No, this certainly isn't an essential release, but after the disappointing live experience in Hamburg and two rather uninteresting Dad Rock albums (I couldn't even finish listening to one whole song of each) following the brilliant electronic "Silver Cord (Extended Cut)" it just has been an awfully long dry spell, which made me feel the need to reconnect with King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard again.
KING GIZZARD AND THE LIZARD WIZARD - PetroDragonic Apocalypse Live (Bloody Metallic Buzz-Saw vinyl 2LP) (2026)
Of course there's a huge ever-growing catalogue of official Gizzard live bootlegs that surely offer more interesting content than just the live version of one studio album, but come on: "PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of Planet Earth and the Beginning of Merciless Damnation" is still cool as fuck and - to be completely honest - I was just spontanoulsy compelled to order this from Fuzz Club Records, simply because I didn't have a buzz-saw cut record in my collection yet. This shit just looks awesome.
The recording itself isn't from one single show, but a compilation of the seven album tracks from various stops of the Australians' 2024 North America tour.
The Thrash / Progressive / Psychedelic Metal epic sounds fuzzier and feels a bit looser and more Garage than the brutal precision of the studio recording, but ultimately it's of course the same material and the same fantastic energy and musicianship bringing it to life.
Again: This is not a record anyone desperately needs - and the ending with drums fading into the next track instead of the Electronic ending of "Flamethrower" is even a bit of a let-down. On the other hand however it's not a five-hundred-bucks twenty kilogram box you'll hardly listen to completely more than once in your life, it's fun and definitely nice to have.
So yeah: King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard in full metal mode, fuck yeah!
The recording itself isn't from one single show, but a compilation of the seven album tracks from various stops of the Australians' 2024 North America tour.
The Thrash / Progressive / Psychedelic Metal epic sounds fuzzier and feels a bit looser and more Garage than the brutal precision of the studio recording, but ultimately it's of course the same material and the same fantastic energy and musicianship bringing it to life.
Again: This is not a record anyone desperately needs - and the ending with drums fading into the next track instead of the Electronic ending of "Flamethrower" is even a bit of a let-down. On the other hand however it's not a five-hundred-bucks twenty kilogram box you'll hardly listen to completely more than once in your life, it's fun and definitely nice to have.
So yeah: King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard in full metal mode, fuck yeah!
