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King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard

June 19, 2023

King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard are an Australian rock band formed in 2010 in Melbourne, Victoria.[1][2] The band's current lineup consists of Stu Mackenzie, Ambrose Kenny-Smith, Cook Craig, Joey Walker, Lucas Harwood and Michael Cavanagh. They are known for exploring multiple genres, staging energetic live shows and building a prolific discography, having released 24 studio albums, 15 live albums, 5 compilations, 3 EPs and a remix album.

King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard performing in New York City, 2019
Background information
Also known as
  • King Gizz
  • King Gizzard
  • (The) Gizz
  • Gizzy
OriginMelbourne, Victoria, Australia
Genres
Years active2010–present
Labels
Members
Past members
  • Eric Moore
Websitekinggizzardandthelizardwizard.com

Their second EP, Willoughby's Beach, and debut album, 12 Bar Bruise, primarily blended surf music and garage rock, and were released on Flightless, the band's own label. Their second album, a "psychedelic spaghetti western" titled Eyes Like the Sky, features spoken-word narration by Broderick Smith, father of band member Ambrose Kenny-Smith. Float Along – Fill Your Lungs, released later in the year, and the 2014 albums Oddments and I'm in Your Mind Fuzz, saw the band expand on their psychedelic sound. In 2015, they drew on elements of jazz fusion and progressive rock with Quarters!, and also released the folk-inspired Paper Mâché Dream Balloon, recorded almost entirely using acoustic instruments. Nonagon Infinity features nine interconnected tracks that form an infinite loop and won the ARIA Award for Best Hard Rock or Heavy Metal Album.[3][4]

In 2017, the band fulfilled a promise to release five studio albums within the year: Flying Microtonal Banana, an experiment in microtonality, in February; the three-chapter "sci-fi heavy metal epic" Murder of the Universe in June; Sketches of Brunswick East, an improvised jazz collaboration with Mild High Club, in August; Polygondwanaland, which was released into the public domain in November; and Gumboot Soup in December. The 2019 albums Fishing for Fishies and Infest the Rats' Nest saw the band tackle environmental themes and incorporate boogie rock and thrash metal, respectively, into their sound.

In the 2020s, the band released two further microtonal studio albums – K.G. and L.W. – and the synth-based dream pop album Butterfly 3000 (all released independently), as well as several live albums, a concert film and two compilations. Eric Moore, the band's second drummer and manager, left the band in 2020 to focus on running the band's record label, Flightless. In 2022, King Gizzard released Made in Timeland, their first double album Omnium Gatherum, and released three further albums—Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms and Lava, Laminated Denim and Changes—in October of the same year.

In a 2019 study conducted by the Institute of Contemporary Music Performance, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard was ranked No. 21 in a list of the world's hardest-working musicians.[5] This was earned due to the number of live shows they played from January 2018 to August 2019—totalling to 113 live performances both domestically and internationally.[6]

History

Formation, early releases and 12 Bar Bruise (2010–2012)

The band members all grew up and went to school in the Deniliquin, Melbourne and Geelong areas of Australia. Mackenzie, Moore and Walker met studying music industry at RMIT,[7] with the other members being mutual friends. The band started off as an informal jam band, with the eventual lineup becoming Mackenzie, Walker, Moore, Kenny-Smith, Cavanagh, Craig and Harwood. Kenny-Smith was the last to enter the band, in 2011.[8] The band's name was created "last minute"; Mackenzie wanted to name the band "Gizzard Gizzard" while another band member wanted Jim Morrison's nickname "Lizard King". They eventually compromised with King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard.[9] Melbourne artist Jason Galea has created all of the band's album art and a majority of their music videos.[citation needed]

The band's first releases were two singles in 2010 – "Sleep" / "Summer" and "Hey There" / "Ants & Bats" – and both were self-released. The band's next release, 2011's Anglesea, was released as a four-track EP on CD. It is named after Anglesea, the coastal town where Mackenzie grew up (as well as the town where they lost a battle of the bands to punk rockers Hole in the Shoe). These early releases did not become available digitally until the inclusion of their tracks on the Teenage Gizzard compilation in 2020.[citation needed]

The band's second release of the year, Willoughby's Beach, was released by Shock Records on 21 October 2011.[10] Beat Magazine described the nine-track garage rock EP as "filled to the teeth with consistently killer hooks".[11]

The band's first full-length album, 12 Bar Bruise, was released on 7 September 2012.[12] The 12-track garage rock album was self-recorded, and several tracks used unconventional recording methods – for example, the vocals for the album's title track were recorded through four iPhones placed around a room while Mackenzie sang into one of them.[13]

Eyes Like the Sky, Float Along – Fill Your Lungs, Oddments and I'm in Your Mind Fuzz (2013–2014)

King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard's second full-length album, Eyes Like the Sky, was released on 22 February 2013.[14] Described as a "cult western audio book",[14] the album is narrated by Broderick Smith and tells a story of outlaws, child soldiers, Native Americans and gun fights—all set in the American frontier. The album was written collaboratively by Smith and Stu Mackenzie. When asked about the album's influences, Mackenzie said: "I love Western films. I love bad guys and I love Red Dead Redemption. Oh, and I love evil guitars".[15] Mackenzie also stated in a 2020 Reddit AMA that Eyes Like the Sky was written as a response to being typecast in their previous releases—a reaction that "irks" him to this day.

The band's third full-length album, Float Along – Fill Your Lungs, was released on 27 September 2013.[16] King Gizzard shifted from garage rock to a more mellow folk and psychedelic sound on the eight-track album.[17] It also saw Eric Moore start playing drums, after previously playing theremin and keyboards.[18]

Float Along – Fill Your Lungs was followed by Oddments, released on 7 March 2014.[19] Over the course of the 12-track album, the band takes a more melodic approach, and Mackenzie's vocals are more prominent.[20] Oddments has been described as being "recorded through a woolen sock in an adjacent room".[21]

The band's fifth full-length album, I'm in Your Mind Fuzz, was released on 31 October 2014.[22] The 10-track album touches on elements of fantasy[23] and lyrically delves into the concept of mind control. This was the first time the band took a "traditional" approach to writing and recording an album: the songs were written, the band rehearsed together and they recorded the songs "as a band" in the studio.[24] Pitchfork described the album as "open[ing] with a sprint" and ending "with some of their best slow jams".[25] In 2019, I'm in Your Mind Fuzz came at No. 6 on Happy Mag's list of "The 25 best psychedelic rock albums of the 2010s".[26]

Quarters!, Paper Mâché Dream Balloon, Nonagon Infinity and Gizzfest (2015–2016)

 
Mackenzie performing in 2016

Quarters!, King Gizzard's sixth full-length album, was released on 1 May 2015.[27] The album features four songs, each running for 10 minutes and 10 seconds,[28] making each song a quarter of the album. Drawing upon jazz fusion and acid rock, the album's more laid-back sound was described as "unlike anything they've released before" and as "an album more likely to get your head bobbing and hips shaking as opposed to losing footwear in a violent mosh".[29]

On 17 August 2015, King Gizzard released the title track "Paper Mâché Dream Balloon" as the lead single for the album with the same name.[30] The band then published the official audio for the second single, "Trapdoor," and released its music video on 10 November.[31] Three days after, on 13 November, did the band release its seventh full-length album, Paper Mâché Dream Balloon.[32][33] This "concept-less concept album" features only acoustic instruments and was recorded on Mackenzie's parents' farm in rural Victoria.[33] The album features "a collection of short unrelated songs"[33] described as "mellow, defuzzed psychedelia".[34] It was the band's first album to be released in the United States via ATO Records.[35]

2015 saw the band launch Gizzfest in Melbourne, a two-day music festival that was held annually and toured Australia, featuring both local and international acts.[36]

The band's eighth full-length album, Nonagon Infinity, was released worldwide on 29 April 2016.[37] Described by Mackenzie as a "never-ending album", it features nine songs connected by musical motifs which flow "seamlessly" into each other with the last track "linking straight back into the top of the opener like a sonic mobius strip".[38] On 8 March, the band released a video for the first single, "Gamma Knife".[39] It contained a riff from the song "People Vultures", which premiered on 4 April,[40] followed by a music video released on 6 May.[41] The album received high praise from critics, with Pitchfork's Stuart Berman writing that it "yields some of the most outrageous, exhilarating rock 'n' roll in recent memory".[42] The album also received glowing reviews from numerous other publishers: Happy Mag's Maddy Brown described it as "an intensely striking, ferocious sound that gets the blood flowing and heart racing",[43] while NME's Larry Bartleet wrote that "If you wanted to, you could listen to it forever in one unbroken melody".[44] The band earned its first ARIA Award when Nonagon Infinity won the 2016 ARIA Award for Best Hard Rock or Heavy Metal Album.

