King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard has actually verified the title and revealed the art work for its upcoming album, and both definitely support the band’s recent claim that the task is “heavy as fuck.”
In what seems real heavy metal idea album style, the LP is called PetroDragonic Apocalypse or Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of Planet Earth and the Beginning of Merciless Damnation. No release date has actually been revealed, however a pre-order launches May 16 through the group’s Gizzverse online platform.
The art work was developed by long time partner Jason “JJ Cooljuice” Galea and is controlled by the head and neck of a dragon-like animal in the foreground and an apocalyptic, burning wasteland in the background.
Earlier today, Gizzard launched a still from the video for the album’s as-yet-untitled very first single, including group member Joey Walker shredding on a Holy Explorer guitar in a long white tunic on top of a rocky hill. A lightning strike shows up in the sky behind him.
The brand-new album is the follow-up to 3 various October 2022 releases: Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms and Lava, Laminated Denim, and Changes. Although Gizzard has yet to verify a track list, the group played a very heavy brand-new tune, “Gila Monster,” 10 times throughout its recent spring European trip, which might declare its addition on PetroDragonic Apocalypse.
Since going back to Australia last November after a substantial 2022 world trip, the band has actually been hard at work on a minimum of 2 brand-new albums, which bassist Lucas Harwood informed SPIN are “both very collaborative in different ways. They’re going to be very different sounding to each other, but we’re going to try to make them complement each other in a yin and yang kind of way. We’re all writing lyrics for both albums again, which has been fun.”
Gizzard will be back on the roadway May 28 at the Boston Calling celebration and after that begin multi-show residencies in a handful of North American cities, culminating in the band’s greatest U.S. program to date on June 21 at the 17,000-capacity Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles.
