KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD New album ‘Alien Metal’ Out Now!

KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD

(Photo credit: Maclay Heriot)

New album, Alien Metal, out tomorrow, FRIDAY 14th AUGUST 2026.

Field Of Vision II festival tomorrow with U.S. shows to follow & Australian dates in October.

Watch the Jason Galea directed visualiser for latest single,

‘Kill For The Steel’ HERE.

Los Angeles, CA (August 13, 2026) – King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard have announced they will be releasing their 28th album, Alien Metal, tomorrow, Friday 14th August 2026, on p(doom) records.

The Melbourne based 6-piece have previously released 3 singles from the album ‘Level 5’, ‘Alien Metal’ and ‘Kill For The Steel’.

Created and recorded using the modular synthesizer setup the band brought with them during last year’s ‘rave shows’—a system they named ‘Nathan’—the album sees them exploring the darker side of electronic dance music. The album’s track list is as follows:

Sapience

Alien Metal

Superheavy, Supercritical

Kill For The Steel

Level 5

Rapid Alpha Decay

Uqt

Atomic Collapse

(Credit: Jason Galea )

Cat. Number: PDOOM-022

Formats: LP, CD, Cassette & DL.

Pre-save / stream the album HERE.

Widely regarded as one of the most thrilling live acts in the world today, the band recently announced a run of Australian dates this October, including a takeover of the Croxton Block Party where they will curate two full days of performances.

Before then, this week marks the return of their now sold-out Field of Vision Festival, followed later this month by three headline performances at New York’s Forest Hills Stadium, as well as an additional rave show in Brooklyn. The full list of dates is below:

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard U.S. Tour Dates:

08/14-16/26 – Buena Vista, CO @ Field Of Vision II Festival (Sold Out)

08/20/26 – New York, NY @ Forest Hills Stadium (with Die Spitz, DJ Crenshaw)

08/21/26 – New York, NY @ Forest Hills Stadium (with Die Spitz, DJ Crenshaw)

08/22/26 – New York, NY @ Forest Hills Stadium (Rave Show with DāM-FunK)

08/23/26 – Brooklyn, NY @ Under The K Bridge Park (Rave Show with .VRIL)

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard AUS Tour Dates:

10/13/26 – Thirroul / Dharawal, AUS @ Anita’s Theatre w/ Xiao Xiao

10/14/26 – Sydney / Gadigal, AUS @ Hordern Pavilion w/ Xiao Xiao

10/14/26 – Sydney / Gadiga, AUSl @ Liberty Hall (Late RAVE Show)

10/17/26 – Melbourne / Naarm, AUS @ The Croxton Block Party *

10/18/26 – Melbourne / Naarm, AUS @ The Croxton Block Party #

* = support by B3lly, Babe Rainbow, Heavy Moss, Moktar, Shonen Knife, Stu Mackenzie, Techno666

# = support by C.O.F.F.I.N, Glyconic, Gut Health, Moktar, ORB, Public Figures

Never ones to musically stand still and following explorations of everything from prog-fringed thrash metal, primitive synth-rock, down-home jam-rock hoedowns and feelgood symphonic rock on recent albums, Alien Metal grew out of last year’s ‘rave shows’ where traditional instruments were abandoned as the band gathered around an expansive modular synthesiser setup each making their own manipulations to create a mind-altering whole. And what began as an experiment soon became an obsession, inspiring one of the band’s most ambitious records to date.

“It completely rewired my brain,” said Stu Mackenzie, having discovered the possibilities of the Eurorack synthesizer format on the recommendation of fellow band member and self-confessed ‘techno head of the group’ Joey Walker. “I was like, ‘I’m going to forget everything I know about music and relearn it all from scratch’.“

The album was far from straightforward to make. Over the course of several years, the band scrapped countless recordings and abandoned entire creative directions while searching for the project’s identity. “We’ve never scrapped so much material as we have for this album,” Mackenzie says. “Entire albums, entire universes that were formulated, created, recorded, deleted and started again.”

The breakthrough finally arrived during a late-night improvisation session that stretched for more than an hour. That spontaneous jam became the foundation for the entire record, with every track on Alien Metal evolving from the same source performance.

The result is a seamless, ever-shifting journey through techno, hardcore, house and jungle influences, filtered through King Gizzard’s unmistakable psychedelic lens. Pulsing rhythms, distorted textures and unexpected twists collide across a record that feels both futuristic and uniquely their own. “It sounds so crunchy, but also beautiful,” says Mackenzie.

“Alien Metal goes really hard, but it also goes to really interesting places,” adds Joey Walker. “And it feels unique – it feels like us, still.“

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard are:

Stu Mackenzie (vocals/guitar), Ambrose Kenny-Smith (harmonica/vocals/keyboards), Cook Craig (guitar/vocals), Joey Walker (guitar/vocals), Lucas Harwood (bass) and Michael Cavanagh (drums).

Album discography:

12 Bar Bruise (2012), Eyes Like the Sky (2013), Float Along – Fill Your Lungs (2013), Oddments (2014), I’m In Your Mind Fuzz (2014), Quarters! (2015), Paper Mache Dream Balloon (2015), Nonagon Infinity (2016), Flying Microtonal Banana (2017), Murder of the Universe (2017), Sketches of Brunswick East (2017), Polygondwanaland (2017), Gumboot Soup (2017), Fishing for Fishies (2019), Infest The Rats’ Nest (2019), Chunky Shrapnel (live album) (2020), K.G. (2020), L.W. (2021), Made in Timeland (2022), Omnium Gatherum (2022), Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs Mushrooms And Lava (2022), Laminated Denim (2022), Changes (2022), PetroDragonic Apocalypse (2023), The Silver Cord (2023), Flight b741 (2024), Phantom Island (2025), Alien Metal (2026).