Five albums in one year (2017)

We had this random batch of songs. It was not a cohesive record at all. So we thought we'd split it up, and split again until it became five. We worked on Nonagon Infinity pretty intensely in 2015 and 2016. We came close to burning ourselves out, or at least wringing each other's necks. We took a break, and then all these random, disparate song ideas came out of that void of not recording for a little while. Then we worked on everything one album at a time.

Stu Mackenzie, November 2017[45]

The band's ninth full-length album, Flying Microtonal Banana (Explorations Into Microtonal Tuning, Volume 1), was recorded in the band's own studio[46] and released on 24 February 2017.[47] Originally conceived as a record to be played on the Turkish bağlama, a stringed instrument with microtonal frets, the album was recorded using custom instruments adhering to 24 TET. Flying Microtonal Banana has been described as "a soaring take on microtonal music".[48] Three tracks were issued in advance: "Rattlesnake",[49] the opening track, in October 2016; "Nuclear Fusion" in December 2016; and "Sleep Drifter" in January 2017.[50][51] The band released a music video for "Rattlesnake", directed by Jason Galea,[52] a video which Happy Mag's Luke Saunders described as "a masterclass in hypnotism".[53]

Another full-length album, Murder of the Universe, was released on 23 June 2017.[54] Described by the band as a "concept album to end all concepts",[55][56] it is divided into three chapters: The Tale of the Altered Beast and The Lord of Lightning vs. Balrog – both released on 30 May 2017 – and Han-Tyumi and the Murder of the Universe, which was released on 11 April 2017. The Spill Magazine explained that the album "describes the impeding doom of the world in a dark fantasy genre kind of way".[57] It is narrated by Leah Senior[58] for the first two chapters and a text-to-speech program for the final chapter. The band made their international television debut on 17 April 2017, performing "The Lord of Lightning" on Conan on TBS in the United States.[59]

King Gizzard's next full-length album, Sketches of Brunswick East, a collaboration with Alex Brettin's psychedelic jazz project, Mild High Club, was released on 18 August 2017.[60] Taking inspiration from Miles Davis' 1960 album Sketches of Spain, as well as the band's base recording location of Brunswick East in Melbourne, it is a jazz-improvisational album. Mackenzie described the record as "perhaps representing greater changes that are happening in the wider world, and (this is) our attempt to find beauty within a place that we spend so much time", referring to the constant changes in their neighbourhood.[60]

 
Polygondwanaland, the fourth of the band's five 2017 albums, was released into the public domain, inspiring many independent labels throughout the world to issue unique versions of it.

King Gizzard's 12th studio album, Polygondwanaland, was released as a free download on 17 November 2017. The band encouraged fans and independent record labels to create their own pressings of the album, stating that "Polygondwanaland is FREE. Free as in, free. Free to download and if you wish, free to make copies. Make tapes, make CD's, make records . . . Ever wanted to start your own record label? GO for it! Employ your mates, press wax, pack boxes. We do not own this record. You do. Go forth, share, enjoy".[61] The album was promoted with the release of the first track, "Crumbling Castle", on 18 October 2017. A music video created by Jason Galea accompanied its release on YouTube.[62] As of March 2023, 356 different versions of the album have been recorded on the physical music database Discogs,[63] and it has been called "the ultimate vinyl release".[64]

Mackenzie confirmed in early December that the fifth and final album of 2017 would be coming "very, very late in the year".[65] Two singles were digitally released less than a week later: "All Is Known", which had previously been performed live, and "Beginner's Luck", an entirely new song.[66][67] These singles were followed by two more: "The Last Oasis" and "Greenhouse Heat Death", both released on the 20th. On 30 December, the band posted on Facebook that Gumboot Soup would be released the following day.[68] Mackenzie explained in an interview that the songs on the album are "definitely not B-sides or anything. They're more songs that didn't work in any of the rest of the four records, or they didn't fit into any of those categories that well, or they came together slightly after when those records came together".[69]

In December, Consequence of Sound named King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard Band of the Year, praising both the quantity and quality of their 2017 releases.[69]

Fishing for Fishies, Infest the Rats' Nest and reissues (2018–2019)

Throughout 2018, King Gizzard continued to perform live shows, but did not release any new material. Instead, they re-released five older records – the Willoughby's Beach EP, 12 Bar Bruise, Eyes Like the Sky, Float Along – Fill Your Lungs and Oddments – on CD and vinyl.[70] They also released an official pressing of 2017's Polygondwanaland.[71]

On 21 January 2019, the band announced on their Instagram page that new music was in the works, with an image in a studio of Gareth Liddiard (The Drones, Tropical Fuck Storm) flipping the bird as members of King Gizzard play in the background, which led to some speculation about Liddiard's possible involvement in the band's new material.[72] On 1 February, the band put out a music video for their new single "Cyboogie" and released the song as a 7-inch single backed with "Acarine".[73] A week later, they announced another North American tour[74] and a show at Alexandra Palace in London, which they promised would feature "a new set, new songs and a whole new visual experience", and described as being their biggest ever.

In March, the band announced their 14th album, Fishing for Fishies, with a release date of 26 April 2019.[75] A day later, the band officially released and uploaded a music video for the title track to YouTube.[76] Later that month, the band released another single from the album, "Boogieman Sam",[77] and on 24 April – two days before the album release – the band released a final single, "The Bird Song". Two days later, Fishing for Fishies was released.[78]

The 2019 Gizzfest never occurred. With the Gizzfest taking place in 2018, the band announced on their official Instagram page that the festival would be cancelled. Some fans think this was due to their heavy touring schedule. Walker jokingly said on their Instagram, "Gizzfest is never happening again because it was always a piece of sh*t. I was embarrassed to be apart of [sic] it."[79]

On 9 April, the band released a music video for a new song, "Planet B".[80] During a Reddit AMA on 30 April, Mackenzie confirmed that the next King Gizzard album was being made and would include "Planet B", but the band had not decided whether or not it would be released in 2019. The album was confirmed to be titled Infest the Rats' Nest. Mackenzie also said that their Gizzfest festival would be held outside of Australia for the first time in 2019.[81]

Infest the Rats' Nest, released on 16 August, was entirely in a thrash metal style.[82][83] At the ARIA Music Awards of 2019, Infest the Rats' Nest was nominated for ARIA Award for Best Hard Rock or Heavy Metal Album.[84]

Chunky Shrapnel, K.G., L.W. and the departure of Eric Moore (2020–2021)

In January 2020, the band released three live albums as downloads on Bandcamp, pledging to donate 100% of the proceeds towards relief for the 2019–20 Australian bushfire season:[85] Live in Adelaide '19, recorded at Thebarton Theatre on 12 July 2019, and Live in Paris '19, recorded at L'Olympia on 14 October 2019, were released 10 January, while Live in Brussels '19, recorded at the Ancienne Belgique on 8–9 October 2019, was released 15 January. The albums' sales benefit Animals Australia, Wildlife Victoria and Wires Wildlife Rescue, respectively.[85]

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the band postponed their Greek Theatre and Red Rocks three-hour marathon shows for later in the year. The band had also produced a film to be released, titled Chunky Shrapnel from a lyric of the song "Murder of the Universe" from the album of the same name; however, also due to the outbreak, the initial viewing was postponed for a later date and then cancelled. The film was directed by John Angus Stewart, and was recorded during the band's 2019 tour in Europe.[86]

In April, the band stated that during lockdown, they had worked on new material for upcoming albums. Mackenzie reported that one will be "pretty chill", another "kind of jazzy", and "some of it is microtonal", and the band was also experimenting with electronic music and "messing around with some more polymetric stuff".[87] In the same interview, when asked about more live recordings, Mackenzie also said that the band had recorded almost every show they played in 2019, and may release them in a similar fashion to Pearl Jam's official live bootlegs.[87] June saw the release of RATTY, a short documentary about the making of Infest the Rat's Nest.[88] The film was made available to rent online with all proceeds going to Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation (ANTAR), BlaQ Aboriginal Corporation, Djirra and Indigenous Social Justice Association Melbourne. After $20,000 had been raised, the film was then made free to watch on YouTube. Later that month, in celebration of Love Record Store Day, the band released a limited print of eco-friendly versions of 10 releases dating back to between 2014 and 2017.[89]

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the band postponed the marathon shows and North American tour for a second time, with the new dates being for October 2021. A statement he received from the band confirmed the new tour dates and additional confirmation that the band will release some new albums before said tour.[90]

 
Moore left the band in 2020 to focus on running Flightless.

