Temple Fang - Live at Merleyn (Psychelic Rock 2020)

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Temple Fang is a jam band from Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

What’s good comes fast. Take Temple Fang, for example. The group could already be admired at Roadburn, Paaspop, Fortarock, Into The Void, Desertfest, Sonic Whip and recently at Sniester in The Hague. In no-time the band attracted a large number of real life followers. 

And rightly so, because both on record and live this bearded foursome enchants and hypnotizes fans of Kyuss, The Grateful Dead and Motorpsycho. How? With long drawn-out proggy space rock songs that make long hair flutter and pants bulge. Enter the spaceship named Temple Fang for an eternal acid rock trip through universe. Safe travels.

After Death Alley ended Vocalist/Bassist Dennis Duijnhouwer started playing with Jevin de Groot who also had been part of Death Alley for a while, as well as previously Mühr. Dennis knew Ivy van der Veer, a much younger guy, as the son of a musician he knew and heard some promising demo's of him. 

The first time the three of them jammed, after the initial trepidation about having two left handed guitar players in the band, it was clear there was a musical connection. They rehearsed in the Vondelbunker in Amsterdam when other bands were unable to and took the opportunity to play with a new drummer every time to find the right one for them. After a while Ivy pointed them towards the best drummer he knew, Jasper van den Broeke. 

They asked him to play and initially he said no as with two other bands and a family, not to mention Death Alley's reputation, he felt his time was spoken for. But at some point he was persuaded and after the first ham together it was clear this was not on opportunity to miss.

They played their first show, April 2018 in Little Devil, Tilburg, Netherlands. This resulted in a support slot for the two Dutch shows of Coven later that year. 2019 brought a prestigious performance at Roadburn Presents 2019, and then the record label interest intensified.

The band did not feel ready for this pressure however and decided to hold off at that time. But pressure of fans increased and due to the efforts of crew members Awkward Steve and Niek Manders several shows were recorded in secret to form the basis of a record. This did not immediately come to fruition but would later be the basis of the 2022 album Fang Temple. Feeling the inevitability of needing an album at their merc booth they decided to release one show on a self-released album, Live At Merleyn.

The 28th of June they announced their own festival, Right on Mountain, to be held October 9th 2022 in Doornroosje, Nijmegen, Netherlands.

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