PetroDragonic Apocalypse (Album Reaction)

[@iskyline1299]

1:33 - Motor Spirit 15:51 - Supercell 24:09 - Converge 34:21 - Witchcraft 45:21 - Gila Monster 52:01 - Dragon 1:06:58 - Flamethrower

[@Furao80]

My first Gizz was a friend lending me the butterfly 3000 album. He said, "These guys are awesome. I heard their other stuff is heavier, so you might like that." Turned out the cd sleeve had a minions DVD in it instead, but I found them on Spotify. lol

[@amicuscure8s]

To answer a question during Converge, Stu said Metal was the first genre of music he really got into when he was young. Joey is a huge known Tool fan and Cavs loves Motorhead. I’m sure there’s more influences than Metallica, Tool and Motörhead, but feel these are 3 of the biggest influences in this album

[@Tsureiki]

I definitely hear some Megadeth, Iron Maiden and Judas Priest in there too. Besides the ones you said, that's all I got though haha

[@bevrosity]

those seem to be the 3 big, similar sounds in this album

[@KhalidElMouloudi]

Sabbath is a huge influence too, not in petro maybe, but definitely in other albums

[@amicuscure8s]

@@KhalidElMouloudi yeah The Hungry Wolf of Fate sounds like Microtonal Sabbath for sure

[@KhalidElMouloudi]

@@amicuscure8s also superbug in rats, and most of their doom tracks

[@maxlangevelt8995]

By the way fun fact, flamethrower is about the last people alive on the ISS, and they get absolutely destroyed by the dragon

[@monoclesquid9667]

Get dragon death-rolled, idiot

[@sammyjohnson5596]

I get so emotional listening to this album. There is just so much energy behind it from start to finish. Flamethrower always makes me jump up in down in my seat. Probably a top 3 song imo

[@Zanduby]

If they don't get onto the new Furiosa (Mad Max movie) soundtrack with some of these songs... there is no justice in the world.

[@leodokardosb8207]

EXACTLY

[@Bumblin-Bun]

there is a really cool mad max fury road edit on youtube where they use motor spirt and it just fits so well

[@RideTheLightning18]

The first Gizz song I can remember hearing was 'The River' but I didn't know who they were or really like it/get it. Then I heard 'Work This Time' (obviously) when I first consciously pressed play on their Spotify and then a friend showed me 'Sense' and I much preferred their softer more psych chilled stuff which led me to listen to Paper Mache and that's when I got hooked! That was early 2018 and I've been obsessed ever since.

[@julianrudderham5857]

I’ve rewatched your polygondwanaland vid a few times because your reaction to this bands sound is outstanding. Can’t wait for this

[@MurphDawg311]

Was introduced to Gizz by the Flaming Lips back in 2014, I forget if I Heard Float Along first or something from Mind Fuzz, but it was absolutely immediate and has been an wild adventure to say the least!

[@AdamIrvine-p7u]

Elaborate? At a concert they covered Gizz in 2014? That's nuts.

[@MurphDawg311]

@@AdamIrvine-p7u Sorry I worded that weird and should have elaborated. The Lips never covered Gizz, it was more of a community trickle effect. Artists and musicians involved with the Lips also started working with Gizz, I was heavily into the Lips at the time so it didn’t take long for the Gizzy name to enter my brain space

[@Bumblin-Bun]

for anyone interested the the latin verse of dragon here it is "Hear my words, O fire dragon From the ashes I rise deeper and deeper With open wings, flashing light The dragon should appear here in the place below From the depth of ancient doctrine To the heavens above forever I invoke this spell and the dragon appears"

[@4everirishdance]

I found these guys through the omnium gatherum album because of evilest man and made the realization that a friend had introduced me to them with sense from pmdb. I loved omnium gatherum but didn't explore the breadth of their discography until I saw someone breaking down the order of least to best kglw albums. I just got sucked in and went down the rabbit hole. Was super lucky to get to see them this past summer--they are so fun live!

