The new King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard album has been announced, and it has a long-ass title: PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of Planet Earth and the Beginning of Merciless Damnation. In spirit, the album is a follow-up of sorts to 2019’s thrash-indebted Infest the Rats’ Nest. It’s out June 16 via the band’s label, KGLW. Check out the video for lead single “Gila Monster” below.
“When we made Rats’ Nest, it felt experimental,” singer Stu Mackenzie said in a statement. “Like, ‘Here’s this music that some of us grew up on but we’d never had the guts or confidence to really play before, so let’s give it a go and see what happens.’ And when we made that album we were like, ‘Fuck, why did it take us so long to do this?’ It’s just so much fun to play that music, and those songs work so well when we play them live. So we always had it in our minds to make another metal record.”
PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of Planet Earth and the Beginning of Merciless Damnation:
01 Motor Spirit
02 Supercell
03 Converge
04 Witchcraft
05 Gila Monster
06 Dragon
07 Flamethrower
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard:
05-28 Boston, MA - Boston Calling
06-01 Grundy County, TN - The Caverns Underground
06-02 Grundy County, TN - The Caverns Underground
06-03 Grundy County, TN - The Caverns Amphitheater
06-04 Grundy County, TN - The Caverns Amphitheater
06-07 Morrison, CO - Red Rocks Amphitheatre
06-08 Morrison, CO - Red Rocks Amphitheatre (early show)
06-08 Morrison, CO - Red Rocks Amphitheatre (late show)
06-11 Chicago, IL - The Salt Shed
06-12 Chicago, IL - The Salt Shed
06-13 Chicago, IL - The Salt Shed
06-16 Carnation, WA - Carnation Farms
06-17 Carnation, WA - Carnation Farms
06-18 Carnation, WA - Carnation Farms
06-21 Los Angeles, CA - The Hollywood Bowl
07-22 Byron Bay, Australia - Splendour in the Grass
08-10 Gothenburg, Sweden - Way Out West Festival
08-12 Piestany, Slovakia - Grape Festival
08-14 Verbier, Switzerland - Palp Festival
08-15 Cologne, Germany - E-Werk
08-16 Luxembourg, Luxembourg - Den Atelier
08-17 Saint-Malo, France - La Route du Rock
08-19 Biddinghuizen, Netherlands - Lowlands Festival
08-20 Kiewit-Hasselt, Belgium - Pukkelpop
08-21 Munich, Germany - Tonhalle
08-22 Padua, Italy - Parco Della Musica
08-24 Barcelona, Spain - Plaza Mayor de el Poble Espanyol
08-26 Torremolinos, Spain - Canela Party
08-27 Madrid, Spain - La Riviera
08-29 Toulouse, France - Le Bikini
08-30 La Rochelle, France - La Sirene
08-31 Lille, France - L’Aeronef
09-03 Sixpenny Handley, England - End of the Road Festival
