Acid Mothers Temple live in concert.
ON TOUR

Acid Mothers Temple

40
critic concert reviews
experimental

How Good Are They LIVE?

Live Rating  

84
%
Based on 
40
critic concert
reviews
Last 12 Months Rating  
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Based on 
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Real Live Certified  

Real Live Certified badge for artists with consistent, high quality live performances and broad critical acclaim.

Critic Consensus

Acid Mothers Temple is 'Real Live Certified' and is in the top 5% of all live performers. Based on 40 concert reviews, the critic consensus is that Acid Mothers Temple is rated as an excellent live performer, with memorable shows that are worth seeing. Acid Mothers Temple concert reviews describe live shows and performances as astonishing, psychedelic, thrilling, spacey, otherworldly, adventurous, and enjoyable.

ON TOUR

The Southgate House Revival, Newport, KY, United States (October 15); TV Eye, New York, United States (October 19); Metro Gallery, Baltimore, MD, United States (October 21); Multiple venues in downtown Austin, TX, Austin, TX, United States (October 31)

Latest Release

Holy Black Mountain Side (10 May 2024)

Artist Info

Genre
experimental
Origin
Nagoya, Aichi, Japan (1995 - present)
Bio
Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso U.F.O. (and subsequent offshoots) is a Japanese psychedelic band founded in 1996 by members of the Acid Mothers Temple soul-collective. The band is led by guitarist Kawabata Makoto and early in their career featured many musicians but by 2004 the line-up had coalesced with four core members and frequent vocal guests.
Has Performed With
Yoo Doo Right, The Melting Paraiso UFO

Critic Concert Reviews

Buzz Magazine (UK)

October 19, 2022
100
%
ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE & SENDELICA give Cardigan’s Cellar Bar a psychedelic shakedown

Spectrum Culture (USA)

May 2, 2019
%
Acid Mothers Temple, newly rejuvenated with a fresh lineup and firing on all cylinders, brought their ever-shifting cosmic freak-out to The Earl .

The Music (Australia)

March 7, 2019
%
The intensity of the experience is utterly astonishing.

The Skinny (UK)

October 25, 2017
80
%
The otherworldly and psychedelic Acid Mothers Temple take over Sneaky's diminutive stage for an experimental experience not to be missed

Birmingham Live (UK)

October 17, 2017
%
You can read that review on BrumLive, a review which was written within an hour after the gig with more than a couple of beers inside me, just to see how blown away I was.

Birmingham Live (UK)

October 3, 2016
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Acid Mothers Temple – An helterskelter ride with Neal Cassidy at the controls of our Merry Prankster bus ride as we get to the bottom and we go back to the top and Kerouac couldn’t hack this trip man because you can’t travel through space man, you can’t travel through space without fractions and… and… I don’t

The Guardian (UK)

September 29, 2016
100
%
The Hope and Ruin, Brighton

Past critic reviews published in

The Skinny (UK), Birmingham Live (UK), Dallas Observer (USA), The Skinny (UK), Exclaim (Canada) and more

Image Credit

Jake [CC BY-2.0] via Wikimedia Commons