King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - The Rest of 'Infest The Rats Nest' | REACTION

[@maciekwoyda870]

With age, a person refutes stereotypes in his head. After almost forty years, the myth of the big four of thrash metal has collapsed in my musical world. All thanks to less than 35 minutes of music. And it's not about the fun of comparing "Infest The Rats' Nest" to "Master of Puppets", Show No Mercy" or "Rust In Peace". Seven young Australians playing garage rock, psychedelia, fusion jazz, acid rock record completely a casually brilliant thrash metal album, without making any special noise. After all, the riff from "Self Immolate" is an absolute thrash top. I suspect that there are a lot of metal fans who will never come and hear this album. "Petro Dragonic Apocalypse. .." only confirmed my belief that "ITRN" was not a coincidence. Another brilliant metal album that I can't get rid of. It seems that there is no genre of music that KGLW won't turn into a great album. Listening their music and waiting for each new album is an exciting musical adventure.

[@neighborsue]

They are phenomenal, no matter what genre of music they play, but boy am I loving their metal!!!!

[@ricepice]

King Gizz, masters of the hard style. This is the stuff that gave me the obsession and then the rabbit hole just kept falling deeper and deeper and deeper. All hail King Gizz!!!!! Can't wait for you guys to see them live.

[@pizzarellayt]

Firstly: happy birthday to Sue! Secondly: happy Valentines Day to everybody!! And thirdly: the rest of the comment. I initially didn't really like this album on my first listen, but I wasn't really in a metal mood at the time. On my second listen, I absolutely loved it. Out of all 25 King Gizz albums, this is one of my 15 favorites. The Planet B music video sounds a lot cleaner than the album version. The album is a bit more lofi, which I think benefits the song and album as a whole. The band in the video represent humanity generally being stupid, and the bald lady that kills them represents mother nature fighting back. I dont know what the other videos represent, but the Self Immolate video has her drinking gasoline while the band spits it out, and Motor Spirit has a line about drinking gas. Now, since you've heard the whole album, I'll talk about the story. The first 4 tracks (Planet B, Mars For The Rich, Organ Farmer and Superbug) are sort of exposition. The Earth is generally in terrible condition, rich people flee to Mars, people are harvesting human organs (Organ Farmer is also a critique of the meat industry I think) and the remaining people are contracting deadly superbugs (a superbug is a type of real life virus). Interestingly, this album came out quite a while before Covid. The 2nd half of the album (Venusian 1, Perihelion, Venusian 2, Self Immolate and Hell) tell more of a story. A group of people build a spaceship called the Venusian 1 out of general junk, and set sail to Venus like the rich did Mars. Unfortunately for them, when they get close, Venus is at its perihelion (the point in a planets orbit where it is closest to the sun), and the Venusian 1 spaceship gets too close to the sun and is devoures (by the sun). Another group (whose relation to Venusian 1 is unknown) make Venusian 2 and, like V1, set sail for Venus. This group actually makes it there, but contract diseases. The phrase "self-immolate" is specifically referring to setting oneself on fire. And they'd rather die than be as ill as they are, so thats what they do. They wake up in Hell, no longer sick, and Satan gives them the task "infest the rat's nest", which is to say "kill the rich people on Mars." You can tell they don't like Elon Musk, huh. Or just billionaires in general. Glad you enjoyed! What a great album this is.

[@neighborsue]

Wow, I read this through three times!!!

[@Alex-dz2et]

Self immolate literally means setting yourself on fire

[@neighborsue]

Tragic!!!!!

[@mrme8162]

Yes! ..the boys literally set themselves on fire for our entertainment! 🔥 Fantastic album!

[@secondhandreactions]

They fried for our sins

[@jayfatty8173]

Happy Birthday, Sue! (It is late to say, but still...) The dog video is actually referenced from a director who had a little film you might know(The Poor Thing), called Yorgors Lanthimos(Who also did the MV for Radiohead, And the film the director referenced is called The Dogtooth. Thank you guys!!!!

[@neighborsue]

Thank you Jay and thank you for the extra information. I'll have to follow up on those!

[@justin_laclair]

Re-listening with you guys made me re-realize how fucking good this album is. Can't wait to see them live again!

[@secondhandreactions]

This is a fun album! Can’t wait to see them

[@khalewren2734]

The music video for Planet B is so deranged, i love it 💀

[@secondhandreactions]

Run!

[@benjaminbrown5795]

This album is a thrash masterpiece. Point-blank, period.

[@neighborsue]

True story!

[@SgtPoodleSlayer]

Superbug is an awesome song, and so crazy in retrospect. Imagine just picking a topic that goes along nicely with the apocalyptic theme - an impending epidemic for which we aren't prepared - and then BAM a few months later we get the real thing, haha. Glad you guys are still enjoying what King Gizz has to offer! They usually play a few songs from Rats' Nest since they know they are crowd favorites, though I think they said for this upcoming tour they really want to try playing songs from PetroDragonic and blending into their corresponding songs from The Silver Cord, which sounds super cool. Not sure if you're open to recommendations but I think you two would really enjoy the song Her and I (Slow Jam 2). They really expand on that song live and there are great recordings from both Red Rocks and Remlinger Farms. Or if you want some more studio goodness I can't recommend Hell's Itch enough. Can't wait until they play that song live!

