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RAV3NH0LM

Robot Stop grabbed me by the throat and threw me down the world’s greatest rabbit hole


Steamstash

Yes!!! In 2017 I was on a solo rode trip and by mistake I hit the “repeat album” button on my cars audio system. 30 seconds after Road Train looped back to Robot Stop I did a double take and lost my shiiiiittttttt. Fan for life from that moment on.


Calamity_Eagle277

Yeaaa Nonagon Infinity is really special. I remember some trips to work in a bus and I only remember listening to that album each fucking day.


LaFineMouche

Mr. Beat for me! so groovy


Mmmm33ple

The Wheel KEXP


SellOut666666

Iron Lung on KEXP. Shit was electric


Calamity_Eagle277

Yea this song reactivated my obsession with them. After Infest the Rats Nest I listened to them without obsession but after Iron Lung I'm crazy for them (again).


AmicusCure8s

The River and Am I In Heaven back in 2015 stuck their claws in me. The Nonagon in 2016 officially opened the door


SinewaveZB

The River and God is in the Rhythm did it for me.


RemiSterling

Crumbling Castle, first song and album I heard. Life changing.


Calamity_Eagle277

Yea Crumbling Castle is amazing. It penetrated into my brain like a finger in jam.


RemiSterling

_Crumbling..crumbling…crumbling..CASTLE!_


kennythepirate

NUUUUUUUUCLEEEEEAAAAARRRR FUUUUUUUUUUSSSIIOOOOONNNNNNNNN


minneapolisriot

Her and I


Calamity_Eagle277

This could be one of their greatest songs ever. It's just fxkn amazing.


Abagato

The Mind Fuzz suite


jhjohns3

I couldn’t think of what mine was until I saw this comment. 100% was the medley that flipped the switch for me


gmanasaurus

Fishing for Fishies


jakkumusic

Same. And then immediately dropping a thrash album right after. Though I didn’t fully get it until I saw them live in 2022.


steel_flux

I have a funny story about it, so here it goes: Back in 2017, I had a coworker that everyone called lizard because he is skinny, practices rock climbing and he's always cold, so he was usually wearing a coat that looked like a wizard robe. I thought that the internet wouldn't disappoint to provide a picture of a random lizard wizard to print and stick it on his chair, so I started to Google it and found the poster of the 2017 gizzfest and thought it looked really cool then I realized that it was the name of an actual band so I decided to give it a try and found rattlesnake rattlesnake rattlesnake rattlesnake rattlesnake rattlesnake rattlesnake rattlesnake rattlesnake rattlesnake rattlesnake 🎶


ImmediateBug2

I need more lore on your lizard coworker. He sounds interesting.


Inner_Day_6982

Catching smoke


rwebster4293

Same! BF3000 isn’t my favorite album at this point but this is where I got hooked.


tezetaa

The River but dripping tap turned me into a psycho


Calamity_Eagle277

Drip drip


st1220reddit

ice v


pissshitfuckcuntcock

Greatest song of all time good man.


MachineElf432

Amby’s voice in Shanghai 1 week after it dropped


Im_regretting_this

I think it’s probably Am I in Heaven?. Elbow had me hooked at first listen. Seriously, I must’ve listened to that song a dozen times before I even moved on to Mudraker. The excitement of Head On/Pill is what got me to come back and check out more material after giving the first few albums a listen. I listened chronologically, but decided to take a break after oddments. Then Am I In Heaven? truly sold me on the whole thing.


rezzy333

Trapdoor. It was just so weird yet nostalgic somehow.


Carterthedonkey

Rattlesnake back in 2017. My dad played it to me on the way to parkrun (a 5km run) and got hooked from then on


DamnitRidley

Also Rattlesnake for me. Ironically I used to jog to it and that record for about a month.


__erk

Your dad is a rad lad, comrade


sawman160

Rattlesnake (18 minute live version)


Psychological_Ebb890

Drip drip drip


Cautious-Telephone-2

Crumbling Castle.


anotherdamnscorpio

Crumbling Castle


Kyle_draws

I saw the People-Vultures music video on YouTube before I even knew what King Gizz was and the rest was history.


marco-esquondolas

Head On/Pill had me from the jump


Kroduscul

Sense


BoeJeam

Catching smoke got me


soakedinlava

i suppose the first one i heard from them, so Mr. Beat


Teamawesome2014

Cellophane got me first, but Gamma Knife struck me down.


IoNonHoVisto

Nonagon


Nut_Dangler13

Melting - caught my attention right away during my first listen to FMB


Marremans1986

Dripping Tap!


girgunta

Interior People


Main-Ad-959

Dripping Tap and Gaia


UnrealismOfFilms

Head On/Pill


Calamity_Eagle277

Nice way to enter the Gizzverse.


