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Apr 02, 2023

King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard to release new album this June

Set to win longest album title of 2023. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard have

Set to win longest album title of 2023.

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard have announced the details of their 24th album, PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of Planet Earth and the Beginning of Merciless Damnation.

The thrash-metal double LP is due for release on June 16 via their own label KGLW, and will be pressed on 13 different vinyl variants split across their regional Gizzverse stores. Check out the options available below.

Watch the music video for lead single, "Gila Monster", below.

Speaking about the album, Stu Mackenzie said: "We wrote a song a day, and we came into the practice space with no riffs, no tunes, no ideas, and started from scratch. And we jammed, and recorded everything, and pieced the songs together from that. I’d sketched out the story the songs would tell, and I’d portioned it out into seven song titles, with a short paragraph of what would happen in the song. I guess we kind of made the record backwards.

"It's about humankind and it's about planet Earth but it's also about witches and dragons and shit," he adds. "Lyrically, PetroDragonic Apocalypse is fun on the surface, but profound if you dig a little deeper. Shakespeare and the Bible were definite inspirations for the voice of some of the lyrics, which play out the album's blackly comedic and bleakly destructive tale with the highest of drama. It's like a secondary voice on the album – it appears in each song, and it's like words that were spoken 500 years ago, or 2,000 years ago."

PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of Planet Earth and the Beginning of Merciless Damnation is available for pre-order now ahead of its June 16 release.

Tracklisting:

1. Motor Spirit2. Supercell3. Converge4. Witchcraft5. Gila Monster6. Dragon7. Flamethrower8. Dawn of Eternal Night feat. Leah Senior (Audiobook, Vinyl Only)

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