Acid Mothers Temple discography

Acid Mothers Temple discography
Studio albums102
EPs9
Live albums56
Compilation albums6
Singles9
Video albums8

This is a discography of Japanese rock band Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso U.F.O. and related projects.

Acid Mothers Temple have in their two-decade existence recorded far more head-melting music than any sane person would know what to do with.

— David Bennun[1]

Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso U.F.O.

Studio albums

Year Date Title Label Notes
1996 April Acid Mother's Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. Acid Mothers Temple Cassette release only
Freak Out[2] La Musica Records
1997 February Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. 1 Acid Mothers Temple
Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. 2
November 25 Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso U.F.O. P.S.F. Records
1999 March 25 Pataphysical Freak Out MU!!
May Live + Studio Acid Mothers Temple
November Wild Gals A Go-Go
2000 September 25 Troubadours from Another Heavenly World P.S.F.
October La Nòvia Eclipse Remastered reissue with additional version recorded live in NYC 5 April 2016 - Bam Balam Records, November 2016
2001 February Absolutely Freak Out (Zap Your Mind!!) Static Caravan-Resonant
June 13 New Geocentric World of Acid Mothers Temple Squealer Remastered cassette reissue Eye Vybe Records, May 13, 2020[3]
October In C Eclipse
2002 41st Century Splendid Man tUMULt
October 6 Electric Heavyland Alien8
Univers Zen ou de zéro à zéro Fractal
St. Captain Freak Out & the Magic Bamboo Request Ektro
2003 A Thousand Shades of Grey FünfUndVierzig with Escapade
October 7 Kinski / Acid Mothers Temple Sub Pop with Kinski
2004 April Hypnotic Liquid Machine from the Golden Utopia Acid Mothers Temple
April 26 Mantra of Love Alien8
September 20 The Penultimate Galactic Bordello Also the World You Made Dirter
October 5 Does the Cosmic Shepherd Dream of Electric Tapirs? Space Age
November 8 Minstrel in the Galaxy Riot Season
November 20 Close Encounters of the Mutants[4] Multikulti
2006 June 13 Have You Seen the Other Side of the Sky? Ace Fu
November 27 Myth of the Love Electrique Riot Season
2007 February 28 Japan Tour 2007 Acid Mothers Temple with Träd, Gräs & Stenar
May 29 Crystal Rainbow Pyramid Under the Stars Important
June 19 Nam Myo Ho Ren Ge Kyo Ace Fu
November 19 Acid Motherly Love Riot Season
December 41st Century Splendid Man Returns Essence
2008 May 13 Recurring Dream and Apocalypse of Darkness Important
November 11 Glorify Astrological Martyrdom
December 9 Cometary Orbital Drive Bam Balam
2009 April 28 Interstellar Guru and Zero Homeopathic
May 5 Lord of the Underground: Vishnu and the Magic Elixir Alien8
June 2 Are We Experimental? Prophase
June 23 Dark Side of the Black Moon: What Planet Are We On? Important
2010 April 27 In 0 to ∞
December 6 Stearica Invade Acid Mothers Temple and the Melting Paraiso U.F.O. Homeopathic with Stearica
2011 April 5 Pink Lady Lemonade ~ You're From Inner Space Alien8 Cassette reissue with bonus track, Eye Vybe Records, September 21, 2020[5]
October 31 The Ripper at the Heaven's Gates of Dark Riot Season
2012 June 28 Son of a Bitches Brew Important
November 12 IAO Chant from the Melting Paraiso Underground Freak Out Riot Season
2013 March 15 Cometary Orbital Drive to 2199 Nod and Smile
May 28 In Search of the Lost Divine Arc Important
2014 May Astrorgasm from the Inner Space
2015 May 26 Benzaiten
2016 April 8 Wake to a New Dawn of Another Astro Era
August 20 Pink Lady Lemonade (You're So Sweet)[6] Kamikaze Tapes Limited edition of 65 cassettes. This is the version that appears on the 2002 compilation Do Whatever You Want, Don't Do Whatever You Don't Want!!
2017 November 3 Those Who Came Never Before[7] Nod and Smile Records
November 17 Wandering the Outer Space[8] Buh Records
2018 January 17 Either The Fragmented Body Or The Reconstituted Soul Necio
April 13 Electric Dream Ecstasy Essence
June 29 Hallelujah Mystic Garden Part 1[9] Important
October Paralyzed Brain [10] Offset
October Sacred and Inviolable Phase Shift Bam Balam
October 31 Psychedelic Battles - Volume Five[11] Vincebus Eruptum Split with Lee Van Cleef (Psychedelic rock group from Naples, Italy). Limited edition 300 copies on yellow vinyl. AMT's contribution "Flying Teapot" also appears on the CD and download but not vinyl version of Reverse of Rebirth in Universe[12]
November 22 Trails to the Cosmic Vibrations[13] Ujikaji Records with The Observatory
November 30 Reverse of Rebirth in Universe [14] Riot Season
2019 February Kinski ∞ Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O.[15] Acid Mothers Temple with Kinski
April How Was The Decisive Moment Recorded?[16][17] Max Hazard Records Original release as two-track vinyl album with monochrome artwork. CD released July 2019 with additional tracks and coloured artwork
April 13 Invisible Eyes And Phantom Cathedral[18][19] Bam Balam Record Store Day 2019 vinyl release. Contains only the title track in two parts, previously included in the CD but not the vinyl release of Sacred and Inviolable Phase Shift. Limited edition of 500 black, 200 clear
April 26 Hallelujah Mystic Garden Part Two[20] Important
2020 March Pink Lady Lemonade (Double Sweet Sucker Punch) Acid Mothers Temple[21] Also vinyl release on Max Hazard Records[22]
April 10 Reverse Of Rebirth Reprise[23] Nod and Smile Featuring Geoff Leigh
May 15 Chosen Star Child's Confession[24] Riot Season Featuring Geoff Leigh. Originally scheduled for April 24 release, postponed owing to covid-19 pandemic
October 31 Voices from Ghostwood [25] UFO Real Limited edition 111 copies CDr and 36 copies microcassette
2022 January 3 Demi-Demonaic Daemoog [26] AKTI Records Limited edition 200 copies
2024 May 9 Holy Black Mountain Side[27] Rolling Heads

