Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms and Lava

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Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms and Lava is the twenty-first studio album by Australian psychedelic rock band King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, released on 7 October 2022 on KGLW. Initially inspired by the collective writing, recording and editing of the 18-minute track, "The Dripping Tap", from the band's previous studio album, Omnium Gatherum (2022), Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms and Lava was mostly recorded over the space of a week, with the six band members improvising in a different musical key and tempo each day. Described as the most "collaborative" King Gizzard album to date, lead vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Stu Mackenzie noted: "All we went in with was a tempo, a key signature, and a title. There was nothing else—no riffs, no melodies, nothing like that. We just went in there and picked up instruments and said, 'Let's go.'" At the 2023 ARIA Music Awards, the album was nominated and won the award for Best Rock Album.

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