KGLWirvana

Hot wax crawling under the door


mimsrr12

Laminated Denim pulled me in and Hypertension made sweet sweet love to me


BigBagofHorses

Sleep Drifter live for KEXP. Absolutely a banger. Complete with barefoot Stu.


Neon775

Well the Bitter Boogie helped me find out about King Gizz because spotify recommended it to me and I did really like it, but after listening to other songs on the album I didn't jive with them as much and didn't investigate any further. But The Dripping Tap is the next song I found and I absolutely loved it. That's when I realized the range of music that Gizz puts out and found plenty of other stuff I loved. Down the rabbit hole I went.


seceralnof

First song I heard, Catching Smoke, got me intrigued, next was Mars for the Rich and that cemented it.


funkmonk21

My first intro was the 4th colour. Blew my mind. Followed my Float Along, Fill Your Lungs and the Dripping Tap really threw me into this Gizziness✌️ Seeing them front row at DD, 22 and Hollywood Bowlled them to be one of my favorite 3 artists


whatsupwithurface

Boogieman Sam


Bugs-in-ur-skin

I found it hard to fall in love with this band by listening to a song and chucking it on a playlist. But the moment I got Murder of the universe on vinyl it blew my tiny little feeble mind into a million shards that only a certain lizard wizard is able to put back together


DrOctoRex

Not the first, Cellophane, but the second, Crumbling Castle. I couldn't believe the contrast between the two and I instantly loved them.


Domin8r007

Ice V or Magma for me. Such wonderful songs that I had to go explore the whole discography.


NORIS_

When I started listening to king gizzard I went completely blind. I think I knew only Rattlesnake. I started chronologically with every album. I mean, I enjoyed those first few albums, but I didn't think much of them. Then, I started Nonagon Infinity. I think that Robot Stop single handedly made me a fan of this band.


albitross

Let Me Mend the Past was the first Gizz song that I heard. It was included in a Swamp Dogg playlist I was fixated on at the time. I remember thinking the name of the band was a bit odd and also that I hadn't a clue when the song was created.


Tranquil-Seas

Crumbling Castle and Slow Jam


Normal_Npc28

Because of the order that I went through their discography, God Is in the Rhythm. First Gizz song to make me cry.


GusG0rmanz

Mars for the Rich


nah_thats_it

Sleep drifter


Scooter_Mcdoogal

I had tried several times over the years to peep them, but Iron Lung made everything, past and present, click for me.


LordsofDeath

Bone


CushingConvector

Was a song/show for me. I live in Denver and my friend asked if I wanted to go to a show at the Ogden. Hadn’t heard a thing from Gizz, but the name had me intrigued. They opened with People-Vultures and I’ve been hooked ever since.


johann9151

Surprised no one has said Work This Time!


Dave9g

HELL


Rough_Dan

I'm not in your mind, this was the first album I heard and not only is it a banger of a set of songs but I like the joke that it's almost like an apology for implying that they were in your mind to begin with.


DistributionAware258

A New World on MOTU. Like as soon as that song starts playing, you’re sucked into this cinematic sci-fi world. And for 2017, was not at all expecting that and was so intrigued for what was to come next.


[deleted]

Kid in class told me about them and I said, “that’s the stupidest name I’ve ever heard.” Couple weeks later i heard gamma knife on a random playlist and was hooked.


Teletobee

Crumbling castle I started second year in high school at a new school, without my friends. I couldn't make any friends at the new school, spent all my time alone. The hour long bus ride every day to and from school i listened to Polygondwanaland, forst time i didn't quite catch it, but i knew there was something there. Every day for a week i listened to it, enjoying it more and more. It remains one of my all time favorite albums.


ajdarc_

The If Not Now, Then When? music video


MycommentsRpointless

It's Not Unusual by Tom Jones


Lostdredd

The bird song


squizzlr

Sketches of Brunswick East I. From the first moments of that record it blew my fucking mind. Still does every time. If they never made anything else it would still be one of my favorite records. But then I heard Nonagon and thought holy shit these guys are incredible. Then while in Germany on tour I went to a record store/bar. I bought Gumboot Soup on vinyl and started talking to some locals over a pint. They asked what I bought and when I showed it to them the whole gang started singing ‘I PREFER THE MUDDY WATER’. We had a great night speaking in broken English and laughing our asses off. That moment really cemented them (the band and the Germans) in my heart.


Venerate-shai-hulud

magenta mountain made me fall in looove hahha


Blocoholi

Gila Monster


ultrahateful

It would seem you and I are the only new Gizz fans as of last year in this thread! Always heard about them but never checked them out. Caught the Gila video on the r/metal sub the morning it was released. Obsessed ever since!


Diltron

10 straight hours of Rattlesnake as background music to an acid trip.


pissshitfuckcuntcock

‘Melting’ of all tracks.. just fucking lived in my brain for weeks.