On 25 August, Eric Moore announced via Instagram his departure from the band as both an active member and the band's manager without citing any direct reason,[91] stating he was "deeply saddened by the decision" and "[doesn't] have any regrets". The band further elaborated, also via Instagram, that he was stepping away from the band "to focus solely on Flightless Records."[92]

On 2 October, the band released two albums via Bandcamp. The first, Demos Vol. 1 + Vol. 2, includes 28 demos of songs spanning the band's entire career. This included older songs like "Footy Footy" from 12 Bar Bruise, along with songs like "Straws in the Wind", which had only been released less than a month prior. The second was a live album of the same variety as the three released in January, Live in Asheville '19, which was recorded live at New Belgium Brewing Company in Asheville, North Carolina, on 1 September 2019.

On 20 October 2020, the band teased the release of their 16th studio album, K.G. (Explorations into Microtonal Tuning, Volume 2), and another live album, Live in San Francisco '16, with both albums being released on 20 November. Alongside this, the band released the fourth single from K.G., "Automation", which was released for free on their website in a similar manner to their 2017 album Polygondwanaland. In addition to the raw audio files for the song as a whole, the band also included the files for separate audio channels within the song such as vocals, violin, clarinet and flute.[93] They also released the video files for the song's music video, of which the band stated, "If you'd like to create your own music video for 'Automation', we have supplied you with the raw video files to do so".[94] All of these files require a torrent client to be installed on the user's device.[95][96]

In an interview with NME, Joey Walker said that 2021 would be a big year of output with some of their most divisive music yet, claiming: "Part of me thinks this is the best we've ever done. And part of me thinks it's the worst." He also talked about making a sequel to Chunky Shrapnel.[97]

In 2020, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard were listed at No. 47 in Rolling Stone Australia's "50 Greatest Australian Artists of All Time" issue.[98]

Their 17th studio album, L.W., was released on 26 February 2021. The album is a direct sequel to the previous album K.G. and the third volume in the "Explorations into Microtonal Tuning" series.[99] On 19 March 2021, the band released Live in Melbourne '21, recorded from one of their first shows since the pandemic. This album became part of the band's bootleg program, with accompanying video footage.[100]

The band's 18th full-length album, Butterfly 3000, was announced on 11 May. The band stated that the album would be due 11 June and would have no singles leading to release.[101] It was also revealed that the album had 10 tracks and was built around modular synthesizer loops. The album art was to feature a "cross-eyed" autostereogram by long-time collaborator Jason Galea.[102]

On 29 May, Live in Sydney '21 was released through the band's bootleg program, the seventh live recording in the program and ninth album overall.[103] A video recording of the performance was also released. The band announced that they would be performing a series of five concerts at Sydney's Carriageworks. Each concert would have a different, pre-planned setlist, themed around a different style of music, including acoustic, "jams", microtonal, garage rock and heavy metal.[104]

Butterfly 3000, Made in Timeland, Omnium Gatherum and three albums in one month (2021–2022)

Butterfly 3000 was released on all streaming platforms on 11 June 2021. The album received generally positive reviews,[105] with reviewers commending the album on its "sonic adventurism"[106] and describing the songs as "pop-oriented additions [that] are a perfect pairing to their existing sound",[107] while some critics said that the album's "formulaic approach lacks surprise".[105] A music video featuring DJ Shadow debuted on YouTube on 6 January. Remix album Butterfly 3001 was released on 21 January, featuring 21 remixes of Butterfly 3000 songs.[108][109]

In February, the band announced a three-hour marathon set in Melbourne, naming the one-off show Return of the Curse of Timeland, set to take place on 5 March.[110] Made in Timeland could be bought at the show, and was made available on the band's website the same day.[111]

On 8 March, the band announced their 20th studio album, Omnium Gatherum, which was released on 22 April.[112] They also released the 18-minute track "The Dripping Tap", their longest to date, as a single.[113] Six days later on 14 March, the band released a joint EP alongside Tropical Fuck Storm titled Satanic Slumber Party. The EP originated during the recording sessions for Fishing for Fishies, during which the two groups collaborated on a jam section titled "Hat Jam". Sections of both "The Dripping Tap" and "Satanic Slumber Party" were adapted from these sessions, with a special limited-edition 12" vinyl, Hat Jam, released containing both releases.[114]

On 16 June, the band won the inaugural Environmental Music Prize with their 2020 single "If Not Now, Then When?" They were awarded $20,000 in prize money, the entirety of which was donated to The Wilderness Society.[115]

On 18 June, the band posted a tweet promising three more albums by the end of 2022.[116] More details came on 12 July, when it was reported that the first two of these were "built from all six members jamming for hours", similarly to the recording process of "The Dripping Tap" from Omnium Gatherum. The later album was teased as being "something Gizzard has been working on since 2017 – the longest amount of time the band has ever spent on a single record". Mackenzie stated that "There isn't a jamming vibe on it. It's super considered, for a Gizz record. Every overdub and every part is important", and described the record as "more of a song cycle".[117]

On 15 July, the band released two additional volumes of demos on their Bootlegger program, titled Music to Eat Pond Scum To and Music To Die To. In an article announcing this release, the band shared a bit more about their next two albums, stating that they were "built from hours-long jams and then pieced together after the fact".[118]

On 5 August, the band cancelled the remaining 13 dates of their summer European tour so frontman Stu Mackenzie could return to Australia for treatment in his battle with Crohn's disease.[119]

On 1 September, the band announced that they will release three studio albums in October 2022.[120] A music video for one of their new songs, "Ice V", premiered on 7 September. Later the same day, the band revealed the titles, cover artwork and release dates for the three albums: Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms and Lava was released on 7 October, with Laminated Denim following on 12 October and Changes on 28 October.[121]

PetroDragonic Apocalypse (2023–present)

On 24 January, the band released the official live bootleg Live At Red Rocks '22. The 86-track, eight-hour release documents the band's three-night run at the titular Red Rocks Amphitheatre. Several independent labels have created physical releases of the bootleg, including a 12-vinyl boxset and a CD/cassette run.[122]

On 21 February, the band announced that they would no longer be performing at that year's Byron Bay Bluesfest in protest of the festival's booking of reggae band Sticky Fingers. "As a band and as human beings we stand against misogyny, racism, transphobia and violence," the band wrote in a statement. "[We are] surprised and saddened to see Bluesfest commit to presenting content that is in complete opposition to these values."[123]

On 4 March, the band debuted a new song "Gila Monster" during a live performance in Tilburg in the Netherlands,[124] which was played several more times during the European tour. The band completed an Australian tour later that month, which also featured "Gila Monster" on the setlist.[125]

On 12 April, the band were announced as part of the 2023 Splendour in the Grass line-up.[126]

On 7 May, the band announced their upcoming 24th studio album, PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of Planet Earth and the Beginning of Merciless Damnation via Instagram.[127][128]

According to bassist Lucas Harwood, PetroDragonic Apocalypse will be one of two upcoming albums that will have a "Yin and Yang" concept, stating that they are "going to be very different sounding to each other, but we’re going to try to make them complement each other".[129] A day prior to the album's pre-order the band released the track listing for the album via their gizzymail email updates. With news sites such as Spin confirming it a day later along with track times for all the songs on the album. [130] The album’s first single, “Gila Monster”, was released alongside a music video an hour before the album pre-order opened on May 16. PetroDragonic Apocalypse was released on 16 June.[131]

Over the course of the upcoming days during their tour in the United States, King Gizzard would debut three more tracks from their upcoming album. On 28 May, at Boston Calling they debuted “Converge” which was originally featured on their Demos Vol. 3 & 4 compilation (reported by Stereogum). On 1 June, at The Caverns in Tennessee they debuted "Supercell" (reported by JamBase). On 3 June, also at The Caverns they debuted "Witchcraft"; after a federal judge ruled a Tennessee law banning drag shows in public or places where children could view them as unconstitutional (which was roundly opposed by the music community of Nashville and beyond), the band were decked out in drag to celebrate Pride Night with Joey Walker telling the crowd, "This ain't no protest, baby. This is a celebration!" (reported by SPIN).

On June 6, the band released "Dragon" as a second single for the upcoming album. The next day at Red Rocks, the band debuted the sixth song from their upcoming album “ Motor Spirit”.

On June 8, the band played the album in full over the PA during the intermission between the band's two sets at Red Rocks.

Musical styles and the "Gizzverse"

 
"Crumbling Castle"
"Crumbling Castle", the almost 11-minute opener of Polygondwanaland, has been described as a psychedelic amalgamation of different styles.[132]
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The band has explored a wide range of genres, primarily melding psychedelic rock,[133][134] garage rock,[134] acid rock,[135] progressive rock,[136][137] surf rock, krautrock,[138][139] psychedelic pop,[37][140] indie rock[141] and neo-psychedelia.[142][143] Several later releases have been in heavy metal styles, in particular thrash metal and stoner metal on Infest the Rats' Nest,[144] and also sludge[145] and groove metal.[139] Folk, jazz and Tropicália have also occasionally been integrated into their sound.[138] The band wrote Butterfly 3000 as a "synth-prog" album entirely in major keys, and on Made in Timeland and Omnium Gatherum, the band also explored rap for the first time.[139] In describing their style, Chris DeVille of Stereogum wrote, "It's a rare group that can convincingly blur the lines between Phish, Neu!, King Crimson, and the Osees while never sounding like anything less than themselves."[8]

 
King Gizzard's microtonal music was in part inspired by the bağlama.

