{"id":486387,"date":"2019-05-28T20:00:17","date_gmt":"2019-05-29T02:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=841331"},"modified":"2019-05-28T20:00:17","modified_gmt":"2019-05-29T02:00:17","slug":"hear-king-gizzard-the-lizard-wizards-heavy-new-song-self-immolate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/hear-king-gizzard-the-lizard-wizards-heavy-new-song-self-immolate\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear King Gizzard &amp; the Lizard Wizard\u2019s Heavy New Song \u2018Self-Immolate\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Screen-Shot-2019-05-28-at-9.50.13-PM-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">King Gizzard &amp; the Lizard Wizard continue to explore their metal side with new song \u201cSelf-Immolate.\u201d Over detuned, distorted guitars and pile-driving drums, co-frontman Stu Mackenzie barks out bleak imagery, pleading on the chorus, \u201cI want to be set on fire.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The song\u2019s disturbing video makes good on that request. Like the Australian band\u2019s April-issued clip for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/king-gizzard-and-the-lizard-wizard-new-song-planet-b-819510\/\">\u201cPlanet B,\u201d<\/a> another foray into metal, their latest visual shows the band members burning alive in a Satanic ritual at the hands of a menacing villain.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The two singles mark an abrupt tonal shift from the eclectic psych-rock band\u2019s most recent LP, April\u2019s <em>Fishing for Fishies<\/em>, which features the dreamy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/king-gizzard-the-lizard-wizard-new-lp-fishing-for-fishies-806841\/\">title-track<\/a> and electro-blues cut \u201cCyboogie.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">King Gizzard &amp; the Lizard Wizard will promote the album on an upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/king-gizzard-and-the-lizard-wizard-plot-north-american-summer-tour-791046\/\">North American tour<\/a> that launches August 13th in Los Angeles and runs through September 6th in Dallas, Texas. After a break, they\u2019ll launch an international run with a string of U.K. dates on September 30th in Nottingham, England.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/king-gizzard-and-the-lizard-wizard-new-song-self-immolate-video-841331\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>King Gizzard &amp; the Lizard Wizard continue to explore their metal side with new song \u201cSelf-Immolate.\u201d Over detuned, distorted guitars and pile-driving drums, co-frontman Stu Mackenzie barks out bleak imagery, pleading on the chorus, \u201cI want to be set on fire.\u201d The song\u2019s disturbing video makes good on that request. Like the Australian band\u2019s April-issued [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-486387","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-20 01:51:13","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}