King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Murder Of The Universe (2026 Reissue) King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

Heavenly are proud to announce limited edition vinyl reissues of classic albums by the mighty King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. Each of these albums has been pressed on black bio-vinyl wax, an environmentally friendly alternative to traditional vinyl wax. The sleeves for each album are paper casing, using no glue or plastics making them fully recyclable - should you one day decide to part with it.

Murder of the Universe is the tenth studio album by Australian psychedelic rock band King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard. Broken down into three distinct chapters, the sprawling 21-track album is concerned with the downfall of man and the death of the planet.

The album was recorded at Flightless HQ in East Brunswick, Melbourne, Australia in early 2017 and produced by the band’s Stu Mackenzie. Lit by thunderclaps and lightning, Murder Of The Universe inhabits a sonic landscape of death, decay, ossification, fossilisation and rebirth. It is a place occupied by wandering shape-shifting beasts, bleeding skies, pools of blood, great fires and mushroom clouds; a planet rent asunder by conflict.

A disorientating experience, the album hinges on three distinct sections that rise from larval beds, and whose lyrics should be carved in stone, squeezed from moss, discovered in ancient runes. All the while, a passing cast of characters imbue the tale with both human and non-human emotions.

Snippets of earlier recordings from I’m In Your Mind Fuzz and Nonagon Infinity resurface throughout like ghostly shadow forms to haunt their latest sound. In years to come, King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard will be judged not by their separate albums, but by a body of work where themes, melodies, motifs, riffs and ideas resurface and recur, each album peeling back a layer of the onion to glimpse at past and future alike.