Things are heating up in the Gizzverse.
The Australian psychedelic rock band, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, are about to embark on their first “residency” tour of the U.S., which kicks off at the Boston Calling Music Festival on May 28, before extended stops at The Caverns in Tennessee (June 1-4), Red Rocks near Denver (June 7-8), the new Salt Shed venue in Chicago (June 11-13), Remlinger Farms near Seattle (June 16-18), and a marathon show at Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles (June 21). Find ticket information for these mostly sold-out shows here. Cashortrade is another good place to buy, sell and trade face-value tickets.
Today, the band released a music video for “Gila Monster,” one of the songs on the forthcoming LP, PetroDragonic Apocalypse or Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of Planet Earth and the Beginning of Merciless Damnation.
That title is going to take at least as long (too long!) as it took me to get Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms and Lava to roll fluently off the tongue.
There’s a pre-order currently underway for the album over at kinggizzardandthelizardwizard.com. It’s apparently due out on June 16 according to this Spin story about the Murlocs’ new “Queen Pinky” video.
But let’s get back to the music video for Gila Monster, the song debuted in Tilburg, Netherlands on March 4. Check out Jam in the Stream’s coverage of that show here.
The band had been sneaking peaks of the video out the last few weeks, and they clearly were having fun.
I mean, the band appears fully robed, and I’m sure it’s not an accident that frontman Stu Mackenzie takes on the likeness of a gila monster.
A screenshot of the new “Gila Monster” music video posted on King Gizz’s Youtube channel. This angle gives Stu Mackenzie a reptilian look, doesn’t it?
The song, and video, do highlight the vocals of Ambrose Kenny-Smith, as well as some heavy axing by Joe Walker.
There’s thunder and lightning, and Stu riding a white horse through a mountain landscape with a pair of savage wolves on his tail.
After last year’s 5-LP output, I wasn’t sure how long it might be before the band released another. The last time they put out 5 albums in one year, 2017, the band didn’t release another for two years.
Combine that with a fair amount of touring (asides from the U.S. residency tour, it has scheduled a second tour of Europe this year in August) and it all suggests this band has no intention of letting up any time soon.