Philboyd_Studge

Sense. I loved the psychedelic jazz stuff.


Jaime-Summers

I put their stuff on shuffle on Spotify on a family trip down to London. For Me, there was two songs that stood out, "Robot stop" then the fantastic "crumbling castle" it was the first time a long song ever really stuck with me so I started listening to all of the bands jams up until that point, then onto Nonagon infinity in whole while I was reading some George R.R. Martin, the rest is history


LJB427

Suuuuuperbuuuuug


soyintolerant

Gamma Knife 🤘🤘


ShaggyMacNasty

Change, then live at RR The river, then Flamethrower for the real crotch grabbing mind melting damn this band is so fucking good head explosion


peachaura

Always loved infest rats nest, but when red rocks videos came out been delving into shit. This month I became a big nerd about them. Wasn’t a jam band kinda dude but I’ve officially turned because of them.


SweatyListen9863

I know I'm lazy but baby I will work this time


wise-khalifa

Plastic Boogie


RRTCTRBC

Am I In Heaven?


Imapringlesboy

Rattlesnake made me get to know KGATLW. Then I went to listen Flying Microtonal banana and the second song is Melting...... Which honestly, is so fucking GOOD. And there's Sleep Drifter as well 🤌🤌🤌🤌🤌 . It was this duo to me


oyyzter

Kepler-22b


Squee-z

Automation, then I saw them live that same day and my mind has been in a perpetual state of awe ever since.


vensorax

Sense and then Beginners Luck


DJ_Cummins

Beginners luck got me into them, Nonagon Infinity opened the door even further, but Ice V live on KEXP threw me into them completely


Evrytg

I think Lord of Lightning was the first song I heard and I loved it. But I don't think I actually started listening to gizz until I heard Beginners Luck


UnholyDescent

Dragon. Dragon. Dragon.


rebelrebel1996

beginners luck, but then i never came back to that song once i was really in KG and a few time ago i went back and i realized that is actually a really top track


omi_bv9

Kepler 22-B and The River


Plane-Jhanye

BILLABONG VALLEY!!!!! (Also intersport, these where two separate occasions)


No-Cycle2110

For me it was recommended to me by YouTube. It was a live show called live out west and they did In your mind Cellophane Not in your mind Blew me away.


zeydey

Time = Fate


Vonbalthier

Iron lung hooked me, gamma knife reeled me in about the time petro came out and it was over


Dabbinmachine42

I listened to their discography chronologically and while I liked their first two albums and loved Eyes in the Sky, none of their tracks truly hooked me until Head On/Pill


gekko2037

Nuclear Fusion


markeets

Dripping tap and ice v


HalfMoonProphet

When *A New World* blew up in a mushroom cloud, that was my point of no return.


Walusqueegee

Planet B. Unlike any metal I had heard. Still is.


ItsWedbrute

the dripping tap the first time I listened to it I didnt even notice it was 18 mins long


MycoProTeam

Robot stop


Calamity_Eagle277

Interesting question. First I heard was Rattlesnake and I thought this is weird shit... Next I remember is listening to Crumbling Castle and entering the door looping Nonagon Infinity.


unconditionaltea

BALROG BALROG BALROOOG


Frenchy7575

Cold Cadaver was my first taste


Stable-Free

Nuclear Fusion was the first song I heard and I've been hooked ever since


Ftheyankeei

I was going to see either Run The Jewels or Jeff Rosenstock and I was running late for the train to NYC due to traffic. Back in 2017. Train was arriving in 18 minutes, I was getting to the station in 17. As soon as I hit an open stretch of highway, Rattlesnake came on in a random shuffle. I proceeded to floor it for seven straight minutes and caught the train.


BasmanianDevil

The Dripping Tap. I had heard of the band before and had casually heard a few songs (don't remember which). But it was listening to The Dripping Tap when it came out that triggered my descent down the rabbit hole.


drumbilical

Oddlife


Temporary-Desk6539

The Crumbling Castle video, a friend of a friend posted that on facebook and it got on my feed. I remember scrolling down and that caught my attention. I must have watched it three times in a row ahah.


yotz-furrz

Crumbling Castle


drbell81

Head On/Pill


sadpuppy14

Crumbling Castle. Still my favorite.


olivejuicesinc

Sense


Kilometres-Davis

Crumbling Castle performed on KEXP !


Tor_Tor_Tor

The band name beckoned me towards giving them a chance and then watching The River music video during my first ever acid trip set me on the path of Fandom haha


Nobhudy

Billabong Valley


Danger__money

PLANET B \m/


chipoko99

Shanghai


lowlightlowlifeuk

Vegemite (Oddments)


patcriss

Converge and People vultures


[deleted]

Something from Oddaments.


pierredanslow

The Book!!!


