King Gizzard & Lizard Wizard Drill Orchestral LP with ‘Deadstick’

Just a week after revealing that their upcoming album will take an orchestrical skin, productive Australian collective King Gizzard & Lizard Wizard has officially detailed their 27th album.

Set for release on June 13 via the band’s own (p) doom records, new album Phantom Island is scheduled to be a stylistic change for the genre-pulling rockers, where the ten-track album sees them using orchestral events for the first time.

Inspired by a meeting with members of Los Angeles Philharmonic, while Backstage in the Hollywood Bowl in June 2023, the sessions of King Gizzard’s 2024 album Flight B741 gave an extra batch of numbers that needed “more time and space and thoughts” and further “energy and color”, claimed guitarist and vocalist Stu Mackenzie.

With La Philharmonic in mind, Mackenzie reached out to friend, British historic keyboardist, conductor and organizer Chad Kelly, who brings a “wealth of musical attention to his chameleon -like events,” according to Mackenzie. “We come from such different worlds – he plays Mozart and Bach and uses the same harpsichord they did, and set them exactly the same way. But he is also obsessed with microtonal music and all this nerd things like me.”

Kelly’s influence can be seen in lead singles “Deadstick”, which pairs elaborate orchestrations and funky musicianship with a scattered clip directed by Guy Tyzack.

King Gizzard formed in Melbourne, Australia in 2010 and quickly became one of the country’s most productive groups, with both 2017 and 2022 watching the band release five albums within a year.

Despite their extensive output, the band has not yet stopped the charts in their homeland (though they would hit # 2 on four separate occasions). In the US, the band peaked at No. 64 on Billboard 200 with 2019’s Attack the rats’ nestWhile their Glupske Fanbase has also seen most of their release card on the top album sales card.

In January, King Gizzard was also listed on the set -up to the 2025 edition of Bonnaroo and performed three sets over three days as part of the initial ROO stay. This stay coincides with the release of Phantom Island on June 13 and followed by a number of American tour dates, where the band gets along with another 29-piece orchestra in each city.

Their American Run will also include an independent “Rock ‘N Roll Show” in New York on August 2nd and will wrap in Colorado later that month with the band’s own three-day vision festival.

King Gizzard & Lizard Wizard 2025 US Tour -Datos

13-15 June-Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival, Manchester, TN
July 28 – TD Pavilion in Mann, Philadelphia, Pa (M/ Chamber Orchestra in Philadelphia)
July 30 – Westville Music Bowl, New Haven, CT (W/ Orchestra of St. Luke’s)
1 August – Forest Hills Stadium, Forest Hills, New (M/ Orchestra by St. Luke’s)
August 2nd – Forest Hills Stadium, Forest Hills, New
August 4 – Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, MD (M/ National Symphony Orchestra)
6 August – Ravinia Festival, Highland Park, IL (W/ Chicago Philharmonic)
8 August – Ford Amphitheatre, Colorado Springs, Co (M/ Colorado Symphony)
August 10 – Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, CA (M/ Hollywood Bowl Orchestra)
August 11 – Rady Shell in Jacobs Park, San Diego, CA (M/ San Diego Symphony Orchestra)
15.-17. August vision field by Meadow Creek, Buena Vista, Co