This double LP by King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard features a unique blend of art rock, ballad, and rock genres. The album comes in a cardboard sleeve with the original inner sleeve, recycled black wax, and colored vinyl. It also includes an original cover and is a first pressing edition.

The record grading is near mint (NM or M-), and the sleeve grading is also near mint (NM or M-). The album has a run time of 1 hour and 3 minutes and 55 seconds, with 33 RPM speed. The release title is "Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms and Lava," and it was manufactured in Canada. The album is in English language and has stereo audio channels.

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Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms and Lava is the 21st studio album by Australian psychedelic rock band King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, released on 7 October 2022 on KGLW.

Background and recording

On 18 June 2022, the band posted a tweet promising three more albums by the end of 2022. More details came on 12 July, when it was reported that the first two of these were "built from all six members jamming for hours", similarly to the recording process of "The Dripping Tap" from Omnium Gatherum.

The album was written during studio sessions that the band came to with very little material. Frontman Stu Mackenzie said in a statement that "All we had prepared as we walked into the studio were these seven song titles". The band also described the songs as being built around the seven Greek modes. This is also where the album got its seven-word title, with each first letter corresponding to the first letter of one of the modes: Ice – Ionian, Death – Dorian, Planets – Phrygian, Lungs – Lydian, Mushrooms – Mixolydian, and – Aeolian, Lava – Locrian.[citation needed]

Initial recordings happened over the course of seven days, with the band producing hours of jams. At the end of each day, Mackenzie would take those jams and assemble them into songs, from which the band would later add overdubs, additional instrumentation, and finally write the lyrics as a group.

Release

A music video for "Ice V" premiered on 7 September. It was directed by Danny Cohen. Later the same day, the band revealed the titles, cover artwork, and release dates for their next three albums: Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms and Lava would be released on 7 October; Laminated Denim on 12 October; and Changes on 28 October. On 4 October, a music video, directed by SPOD, was released for "Iron Lung", the second single from the album. The same day as the single release, the band debuted another cut off the album, "Magma", at a concert in Portland, Oregon.

Track listing

Vinyl releases have tracks 1–2 on side A, 3–4 on side B, 5 on side C, and 6–7 on side D.

No.                         Title.                                Length

1.                             "Mycelium".                  7:36

2.                            "Ice V".                            10:16

3.                            "Magma".                       9:06

4.                             "Lava".                             6:41

5.                             "Hell's Itch".                  13:28

6.                               "Iron Lung".                9:05

7.                                "Gliese 710".             7:48

Total length:     64:00