[@OglenStillafano]

I think they blended a bunch of the sounds of the metal bands I grew up with who also made songs about apocalypse and destruction. Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, Testament, and even some Tool elements. Yet made it their own and did it awesomely. I hadn’t listened to any of my childhood metal bands in years, so this album brought up a bit of nostalgia, but it also has some maturity that I can relate to now. I’ve listened to this album about a dozen times in the last couple weeks.

[@tjkrueger2655]

Oddly came to Gizz via Paper Mache Dream Balloon, and finally circled back to everything else over the past three years. Awesome band that somewhat mirrors my eclectic musical tastes

[@aaronrice4607]

I really love your Gizz reactions brother. Thank you.

[@Zanduby]

Someone on reddit posted a visual about all the different time signatures used in PDA. It'll blow your mind.

[@jcgrafton87]

I can't remember the first song I heard but it was the old garage rock sound and it didn't really stand out too me. Fast forward to omnium gatherum and I randomly heard Sadie sorceress. I remembered the band name because of course, and I needed to know wtf happened in between. Favorite band, seen em 3 times live already. Vinyl junkie, hantyumi enthusiast, boogy aficionado. Obsession is good for you eeeeeeyup

[@bitterbum1]

"God's dead on barren cornfields. Prepare to yield" is such a fucking LINE

[@Zanduby]

My buddy introduced me to KGLW in late 2017 right after Nonagon Infinity dropped. I went to band camp and listened to Paper Mache Dream Balloon and immediately fell in love.

[@Tsureiki]

Been waiting so long for this reaction and it didn't disappoint! It's such a great time watching and reacting live with you and the rest of the cool rooskis; I just wish I had started before you did this one! Everybody should join on Twitch to watch live and have a good time!

[@AlistairErskine]

My first gizz fix was when they released their first album and I was doing community radio and had to put it on based on the band name alone... but really it was hearing nonagon at a friend's place and my jaw constantly hitting the floor... I reckon butterfly 3000 and petrodragon are my favourites but love changes, ice death, kg/lw ... they are just so so awesome. I can't wait for their take on krautrock next

[@stewhv94]

Dragon was the first Gizz song I heard too. Then I discovered Nonagon and Mind Fuzz and, fast forward a few months later, I own over half a dozen records and they've placed themselves firmly in my top 3 favorite bands of all time.

[@Incubot5446]

My first Gizz song was Minimum Brain Size. It sounded unique and then they kept releasing new albums, and I was like "who the fuck are these guys?" Fell in love.

[@Nicopera00]

i discovered gizz with crumbling castle in clone hero and it was really great, then i search in spotify and this album was the first i listen and i fell in love with the entire album

[@TieGuyDavid]

I’m pretty late to the train but my first Gizz song was The Fourth Color. There’s something about Polygond that just opens up my brain, still my favorite album for sure.

[@walterooski]

As of today, my favorite is still Iron Lung from the KEXP set.

[@trespassenger_]

My first gizz song was Mr. Beat, I got introduced to them by a KZbinr called FUNKe, who made a video on concept albums he liked. And he mentioned a couple gizz thingys

[@benjin342]

my first time listenting to gizz was the nonagon infinity album, i was introduced to them by the youtuber Funke's video on concept albums

[@HarryWful]

Love the Tool inspired sections within this album

[@mysterioushiggs]

Dude, I only saw it for a split second, but I love your desktop wallpaper.

[@maxlangevelt8995]

I had heard Gizz before I really got into them. The song If not now then when (L.W.) and the rest of that album just sounded so interesting to me when I heard it being reacted to on Jim Newsteads KZbin channel. That song stuck to me and made me revisit that album end of summer 2022 and then nonagon got me into Gizz.

