Every member of King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard was worn drag on Saturday night (3 June), as the band ripped through another unforeseeable set at the Caverns Amphitheatre in Tennessee.
While guitar player Joey Walker mentioned that the band wasn’t opposing the state’s recent anti-drag laws (“This ain’t no protest, baby. This is a celebration!”, he said per Spin), their program occurred simply hours after a federal judge ruled that the brand-new law was unconstitutional.
“This is the first and last time you’ll ever see me onstage in shorts,” keyboardist Ambrose Kenny-Smith joked on phase, informing the audience, “Take some mental notes.” You can have a look at the video footage listed below.
During the program, King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard premiered another track from their approaching metal release, PetroDragonic Apocalypse, called Witchcraft. A Black Sabbath-influenced number, the brand-new track follows the previously-released track, Gila Monster, and reveals that the Melbourne attire are at their coolest when they get heavy.
King Gizzard aren’t the only ones accepting drag. Two weeks back, Tool singer Maynard James Keenan likewise appeared worn drag throughout the band’s heading slot at Welcome To Rockville in Florida.
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The mega celebration happened in Daytona, Florida – the state where Governor Ron DeSantis just recently signed an anti-drag costs and made it law.
Despite his persistence that wearing drag had absolutely nothing to do with Florida’s brand-new law in a recent interview, Keenan did condemn the action and said, “I believe restricting individuals’s access to anything is unreasonable.
“Good parenting permits you to teach your kids how to be affordable and factor and puzzle things out and choose on their own what the fuck they wanna see or not wanna see.”
While his drag attire was technically versus Florida law, Keenan hasn’t entered into any difficulty yet. “Nobody’s implementing it,” he said. “They simply do that and they toss it out there to fortify their base for an election year.” You can check out Keenan’s complete interview with The Messenger here.
King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard will launch their brand-new double album, PetroDragonic Apocalypse; Or, Dawn Of Eternal Night: An Annihilation Of Planet Earth And The Beginning Of Merciless Damnation, next Friday (16 June).
“When we made [Infest The] Rats Nest [released in 2019], it felt experimental,” Stu Mackenzie said in a news release. “Like, ‘Here’s this music that a few of us matured on however we’d never ever had the guts or self-confidence to actually play previously, so let’s try and see what occurs’.”
He continued, “And when we made that album we resembled, ‘Fuck, why did it take us so long to do this?’ It’s so much enjoyable to play that music, and those tunes work so well when we play them live. So we constantly had it in our minds to make another metal record.”
You can pre-order PetroDragonic Apocalypse here.
