King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard have announced their new album ‘Murder Of The Universe,’ which will be out on June 23rd via Heavenly Recordings. The album follows the release of ‘Flying Microtonal Banana,’ which came out in February this year. The album was recorded at Flightless HQ in East Brunswick, Melbourne Australia in early 2017 and produced by the band’s Stu Mackenzie.
The band have also unveiled an epic 13-minute film to ‘Chapter 3: Han-Tyumi And The Murder Of The Universe’ directed by long time collaborator Jason Galea.
Lit by thunderclaps and lightning, ‘Murder Of The Universe’ inhabits a sonic landscape of death, decay, ossification, fossilisation, rebirth. It is a place occupied by wandering shape-shifting beasts, bleeding skies, pools of blood, great fires and mushroom clouds; a planet rent asunder by conflict.
A disorientating experience, the album hinges on three distinct sections that rise from larval beds, and whose lyrics should be carved in stone, squeezed from moss, discovered in ancient runes. And all the while a passing cast of characters imbue the tale with both human and non-human emotions.
Tracklisting
A New World
Altered Beast I
Alter Me I
Altered Beast II
Altered Me III
Alter Beast III
Alter Me III
Altered Beast IV
Life / Death
Some Context
The Reticent Raconteur
The Lord Of Lightning (Pt 1)
The Lord Of Lightning (Pt 2)
The Balrog
The Floating Fire
The Acrid Corpse
Welcome To An Altered Universe
Digital Black
Han-Tyumi, The Confused Cyborg
Soy-Protein Munt Machine
Vomit Coffin
Murder Of The Universe<
Pre-orders
HVNLP140X – Glow in the dark vinyl edition with scratch and sniff sticker & booklet
HVNLP140 – Standard black vinyl editon with booklet
HVNLP140CD – CD edition with booklet
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