YMMV / King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard

• Archive Panic: The band has released 23 albums since 2012, and that's not even including live albums and unreleased material. In fact, by the time you've finished reading this page, they've probably released at least three more.
• Alternative Character Interpretation: Being a tribute to the Spaghetti Western, with all the Grey-and-Gray Morality to be expected for the genre, Eyes Like The Sky is prone to this:
  • The Trapper who teaches Blue to read, write and shoot: Well-intentioned, and a rare Nice Guy within the story, or a white supremacist who attempted to teach the 'savage' out of him?
  • The Yavapai-Apache tribe. On one hand, they are seem by Blue as his true family, and certainly don't deserve the racially-charged genocide of the men of Fort Whipple. On the other hand, they are described as being racist towards both white men and Mexicans, and the other parties are the same in turn, and the only reason Blue's raised by them is because they kidnapped him from his home and killed his family.
  • 'Blue', named at birth as Miguel O'Brien, and the title character of Eyes Like The Sky could be interpreted as a child, taken from his family, only for the new one to be all killed years later, to then be indoctrinated at the military camp responsible for their grisly murders to become a Living Weapon, only to escape with one of the few survivors of said genocide, only for her to be brutally murdered and for it to be All For Nothing, causing him to be a broken shell of a man. At 17 years old. Or, alternatively, a sociopathic Boomerang Bigot who's only justified by his backstory.
• Awesome Music: Most of their work, actually! Special Mentions include all of I'm In Your Mind Fuzz, Nonagon Infinity, Flying Microtonal Banana, Polygondwanaland, Quarters, Infest the Rats' Nest and PetroDragonic Apocalypse.
• Broken Base: For the 2016 ARIA awards, when Nonagon Infinity won best Hard Rock/Heavy Metal Album. While both sides of the argument have good opinions on the band, the split occurred over whether the album qualified as hard rock or not. Detractors say that it simply wasn't heavy enough for the award and should've gone to Hellions' Opera Oblivia, which was shared by Ahren Stringer of The Amity Affliction. Supporters say that, being a lo-fi psych album, Nonagon Infinity fits into the category well and was simply better than the rest. Not helping were the angry reactions by the other candidates, especially the aforementioned Stringer (besides Hellions, who were simply happy to even be there).
  • And again with the release of Murder of the Universe. While many fans welcomed the return to Nonagon's story-line ecstatically, a loud but small minority derided it in the wake of Flying Microtonal Banana, as it was a return to an old style and theme, and insisted that the album was worse for it's coherent chapters. Fortunately the release of Polygondwanaland seems to have paved over the crack.
  • Because the band covers so many different genres, every album has its fans and detractors who prefer one style over another, with particularly divisive ones including Eyes Like the Sky, the aforementioned Murder of the Universe, Fishing for Fishies, Butterfly 3000 and Made in Timeland.
  • The band's heavy use of repetition in both their instrumentals and lyrics. While many have no issue with it, some find it overly lazy and annoying.
• Epic Riff:
  • "Rattlesnake", "Open Water", "Doom City", "Billabong Valley", "Nuclear Fusion", "Robot Stop", "Gamma Knife", "People-Vultures", "Cellophane"... Honestly, most of their input's full to the brim with this.
  • For a keyboard example, the "Lord of Lightning" leitmotif. It literally sounds like it came from a vintage Final Fantasy game.
• Fan Nickname: Australian fans often shorten the band's name to just "King Gizz".
• Funny Moments: Two words; Timeland Juice.
• Harsher in Hindsight: Due to its strong environmentalist message, Infest the Rats' Nest had the potential to collide with the trope from the get go, but "Superbug" (a song about unstoppable killer illness infecting the whole world) became a harrowing prediction of the COVID-19 pandemic which started less than four months later. When making a post cancelling their April/May tours due to the virus, the band directly linked an upload of the song, alluding to the global situation.
• Memetic Mutation: If there's one thing they do more than make epic music, it's be ridiculously memeable.
  • EGGS.
  • Vegemite, which Stu has on everything, if the memes are to be believed.
  • And rice, can't forget the rice!
  • Stu's spit (originating from a video where Cavs runs down his kit, and says that Stu spits on his cymbals 'because he's disgusting'.)
  • Cookiedawg69 (guitarist Cook Craig's gamer tag)
  • Hi I'm Ambrose! Strangers call me Kenny!
  • Eric's kick drum privileges.
  • Eric's tip for new drummers, which is, if your snare doesn't sound great, chuck a wallet on it.
  • Eric's ongoing existential crisis, and how he has only 18 months to live.
  • Eric with a gun.
  • Honestly, Eric himself might as well just count as this.
• Nausea Fuel: "Han-Tyumi and the Murder of the Universe" from Murder of the Universe, which is entirely about a cyborg building a machine to vomit for him...which engulfs the entirety of time and space.
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • The slowed down vocals from "Nuclear Fusion", the laughing in Doom City, the creepy transition from Gamma Knife to People-Vulture, etc.
  • The final song on Murder of the Universe describes the entire universe's destruction...by vomit.
  "Time is sick. Critical density. Contraction. Singularity. Everything and nothing... Life and death... Murder of the Universe"
  • "Trapdoor" from Paper Mache Dream Balloon sounds like an anxiety attack.
    • Hell, the melody was reused for the introduction of Balrog in Murder of the Universe
  • "Open Water" is a song about drowning in the middle of the ocean.
  • "Inner Cell", "Loyalty" and "Horology" from Polygondwanaland depict a rebellion against an unnamed despot. Said despot's response involves dismemberment of children, Flaying Alive and, in one particular case, kidnapping a rebel's family and gouging his eyes out.
    • Loyalty in particular shows how power hungry and terrifying the despot is, where he says that he considers himself a vengeful God willing to brutally murder thousands of men, women, and children over even the slightest inconvenience.
      "THIS IS NOT A TEST. I AM LORD. I AM DEATH."
    • The terrifyingly ambiguous ending of Polygondwanaland, and then...
    Han-Tyumi: Hello.
  • "Planet B" and "Self Immolate" from Infest the Rats' Nest. That evil Thrash Metal sound shows that this isn't the King Gizzard we heard in Nonagon Infinity or Flying Microtonal Banana. The global warming inspired lyrics are so bleak that they make you realize how fucked up the world is right now. And especially the two music videos, which involve the band members being brutally murdered by a mysterious man in a form of ritual.
• Quirky Work: King Gizzard are an Australian Psychedelic Rock band who churn out albums like breeding rabbits, pepper their material with microtones to such an extent that they use custom instruments for it, and write musically complex environmentalist songs that range in tone from languid and atmospheric to eardrum-shattering death metal. Consequently, a major part of their public image and audience appeal is just how out there they are, even when compared to other psychedelic and Progressive Rock bands.
• Spiritual Adaptation: The Altered Beast saga on Murder of the Universe, despite being named after a wholly different video game, is almost a Bloodborne Rock Opera.

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