King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard Share Album Title Track ‘Alien Metal’ + Australian Dates Announced For October

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard unveil the title track from their forthcoming 28th album, Alien Metal, which will be released later this year via p(doom) Records. This week they announced a short run of Australian dates in October, which includes a takeover of the Croxton Block Party, as well as three NSW shows.

Joining them across the weekend at the Croxton Block Party in Melbourne/Naarm are Japanese pop-punk band Shonen Knife, Northern Beaches rock & roll band C.O.F.F.I.N, Heavy Moss, the psych-pop quartet led by King Gizzard’s bassist Lucas Harwood, Byron Bay psych-rock band Babe Rainbow, alongside local favourites Public Figures, Gut Health and ORB, plus sets from Moktar and Stu Mackenzie on the Eurorack. Each night will be capped with mammoth 2.5-hour King Gizzard sets.

NSW fans will be treated to shows at Anita’s in Thirroul and Hordern Pavilion with support from Xiao Xiao, in addition to a late RAVE show at Liberty Hall.

Arguably one of the most exciting live bands on the planet right now, August will see them return to the US for their SOLD OUT Field Of Vision Festival, a run of three headline shows at New York’s Forest Hills Stadium and a ‘rave show’ in Brooklyn at Under the K Bridge Park.

Written and recorded on the modular synthesiser set-up which they took out on the road last year for their ‘rave shows’, and named ‘Nathan’ by the band, Alien Metal sees the ever shape-shifting Melbourne six-piece set the controls for the dark heart of electronic dance music. The track listing of the album is as follows:

Sapience
Alien Metal
Superheavy, Supercritical
Kill For The Steel
Level 5
Rapid Alpha Decay
Uqt
Atomic Collapse

The title track, Alien Metal, follows the first introduction to the album, with single ‘Level 5’, and its incredible accompanying video, which was directed by Hayden Somerville and features a cameo by Vince Colosimo.

Never ones to musically stand still and following explorations of everything from prog-fringed thrash metal, primitive synth-rock, down-home jam-rock hoedowns and feelgood symphonic rock on recent albums, Alien Metal grew out of last year’s ‘rave shows’ where traditional instruments were abandoned as the band gathered around an expansive modular synthesiser setup each making their own manipulations to create a mind-altering whole. And what began as an experiment soon became an obsession, inspiring one of the band’s most ambitious records to date.

“It completely rewired my brain,” said Stu Mackenzie, having discovered the possibilities of the Eurorack synthesiser format on the recommendation of fellow band member and self-confessed ’techno head of the group’ Joey Walker. “I was like, ‘I’m going to forget everything I know about music and relearn it all from scratch’.”

The album was far from straightforward to make. Over the course of several years, the band scrapped countless recordings and abandoned entire creative directions while searching for the project’s identity. “We’ve never scrapped so much material as we have for this album,” Mackenzie says. “Entire albums, entire universes that were formulated, created, recorded, deleted and started again.”

The breakthrough finally arrived during a late-night improvisation session that stretched for more than an hour. That spontaneous jam became the foundation for the entire record, with every track on Alien Metal evolving from the same source performance.

The result is a seamless, ever-shifting journey through techno, hardcore, house and jungle influences, filtered through King Gizzard’s unmistakable psychedelic lens. Pulsing rhythms, distorted textures and unexpected twists collide across a record that feels both futuristic and uniquely their own.

“It sounds so crunchy, but also beautiful,” says Mackenzie. “Alien Metal goes really hard, but it also goes to really interesting places,” adds Joey Walker. “And it feels unique – it feels like us, still.”

KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD AUSTRALIAN TOUR DATES
Oct 13 Thirroul / Dharawal @ Anita’s Theatre w/ Xiao Xiao
Oct 14th Sydney/ Gadigal @ Hordern Pavilion w/ Xiao Xiao
Oct 14th Sydney/ Gadigal @ Liberty Hall (Late RAVE Show)
Oct 17th Melbourne / Naarm @ The Croxton Block Party *
Oct 18th Melbourne / Naarm @ The Croxton Block Party#

*B3lly, Babe Rainbow, Heavy Moss, Moktar, Shonen Knife, Stu Mackenzie, Techno666

#C.O.F.F.I.N, Glyconic, Gut Health, Moktar, ORB, Public Figures

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