King Gizzard Announce Album 'Entropy' and Two 2027 North American Tours

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard will release their 29th studio album, 'Entropy,' on December 4 through their own (p)doom records label, and have announced two North American tours for 2027 plus a June European run. A new single, "Rogue Wave," is out now.

Yes, the band has also named a synthesizer. It's called Nathan. Of course it is.

'Entropy' follows 'Alien Metal,' the group's 28th album and a rave-inspired record. The two albums share a fixation on Eurorack (a modular synthesizer system of cables, components and knobs that looks borrowed from a 1970s science-fiction laboratory). The band has folded its Eurorack setup — Nathan itself — into live shows, using it to push past a vocabulary that already spans psychedelic rock, thrash metal, jazz, microtonal experiments and electronic dance music.

Why two albums instead of one?

Frontman Stu Mackenzie says the group originally planned to release both records together. As sessions developed, 'Entropy' took on an identity of its own, and the musicians spent more time investigating the sounds they'd discovered. Mackenzie frames the motivation simply: making music in ways they've never tried before. 'Entropy' promises to explore the electronic territory of 'Alien Metal' from a fresh perspective.

Few bands reach album 29 still sounding excited about a new instrument, another genre, or a new way to make an audience dance. Twenty-nine albums in, they've still got more ideas than most bands have guitar picks.

What does the 2027 itinerary look like?

The first North American run opens with two nights at Los Angeles' Hollywood Forever Cemetery on August 5 and 6, then moves through the western United States and Canada. A second run begins October 6 in Dallas and ends October 22 at Chicago's Wintrust Arena.

Europe gets its turn in June, including Primavera Sound in Barcelona, two nights in Antwerp and two London concerts.

Tickets go on sale November 13 at noon ET.

European dates:

• June 5 – Barcelona, Spain – Primavera Sound
• June 8 – Toulouse, France – Le Bikini
• June 9 – Lyon / Caluire, France – Radiant – Bellevue
• June 11 – Bologna, Italy – Sequoie Music Park
• June 13 – Beekse Bergen, Netherlands – Best Kept Secret
• June 15–16 – Antwerp, Belgium – OLT Rivierenhof
• June 18 – Paris, France – Zénith – La Villette
• June 20–21 – London, UK – Eventim Apollo
• June 22 – Manchester, UK – BEC Arena Outdoors
• June 23 – Bristol, UK – Bristol Sounds, Canons Marsh Amphitheatre

North American run one:

• August 5–6 – Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Forever Cemetery
• August 7 – San Diego, CA – The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park
• August 8 – Flagstaff, AZ – Pepsi Amphitheater
• August 10 – Santa Fe, NM – Hipico
• August 18 – Daly City, CA – Cow Palace
• August 19 – Portland, OR – Venue TBA
• August 21 – Quincy, WA – The Gorge Amphitheatre
• August 22 – Vancouver, BC – Freedom Mobile Arch
• August 24 – Calgary, AB – Big Four Roadhouse
• August 25 – Saskatoon, SK – TCU Place
• August 26 – Winnipeg, MB – Burton Cummings Theatre
• August 27 – Minneapolis, MN – The Armory

North American run two:

• October 6 – Dallas, TX – Longhorn Backyard Amphitheater
• October 7 – Austin, TX – Germania Insurance Amphitheater
• October 8 – New Orleans, LA – Saenger Theatre
• October 9 – Atlanta, GA – Fox Theatre
• October 11 – Grundy County, TN – The Caverns (Above Ground Amphitheater)
• October 12 – Asheville, NC – Hellbender
• October 19 – Montreal, QC – MTELUS
• October 20 – Toronto, ON – The Theatre at Great Canadian Toronto
• October 21 – Cleveland, OH – Jacobs Pavilion
• October 22 – Chicago, IL – Wintrust Arena

Between a new album, two North American tours and a synthesizer with a name and a stage slot, King Gizzard keep finding ways to make their universe stranger. Nathan probably has a few suggestions for album 30.

By Daniel Okafor