Unusual in Western rock music, starting in 2017 with album Flying Microtonal Banana, the band have experimented with microtonal music using custom built guitars in 24 TET tuning, as well as several other modified instruments.[48][146] This was inspired by Middle Eastern and Turkish music, including Anatolian rock, and their customised guitars were modelled off the bağlama.[48][147][148] Mackenzie described it as "kind of a Dorian mode with a half flat sixth and a half flat second, because that was the way my baglama was fretted".[48] After Flying Microtonal Banana, the band went on to create two more albums utilising this scale – K.G. and L.W. – while also utilising it in other one-off songs.[149] Many of the band's songs feature unusual time signatures, such as 7/8 and 5/4, and frequent time signature changes.[150][151] Their albums Polygondwanaland and Butterfly 3000 feature polyrhythms and polymeters.[152][153]

Many of the band's releases are based on a unique concept, yet share lyrical themes and feature characters that form a recurring cast, the most frequent being Han-Tyumi, a cyborg character who appears across multiple albums. Their songs also tell stories of people-vultures, bushrangers and Balrogs, as well as "lightning gods, flesh-eating beasts, sages and space-faring eco rebels".[154] Members of r/KGATLW, a subreddit dedicated to the band, popularised the term "Gizzverse" to describe the overarching narrative of their discography, about which many theories have been propagated. In a 2017 interview, Stu Mackenzie confirmed that the band's releases are all connected, saying, "They all exist in this parallel universe and they may be from different times and different places but they all can co-exist in a meaningful way". In the same interview, drummer Eric Moore joked that even prior to the band's formation, they decided how the story will end.[155]

The band's lyrics have featured environmental themes,[148] and topics have included pollution, environmental degradation and climate change,[148] particularly on the albums Infest the Rats' Nest,[156] Flying Microtonal Banana, Fishing for Fishies,[151][157] K.G. and L.W..[158] Mackenzie has said: "We've got a lot of things to fear... I spend a lot of time thinking about the future of humanity and the future of Planet Earth. Naturally these thoughts seep into the lyrics".[156] The band's lyrical themes also address political and social issues, with Walker saying: "We try not to be too didactic in how we go about it, though there probably are times where it [could] be. We try to bury it in metaphor and other shit". "Minimum Brain Size" on K.G. was inspired by the Christchurch mosque shootings.[148]

Band members

Current members

  • Stu Mackenzie – vocals, guitars, keyboards, flute, bass guitar, percussion, sitar, piano, organ, violin, clarinet, saxophone, zurna, drums
  • Ambrose Kenny-Smith – vocals, harmonicas, keyboards, percussion, piano, saxophone, guitar, organ
  • Joey Walker – guitars, vocals, bass guitar, keyboards, piano, setar, percussion
  • Cook Craig – guitars, bass guitar, piano, keyboards, percussion, vocals
  • Lucas Harwood – bass guitar, piano, keyboards, percussion, vocals
  • Michael Cavanagh – drums, percussion, vocals

Former members

  • Eric Moore – drums, management, vocals, theremin, keyboards, percussion (2010–2020)

Contributors and collaborators

Discography

Main article: King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard discography

Awards and nominations

List of awards and nominations received by King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, sorted by awards ceremony
Ceremony Year Nominee / work Award Result Ref.
AIM Independent Music Awards 2017 King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard Hardest Working Group or Artist Nominated [159]
2018 Nominated [160]
2021 Eco Wax Editions Best Creative Packaging Nominated [161]
AIR Awards 2013 12 Bar Bruise Best Independent Hard Rock or Punk Album Won [162][163]
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard Carlton Dry Global Music Grant Won
2014 Oddments Best Independent Hard Rock or Punk Album Nominated [164]
2015 I'm in Your Mind Fuzz Won [165][166]
2018 Murder of the Universe Won [167][168]
APRA Awards 2015 "Cellophane" (Stuart Mackenzie) Song of the Year Shortlisted [169]
2018 "Sleep Drifter" (Mackenzie) Shortlisted [170]
2019 "Greenhouse Heat Death" (Mackenzie) Shortlisted [171]
2020 "Self-Immolate" (MacKenzie, Michael Cavanagh, Joseph Walker) Shortlisted [172]
2023 "Magenta Mountain" Shortlisted [173]
ARIA Music Awards 2015 Quarters! Best Jazz Album Nominated [174]
2016 Nonagon Infinity Best Group Nominated [175]
Best Independent Release Nominated
Best Hard Rock/Heavy Metal Album Won
Nonagan Infinity Tour Best Australian Live Act Nominated
(Danny Cohen & Jason Galea for) King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard – "People-Vultures" Best Video Nominated
2017 Flying Microtonal Banana Best Group Nominated [176]
Murder of the Universe Best Hard Rock/Heavy Metal Album Nominated
The Lizard Wizard Gizzfest Best Australian Live Act Nominated
Sketches of Brunswick East Best Jazz Album Nominated
2019 Infest the Rats' Nest Best Hard Rock/Heavy Metal Album Nominated [177]
Fishing for Fishies Best Blues & Roots Album Nominated
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard Australian Tour 2019 Best Australian Live Act Nominated
2020 Chunky Shrapnel Best Hard Rock/Heavy Metal Album Won [178]
St Jerome's Laneway Festival Best Australian Live Act Nominated
2021 Micro Tour Nominated [179]
Australian Music Prize 2016 Nonagon Infinity Australian Music Prize Nominated [180]
2021 Butterfly 3000 Nominated
Environmental Music Prize 2022 If Not Now, Then When? Environmental Music Award Won [181]
J Awards 2014 I'm in Your Mind Fuzz Australian Album of the Year Nominated [182]
"Hot Wax" Australian Video of the Year Nominated
2016 King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard Double J Act of the Year Won [183]
"People Vultures" Australian Video of the Year Won
2019 King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard Double J Act of the Year Nominated [184]
Libera Awards 2019 King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard Libera Award for Best Live Act Nominated [185]
Reissues Campaign Marketing Genius Nominated
2020 Infest the Rats' Nest Best Metal Album Won [186]
Fishing for Fishies Best Outlier Record Nominated
2022 Official Bootlegger Series Marketing Genius Nominated [187]
Music Victoria Awards 2012 King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard Best New Talent Nominated [188]
2013 Best Band Nominated
"Head On/Pill" Best Song Nominated
2014 King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard Best Band Won
Oddments Best Album Nominated
2015 King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard Best Band Nominated
2016 Best Band Won [189]
Best Live Band Won
Nonagon Infinity Best Album Won
2017 King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard Best Band Won [190]
Best Live Act Won
"Rattlesnake" Best Song Won
2018 King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard Best Band Nominated [191]
Best Live Act Nominated
2019 Best Band Nominated [192]
Best Live Act Won
Stu Mackenzie (King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard) Best Male Musician Nominated
2020 King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard Best Band Nominated [193]
Stu Mackenzie (King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard) Best Musician Nominated
2021 King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard Best Group Nominated
Stu Mackenzie (King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard) Best Musician Nominated
2022 King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard Best Rock/Punk Work Nominated [194]
National Live Music Awards 2016 King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard Live Act of the Year Nominated [195][196]
International Live Achievement (Group) Nominated
Victorian Live Act of the Year Nominated
2017 International Live Achievement (Group) Won [197][198]
People's Choice - Live Act of the Year Nominated
2020 Stu Mackenzie (King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard) Live Guitarist of the Year Won [199]

