Acid Mothers Temple, Danava at Emo's Jr. Tonight

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Acid Mothers Temple, Danava at Emo’s Jr
Monday, March 17
Emos (603 Red River St)
doors at 9, show at 10
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Initiated in 1996 by guitarist Makoto Kawabata, the Japanese psych-rock collective Acid Mothers Temple is a loose collective composed of four core members and a revolving door of like-minded musicians and vocalists. Both remarkably prolific (they have released over a dozen records/singles/live recordings since 2007 alone) and esoteric (they have occasionally been mistaken for a religious cult), A.M.T. traffic in a brand of hard psychedelia as indebted to their acid-fried countrymen Boredoms as to Cream or Pink Floyd and are widely considered to be the international psych-rock group. Swirling outer-space noises and oceanic reverb will factor heavily, so plan on having your third eye squeegee-ed.

If A.M.T. represents the "like cosmic, trippy man" end of the psych-rock spectrum, Portland's Danava are simply out to resurrect the rock monsters of years past and let them roam free, Jurassic Park-style. The band unapologetically goes for epic, letting Sabbath riffs unravel across prog-influences song suites that often stretch past the ten minute mark. The band's throwback production techniques (vintage gear, multi-tracked everything) give the record's an ear-catching time capsule quality, but the metallic roar of tracks like "By The Mark" put them in the good company of their labelmates, Austin doom-thrashers The Sword.

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