King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - “Infest The Rats’ Nest” Out Now!

“King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard are the future of rock music we’ve been waiting for." - Utimate Guitar   The planet is in trouble. Dire trouble. But fear not: Melbourne seven-piece King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard return to save us all, this time armed only with blast beats, an arsenal of well-oiled guitars that are locked and loaded, and a desire to melt faces clean off. Their fifteenth studio album, Infest The Rats’ Nest, is by far The Gizz’s hardest and heaviest album to date. How metal is it? Very Metal. Maybe even more. Released just six months after the uplifting blues-rock boogie and deep electro explorations of Fishing For Fishes and drawing on the mid/late 1980s golden period of thrash metal - Metallica and Slayer, certainly, but also lesser-cited bands such as Exodus, Kreator and Overkill - Infest The Rats’ Nest sees a wholly unexpected creative detour into new sonic terrain.

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“In year 4 there was an older kid who was into Rammstein,” explains Stu of his early discover discovery of metal’s extremities. “I made friends with him and we put together a performance at our school assembly where we headbanged to ‘Du Hast’. I got whiplash, which I thought was pretty cool. That was my introduction to heavy metal, and soon Rammstein led to Metallica, Metallica led to Slayer, Slayer led to Kreator and Sodom. The German bands really kicked my ass and scared the hell out of me too. Later on, when I picked up a guitar I realized that shit was too hard to play, so I got into rock ‘n’ roll and garage. That was liberating."  Infest The Rats’ Nest is the sound of King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard scratching the thrash metal itch, fully and unequivocally. Because the stats on King Gizzard’s colorful career are stacking up fast: 14 albums in 7 years (including five in 2017 alone), 9 of them charting in the Top 20 in Australia, where they are now arguably the country’s most innovative, important and productive rock band. International critical acclaim. Headline festival appearances. And – perhaps most importantly – a fervent worldwide fanbase who share endless memes, mixes, videos, graphics, theories and discussions, all through which they explore and expand what they have termed ‘The Gizzverse’. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard are no longer simply a band, they are an organic cult. Is it vital then that they never repeat themselves, and continually surprise listeners? “I think what is important to me is that we keep ourselves interested,” concludes Stu. “So this band is a highly-selfish endeavour in that respect. I try not to worry about what others think too much, but the people around us and the people who come to our shows do wield an influence too. I think I just wanna make music all the time.”   There’s no rest for the wicked. Raise those devil’s horns and prepare the spaceships, motherfuckers.

2019 North American Tour 08/16 – Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater 08/17 – Vancouver, BC @ Harbour Event Centre 08/18 – Seattle, WA @ Paramount Theatre 08/20 – Salt Lake City, UT @ The Depot 08/21 – Denver, CO @ Mission Ballroom 08/23 – Milwaukee, WI @ Riverside Theater 08/24 – Chicago, IL @ Aragon Ballroom 08/25 – Toronto, ON @ Rebel 08/26 – Montreal, QC @ Olympia 08/27 – New Haven, CT @ College Street Music Hall 08/28 – New York, NY @ SummerStage Central Park 08/30 – Philadelphia, PA @ Franklin Music Hall 08/31 – Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club 09/01 – Asheville, NC @ New Belgium Brewing Company 09/02 – Atlanta, GA @ Tabernacle 09/03 – New Orleans, LA @ Joy Theater 09/04 – Austin, TX @ Stubb’s Austin 09/06 – Dallas, TX @ The Bomb Factory