EPs

Year Date Title Label Notes
2001 May Monster of the Universe Static Caravan-Resonant
September Grateful Head / Whopping Wild Freaks Wabana
October 'We Are Here' UK Tour October 2001 Caravan-Resonant split with Nishinihon
2002 Electric Love Machine Fractal
November The Tombstone Phantom Drifter Verdura split with Circle
2004 Hello Good Child Ochre

Singles

Year Date Title Label Notes
2003 January 7 Ziggy Sitar Dust Raga Important
February 4 Diamond Doggy Peggy
March 4 Cosmic Funky Dolly
2015 January 8 Sign of Benzaiten / Apophenia God Unknown split with Anthroprophh
2017 May 12 Sycamore Trees / Just You Self Sabotage split with ST 37
2019 May 10 From Planet Orb With Love Part 1 / Hey Bud, How's Your Blood? Whiteworm split with Orphan Goggles

Live albums

Year Date Title Label Notes
2000 July Live in Occident Detector
2000 November In WFMU 2000 Acid Mothers Temple
2002 Born to Be Wild in the USA 2000 Wabana
October Live in Japan Acid Mothers Temple
December USA
UK No. 1
UK No. 2
2003 November Last Concert in Tokyo
The Day Before the Sky Fell in America Sept 10, 2001 Galactic Zoo Disc Vinyl LP. Remastered and reissued on CD in 2006 as The Day Before The Sky Fell In with different artwork, updated credits and alternative song titles[28]
2004 April In G[29] Time-Lag with Ultrasound. 'Invisible' 10" clear vinyl, no labels, dry letterpressed transparent film covers, limited to 600 copies.
The Night Before the Sky Fell in America Sept 10, 2001 Mandarinas
2005 October 21 Goodbye John Peel: Live in London 2004 Dirter
2006 April Power House of Holy Acid Mothers Temple
2007 November Acid Mothership Live
2010 January 16 Acid Mothers Temple Festival Vol. 7 with Ichiraku Yoshimitsu
2011 June Live as a Troubadour Important
2012 March 14 2010: A Space Ritual Acid Mothers Temple with Kido Natsuki
2013 13 October Birmingham Flapper & Firkin, May 29th 2001 Jesus Juice Limited edition of 50 CDr handed out free at Birmingham Flapper gig 13 October 2013
2014 April 23 The Unlimited Dream Cloister FM3
2014 August 25 Live in Tolosa[30] Bam Balam with Rosina de Pèira
2015 March 10 High on New Heaven, Live in New Haven Safety Meeting
Live in North Carolina 2015 none CDr sold on UK & Europe Tour October–November 2015
November 8 Live in Castellón[31] Discos Mascarpone Limited edition of 40 cassettes [32]
December You Can't Do That on the Radio Anymore Chaotic Noise
December Hare & Hounds, Birmingham, UK, 2011.11.05 Grumpy's Third Eye Lives
2016 March Last Concert of the First Chapter[33] Acid Mother Temple
September Live at Cabaret Victoria 2016[34] none Limited edition CDr only for European tour 2016
2017 April 1 On the Night of Destruction[35] Eyevybe cassette, recorded 20 December 2016
April Astro Infinity Discothèque[36] Acid Mothers Temple with Pika
2018 Mar The Man Who Fell To Us Live In Nagoya 2017 [37]
April 1 The Night He Fell To Us[38] Eyevybe cassette in limited edition of 100 for 2018 North American Tour March 31-May 9, 2018, recorded 9 December 2017
2019 April 1 Who Does The Space Troubadour Sing For?[39] cassette first edition of 100, recorded 19 February 2019
2020 April 1 Diend Of Fiend or Unstoppable Moonsault[40] cassette, recorded 17 December 2019
2021 August 6 Love The Bomb From Uranus [41] Acid Mothers Temple
2022 Live Rebootleg in Pangea [42] Acid Mothers Temple Recorded 14th Aug. 2022
2024 April 20 A Dream Of Strange Desires Wrapped Inside A Noise[43] Bam Balam recorded live 25th October 2019 and overdubbed September 2023
May 3 Shall We Return To Outer Space? Acid Mothers Temple recorded 9th December 2023. Not currently listed on any Acid Mothers Temple website. Release date inferred from Facebook post by Kawabata Makoto on April 16, 2024 stating "Acid Mothers Temple's new live album "Shall We Return To Outer Space?" available on next Bandcamp Friday or our shows of European Tour from 8th May!". The next Bandcamp Friday was May 3rd

