King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard have announced that they will release their 29th album on December 4. Entropy, a companion album to this year’s Alien Metal will be issue by the band’s own (p)doom records label. The lead single “Rogue View” is now available.
As with Alien Metal, the new album came together through the band’s exploration with the Eurorack modular synthesizer system. The group developed much of the material on Entropy through improvisations facilitated by the system’s diodes and cables. KGLW toured with Eurorack this summer, dubbing it Nathan.
Stu Mackenzie says of Entropy’s genesis, “Of all the recordings we did with the Eurorack, there were always these two jams that felt really good, really different.” Rather than releasing this album at the same time as Alien Metal, he indicates, “Entropy began to feel like its own project, something that could stand on its own, and needed a little longer to simmer. We were like, ‘Let’s commit – let’s dig deeper, mine this sound further, and challenge ourselves a bit more. Entropy’s definitely coming from its own place.”
He adds, “Alien Metal’s tracks are 143bpm and in F sharp; Entropy’s tracks are at 160bpm and in the key of A. Entropy’s a lot faster, and has a different energy, and we leaned into a lot of different rhythmic things on this one. And where Alien Metal had a grungy dirtiness about it, Entropy is prettier, more harmonic, more cosmic.”
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard will presumably share the Entropy material (as well as whatever is yet to come from the prolific group) during two 2027 North American Tours, one beginning in August and the other in October. Tickets go on sale Friday, November 13th at 9am PT.
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard Tour Dates
(New Dates in Bold)
Sat. Jun. 5 - Barcelona, ES @ Primavera Sound
Tue. Jun. 8 - Toulouse, FR @ Le Bikini
Wed. Jun. 9 - Lyon / Caluire, FR @ Radiant - Bellevue
Fri. Jun. 11 - Bologna, IT @ Sequoie Music Park
Sun. Jun. 13 - Beekse Bergen, NL @ Best Kept Secret
Tue. Jun. 15 - Antwerp, BE @ OLT Rivierenhof
Wed. Jun. 16 - Antwerp, BE @ OLT Rivierenhof
Fri. Jun. 18 - Paris, FR @ Zénith - La Villette
Sun. Jun. 20 - London, UK @ Eventim Apollo
Mon. Jun. 21 - London, UK @ Eventim Apollo
Tue. Jun. 22 - Manchester, UK @ BEC Arena Outdoors
Wed. Jun. 23 - Bristol, UK @ Bristol Sounds, Canons Marsh Amphitheatre
Thu. Aug. 5 - Fri. Aug. 6 - Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Forever Cemetery
Sat. Aug. 7 - San Diego, CA @ The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park
Sun. Aug. 8 - Flagstaff, AZ @ Pepsi Amphitheater
Tue. Aug. 10 - Santa Fe, NM @ Hipico
Wed. Aug. 18 - Daly City, CA @ Cow Palace
Thu. Aug. 19 - Portland, OR @ TBD
Sat. Aug. 21 - Quincy, WA @ The Gorge Amphitheatre
Sun. Aug. 22 - Vancouver, BC @ Freedom Mobile Arch
Tue. Aug. 24 - Calgary, AB @ Big Four Roadhouse
Wed. Aug. 25 - Saskatoon, SK @ TCU Place
Thu. Aug. 26 - Winnipeg, MB @ Burton Cummings Theatre
Fri. Aug. 27 - Minneapolis, MN @ The Armory
Wed. Oct. 6 - Dallas, TX @ Longhorn Backyard Amphitheater
Thu. Oct. 7 - Austin, TX @ Germania Insurance Amphitheater
Fri. Oct. 8 - New Orleans, LA @ Saenger Theatre
Sat. Oct. 9 - Atlanta, GA @ Fox Theatre
Mon. Oct. 11 – Grundy County, TN @ The Caverns (Above Ground Amphitheater)
Tue. Oct. 12 - Asheville, NC @ Hellbender
Tue. Oct. 19 - Montreal, QC @ MTELUS
Wed. Oct. 20 - Toronto, ON @ The Theatre at Great Canadian Toronto
Thu. Oct. 21 - Cleveland, OH @ Jacobs Pavilion
Fri. Oct. 22 - Chicago, IL @ Wintrust Arena
Entropy Tracklist
1. Aeon
2. Heaven & Hell
3. Hard Sync
4. Rogue Wave
5. Angel
6. To Mercury…
7. Face of the Earth
8. Entropy
