Acid Mothers Temple (also: Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O., Acid Mothers Temple & The Cosmic Inferno (and subsequent offshoots) is a Japanese psychedelic band, the core of which formed in 1995. 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 only a few core members and frequent guest vocalists.

The band has released albums frequently on a number of international record labels as well as the Acid Mothers Temple family record label, which was established in 1998 to document the activities of the whole collective.

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"I'm also right blown away by the catchy and compelling all-purpose psychedelia of THE LEGEND OF BLACK SIX by power trio The Phantom Family Halo. I say 'all purpose' because this stuff is useful and should be available by the vat on prescription, because it's good for the mental health. I say power trio, but this lot are greedy motherfuckers with a hefty set of auxiliary members. The sound is totally reminiscent of that 1970 period when no fucker could control the number of overdubs, and these guys pass through every stage from The Youngbloods and Kalackakra to a kind of Amon Duul PARADIESWARTS DUUL-informed take on David Voorhaus' White Noise project via early (very early) Chrome on their way to the proto metal of 'Electric God In Your Galaxy'." - Julian Cope


Louisville's ex-Slint/For Carnation dudes Phantom Family Halo have been hyped as a meltdown of Alice Cooper, Black Sabbath, Tangerine Dream and Scott Walker fronting Roxy Music; whatever - their new album "The Legend of Black Six" on Cold Sweat Records is a brazenly beautiful experimental-rock thing to behold. (John Payne)

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