Compilation albums

Year Date Title Label Notes
2002 Do Whatever You Want, Don't Do Whatever You Don't Want!! Earworm also includes various related projects
2003 Magical Power from Mars Important
2007 November 26 The Early Acid Mothers Temple Recordings 1995–1997 Synesthetic
2009 December Zenkyokushuu (全曲集) Yokotin Label
2013 November 20 A Young Person's Guide to Acid Mother's Temple Donburi Disk
2014 September The Psychedelic Fiction Sauce Book White Wabbit

Video albums

Year Date Title Label Notes
2007 Dokonan: Acid Mothers Temple on Tour in US Acid Mothers Temple
December Acid Mothers Temple Festival Vol. 5: Live at Tokuzo Nagoya Dec. 2006 with Mani Neumeier and Kuriyama Jun
2008 Never Ending Space Ritual: History of Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Pariaso UFO Swordfish

Acid Maso Temple

Studio albums

Year Date Title Label Note
2011 The Electric Kool-aide Results White Noise split with Kill Kill Kill

Acid Mothers Afrirampo

Studio albums

Year Date Title Label
2005 December We Are Acid Mothers Afrirampo! Acid Mothers Temple

Acid Mothers Gong

Studio albums

Year Date Title Label Note
2004 Acid Motherhood Voiceprint released as Gong

Live albums

Year Date Title Label
2006 Live in Nagoya Vivo
Acid Mothers Gong Live Tokyo Voiceprint

Video albums

Year Date Title Label
2008 Acid Mothers Gong Live @ Uncon 06 Voiceprint

Acid Mothers Guru Guru

Studio albums

Year Date Title Label
2007 September 18 Psychedelic Navigator Important
2021 June 12 Tokugoya[44] Bam Balam

Live albums

Year Date Title Label
2009 Underdogg Express Fünfundvierzig

Acid Mothers Guru Guru Gong

Singles

Year Date Title Label
2013 December Pink Lady Lemonade (Sticky Tongue Dada Licks) Part 1 & 2[45] Bam Balam

Acid Mothers Kaidan

Video albums

Year Date Title Label
2008 October 31 Kill the King of Noise Alchemy Music Store

Acid Mothers Temple & Space Paranoid

Studio albums

Year Date Title Label
2013 November 12 Black Magic Satori Safety Meeting

Live albums

Year Date Title Label
2014 March 15 My Name Is Lucifer – Live in Kochi 2013[46] Acid Mothers Temple

