Get ready to fasten your seatbelt – or perhaps rather let go entirely. Japanese psych-rock icons Acid Mothers Temple take over ALICE in May with their infamous, eccentric live show, where noise, beauty, and cosmic chaos melt into one ultimate trip. In 2025, the collective celebrated their 30th anniversary, and we are proud to present them at ALICE for a night that will undoubtedly carve its way into the venue’s lysergic history books. VÍZ opens the evening with avant-garde sci-fi opera and ritualistic incantations.

NOTE: The ticket sale starts Friday, february 20th at 10 AM

Acid Mothers Temple was formed in 1995 by legendary guitarist Kawabata Makoto. With their 1997 debut album – released on Japan’s PSF Records – they cemented their status when The Wire named it one of the year’s best. Since then, the band has released more than a staggering 60 albums and toured tirelessly across the US, Europe, Asia, and beyond, performing over 100 shows annually. Acid Mothers Temple are renowned for their extended psychedelic guitar solos, hypnotic repetitions, and explosive sonic collages that open portals to new layers of consciousness, evoking bands such as Can and Ash Ra Tempel. Over the years, they have collaborated with psychedelic pioneers like Gong and Guru Guru, as well as numerous Japanese underground icons. Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. functions as the collective’s cosmic mothership and the core of an ever-evolving universe of related projects.

Following a generational shift in 2016, Acid Mothers Temple began a new chapter under the name “Next Generation,” and during the pandemic they fearlessly embraced streaming festivals, massive album releases, and even their own “music sports” events. The current live line-up, led by founding members Kawabata Makoto and Higashi Hiroshi, promises a concert experience balancing cult devotion, chaos, and collective ecstasy. Don’t miss Acid Mothers Temple at ALICE this May.

VÍZ
Hungarian-Transylvanian artist Réka Csiszér opens the evening at ALICE with her solo project VÍZ, inviting us into a sealed, cinematic universe of post-industrial textures, ghostly glossolalia, and dark echoes of Hungarian folk music. With references to Béla Tarr’s bleak visual worlds and Lynchian disorientation, VÍZ dissolves time and space through dense electroacoustic compositions. On the critically acclaimed album Danse des Larmes, gothic vocal lines merge with noir aesthetics, forming an imaginary giallo soundtrack. Live, VÍZ is described as both unsettling and captivating – somewhere between avant-garde sci-fi opera and ritualistic incantation. Csiszér’s haunting voice evokes Diamanda Galás and Lisa Gerrard, making the concert a visceral, full-bodied experience you can feel deep within.