The Dutch space rockers Temple Fang is one of the many examples of bands caught by circumstances they had no way of controlling. The band was formed in Amsterdam, born from the ashes of Death Alley and incorporating members from Mühr, but due to covid restrictions only got few chances to play live, ending with 3 seated shows in Db’s Utrecht on 13-12-2020, a day before the whole country was forced into lockdown again. Worn down by a year of struggling to keep the band going in the midst of a pandemic, they decided to abandon the project entirely and take a break from music, not even sure if they wanted to continue Temple Fang.
When their sound engineer Niek Manders send the band a rough mix of recordings he had made of the shows, the decision was made to close this chapter of TF with