On Monday, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard released details about their forthcoming album, The Tale Of The Altered Beast, one of four (or five, depending on which member you listen to) albums they have promised to release this year.
The album won’t be out until June, but the band have dropped more information, including a tracklisting, a few quotes about the concept of the record, and the entire third part of the album.
The album is made up of 21 tracks divided into three separate ‘chapters’ – the third of which, ‘Han-Tyumi and the Murder of the Universe’ can be listened to/watched below.
It contains Eastern riffs, dissonant blasts of noise, monotone spoken word sections, and basically sounds like a bad acid trip – in the best possible way, of course.
“We’re living in dystopian times that are pretty scary and it’s hard not to reflect that in our music,” explains front man Stu Mackenzie. “It’s almost unavoidable. Some scientists predict that the downfall of humanity is just as likely to come at the hands of Artificial Intelligence, as it is war or viruses or climate change. But these are fascinating times too. Human beings are visual creatures – vision is our primary instinct, and this is very much a visual, descriptive, bleak record. While the tone is definitely apocalyptic, it is not necessarily purely a mirror of the current state of humanity. It’s about new non-linear narratives.”
Check out the tracklisting, and ‘Han-Tyumi and the Murder of the Universe’ below.
The Tale Of The Altered Beast
1. A New World
2. Altered Beast I
3. Alter Me I
4. Altered Beast II
5. Alter Me II
6. Altered Beast III
7. Alter Me III
8. Altered Beast IV
9. Life / Death
The Lord Of Lightning Vs. Balrog
10. Some Context
11. The Reticent Raconteur
12. The Lord Of Lightning
13. The Balrog
14. The Floating Fire
15. The Acrid Corpse
Han-Tyumi And The Murder Of The Universe
16. Welcome To An Altered Future
17. Digital Black
18. Han-Tyumi, The Confused Cyborg
19. Soy-Protein Munt Machine
20. Vomit Coffin
21. Murder Of The Universe
