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  ACID MOTHER’S TEMPLE & THE MELTING PARAISO U.F.O @ The Hare and Hounds, King’s Heath, Birmingham, 26/04/26 The loudest band that I ever did see, finally. Acid Mother’s Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O, with synth sorceress Cotton Casino, take to the stage at the fading of the dawn, guiding their audience into the night with a sonic revelry that hijacks the solar plexus and infiltrates the prefrontal cortex, leaving the listener with a rewarding sense of confusion and perforated-eardrum-induced migraine, like the warm welcoming ache of lactic acid after intense physical exercise.  Kawabata Makato, founding member of the Japanese transcendental noise-rock collective, launches into the set with a whirlwind of freak-out fuzz-box choreography that matches his wizardly presence, playing or rather groping his upside-down Stratocaster like a demented vanguard Hendrix, scratching at notes that can only exist far past the constraints of the fretboard, right hand over the top...