first heard this I laughed so hard I thought I was going to wet myself. I hear no psychedelia here - all I hear is three guys trying painfully hard to re-create the sound of early Black Sabbath. The lyrics to these songs are so bad they'd make a dog laugh. Try to imagine a band lead by the school bus driver on The Simpsons and you get a pretty good idea of what this is like. Save your money and get "Volume 4" by Sabbath instead.
Fuzzed out Car Music
Air guitar warning! this will also have you juming around the bedroom for a long time! It's only shortcoming is it's muffled production which was surprising after the great production of their former record "To the centre". Nebula continue to blast out the big riffs and head banging rythums to produce an enjoyable soundtrack for those long jouney's in the car. But minor quibles aside this is a cool effort.
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