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External links

  • Discography at Discogs
  • Band homepage

June 19, 2023
king, gizzard, lizard, wizard, australian, rock, band, formed, 2010, melbourne, victoria, band, current, lineup, consists, mackenzie, ambrose, kenny, smith, cook, craig, joey, walker, lucas, harwood, michael, cavanagh, they, known, exploring, multiple, genres,. King Gizzard amp the Lizard Wizard are an Australian rock band formed in 2010 in Melbourne Victoria 1 2 The band s current lineup consists of Stu Mackenzie Ambrose Kenny Smith Cook Craig Joey Walker Lucas Harwood and Michael Cavanagh They are known for exploring multiple genres staging energetic live shows and building a prolific discography having released 24 studio albums 15 live albums 5 compilations 3 EPs and a remix album King Gizzard amp the Lizard WizardKing Gizzard amp the Lizard Wizard performing in New York City 2019Background informationAlso known asKing GizzKing Gizzard The GizzGizzyOriginMelbourne Victoria AustraliaGenresPsychedelic rock garage rock progressive rock heavy metalYears active2010 presentLabelsFlightless Heavenly ATO Shock Castle Face KGLW Inertia MusicMembersStu MackenzieAmbrose Kenny SmithJoey WalkerCook CraigLucas Harwood ne Skinner Michael CavanaghPast membersEric MooreWebsitekinggizzardandthelizardwizard wbr comTheir second EP Willoughby s Beach and debut album 12 Bar Bruise primarily blended surf music and garage rock and were released on Flightless the band s own label Their second album a psychedelic spaghetti western titled Eyes Like the Sky features spoken word narration by Broderick Smith father of band member Ambrose Kenny Smith Float Along Fill Your Lungs released later in the year and the 2014 albums Oddments and I m in Your Mind Fuzz saw the band expand on their psychedelic sound In 2015 they drew on elements of jazz fusion and progressive rock with Quarters and also released the folk inspired Paper Mache Dream Balloon recorded almost entirely using acoustic instruments Nonagon Infinity features nine interconnected tracks that form an infinite loop and won the ARIA Award for Best Hard Rock or Heavy Metal Album 3 4 In 2017 the band fulfilled a promise to release five studio albums within the year Flying Microtonal Banana an experiment in microtonality in February the three chapter sci fi heavy metal epic Murder of the Universe in June Sketches of Brunswick East an improvised jazz collaboration with Mild High Club in August Polygondwanaland which was released into the public domain in November and Gumboot Soup in December The 2019 albums Fishing for Fishies and Infest the Rats Nest saw the band tackle environmental themes and incorporate boogie rock and thrash metal respectively into their sound In the 2020s the band released two further microtonal studio albums K G and L W and the synth based dream pop album Butterfly 3000 all released independently as well as several live albums a concert film and two compilations Eric Moore the band s second drummer and manager left the band in 2020 to focus on running the band s record label Flightless In 2022 King Gizzard released Made in Timeland their first double album Omnium Gatherum and released three further albums Ice Death Planets Lungs Mushrooms and Lava Laminated Denim and Changes in October of the same year In a 2019 study conducted by the Institute of Contemporary Music Performance King Gizzard amp the Lizard Wizard was ranked No 21 in a list of the world s hardest working musicians 5 This was earned due to the number of live shows they played from January 2018 to August 2019 totalling to 113 live performances both domestically and internationally 6 Contents 1 History 1 1 Formation early releases and 12 Bar Bruise 2010 2012 1 2 Eyes Like the Sky Float Along Fill Your Lungs Oddments and I m in Your Mind Fuzz 2013 2014 1 3 Quarters Paper Mache Dream Balloon Nonagon Infinity and Gizzfest 2015 2016 1 4 Five albums in one year 2017 1 5 Fishing for Fishies Infest the Rats Nest and reissues 2018 2019 1 6 Chunky Shrapnel K G L W and the departure of Eric Moore 2020 2021 1 7 Butterfly 3000 Made in Timeland Omnium Gatherum and three albums in one month 2021 2022 1 8 PetroDragonic Apocalypse 2023 present 2 Musical styles and the Gizzverse 3 Band members 4 Discography 5 Awards and nominations 6 References 7 External linksHistory EditThis article may contain an excessive amount of intricate detail that may interest only a particular audience Please help by spinning off or relocating any relevant information and removing excessive detail that may be against Wikipedia s inclusion policy September 2022 Learn how and when to remove this template message Formation early releases and 12 Bar Bruise 2010 2012 Edit The band members all grew up and went to school in the Deniliquin Melbourne and Geelong areas of Australia Mackenzie Moore and Walker met studying music industry at RMIT 7 with the other members being mutual friends The band started off as an informal jam band with the eventual lineup becoming Mackenzie Walker Moore Kenny Smith Cavanagh Craig and Harwood Kenny Smith was the last to enter the band in 2011 8 The band s name was created last minute Mackenzie wanted to name the band Gizzard Gizzard while another band member wanted Jim Morrison s nickname Lizard King They eventually compromised with King Gizzard amp the Lizard Wizard 9 Melbourne artist Jason Galea has created all of the band s album art and a majority of their music videos citation needed The band s first releases were two singles in 2010 Sleep Summer and Hey There Ants amp Bats and both were self released The band s next release 2011 s Anglesea was released as a four track EP on CD It is named after Anglesea the coastal town where Mackenzie grew up as well as the town where they lost a battle of the bands to punk rockers Hole in the Shoe These early releases did not become available digitally until the inclusion of their tracks on the Teenage Gizzard compilation in 2020 citation needed The band s second release of the year Willoughby s Beach was released by Shock Records on 21 October 2011 10 Beat Magazine described the nine track garage rock EP as filled to the teeth with consistently killer hooks 11 The band s first full length album 12 Bar Bruise was released on 7 September 2012 12 The 12 track garage rock album was self recorded and several tracks used unconventional recording methods for example the vocals for the album s title track were recorded through four iPhones placed around a room while Mackenzie sang into one of them 13 Eyes Like the Sky Float Along Fill Your Lungs Oddments and I m in Your Mind Fuzz 2013 2014 Edit King Gizzard amp the Lizard Wizard s second full length album Eyes Like the Sky was released on 22 February 2013 14 Described as a cult western audio book 14 the album is narrated by Broderick Smith and tells a story of outlaws child soldiers Native Americans and gun fights all set in the American frontier The album was written collaboratively by Smith and Stu Mackenzie When asked about the album s influences Mackenzie said I love Western films I love bad guys and I love Red Dead Redemption Oh and I love evil guitars 15 Mackenzie also stated in a 2020 Reddit AMA that Eyes Like the Sky was written as a response to being typecast in their previous releases a reaction that irks him to this day The band s third full length album Float Along Fill Your Lungs was released on 27 September 2013 16 King Gizzard shifted from garage rock to a more mellow folk and psychedelic sound on the eight track album 17 It also saw Eric Moore start playing drums after previously playing theremin and keyboards 18 Float Along Fill Your Lungs was followed by Oddments released on 7 March 2014 19 Over the course of the 12 track album the band takes a more melodic approach and Mackenzie s vocals are more prominent 20 Oddments has been described as being recorded through a woolen sock in an adjacent room 21 The band s fifth full length album I m in Your Mind Fuzz was released on 31 October 2014 22 The 10 track album touches on elements of fantasy 23 and lyrically delves into the concept of mind control This was the first time the band took a traditional approach to writing and recording an album the songs were written the band rehearsed together and they recorded the songs as a band in the studio 24 Pitchfork described the album as open ing with a sprint and ending with some of their best slow jams 25 In 2019 I m in Your Mind Fuzz came at No 6 on Happy Mag s list of The 25 best psychedelic rock albums of the 2010s 26 Quarters Paper Mache Dream Balloon Nonagon Infinity and Gizzfest 2015 2016 Edit Mackenzie performing in 2016 Quarters King Gizzard s sixth full length album was released on 1 May 2015 27 The album features four songs each running for 10 minutes and 10 seconds 28 making each song a quarter of the album Drawing upon jazz fusion and acid rock the album s more laid back sound was described as unlike anything they ve released before and as an album more likely to get your head bobbing and hips shaking as opposed to losing footwear in a violent mosh 29 On 17 August 2015 King Gizzard released the title track Paper Mache Dream Balloon as the lead single for the album with the same name 30 The band then published the official audio for the second single Trapdoor and released its music video on 10 November 31 Three days after on 13 November did the band release its seventh full length album Paper Mache Dream Balloon 32 33 This concept less concept album features only acoustic instruments and was recorded on Mackenzie s parents farm in rural Victoria 33 The album features a collection of short unrelated songs 33 described as mellow defuzzed psychedelia 34 It was the band s first album to be released in the United States via ATO Records 35 2015 saw the band launch Gizzfest in Melbourne a two day music festival that was held annually and toured Australia featuring both local and international acts 36 The band s eighth full length album Nonagon Infinity was released worldwide on 29 April 2016 37 Described by Mackenzie as a never ending album it features nine songs connected by musical motifs which flow seamlessly into each other with the last track linking straight back into the top of the opener like a sonic mobius strip 38 On 8 March the band