Temple Fang + Heath // SLACHTHUIS

Name: Temple Fang + Heath // SLACHTHUIS
Start: 2025-05-03T19:30:00+02:00
Location: Slachthuis

Schedule

Sat, 03 May, 2025 at 07:30 pm

UTC+02:00

Location

Slachthuis | Haarlem, NH

Info:
Temple Fang + Heath
3 mei
Deuren 19:30
Schade €11,- excl. boekingskosten
Temple Fang (NL):
Hailing from Amsterdam, the Dutch quartet has been steadily destroying stages and enchanting audiences since 2018 with their hard hitting yet elegant longform compositions, building an enormous reputation for themselves as a live band that always delivers and never repeats itself.
Freak Valley, Roadburn, Desertfest, Sonic Blast, Palp, Krach am Bach, Sonic Whip and many more festivals were all brought under the spell of these Dutch psych wizards.
Essentially operating as a DIY collective, the band has been putting out records themselves with the help of their friends of Electric Spark, focusing mainly on live recordings, as the band considered themselves an alive and breathing organism not to be confined to ‘definite’ versions of their songs as they would appear on a studio record.
The band’s 2021 release “Fang Temple” was approached as a hybrid of live and studio, with the band taking recordings of shows as a base to work off of in the studio, and was met by rave reviews by critics and fans, taking even the band by surprise. They took it one step further in 2022 with their Jerusalem/The Bridge EP, containing the first full studio recordings the band had ever done.
With new drummer Daan Wopereis joining the band in the summer of ’23, Temple Fang decided to take some time off the road to retool the band for a new chapter, one where new things would be possible, new ideas encouraged and old skin shed. And ultimately, to create a version of Temple Fang that would surpass anything they had dared to do before.
When legendary German label Stickman records approached them and offered them creative freedom, it was a no-brainer. A label that works with Motorpsycho, Elder, King Buffalo, Slomosa, Full Earth and fellow Dutchies Iron Jinn would certainly be the right family to join for this new chapter of the band.
The band has been holed up in their Amsterdam bunker all year working on their Stickman debut, their first all-studio full length, only to occasionally leave it for small tours to road-test the new material and keep their gears oiled.
In 2025 with a new album under their belt, the band will hit the road hard with a newfound fury and a commitment to really rock.
Mind-bending riffs, triple vocal harmonies, dubbed out bass and groovy yet hard hitting drums, ecstatically rocking and truly psychedelic, Temple Fang delivers it all with love. Longform rock for fans of Motorpsycho, The Grateful Dead, Hawkwind and Hendrix. Rock n’ Roll as a means to attaining spiritual freedom, right on!
Heath (NL):
Er woedt een psychedelische storm over Nederland, en de naam is Heath. Over de heide en achter de duinen. Grenzeloos en ongetemd. Het opkomende debuutalbum ‘Isaak’s Marble’ markeert het begin van een lang verhaal. Het opent de deuren naar de wereld van Heath, waar álles mogelijk is. Complexe maatsoorten, laaiende harmonica en opzwepende gitaren vergezeld van verhalende vocalen vormen samen een betoverende reis. Heath staat inmiddels bekend om hun energieke live shows, die met lang uitgesponnen eclectische nummers moeiteloos samensmelten tot een atmosfeer die zowel hypotiserend als bevrijdend is.
Na de release van hun eerste single begin 2023 noemde 3voor12 Den Haag het vijftal een “Haagse belofte” en deze belofte werd later dit jaar ingelost toen zij de Music Support Award, uitgereikt door de Haagse Popweek, in ontvangst mochten nemen. Ook muziekblad Oor bestempelde Heath als “vaandeldragers van een snelgroeiende psychedelische rock-scene in Nederland”. Heath’s single ‘Atalantis’ won vervolgens 3voor12 Leiden’s Song van het Jaar 2023. In 2024 stond Heath onder meer al op de Pinguin/Sniester Showcases tijdens ESNS en speelden zij niet één, maar twee meeslepende shows op Roadburn.
Poster door Randy Linskens