In April, Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. will return to Europe for another extensive tour, titled Survive to Metaverse Tour. Just last year, they were celebrating the music collective’s 30th anniversary; this year, they will be joined by one of the founding members of the collective, Cotton Casino, who hasn’t performed with Acid Mothers Temple for more than 20 years. She will be performing the first half of the European tour (up to and including the show in Belgium).
The European tour will start with an Artist in Residence during Roadburn Festival 2026, where they will perform three performances presenting the past, present, and future. After these performances at the Dutch festival, the group will continue their tour in the United Kingdom, with eleven shows. Then they will continue their tour on the mainland of Europe, with performances in Belgium, Germany, France, Denmark, Sweden, and many more. At the moment, the music collective has confirmed 35 shows in 17 countries.
Acid Mothers Temple have been active since 1995 and have built up an enormous discography that is easy to get lost in. During the pandemic, the band launched a Bandcamp page, through which they released more than 60 albums, including a wealth of previously unreleased material. They’ve hosted several 24-hour listening sessions for their fans, featuring their digital compilations AMT24, AMT24 vol.2, AMT24 vol.3, and AMT24 vol.4. These releases offer a mix of older material and a few new tracks.
Over the years, the group has collaborated with a wide range of musicians, including psychedelic pioneers like Gong and Guru Guru, Simeon (Silver Apples), Nik Turner (Hawkwind), as well as notable Japanese artists such as Afrirampo, Tatsuya Yoshida (Ruins), Maso Yamazaki (Masonna), Seiichi Yamamoto (Boredoms), Jun Kuriyama (The Ox), and many more.
Besides Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O., other variations exist within the larger Acid Mothers Temple universe with contributions from different combinations of band members. This led to different band names for those specific projects, branded ‘AMT’, think Acid Mothers Temple & The Cosmic Inferno, Acid Mothers Temple SWR, Acid Mothers Temple & The Space Paranoid, to name a few. Yet Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. can be seen as the main project, the core of their music. Each of these projects explores different aspects of psychedelic and experimental rock, but all are linked by the distinctive, surrealist style popularised by Acid Mothers Temple and the group’s founder, ‘speed guru’ Makoto Kawabata.
Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. European Tour 2026 Dates
Thursday 16 April 2026: Roadburn Festival – Tilburg, Netherlands
Friday 17 April 2026: Roadburn Festival – Tilburg, Netherlands
Saturday 18 April 2026: Roadburn Festival – Tilburg, Netherlands
Sunday 19 April 2026: Ramsgate Music Hall – Ramsgate, United Kingdom
Monday 20 April 2026: Brudenell Social Club – Leeds, United Kingdom
Tuesday 21 April 2026: Cluny2 – Newcastle, United Kingdom
Wednesday 22 April 2026: Mono – Glasgow, United Kingdom
Thursday 23 April 2026: District – Liverpool, United Kingdom
Friday 24 April 2026: Strange Brew – Bristol, United Kingdom
Saturday 25 April 2026: Iklectik – London, United Kingdom
Sunday 26 April 2026: Hare & Hounds – Birmingham, United Kingdom
Monday 27 April 2026: Billy Bootleggers – Nottingham, United Kingdom
Tuesday 28 April 2026: Portland Arms – Cambridge, United Kingdom
Wednesday 29 April 2026: Hope and Ruin – Brighton, United Kingdom
Thursday 30 April 2026: Magasin 4 – Brussels, Belgium
Friday 1 May 2026: Stubnitz – Hamburg, Germany
Saturday 2 May 2026: Alice – Copenhagen, Denmark
Sunday 3 May 2026: Plan B – Malmo, Sweden
Monday 4 May 2026: Hus 7 – Stockholm, Sweden
Wednesday 6 May 2026: Kuudes Linja – Helsinki, Finland
Thursday 7 May 2026: Paavli Kultuurivabrik – Tallinn, Estonia
Friday 8 May 2026: Eduards Smilgis Theatre Museum – Riga, Latvia
Saturday 9 May 2026: Kirtimai Cultural Center – Vilnius, Lithuania
Sunday 10 May 2026: Mechanik – Warsaw, Poland
Monday 11 May 2026: New Zukunft – Berlin, Germany
Tuesday 12 May 2026: MeetFactory – Prague, Czechia
Wednesday 13 May 2026: Chelsea – Vienna, Austria
Thursday 14 May 2026: A38 ship – Budapest, Hungary
Friday 15 May 2026: Röda – Linz, Austria
Saturday 16 May 2026: Manufaktur – Schorndorf, Germany
Sunday 17 May 2026: Combo – Turin, Italy
Monday 18 May 2026: Arci Bellezza – Milan, Italy
Tuesday 19 May 2026: Bad Bonn – Düdingen, Switzerland
Wednesday 20 May 2026: Le Bal Chavaux – Montreuil, France
Thursday 21 May 2026: Bulle Cafe – Lille, France
Friday 22 May 2026: TBC
