Amoeba Music

No one who has seen Comets on Fire play is likely to forget the experience; the band’s heavy psych attack has a tendency to blow other performers off the stage. Comets’ four albums to date are among the strongest and most inventive rock releases of the new millenium. Guitarist and singer Ethan Miller and bassist Ben Flashman grew up together in Eureka, California, and formed Comets on Fire in 1999 while both were students at UC Santa Cruz. They began playing up and down the West Coast with Noel von Harmonson on effects, synth and other electronics and Chris Gonzalez on drums. The band’s first release was the self-released Graverobbers cassette (1999), in a limited edition of 30 copies.

Comets recorded their first album Comets on... Read More