[@nes8936]

2nd her & i. Maybe you could listen to the studio version followed by a live version? Live at red rocks '22 is epic!

[@neighborsue]

Sounds like a damn good plan! Thank you!!!

[@secondhandreactions]

@@nes8936 good call

[@secondhandreactions]

Definitely open to suggestion - appreciate these! ✌️

[@tillzillz]

Happy Belated, Neighbor Sue

[@neighborsue]

Thank you tillzillz!

[@mattmikes4153]

"what's organ farmer" "guess we'll find out" 😁

[@andresr1995]

You guys might like to check out RATTY, its kind of a behind the scenes of how they recorded this album! It doesn't have to be a reaction vid since its about a half hour but i thought you'd like to see it. Its on king gizz youtube channel

[@neighborsue]

Neat!!!

[@secondhandreactions]

Thanks!

[@JWL1092]

Never fails to make my day seeing you guys do more king gizz!

[@secondhandreactions]

Makes our day every time we listen to more Gizz!

[@Functionconjunction]

If you wanna know more about the story told on this album: Earth is fucked, with among other things deadly pandemics I.e. Superbug, capitalism has gone wild and the rich farm people for organs. The rich people set off to colonize mars leaving earth for the poor. The poor remaining on earth also want to leave so they build a spaceship, the venusian 1, to go to Venus. The venusian 1s crew go crazy on the way there and fly into the sun. On earth a venusian 2 is built, and it makes it to Venus. On Venus, the people who made it suffer venusian sickness, causing nausia so bad they want to set themselves on fire, so they do and die. Oh and then in Hell they go to hell and the devil sends them to Mars to fuck up the rich people, aka Infest the Rats Nest.

[@secondhandreactions]

Brilliant. Probably gonna happen. Yay humans!

[@JS-3]

i agree about ITRN! the other albums are great, but this is the album that really made me a fan of king gizzard. happy bday and happy valentine’s day!

[@neighborsue]

Thank you, JS!

[@mrme8162]

Hey guys nice reaction! If you are looking to fully check off another full album I highly recommend the rest of Murder of the Universe! This album can be broken down into 3 stories. You've seen the KEXP live version of 1) Alter Me/Altered Beast.. which leaves us with 2) The Lord of Lightning Vs Balrog (official video 13min 56s long) and 3) Han-Tyumi & The Murder of the Universe (official video 13min 03s long). I hope you enjoy! woo!

[@neighborsue]

Woooooooo!!!!

[@secondhandreactions]

Good news! We did a reaction to Alter me/Altered Beast a couple weeks ago! You can find it on our channel. Better news! We did not yet react to the other songs from this album, so we can look forward to doing those soon. Thanks for the suggestions! ✌️

[@richlr]

Highly reccomend listening front to back while reading the lyrics for this album

[@secondhandreactions]

Done.

[@dignan4]

HELL YES!!!!!! Thanks Clay and Sue!

[@secondhandreactions]

This was a fun one!

[@richardmontes387]

What shows yall going to my wife and I are going to the 3 hour marathon set in Austin hope to see yall there. Love Peace and King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard 🦎 🤘

[@secondhandreactions]

Hey- we’re going to the show in Forest Hills. We’re in the NYC area. I have a bunch of friends down in Austin. Been to ACL a bunch of times. Great city! (Although last time I was there it had gotten more crowded. Hope it stays a cool town for ya)

[@richardmontes387]

@secondhandreactions @secondhandreactions thank you and thank you for the content my wife and I love the energy yall put off and have. We really enjoy the king gizzard episodes yall still have plenty to react too haha. If I may suggest something I'd say the 3 song video with theia the silver cord and set or iron lung music video I know yall have reacted to that song but the music video is so trippy and goes so well with the song. Peace and Love

[@secondhandreactions]

@@richardmontes387 ohhh nice. Good suggestions. Thank🙏you. I botched the first reaction we did to iron lung- I would like to check out the official video, especially if it’s trippy. Maybe you know, but just an fyi- we try and premier new King gizzard reactions on Wednesdays at 9pm est. we got a good one planned this week. They’re fun if you all can make it. Lots of great people hanging in the chatroom. Love to have you two come hang out! ✌️

[@richardmontes387]

@secondhandreactions 10-4 my wife and I will be there. See you then.

[@nes8936]

Your confusion at the start of planet b is hilarious 😂

[@neighborsue]

This band blows my mind in so many different ways!

[@secondhandreactions]

lol that video was fantastic - this album is so fun. We just keep finding more layers

[@HollisLopez26]

Niiiice

[@neighborsue]

Thanks for waking up for it!!!

[@AyyyGabagool]

BRUH

[@secondhandreactions]

Yes! We did it! Bruh lets me know we're doing it right