released a video for the first single Gamma Knife 39 It contained a riff from the song People Vultures which premiered on 4 April 40 followed by a music video released on 6 May 41 The album received high praise from critics with Pitchfork s Stuart Berman writing that it yields some of the most outrageous exhilarating rock n roll in recent memory 42 The album also received glowing reviews from numerous other publishers Happy Mag s Maddy Brown described it as an intensely striking ferocious sound that gets the blood flowing and heart racing 43 while NME s Larry Bartleet wrote that If you wanted to you could listen to it forever in one unbroken melody 44 The band earned its first ARIA Award when Nonagon Infinity won the 2016 ARIA Award for Best Hard Rock or Heavy Metal Album Five albums in one year 2017 Edit We had this random batch of songs It was not a cohesive record at all So we thought we d split it up and split again until it became five We worked on Nonagon Infinity pretty intensely in 2015 and 2016 We came close to burning ourselves out or at least wringing each other s necks We took a break and then all these random disparate song ideas came out of that void of not recording for a little while Then we worked on everything one album at a time Stu Mackenzie November 2017 45 The band s ninth full length album Flying Microtonal Banana Explorations Into Microtonal Tuning Volume 1 was recorded in the band s own studio 46 and released on 24 February 2017 47 Originally conceived as a record to be played on the Turkish baglama a stringed instrument with microtonal frets the album was recorded using custom instruments adhering to 24 TET Flying Microtonal Banana has been described as a soaring take on microtonal music 48 Three tracks were issued in advance Rattlesnake 49 the opening track in October 2016 Nuclear Fusion in December 2016 and Sleep Drifter in January 2017 50 51 The band released a music video for Rattlesnake directed by Jason Galea 52 a video which Happy Mag s Luke Saunders described as a masterclass in hypnotism 53 Another full length album Murder of the Universe was released on 23 June 2017 54 Described by the band as a concept album to end all concepts 55 56 it is divided into three chapters The Tale of the Altered Beast and The Lord of Lightning vs Balrog both released on 30 May 2017 and Han Tyumi and the Murder of the Universe which was released on 11 April 2017 The Spill Magazine explained that the album describes the impeding doom of the world in a dark fantasy genre kind of way 57 It is narrated by Leah Senior 58 for the first two chapters and a text to speech program for the final chapter The band made their international television debut on 17 April 2017 performing The Lord of Lightning on Conan on TBS in the United States 59 King Gizzard s next full length album Sketches of Brunswick East a collaboration with Alex Brettin s psychedelic jazz project Mild High Club was released on 18 August 2017 60 Taking inspiration from Miles Davis 1960 album Sketches of Spain as well as the band s base recording location of Brunswick East in Melbourne it is a jazz improvisational album Mackenzie described the record as perhaps representing greater changes that are happening in the wider world and this is our attempt to find beauty within a place that we spend so much time referring to the constant changes in their neighbourhood 60 Polygondwanaland the fourth of the band s five 2017 albums was released into the public domain inspiring many independent labels throughout the world to issue unique versions of it King Gizzard s 12th studio album Polygondwanaland was released as a free download on 17 November 2017 The band encouraged fans and independent record labels to create their own pressings of the album stating that Polygondwanaland is FREE Free as in free Free to download and if you wish free to make copies Make tapes make CD s make records Ever wanted to start your own record label GO for it Employ your mates press wax pack boxes We do not own this record You do Go forth share enjoy 61 The album was promoted with the release of the first track Crumbling Castle on 18 October 2017 A music video created by Jason Galea accompanied its release on YouTube 62 As of March 2023 356 different versions of the album have been recorded on the physical music database Discogs 63 and it has been called the ultimate vinyl release 64 Mackenzie confirmed in early December that the fifth and final album of 2017 would be coming very very late in the year 65 Two singles were digitally released less than a week later All Is Known which had previously been performed live and Beginner s Luck an entirely new song 66 67 These singles were followed by two more The Last Oasis and Greenhouse Heat Death both released on the 20th On 30 December the band posted on Facebook that Gumboot Soup would be released the following day 68 Mackenzie explained in an interview that the songs on the album are definitely not B sides or anything They re more songs that didn t work in any of the rest of the four records or they didn t fit into any of those categories that well or they came together slightly after when those records came together 69 In December Consequence of Sound named King Gizzard amp the Lizard Wizard Band of the Year praising both the quantity and quality of their 2017 releases 69 Fishing for Fishies Infest the Rats Nest and reissues 2018 2019 Edit Throughout 2018 King Gizzard continued to perform live shows but did not release any new material Instead they re released five older records the Willoughby s Beach EP 12 Bar Bruise Eyes Like the Sky Float Along Fill Your Lungs and Oddments on CD and vinyl 70 They also released an official pressing of 2017 s Polygondwanaland 71 On 21 January 2019 the band announced on their Instagram page that new music was in the works with an image in a studio of Gareth Liddiard The Drones Tropical Fuck Storm flipping the bird as members of King Gizzard play in the background which led to some speculation about Liddiard s possible involvement in the band s new material 72 On 1 February the band put out a music video for their new single Cyboogie and released the song as a 7 inch single backed with Acarine 73 A week later they announced another North American tour 74 and a show at Alexandra Palace in London which they promised would feature a new set new songs and a whole new visual experience and described as being their biggest ever In March the band announced their 14th album Fishing for Fishies with a release date of 26 April 2019 75 A day later the band officially released and uploaded a music video for the title track to YouTube 76 Later that month the band released another single from the album Boogieman Sam 77 and on 24 April two days before the album release the band released a final single The Bird Song Two days later Fishing for Fishies was released 78 The 2019 Gizzfest never occurred With the Gizzfest taking place in 2018 the band announced on their official Instagram page that the festival would be cancelled Some fans think this was due to their heavy touring schedule Walker jokingly said on their Instagram Gizzfest is never happening again because it was always a piece of sh t I was embarrassed to be apart of sic it 79 On 9 April the band released a music video for a new song Planet B 80 During a Reddit AMA on 30 April Mackenzie confirmed that the next King Gizzard album was being made and would include Planet B but the band had not decided whether or not it would be released in 2019 The album was confirmed to be titled Infest the Rats Nest Mackenzie also said that their Gizzfest festival would be held outside of Australia for the first time in 2019 81 Infest the Rats Nest released on 16 August was entirely in a thrash metal style 82 83 At the ARIA Music Awards of 2019 Infest the Rats Nest was nominated for ARIA Award for Best Hard Rock or Heavy Metal Album 84 Chunky Shrapnel K G L W and the departure of Eric Moore 2020 2021 Edit In January 2020 the band released three live albums as downloads on Bandcamp pledging to donate 100 of the proceeds towards relief for the 2019 20 Australian bushfire season 85 Live in Adelaide 19 recorded at Thebarton Theatre on 12 July 2019 and Live in Paris 19 recorded at L Olympia on 14 October 2019 were released 10 January while Live in Brussels 19 recorded at the Ancienne Belgique on 8 9 October 2019 was released 15 January The albums sales benefit Animals Australia Wildlife Victoria and Wires Wildlife Rescue respectively 85 In the wake of the COVID 19 pandemic the band postponed their Greek Theatre and Red Rocks three hour marathon shows for later in the year The band had also produced a film to be released titled Chunky Shrapnel from a lyric of the song Murder of the Universe from the album of the same name however also due to the outbreak the initial viewing was postponed for a later date and then cancelled The film was directed by John Angus Stewart and was recorded during the band s 2019 tour in Europe 86 In April the band stated that during lockdown they had worked on new material for upcoming albums Mackenzie reported that one will be pretty chill another kind of jazzy and some of it is microtonal and the band was also experimenting with electronic music and messing around with some more polymetric stuff 87 In the same interview when asked about more live recordings Mackenzie also said that the band had recorded almost every show they played in 2019 and may release them in a similar fashion to Pearl Jam s official live bootlegs 87 June saw the release of RATTY a short documentary about the making of Infest the Rat s Nest 88 The film was made available to rent online with all proceeds going to Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation ANTAR BlaQ Aboriginal Corporation Djirra and Indigenous Social Justice Association Melbourne After 20 000 had been raised the film was then made free to watch on YouTube Later that month in celebration of Love Record Store Day the band released a limited print of eco friendly versions of 10 releases dating back to between 2014 and 2017 89 Due to the COVID 19 pandemic the band postponed the marathon shows and North American tour for a second time with the new dates being for October 2021 A statement he received from the band confirmed the new tour dates and