Temple Fang
Temple Fang is a heavy psych band from Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Rising from the ashes of Death Alley, bassist Dennis Duijnhouwer and guitarist Jevin de Groot put together a new band with guitarist Ivy van der Veer and drummer Jasper van den Broeke, combining the wild rock-abandon of their former outfit with deeper, more cosmic leanings in long pieces of rock. The band's début long player, Fang Temple (four tracks, 79 minutes) came out in July 2022. It was followed by an EP entitled Jerusalem/The Bridge (two tracks, 21 minutes) in November of the same year. In April 2025 they released their first release on Stickman Records with new drummer Daan Wopereis, Lifted From the Wind (five tracks, 75 minutes), an album that they believe truly represents them as a band.
"With Lifted From the Wind, Temple Fang posit their creativity not only as a communion with each other -- a conversation of instruments -- but with something more ethereal.
Their psychedelia is one of soul as much as sound, and where plenty of bands out there cast their songs as rituals, Temple Fang convey the joy of true reverence in the name of sonic exploration and, now more than ever, craft. That's right, kids. They're still plenty sprawling, but these are the most refined songs Temple Fang have wrought to-date from their particular corner of the cosmos (somewhere in Amsterdam), digging into repetition for hypnosis and emphasis alike, and remaking various notions of heavy in their image.
Lifted From the Wind helps give shape to the trajectory Temple Fang have been on from their outset, and feels like a moment of arrival in terms of manifesting a vision of who they want to be. It's a special, deeply honest record, and whatever Temple Fang do from here on out, a landmark in the life of this band. You'd be lucky to see others working under its influence."
- JJ Koczan, Feb. 2025
"With Lifted From the Wind, Temple Fang posit their creativity not only as a communion with each other -- a conversation of instruments -- but with something more ethereal.
Their psychedelia is one of soul as much as sound, and where plenty of bands out there cast their songs as rituals, Temple Fang convey the joy of true reverence in the name of sonic exploration and, now more than ever, craft. That's right, kids. They're still plenty sprawling, but these are the most refined songs Temple Fang have wrought to-date from their particular corner of the cosmos (somewhere in Amsterdam), digging into repetition for hypnosis and emphasis alike, and remaking various notions of heavy in their image.
Lifted From the Wind helps give shape to the trajectory Temple Fang have been on from their outset, and feels like a moment of arrival in terms of manifesting a vision of who they want to be. It's a special, deeply honest record, and whatever Temple Fang do from here on out, a landmark in the life of this band. You'd be lucky to see others working under its influence."
- JJ Koczan, Feb. 2025