[@woodthomas14]

My first KGLW experience was the KEXP Polygondwanaland set. I was into Psychedelic Porn Crumpets at the time, which is a remarkably less exploratory band imo, and always viewed Gizz as too hard to understand (I took one look at the title of PetroDragonic Apocalypse and was like 'what the fuck'), so when I saw that video recommended to me, I saw Stu, thought 'he looks like a cool guy, maybe I'll give them another shot'. Oh how I wish I could go back and relive the moment I realised 'holy fuck what have I been missing out on'. And that was only 4 months ago lmao

[@kamilk3272]

i found Gizz by the Middle 8 channel on youtub, if i remember correctly that was after infest the rats nest and that was jsut like a intruduction of the gizzard and few words about boys, albums styles and shit like that 9amazing video with looot of info, fun facts and stuff liek that) i fall in love without hearing any whole song

[@kamilk3272]

and i need to say, your reactions are top tier dude

[@The_Room_2_Doggys_Revenge]

try Paper Mâché Dream Balloon! It's an underappreciated album that they released the same year as Nonagon Infinity (a bit before it) and it sounds totally different! Stu wanted a reason to learn the flute so they made that album : it's a bunch of chill acoustic ballads that gives campfire vibes

[@puttwatch]

First Gizz song was Robot Stop, as my friends INSISTED I listen to all of Nonagon, and I've never gone back.

[@amicuscure8s]

KZbinrooski, my first song was The River and first album was I’m In Your Mind Fuzz back in 2015 suggested from my friend Matt. Saw them live, got obsessed in 2017 with the 5 album run and saw them again that year. Now seen every Red Rocks show Live and have drank ALL THE KING GIZZ KOOLAID THERE IS

[@amicuscure8s]

It finally made it through!!!!!!!!!

[@guylewis477]

My first kinda listen was some tuber going on and on as he listened. He is a duche but I checked out gila and the sumbitch wasn't wrong. Like you Gila just hits right. The whole album is a fkn riff fest. The Latin is wild. The breakdown in Dragon is my favorite part and yes Cavanagh is on his way to being a top tier drummer. I also love their eastern theory music.

[@SmoofDizzle]

I think the first King Gizz album I heard was Nonagon Infinity. I remember seeing the album artwork and it reminding me of a d20 from DnD which I was heavily into at the time and really enjoyed all the tracks from it, so I continued listening to more of their stuff. Actually just recently listened to all of "Eyes Like the Sky" and holy crap it was so rad, it's like an old western audio book album narrated by "I believe" the father of one of the band members.

[@acidhydra101]

My first Gizz experiences were both Murder of the Universe and Sketches of Brunswick East, around the same time, last November. Since then, I listened through the rest of their discography, they became my favourite band, and I got to experience the debut of PDA firsthand, even correctly predicting that an old demo, Uncolonise, would be on the upcoming "metal album" (aka PDA, with that song becoming Converge)

[@Zanduby]

Ambrose will often have lyrics printed out for shows. He doesn't have all the songs memorized, especially the newer ones.

[@luchilenium]

The first time I heard Gizz was at a music festival here in Victoria (they went to the same university as me, but a few years before). Probably around Float Along - Fill Your Lungs era. But the first songs I remember listening to were I'm in Your Mind Fuzz and Paper Mache Dream Balloon, as my girlfriend at the time got me both for my birthday and I loved the heck out of them.

[@ezg5221]

Shoutout to Sebastian(!) for playing Trapdoor and introducing me to the band c.2015. I immediately clocked the vibe as referencing the 80s claymation show The Trap Door, which might be some of my earliest TV memories on early 00s ABC. Didn't quite get into the band until I heard Nonagon, but damn, I didn't listen to another band for 2-3 years, and since then they've released another 10 albums

[@lennybennett2922]

Introduction to Gizz was 'hot water' on the radio in Australia. Stu's 'flute phase'. Fun fact Stu was trying to learn a new instrument every year. Hence flute on I'm in your mind fuzz, theremin on polygondwanaland?, etc.

[@Holgast]

welcome to the gizzverse!

[@russodazonasul]

Casually dropping one of the best Thrash metal albums of all time, and not even being a metal band. Who do they think they are?