additional confirmation that the band will release some new albums before said tour 90 Moore left the band in 2020 to focus on running Flightless On 25 August Eric Moore announced via Instagram his departure from the band as both an active member and the band s manager without citing any direct reason 91 stating he was deeply saddened by the decision and doesn t have any regrets The band further elaborated also via Instagram that he was stepping away from the band to focus solely on Flightless Records 92 On 2 October the band released two albums via Bandcamp The first Demos Vol 1 Vol 2 includes 28 demos of songs spanning the band s entire career This included older songs like Footy Footy from 12 Bar Bruise along with songs like Straws in the Wind which had only been released less than a month prior The second was a live album of the same variety as the three released in January Live in Asheville 19 which was recorded live at New Belgium Brewing Company in Asheville North Carolina on 1 September 2019 On 20 October 2020 the band teased the release of their 16th studio album K G Explorations into Microtonal Tuning Volume 2 and another live album Live in San Francisco 16 with both albums being released on 20 November Alongside this the band released the fourth single from K G Automation which was released for free on their website in a similar manner to their 2017 album Polygondwanaland In addition to the raw audio files for the song as a whole the band also included the files for separate audio channels within the song such as vocals violin clarinet and flute 93 They also released the video files for the song s music video of which the band stated If you d like to create your own music video for Automation we have supplied you with the raw video files to do so 94 All of these files require a torrent client to be installed on the user s device 95 96 In an interview with NME Joey Walker said that 2021 would be a big year of output with some of their most divisive music yet claiming Part of me thinks this is the best we ve ever done And part of me thinks it s the worst He also talked about making a sequel to Chunky Shrapnel 97 In 2020 King Gizzard amp the Lizard Wizard were listed at No 47 in Rolling Stone Australia s 50 Greatest Australian Artists of All Time issue 98 Their 17th studio album L W was released on 26 February 2021 The album is a direct sequel to the previous album K G and the third volume in the Explorations into Microtonal Tuning series 99 On 19 March 2021 the band released Live in Melbourne 21 recorded from one of their first shows since the pandemic This album became part of the band s bootleg program with accompanying video footage 100 The band s 18th full length album Butterfly 3000 was announced on 11 May The band stated that the album would be due 11 June and would have no singles leading to release 101 It was also revealed that the album had 10 tracks and was built around modular synthesizer loops The album art was to feature a cross eyed autostereogram by long time collaborator Jason Galea 102 On 29 May Live in Sydney 21 was released through the band s bootleg program the seventh live recording in the program and ninth album overall 103 A video recording of the performance was also released The band announced that they would be performing a series of five concerts at Sydney s Carriageworks Each concert would have a different pre planned setlist themed around a different style of music including acoustic jams microtonal garage rock and heavy metal 104 Butterfly 3000 Made in Timeland Omnium Gatherum and three albums in one month 2021 2022 Edit Butterfly 3000 was released on all streaming platforms on 11 June 2021 The album received generally positive reviews 105 with reviewers commending the album on its sonic adventurism 106 and describing the songs as pop oriented additions that are a perfect pairing to their existing sound 107 while some critics said that the album s formulaic approach lacks surprise 105 A music video featuring DJ Shadow debuted on YouTube on 6 January Remix album Butterfly 3001 was released on 21 January featuring 21 remixes of Butterfly 3000 songs 108 109 In February the band announced a three hour marathon set in Melbourne naming the one off show Return of the Curse of Timeland set to take place on 5 March 110 Made in Timeland could be bought at the show and was made available on the band s website the same day 111 On 8 March the band announced their 20th studio album Omnium Gatherum which was released on 22 April 112 They also released the 18 minute track The Dripping Tap their longest to date as a single 113 Six days later on 14 March the band released a joint EP alongside Tropical Fuck Storm titled Satanic Slumber Party The EP originated during the recording sessions for Fishing for Fishies during which the two groups collaborated on a jam section titled Hat Jam Sections of both The Dripping Tap and Satanic Slumber Party were adapted from these sessions with a special limited edition 12 vinyl Hat Jam released containing both releases 114 On 16 June the band won the inaugural Environmental Music Prize with their 2020 single If Not Now Then When They were awarded 20 000 in prize money the entirety of which was donated to The Wilderness Society 115 On 18 June the band posted a tweet promising three more albums by the end of 2022 116 More details came on 12 July when it was reported that the first two of these were built from all six members jamming for hours similarly to the recording process of The Dripping Tap from Omnium Gatherum The later album was teased as being something Gizzard has been working on since 2017 the longest amount of time the band has ever spent on a single record Mackenzie stated that There isn t a jamming vibe on it It s super considered for a Gizz record Every overdub and every part is important and described the record as more of a song cycle 117 On 15 July the band released two additional volumes of demos on their Bootlegger program titled Music to Eat Pond Scum To and Music To Die To In an article announcing this release the band shared a bit more about their next two albums stating that they were built from hours long jams and then pieced together after the fact 118 On 5 August the band cancelled the remaining 13 dates of their summer European tour so frontman Stu Mackenzie could return to Australia for treatment in his battle with Crohn s disease 119 On 1 September the band announced that they will release three studio albums in October 2022 120 A music video for one of their new songs Ice V premiered on 7 September Later the same day the band revealed the titles cover artwork and release dates for the three albums Ice Death Planets Lungs Mushrooms and Lava was released on 7 October with Laminated Denim following on 12 October and Changes on 28 October 121 PetroDragonic Apocalypse 2023 present Edit On 24 January the band released the official live bootleg Live At Red Rocks 22 The 86 track eight hour release documents the band s three night run at the titular Red Rocks Amphitheatre Several independent labels have created physical releases of the bootleg including a 12 vinyl boxset and a CD cassette run 122 On 21 February the band announced that they would no longer be performing at that year s Byron Bay Bluesfest in protest of the festival s booking of reggae band Sticky Fingers As a band and as human beings we stand against misogyny racism transphobia and violence the band wrote in a statement We are surprised and saddened to see Bluesfest commit to presenting content that is in complete opposition to these values 123 On 4 March the band debuted a new song Gila Monster during a live performance in Tilburg in the Netherlands 124 which was played several more times during the European tour The band completed an Australian tour later that month which also featured Gila Monster on the setlist 125 On 12 April the band were announced as part of the 2023 Splendour in the Grass line up 126 On 7 May the band announced their upcoming 24th studio album PetroDragonic Apocalypse or Dawn of Eternal Night An Annihilation of Planet Earth and the Beginning of Merciless Damnation via Instagram 127 128 According to bassist Lucas Harwood PetroDragonic Apocalypse will be one of two upcoming albums that will have a Yin and Yang concept stating that they are going to be very different sounding to each other but we re going to try to make them complement each other 129 A day prior to the album s pre order the band released the track listing for the album via their gizzymail email updates With news sites such as Spin confirming it a day later along with track times for all the songs on the album 130 The album s first single Gila Monster was released alongside a music video an hour before the album pre order opened on May 16 PetroDragonic Apocalypse was released on 16 June 131 Over the course of the upcoming days during their tour in the United States King Gizzard would debut three more tracks from their upcoming album On 28 May at Boston Calling they debuted Converge which was originally featured on their Demos Vol 3 amp 4 compilation reported by Stereogum On 1 June at The Caverns in Tennessee they debuted Supercell reported by JamBase On 3 June also at The Caverns they debuted Witchcraft after a federal judge ruled a Tennessee law banning drag shows in public or places where children could view them as unconstitutional which was roundly opposed by the music community of Nashville and beyond the band were decked out in drag to celebrate Pride Night with Joey Walker telling the crowd This ain t no protest baby This is a celebration reported by SPIN On June 6 the band released Dragon as a second single for the upcoming album The next day at Red Rocks the band debuted the sixth song from their upcoming album Motor Spirit On June 8 the band played the album in full over the PA during the intermission between the band s two sets at Red Rocks Musical styles and the Gizzverse Edit Crumbling Castle source source track Crumbling Castle the almost 11 minute opener of Polygondwanaland has been described as a psychedelic amalgamation of different styles 132 Problems playing this file See media help The band has explored a wide range of genres primarily melding psychedelic rock 133 134 garage rock 134 acid rock 135 progressive rock 