King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard will release Alien Metal, their 28th LP since their 2012 studio debut, later this summer on p(doom) records. The album is an outgrowth of their recent “rave shows” and follows their 2023 set The Silver Cord, which leaned in a more electronic-dance-music direction. The project’s exact release date has not been announced yet.

Alien Metal was written and recorded on a modular synthesizer set up, which King Gizzard took out on the road last year and affectionately named “Nathan.” It’s the prolific group’s first full-length effort since Phantom Island, which was issued in June of 2025, a relative eternity given the ensemble’s past output.

“It completely rewired my brain,” King Gizzard’s Stu Mackenzie said in a statement of discovering the Eurorack synthesizer format on the recommendation of fellow band member and self-described “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 announcement goes on to explain that the band spent several years working on what would eventually become Alien Metal, leading to “countless scrapped 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 further explained. “Entire albums, entire universes that were formulated, created, recorded, deleted and started again.”

The musicians finally had a breakthrough 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 resulting set is described as “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.” As Mackenzie sums up, “It sounds so crunchy, but also beautiful,” while Walker adds, “Alien Metal goes really hard, but it also goes to really interesting places. And it feels unique—it feels like us, still.”

King Gizzard will support the project during a series of rave shows this summer, including a newly announced stop at Brooklyn, NY’s Under The K Bridge Park on August 23. The LP’s lead single, “Level 5,” as well as a video directed by Hayden Somerville, were both released earlier today as well.

Here’s a look at Alien Metal’s track listing:

Sapience

Alien Metal

Superheavy, Supercritical

Kill For The Steel

Level 5

Rapid Alpha Decay

Uqt

Atomic Collapse

Here’s a look at King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard’s tour dates

08/14-16/26 – Buena Vista, CO, Field Of Vision II Festival

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)

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