[@RogerLaLoutre]

My first Gizz song was Ice V. But it was waaaaaaaaay after I first heard of them. I was introduced to them, or at least to their name, with a Drawfee video. (Which I'm desperately looking for.)

[@egcowling9657]

Dont jam this one on psychedelics. I formed a plan of survival for 3 hours and then realized it was futile. Were all gunna fucking die! 😂

[@seanm241]

0:07 "thanks dwayne the rock hard johnson for the gifted sub"

[@chinacheezit7021]

my first gizzy song was crumbling castle from clone hero which is kinda insane that something completely different brought me to where i am now

[@paedu]

My first Gizz song was People Vultures. Found it in the Triple Js top 100 list of 2016. 😊

[@sora.d20]

Now I'll be waiting for your reaction to Silver cord

[@walterooski]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/mYHaaa2Kfpt8ec0 There ya go!

[@sora.d20]

@@walterooski thanks 😌

[@KhalidElMouloudi]

The thing about gizz is that they don't take themselves seriously, yet their metal is absolutely brutal. It's like what most metal bands try so hard to achieve, these guys just have fun while effortlessly achieving it. Look at Dragon's music video; it's fun and corny, a borderline parody, yet the lyrics & music are the most metal thing I've ever experienced.

[@mrme8162]

woo!

[@Gonzalezsam_]

First thing I listened to by them was their 3rd microtonal album "L.W.", so you can see I joined the party late. Tbh I had them in my radar for a long time, it wasn't until my local record shop had a copy of it on sale.

[@magma_fire_bagwan]

THANK GOD finally out of copyright hell

[@mysterioushiggs]

My first song that got me into Gizz was Robot Stop off of Nonagon Infinity

[@nigheist003]

First Gizz song was black tooth on pandora. Next was the KEXP flying banana sleep drifter!!!!!

[@barbarjinx3802]

I first hear about Gizz in a Rolling Stone interview with Trey Anastasio in 2019. Seems like so long ago bc so many albums have come out since. Try the microtonal stuff. And Fishing with Fishies is way underrated. Butterfly 3000 is the opposite of Petro Dragonic

[@Michelle_the_witch]

my first gizz song is ROBOT STOP and i found out about the band thanks to FUNKe

[@myaimistrashgaming5175]

My first gizz song was O.N.E. While I was on some brain enhancers oop 😂 and i have been obsessed since lmao

[@bevrosity]

i think my first gizz song was 'cellophane". and i wanna say i first heard of them through the angry video game nerd.

[@vulturescircle]

Watch the magma red rocks performance

[@aepneuma]

These guys love tool

[@JohnRoadsChannel]

Hello, first of all I don't really deal with English, but gonna write it from memory, second: mayus letters don't mean I'm scream or talking loud :) aaaaand,,, Nooooo man! Don't pause it! :( live the full experience at least for one complete song, and then review each other. But the real magic, if your are discover new songs of this band, the real magic enter when you play the full album unstop, and if you are brave enough, put in on repeat, NOT NECESSARY to hear it again on full, but, to know the special movement of this band... thank me later ;3

[@TheEveryDayC]

Dawn of Eternal Night is very clearly meant to be putting the world into a state of permanent, dense, blackness, in which Han-Tyumi will be "born".

[@colebradshaw6303]

First gizz song iron lung 100000/100000

[@Conekiller29]

@37:40 just play the fucking song Jesus Christ

[@spectator6656]

There ability to drown out instruments during the transitions 😤

[@jamesherndon8066]

First song was Sense

[@MrEarwicker]

Does this guy even realise the album is about motor/car/aviation/oil culture and the subsequent climate change causing the end of human kind? Also, tyre is how it's spelled down here.

[@Petesnickers]

Yeah that's not directly what it's about.

[@mayurlive]

wish pauses were between tracks. cannot enjoy the album.

[@Petesnickers]

Why? The album flows as one song

[@ElPsychoDog]

666th view lol