Acid Mothers Temple & The Cosmic Inferno

Studio albums

Year Date Title Label
2005 May Another Band from the Cosmic Inferno European Tour 2005 – Cosmic Funeral Route 666 Acid Mothers Temple
June Anthems of the Space Ektro
July 18 Demons from Nipples Vivo
July 19 Just Another Band from the Cosmic Inferno Important
September 20 IAO Chant from the Cosmic Inferno Ace Fu
2006 February 21 Starless and Bible Black Sabbath Alien8
2007 December Ominous from the Cosmic Inferno Essence
2008 September 8 Journey into the Cosmic Inferno Very Friendly
September 15 Pink Lady Lemonade ~ You're From Outer Space Riot Season
2011 July 17 For How Much Longer Do We Tolerate Goofy Funk Chaotic Noise
2012 June 15 Chaos Unforgiven Kisses or Grateful Dead Kennedys Chaotic Noise
2013 September 2 Doobie Wonderland Parallax Sounds

Live albums

Year Date Title Label
2008 August 12 Hotter Than Inferno ~ Live in Sapporo 2008 Vivo
2011 November Shakespeare from the Cosmic Inferno 2008 Blackest Bootlegs

Video albums

Year Date Title Label
2007 January 15 2006 Summer Live!! Enban
July Hardcore Uncle Meat: Live in Croatia 2005 Acid Mothers Temple
2008 September Hotter Than Inferno – Live in Osaka 2007 Acid Mothers Temple

EPs

Year Date Title Label Note
2005 May Melting Paraiso U.F.O. vs Cosmic Inferno Acid Mothers Temple split with AMT & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. Limited edition CDr five copies [47]
2007 The Load Is a Virgin Killer / Hot Doggin' on a Flip Flop Nokahoma split with Je Suis France

Singles

Year Date Title Label Note
2005 Trigger In Trigger Out – 2005 US Tour Single Nokahoma
2008 November Sonic Attack (Psychedelic Warlords) Trensmat split with White Hills

Acid Mothers Temple & The Pink Ladies Blues

Studio albums

Year Date Title Label
2006 February Featuring the Sun Love and the Heavy Metal Thunder Fractal

EPs

Year Date Title Label
2007 The Soul of a Mountain Wolf Fractal

Acid Mothers Temple SWR

Studio albums

Year Date Title Label
2005 April 11 SWR Very Friendly
2007 May 25 Stones, Women, & Records Magaibutsu

Live albums

Year Date Title Label Note
2011 January 12 Sax & the City Magaibutsu with Umezu Kazutoki
January 14 Stones, Women and Records at Taku Taku 2009 Acid Mothers Temple with Umezu Kazutoki and Seiichi Yamamoto
2014 October Yes, No & Perhaps Magaibutsu

Tsurubami

Studio albums

Year Date Title Label
1995 Tsurubami (つるばみ) Tenkyo no To (天侠の徒)
1998 May Tenkyo no To (天侠の徒) Acid Mothers Temple
2000 Kaina Last Visible Dog
2003 Tsukuyomi Ni (月夜見に) Riot Season
September 2 Gekkyukekkaichi (月球結界地) Strange Attractors Audio House
2005 March 5 Shohjohkisshohtan (清浄吉祥譚) Clu Clux Clam
2007 December 5 Tenrin (天臨) Vivo

Live albums

Year Date Title Label Note
2001 April Hanshoh no Omoi (反照の想ひ) Acid Mothers Temple
2003 Acid Mothers Temple Soul Collective Tour 2003 Acid Mothers Temple Live track by Tsurubami. Studio tracks by Pardons, Kawabata Makoto

Yamamoto Seiichi & Acid Mothers Temple

Live albums

Year Date Title Label
2008 December Giant Psychedelia Acid Mothers Temple
2011 January Mega Psychedelia
2012 December Giga Psychedelia

Acid Mothers Reynols

Studio albums

Year Date Title Label
2008 February 28 Vol.1[48] Vert Pituite La belle
2022 January 27 Vol.2[49] Hive Mind Records

Acid Moon Temple

Acid Mothers Temple (Tsuyama Atsushi, Shimura Koji, Kawabata Makoto, Higashi Hiroshi) plus Honeymoons (Tenko, Atsuko Kamura)

Studio albums

Year Date Title Label
2022 August 8 Gassha[50] Acid Mothers Temple

Festivals & Tours

Albums associated with a particular festival, tour etc. featuring multiple combinations of a group of performers. Two or more tracks per album credited to different artists, but including at least one Acid Mothers Temple credit. Treated as live albums here, although some include studio recordings.

