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King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard have introduced the small print of their twenty fourth album, PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of Planet Earth and the Beginning of Merciless Damnation.
The trash-metal double LP is due for launch on June 16 through their very own label KGLW, and will probably be pressed on 13 completely different vinyl variants cut up throughout their regional Gizzverse shops. Check out the choices out there beneath.
Watch the music video for lead single, “Gila Monster”, beneath.
Speaking concerning the album, Stu Mackenzie mentioned: “We wrote a music a day, and we got here into the apply area with no riffs, no tunes, no concepts, and began from scratch. And we jammed, and recorded every little thing, and pieced the songs collectively from that. I’d sketched out the story the songs would inform, and I’d portioned it out into seven music titles, with a brief paragraph of what would occur within the music. I suppose we type of made the file backwards.
“It’s about humankind and it’s about planet Earth however it’s additionally about witches and dragons and shit,” he provides. “Lyrically, PetroDragonic Apocalypse is enjoyable on the floor, however profound in case you dig a little bit deeper. Shakespeare and the Bible had been particular inspirations for the voice of among the lyrics, which play out the album’s blackly comedic and bleakly harmful story with the very best of drama. It’s like a secondary voice on the album – it seems in every music, and it’s like phrases that had been spoken 500 years in the past, or 2,000 years in the past.”
PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of Planet Earth and the Beginning of Merciless Damnation is out there for pre-order now forward of its June 16 launch.
Tracklisting:
1. Motor Spirit
2. Supercell
3. Converge
4. Witchcraft
5. Gila Monster
6. Dragon
7. Flamethrower
8. Dawn of Eternal Night feat. Leah Senior (Audiobook, Vinyl Only)
Vinyl variants
- Petromyzon – Corona Vinyl (Dark inexperienced & silver ring impact)
- Lidless Eye – Yolk vinyl (Clear primarily based with gentle inexperienced yolk impact)
- Idiot Lizard – Propeller Vinyl (Dark inexperienced & yellow propeller impact)
- Blaze Worship – Splatter Vinyl (Yellow & orange
- Ignition Death – Marble silver & purple marble
- Flaming Dove – Marble white, yellow & purple marble
- Ice and Ash – 1x recycled black wax LP & white LP
- Flamethrower – Opaque galaxy (Orange & yellow marble opaque impact)
- Eye of Gila – Color in shade translucent (Ruby & clear color in color impact)
- Sun Mortar – Translucent galaxy (Tan & black translucent marble impact
- Burnt Pickup Truck – Opaque A facet & B facet (Blue and Brown)
- Blood Mist – Translucent galaxy (Clear & ruby translucent marble impact)
- Atomic Chaos – Heavy splatter opaque (Base of spring inexperienced with splatters of the brown, silver and apple)