Acid Mothers Temple
- Rhyan Paul
- 12 minutes ago
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Formed in 1995 Acid Mothers Temple (Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso U.F.O. to use the full name!) are a Japanese Psychedelic Rock band with a mind bending 102 studio album, 9 EPs, 56 Live Albums and 6 Compilation albums to their name. Thats 173 album releases in 30 years!!
On Saturday 26th April they performed at 16 Toneladas in Valenica, as part of their 30th anniversary Dark Within Of Astropia European tour. These guys are hardcore - 38 gigs in 38 days across europe!
The club was capacity and the crowd eager as band members Kawabata Makoto (Guitar), Higashi Hiroshi (synthesizer), Jyonson Tsu (vocal, guitar), Satoshima Nani (drums) and Julien Omeyer (bass) took to the stage. Taking no prisoners they launched into a brutal, space-rock, synth-distorted performance - which is best described by music reviewer David Bennun: "In a non-stop stream of thrilling noise, they segue from supercharged stomp-rock, through doomy choral chanting and frazzled go-go, to a thundering melee of atonal freakouts. Then on to a pulsating, echo-drenched disco-rock groove, which morphs into a motorik rhythm too rapid even for the autobahn, works itself into a squalling frenzy, breaks cover as a kind of galloping, syncopated, Underworld-with-rabies affair, and flows into a long, chiming trance number climaxing in a collective instrumental howl."
What followed was. nothing short of incredible, with the band taking us on a psychedelic musical journey and leaving the crowd happy, high and wanting more!
New to Acid Mothers Temple? Have a listen here: AMT
Words & photos: Rhyan Paul
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