Listen to my favourite song from them, Witchcraft (and my favorite live version of it), while reading.
As you may have guessed by now I am a MASSIVE King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard fan. You may have clicked the link to see what the fuck it is or you got amazed that I too, love them. I will make this worthwile to both kinds.
WHAT THE FUCK IS A KING GIZZARD AND THE LIZARD WIZARD?
King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard are an australian rock band. They consist of 6 members. They've released about 26 albums as of 2011. They do MANY genres and have a really cool and complex relationship with music. But who are the 6 band members?
Stu Mackenzie - The frontman of the entire band, Is pretty weird sometimes, Writes most of the songs
Ambrose Kenny Smith - Does cool vocals, Plays the fucking harmonica because why not, Actually he does everything hes cool
Cook "Cookiedog69" Craig - Literally the fucking coolest guy ever I love him sm, He wrote The Garden Goblin hes such a goober, Mainly does bass stuff, Did a side project called Pipe-Eye
Lucas Harwood - Most people forget him, Still a cool guy tho
Joey Walker - Gay, Homosexual, Fruity, The people love him
Micheal "Cavs" Cavanagh - Fucking DRUM MACHINE, Seriously the backbone of the band, No but really he is so insane at drumming its what the fuck
Eric Moore - You MIGHT be asking "wait i thought you said there were 6 members" and you'd be right because this guy left the band in 2020 but he still played drums and was there to do cool shit aswell.
Okay thats cool and all but what about the music? ITS THE GREATEST THING EVER. King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard constantly step into new musical territory by making whatever the fuck they want. You like a genre? They probably have a song on it! Metal? PetroDragonic Apocalypse or Infest The rats Nest. Turkish House? Yeah they have that, It's called Intrasport. Its not just the genres. They love odd time signatures and polyrhythms and where it shines most is in their beautiful album known as Polygondwanaland. But what about lyrical content? Its even fucking better my friend, the lyrics portray a massive story in a thing known as the GIZZVERSE, more on that later. Ignoring the GIZZVERSE the lyrics typically talk about things ranging from Cookiedog69's dog to enviromentalism but holy shit do they have their ways with words like "GAIA SET TO SELF-DESTRUCT, BLAME ALL THOSE LAZY FOOLISH FUCKS!" goes so hard.
SO WHAT IS THE GIZZVERSE?
Okay so for the upcoming part you may or may not want to delve into Infest The Rats Nest yourself by reading the lyrics on Genius or smth bc the notations are quite neat because I'll be spoiling the plotline of it but there is all other 25* albums. BUT IF YOU CARE NOT THE GIZZVERSE IS THE COOLEST THING EVER BECAUSE YOU HAVE EVENTS OF INFEST THE RATS NEST WHERE AN ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANT VIRUS STARTS PLAUGUEING EARTH AND THE RICH ESCAPE TO MARS LEAVING EVERYONE ELSE BEHIND ON EARTH SO 2 GROUPS OF PEOPLE VENUSIAN 1 AND 2 DECIDE TO MOVE TO VENUS IN ORDER TO HIDE ASWELL BUT VENUSIAN 1 FLIES INTO A SOLAR FLARE AND DIES WHILST VENUSIAN 2 ARRIVES ON VENUS BUT THE ENTIRE PLANET IS UNINHABITABLE SO THEY SET THEMSELVES ON FIRE AND DIE AND BOTH OF THE GROUPS ARRIVE TO HELL WHERE SATAN POINTS THEM TO THE RATS NEST THE RATS BEING RICH PEOPLE SO THEY LITERALLY JUST UNLEASH A COOL LITTLE WAR AGAINST THE ENTIRETY OF RICH PEOPLE MARS. YOU CANNOT TELL ME THAT ISNT THE COOLEST THING EVER. I feel like the snippet lore of Infest The Rats Nest should entice you to check out what else they did in the gizzverse and let me tell you it gets far fucking cooler.
KING GIZZARD ALBUMS - MY FAVORITE SONGS FROM THEM, THEIR COOL QUIRKS.
Willoughby's Beach - The 1st album of King Gizzard And The Lizard wizard, Black Tooth goes kinda hard tbh.
12 Bar Bruise - The 2nd album. It keeps all the cool garage hype from Willoughby's Beach but makes it cooler.
Eyes Like The Sky - The 3rd album. Not sure if it even counts as an album but its a cool narrative story about americans or smth.
Float Along Fill Your Lungs - The 4th album. Head on pill is such a cool first song. Kind of their first psychedelic album ig?
Oddments - The 5th album. "I love, I love, my vegemite."
Im In Your Mind Fuzz - The 6th album. I FUCKING LOVE CELLOPHANE! I CAN WATCH MOVIES IN 3D! Uh Oh, Here comes Her and I (Slow Jam II)! *psychedelic rock does psychedelic things*
Quarters - The 7th album. Oh look at that funny crocodile running away from that blue hand! So silly!
Paper Mache Dream Balloon - The 8th album. The corpse that I dress should never be displayed.
Nonagon Infinity - The 9th album. It opens the door. BIG FIG WASP IS FUCKING UNDERRATED
Flying Microtonal Banana - The 10th album. The first of the microtonal trio. NUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCLEAAAAAAAAAAR FUUUUUUUUUUSIIIOOOOOOOOOOONNNNN.
Murder Of The Universe - The 11th album. The world turns to black, Digital Black.
Sketches Of Brunswick East - The 12th album. It sounds like that man has sexual relations with that spider.
Polygondwanaland - The 13th album. I BELIEVE THEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE HYPERBOLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!
Gumboot Soup - The 14th album. Its got everything! Im sleeping in.
Fishing For Fishies - The 15th album. Cyboogie is feeling depressed.
Infest The Rats Nest - Okay so Willoughby's Beach is TECHNICALLY an EP and then this is the 15th album hence the refrence in the line "FIFTEEN INFANTRY PARATROOP INTO THE PROPLYENE NEW SCENE." Anyways I really like perihelion.
K.G. - The 17th album. Its King Gizzard! Get it? The second in the microtonal trio. JOIN THE LAST MIGRATION.
L.W. - The 18th album. Its Lizard Wizard! Get it? The third in the microtonal trio. K.G.L.W. L.W. goes too hard.
Butterfly 3000 - The 19th album. Its like Paper Mache Dream Balloon 2. Everybody is catching smoke~
Made In Timeland - The 20th album. 2 songs. 15 minutes each. Ideal 30 minute timer. SMOKE AND MIRRORS!
Omnium Gatherum - The 21st album. Gumboot Soup 2. GARDEN GOBLIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNN
Ice, Death, Planets, Mushrooms, Lungs and Lava - The 22th album. I don't even know what to say. Give me the mushrooms its time to leave.
Laminated Denim - The 22nd album. The cooler Made In Timeland. Who am I if not the canary in the coal mine?
Changes - The 23rd album. Its FUNKY! I might like dancing.
PetroDragonic Apocalypse - The 24th album. Dear god. IN THE FIELDS ONCE GREEN AND GOLD, WHERE THE SUMMER'S BREEZE WAS BOLD.
The Silver Cord - The 25th album. Pretty divisive ig? THE CLOCK HAS TICKED ITS FINAL TOCK, A BARREN LIFELESS ROCK!
Flight b741 - The 26th album. MERICA!!! I dont even know what my favourite here...
Flight b741 2: The orchestral boogaloo - coming soon