Live albums

Year Date Title Label Notes
2005 Japanese New Music Festival Ver.4 November 2005 ( 日本の新音楽) Magaibutsu Acid Mothers Temple SWR and others. Enhanced CD with video content
2008 April Japanese New Music Festival 2008 Acid Mothers Temple Acid Mothers Temple SWR and others. Enhanced CD with video content
2010 October Guru Guru Fest 2010 Chaotic Noise Acid Mothers Temple SWR, Acid Mothers Guru Guru, Manitatsu
2013 Guru Guru Fest 2012 Magaibutsu Acid Mothers Temple SWR, Acid Mothers Guru Guru and others
2017 Japanese New Music Festival 2017 Magaibutsu Acid Mothers Temple SWR and others

References

  1. ^ Bennun, David (September 29, 2016). "Acid Mothers Temple review – non-stop head-melting psychedelia". The Guardian. Retrieved 2018-11-14.
  2. ^ Discogs "Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO – Freak Out"
  3. ^ Eye Vybe Records ev-081
  4. ^ Multikulti Bandcamp page "Close Encounters Of The Mutants"
  5. ^ Eye Vybe Records "Pink Lady Lemonade (you're from inner space)"
  6. ^ Kamikaze Tapes "Pink Lady Lemonade (You're So Sweet")
  7. ^ Nod and Smile Records "Those Who Came Never Before"
  8. ^ Buh Records Bandcamp page "BR86 - Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. - Wandering The Outer Space"
  9. ^ "Important Records "Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. - Hallelujah Mystic Garden IMPREC463"". Archived from the original on 2018-08-09. Retrieved 2018-08-09.
  10. ^ Offset Records "Paralyzed Brain"
  11. ^ Bandcamp "Psychedelic Battles - Volume Five"
  12. ^ Discogs "Psychedilic Battles Volume Five", review by jake.afc
  13. ^ Ukikaji Records Bandcamp page "Trails to the Cosmic Vibrations"
  14. ^ Riot Season "Reverse Of Rebirth In Universe"
  15. ^ Japan Vibe "Acid Mothers Temple starts 2019 with five new releases!"
  16. ^ Japan Vibe "Acid Mothers Temple starts 2019 with five new releases!"
  17. ^ Discogs "How Was The Decisive Moment Recorded?"
  18. ^ Rough Trade "Invisible Eyes And Phantom Cathedral"
  19. ^ Japan Vibe "Acid Mothers Temple starts 2019 with five new releases!"
  20. ^ Imprec Bandcamp "Hallelujah Mystic Garden Part 2"
  21. ^ Acid Mothers Temple AMTCD-042
  22. ^ Max Hazard Records MHZ-03
  23. ^ N&S "Reverse Of Rebirth Reprise"
  24. ^ Riot Season "Chosen Star Child's Confession""
  25. ^ UFO Real "Voices from Ghostwood"
  26. ^ AKTI Records "Demi-Demoniac Daemoog"
  27. ^ Rolling Heads "Holy Black Mountain Side"
  28. ^ Discogs "The Day Before The Sky Fell In"
  29. ^ Time-Lag Records "IN G (TIME-LAG 018)"
  30. ^ Bam Balam Records BBLP 024/BBCD 024
  31. ^ Mascarpone "Live in Castellón"
  32. ^ Discogs "Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O.* – Live in Castellón"
  33. ^ acidmothers.com "Last Concert of The First Chapter AMTCD-038"
  34. ^ acidmothers.com "Live at Cabaret Victoria 2016"
  35. ^ Eyevybe Records "On the Night of Destruction"
  36. ^ acidmothers.com "Astro Infinity Discothèque AMTCD-032"
  37. ^ ameblo.jp/speedguru "AMT宗家ライヴCD&カセット「The Man Who Fell to Us」リリース案内"
  38. ^ Eyevybe Records "The Night He Fell To Us"
  39. ^ Eyevybe Records "Who Does The Space Troubadour Sing For?"
  40. ^ Eyevybe Records "Diend Of Fiend or Unstoppable Moonsault"
  41. ^ "Love The Bomb From Uranus"
  42. ^ Discogs "Live Rebootleg In Pangea"
  43. ^ Bam Balam Records BBLP 100/BBCD 100
  44. ^ Discogs "Tokugoya"
  45. ^ Bam Balam Records BBEP 200
  46. ^ ameblo.jp/speedguru "Acid Mothers Temple & Space Paranoid 限定ライヴCDR発売"
  47. ^ Acid Mothers Temple AMTPD-026
  48. ^ Vert Pituite la belle "Vol. 1"
  49. ^ Hive Mind Records "Vol. 2"
  50. ^ Discogs Acid Moon Temple "Gassha"