Nebula - To the Center - LP - color vinyl

Most people probably discovered Nebula by listening to Fu Manchu. 3/4 of the lineup present on the Fu's debut album "No One Rides For Free" went on to form Nebula.

You might expect pretty much a Fu Manchu clone with the same riffs, the same lyrics, the same Ted Nugent style vocals...etc. You'd be wrong, though. The Album starts off with the title track, a huge, heavy as hell epic on space travel whcich sounds more like early Hawkwind than anything the Fu has ever done. I was hooked.

The rest of the album, apart from the 7 minute long trip Freedom, has a Stooges-ish heavy garage rock sound. Their admiration for the Stooges is evident, as the band nicely covers "I need somebody" from their "Raw Power" album.

Vocalist and guitarist Eddie Glass had yet to develop his trademark vocal style, but sounds great all the same. The Guitar tone is fat, buried in fuzz and really heavy, great stuff. The ryhtm section is tight and, Nebula being essentialy a psychedelic rock band, you'll hear some great bass playing and furious drumming.

All in all, this is an excellent record and any stoner/doom/psych rock fan should have it in their collection.

Tracklist

A1 To The Center

A2 Come Down

A3 Watcha Lookin' For

A4 Clearlight

A5 Freedom

B1 Antigone

B2 I Need Somebody

B3 So Low

B4 Synthetic Dream

B5 Fields Of Psylocybin

B6 Between Time

B7 You Mean Nothing