136 137 surf rock krautrock 138 139 psychedelic pop 37 140 indie rock 141 and neo psychedelia 142 143 Several later releases have been in heavy metal styles in particular thrash metal and stoner metal on Infest the Rats Nest 144 and also sludge 145 and groove metal 139 Folk jazz and Tropicalia have also occasionally been integrated into their sound 138 The band wrote Butterfly 3000 as a synth prog album entirely in major keys and on Made in Timeland and Omnium Gatherum the band also explored rap for the first time 139 In describing their style Chris DeVille of Stereogum wrote It s a rare group that can convincingly blur the lines between Phish Neu King Crimson and the Osees while never sounding like anything less than themselves 8 King Gizzard s microtonal music was in part inspired by the baglama Unusual in Western rock music starting in 2017 with album Flying Microtonal Banana the band have experimented with microtonal music using custom built guitars in 24 TET tuning as well as several other modified instruments 48 146 This was inspired by Middle Eastern and Turkish music including Anatolian rock and their customised guitars were modelled off the baglama 48 147 148 Mackenzie described it as kind of a Dorian mode with a half flat sixth and a half flat second because that was the way my baglama was fretted 48 After Flying Microtonal Banana the band went on to create two more albums utilising this scale K G and L W while also utilising it in other one off songs 149 Many of the band s songs feature unusual time signatures such as 7 8 and 5 4 and frequent time signature changes 150 151 Their albums Polygondwanaland and Butterfly 3000 feature polyrhythms and polymeters 152 153 Many of the band s releases are based on a unique concept yet share lyrical themes and feature characters that form a recurring cast the most frequent being Han Tyumi a cyborg character who appears across multiple albums Their songs also tell stories of people vultures bushrangers and Balrogs as well as lightning gods flesh eating beasts sages and space faring eco rebels 154 Members of r KGATLW a subreddit dedicated to the band popularised the term Gizzverse to describe the overarching narrative of their discography about which many theories have been propagated In a 2017 interview Stu Mackenzie confirmed that the band s releases are all connected saying They all exist in this parallel universe and they may be from different times and different places but they all can co exist in a meaningful way In the same interview drummer Eric Moore joked that even prior to the band s formation they decided how the story will end 155 The band s lyrics have featured environmental themes 148 and topics have included pollution environmental degradation and climate change 148 particularly on the albums Infest the Rats Nest 156 Flying Microtonal Banana Fishing for Fishies 151 157 K G and L W 158 Mackenzie has said We ve got a lot of things to fear I spend a lot of time thinking about the future of humanity and the future of Planet Earth Naturally these thoughts seep into the lyrics 156 The band s lyrical themes also address political and social issues with Walker saying We try not to be too didactic in how we go about it though there probably are times where it could be We try to bury it in metaphor and other shit Minimum Brain Size on K G was inspired by the Christchurch mosque shootings 148 Band members EditCurrent members Stu Mackenzie vocals guitars keyboards flute bass guitar percussion sitar piano organ violin clarinet saxophone zurna drums Ambrose Kenny Smith vocals harmonicas keyboards percussion piano saxophone guitar organ Joey Walker guitars vocals bass guitar keyboards piano setar percussion Cook Craig guitars bass guitar piano keyboards percussion vocals Lucas Harwood bass guitar piano keyboards percussion vocals Michael Cavanagh drums percussion vocalsFormer members Eric Moore drums management vocals theremin keyboards percussion 2010 2020 Contributors and collaborators John Angus Stewart visuals Jason Galea visuals artwork layouts Sam Joseph live show sound engineering Jamie Wdziekonski photographer visuals Broderick Smith narration writing and co creator of Eyes Like the Sky and guest narration on Sam Cherry s Last Shot for 12 Bar Bruise Leah Senior narration for chapters 1 and 2 of Murder of the Universe and guest narration on The Castle in the Air for Polygondwanaland Alexander Brettin member of Mild High Club co creator of Sketches of Brunswick East and remixed Butterfly 3000 for Butterfly 3001 Tropical Fuck Storm co recorded the Hat Jam and Satanic Slumber Party and released the latter alongside The Dripping Tap in the Hat Jam vinyl release Discography EditMain article King Gizzard amp the Lizard Wizard discography 12 Bar Bruise 2012 Eyes Like the Sky with Broderick Smith 2013 Float Along Fill Your Lungs 2013 Oddments 2014 I m in Your Mind Fuzz 2014 Quarters 2015 Paper Mache Dream Balloon 2015 Nonagon Infinity 2016 Flying Microtonal Banana 2017 Murder of the Universe with Leah Senior 2017 Sketches of Brunswick East with Mild High Club 2017 Polygondwanaland 2017 Gumboot Soup 2017 Fishing for Fishies 2019 Infest the Rats Nest 2019 K G 2020 L W 2021 Butterfly 3000 2021 Made in Timeland 2022 Omnium Gatherum 2022 Ice Death Planets Lungs Mushrooms and Lava 2022 Laminated Denim 2022 Changes 2022 PetroDragonic Apocalypse 2023 Awards and nominations EditList of awards and nominations received by King Gizzard amp the Lizard Wizard sorted by awards ceremony Ceremony Year Nominee work Award Result Ref AIM Independent Music Awards 2017 King Gizzard amp the Lizard Wizard Hardest Working Group or Artist Nominated 159 2018 Nominated 160 2021 Eco Wax Editions Best Creative Packaging Nominated 161 AIR Awards 2013 12 Bar Bruise Best Independent Hard Rock or Punk Album Won 162 163 King Gizzard amp the Lizard Wizard Carlton Dry Global Music Grant Won2014 Oddments Best Independent Hard Rock or Punk Album Nominated 164 2015 I m in Your Mind Fuzz Won 165 166 2018 Murder of the Universe Won 167 168 APRA Awards 2015 Cellophane Stuart Mackenzie Song of the Year Shortlisted 169 2018 Sleep Drifter Mackenzie Shortlisted 170 2019 Greenhouse Heat Death Mackenzie Shortlisted 171 2020 Self Immolate MacKenzie Michael Cavanagh Joseph Walker Shortlisted 172 2023 Magenta Mountain Shortlisted 173 ARIA Music Awards 2015 Quarters Best Jazz Album Nominated 174 2016 Nonagon Infinity Best Group Nominated 175 Best Independent Release NominatedBest Hard Rock Heavy Metal Album WonNonagan Infinity Tour Best Australian Live Act Nominated Danny Cohen amp Jason Galea for King Gizzard amp the Lizard Wizard People Vultures Best Video Nominated2017 Flying Microtonal Banana Best Group Nominated 176 Murder of the Universe Best Hard Rock Heavy Metal Album NominatedThe Lizard Wizard Gizzfest Best Australian Live Act NominatedSketches of Brunswick East Best Jazz Album Nominated2019 Infest the Rats Nest Best Hard Rock Heavy Metal Album Nominated 177 Fishing for Fishies Best Blues amp Roots Album NominatedKing Gizzard amp the Lizard Wizard Australian Tour 2019 Best Australian Live Act Nominated2020 Chunky Shrapnel Best Hard Rock Heavy Metal Album Won 178 St Jerome s Laneway Festival Best Australian Live Act Nominated2021 Micro Tour Nominated 179 Australian Music Prize 2016 Nonagon Infinity Australian Music Prize Nominated 180 2021 Butterfly 3000 NominatedEnvironmental Music Prize 2022 If Not Now Then When Environmental Music Award Won 181 J Awards 2014 I m in Your Mind Fuzz Australian Album of the Year Nominated 182 Hot Wax Australian Video of the Year Nominated2016 King Gizzard amp the Lizard Wizard Double J Act of the Year Won 183 People Vultures Australian Video of the Year Won2019 King Gizzard amp the Lizard Wizard Double J Act of the Year Nominated 184 Libera Awards 2019 King Gizzard amp the Lizard Wizard Libera Award for Best Live Act Nominated 185 Reissues Campaign Marketing Genius Nominated2020 Infest the Rats Nest Best Metal Album Won 186 Fishing for Fishies Best Outlier Record Nominated2022 Official Bootlegger Series Marketing Genius Nominated 187 Music Victoria Awards 2012 King Gizzard amp the Lizard Wizard Best New Talent Nominated 188 2013 Best Band Nominated Head On Pill Best Song Nominated2014 King Gizzard amp the Lizard Wizard Best Band WonOddments Best Album Nominated2015 King Gizzard amp the Lizard Wizard Best Band Nominated2016 Best Band Won 189 Best Live Band WonNonagon Infinity Best Album Won2017 King Gizzard amp the Lizard Wizard Best Band Won 190 Best Live Act Won Rattlesnake Best Song Won2018 King Gizzard amp the Lizard Wizard Best Band Nominated 191 Best Live Act Nominated2019 Best Band Nominated 192 Best Live Act WonStu Mackenzie King Gizzard amp the Lizard Wizard Best Male Musician Nominated2020 King Gizzard amp the Lizard Wizard Best Band Nominated 193 Stu Mackenzie King Gizzard amp the Lizard Wizard Best Musician Nominated2021 King Gizzard amp the Lizard Wizard Best Group NominatedStu Mackenzie King Gizzard amp the Lizard Wizard Best Musician Nominated2022 King Gizzard amp the Lizard Wizard Best Rock Punk Work Nominated 194 National Live Music Awards 2016 King Gizzard amp the Lizard Wizard Live Act of the Year Nominated 195 196 International Live Achievement Group NominatedVictorian Live Act of the Year Nominated2017 International Live Achievement Group Won 197 198 People s Choice Live Act of the Year Nominated2020 Stu Mackenzie King Gizzard amp the Lizard Wizard Live Guitarist of the Year Won 199 References Edit Michael Hann King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard I m in Your Mind Fuzz review Music The Guardian Retrieved 29 April 2016 Patrick Emery 27 November 2014 King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard album more than a procession of songs Smh com au Retrieved 29 April 2016 Clayton Lea Tony 21 June 2017 King Gizzard amp the Lizard Wizard Murder of the Universe prog rock walks the earth once more The Irish Times Retrieved 19 April 2018 Adams Will 13 March 2017 Top 10 best King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard songs AXS Retrieved 19 April 2018 The World s Hardest Working Musicians www icmp ac uk Retrieved 2 May 2022 The World s Hardest Working Musicians www icmp ac uk Retrieved 26 April 2022 Development 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