King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard formed in Melbourne, Australia in 2010 and have piled up 27-plus albums, hopping from microtonal psych to thrash metal to country — five records in 2017 alone. Nonagon Infinity (2016) is the classic starting point; PetroDragonic Apocalypse (2023) shows the heavy side. Explore King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard vinyl, CDs, and reissues at Wax Trax Records.
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard formed in Melbourne, Australia in 2010. The band has been prolific - releasing 27+ studio albums across the 2010s and 2020s, with five albums in a single year (2017) being particularly notable. They self-released the 2017 album Polygondwanaland (a microtonal psychedelic prog album) into the public domain, allowing anyone to press and distribute the album without restriction. They have explored multiple genres across their catalog - including microtonal psychedelic rock (Flying Microtonal Banana, 2017), thrash metal (Infest the Rats' Nest, 2019; PetroDragonic Apocalypse, 2023), country (Sketches of Brunswick East, 2017), and jazz fusion (Sketches of Brunswick East). Original drummer Eric Moore left in 2020 to focus on Flightless Records management.
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard's sound combines psychedelic rock, garage rock, progressive rock, neo-psychedelia, krautrock, microtonal music, thrash metal, and folk rock with extensive stylistic exploration across albums, prolific compositional output, and live extended improvisational approach.
Flightless, ATO, and KGLW pressings of the King Gizzard catalog have been issued in extensive color variant editions and limited deluxe pressings, with collector demand. Multiple official bootlegger pressings of Polygondwanaland (per the band's open-source release) have been issued by independent labels.
Listeners new to King Gizzard typically start with Nonagon Infinity (2016) or PetroDragonic Apocalypse (2023).
