King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard have released their 28th album. Out today, ‘Alien Metal’ arrives via the band’s own p(doom) Records. King Gizzard’s new album “sees the ever shape-shifting Melbourne six-piece set the controls for the dark heart of electronic dance music ”Alien Metal” was written and recorded on the modular synthesiser set-up which they took out on the road last year, affectionately named “Nathan” by the band.
The album grew out of last year’s ‘rave shows’ where King Gizzard abandoned traditional instruments in favour of their modular synthesiser set-up. What began as a fun experiment grew into an obsession, inspiring one of the band’s most ambitious records to date.
At this point, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard’s new album could arrive at any moment. The prolific, ever-morphic Australian psychedelic wizards previously announced that the rave-centric “Alien Metal”, their 28th studio LP, would come out this summer, and they shared “Level 5” and the title track. The band still hasn’t announced a release date for “Alien Metal”, but the third single from that record is out today.
You have to figure that the album isn’t far behind.
The album grew out of last year’s ‘rave shows’ where King Gizzard abandoned traditional instruments in favour of their modular synthesiser set-up. What began as a fun experiment grew into an obsession, inspiring one of the band’s most ambitious records to date.
“It completely rewired my brand,” said lead singer Stu Mackenzie, who discovered the possibilities of the Eurorack synthesiser format on the recommendation of fellow King Gizzard member Joey Walker. “I was like, ‘I’m going to forget everything I know about music and relearn it all from scratch.’”
“We’ve never scrapped so much material as we have for this album,” Mackenzie explained. “Entire albums, entire universes that were formulated, created, recorded, deleted and started again.”
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard have released their ‘Alien Metal’ arrives via the band’s own p(doom) Records.
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