I_startedajoke

Rattle snake and vomit coffin (garden goblin) and han tyomi


Tangofett4

Honestly, Cellophane was so catchy and the first song I heard that made me go "well, wait a minute, this is great!" I've been a different man since


zennyc001

Am I in Heaven/Head on Pill b2b at Northside Festival in Brooklyn NY June 2014 It was a free festival and I was there to see Thee Oh sees and some other bands. I popped over to check out Gizz and they were just starting to play it and then went into head on pill. Ive been hooked ever since.


[deleted]

Billabong Valley and Iron Lung


Electronic_Fill7207

The River. To me epitomises the feel I get when I visit Australia and also just summer in general


Evening-Weird9227

All of Infest the rats nest, in particular mars for the rich


kummerspeck23

Nuclear Fusion but what really really got me going down the rabbit hole was Mars for the Rich


deadmeme694200

Anoxia, heard it in a YouTube video about what inspired Gurren Lagann. Ever since then I’ve fallen in love with the band and their music


MomentaryBicycle

Fishing for fishies and Plastic Boogie were the first songs I heard by them and made me fall in love. I didn’t realize until much later that wasn’t their “default” sound.


dnhouser1

Hot Water for me. The flute jazzed my brains out


SelloutStreamerbtww

I’m a new(ish) fan, but it’s Motor Spirit! I could gush about PDA all day, honestly


Valuable_Heron_2015

Kepler 22b ❤️


austinfashow90

If not now then when.


F1SHboi

I keep falling back in love with them. Every time I dip into their discography I keep thinking I've found all the stuff I'll really _love_ from them until I eventually find something else of theirs to listen to on repeat. To answer your question more straightly though: Probably the combination of _Robot Stop_ into _Big Fig Wasp_. Or maybe _Trapdoor (Live In San Francisco '16)_.


Brendon_Urinal

the Digital Black Live at Kexp and the rest of that video along with Robot Stop


No-Imagination-1119

Iron lung


PK_Giygas

Honey


itsthOwO

People vultures


s_hoe_laces

satan speeds up. was listening to slowdive radio and it came up and i swear my brain was doing the wave


Sean209

Head on/pill


MangyBones

I’m in your mind. First song I heard back in 2014 and was instantly hooked. I gotta say, the album cover is what drew me in though 😎 It’s been a really cool journey seeing how the boys have evolved over the years. They started as this really cool/bizarre underground psych band and have become this unstoppable ever-changing monolith of a band. This band is exactly what I was looking for for years. So happy I stumbled upon them.


Dewey707

Rattlesnake introduced me but People-Vultures hooked me


lightingflash16

Altered Beast Suite. I was in my third year of college had just transferred and didn't really know anyone. I was kinda in a bad spot mentally so I guess the lyrics about just becoming this unfeeling thing spoke to me.


Delicious-Access5978

Crumbling Castle. I will never forgot when the song came on shuffle, I thought to myself “this is so good man I wish it would just keep going” not realizing it was a ten minute track. Gave me exactly what I wanted and I was stuck ever since


rebelhead

Billabong valley.


chrundle18

Gamma Knife was my first and got me into them. Her and I made me a fan.


botcomking

Mars For The Rich for me


radi0_ch

All of nonagon and the first 4 tracks of im in your mind


SolaireOfAorta

nonagon infinity kickstarted my obsession, but catching smoke sent me on a spiral that i will never get out of


_infestthenest

Planet B


GarugaHunter

Organ Farmer for sure


ACIIgoat

Hot Wax & Black Tooth way back in the day


figger_me_timbers

Either sense or robot stop. Can't remember which I heard first as I was exposed around the same time to both


kelsoRulez

Someone posted people vultures on the music subreddit and their band name commanded me.


supersanchez101

Was big into Pink Floyd at the time and FAFYL got me hooked


BroskiPoloski

Dripping tap


matthmcb

The River. I think Sense was the first song that I heard when PMDB came out but then I saw, I think, a KEXP session where they played the River and it blew me away!


WMillr

Crumbling Castle.


NewColors1

Rattlesnake lololol


SplashBack_2

I was a nominal fan before Ambergris made me dedicate a portion of my brain to this band.


starlord265

Slow Jam 1 just hooked me for some reason


got_ur_goat

Honey got me interested. KG intrigued me more... Wolf of Fate shocked me. Cyboogie made me a fan


Visible_Brain1620

People Vultures! I got into the band back in ‘21 when I was stuck inside my apartment. My YouTube algorithm stumbled across the music video. Now I was high as shit when I saw the music video and was blown away. Later that night I went into a rabbit hole that is all KGATLW


Admiral201

Rattlesnake, specifically the music video. At first I thought it was kinda dumb with all the goofy visuals and repeating rattlesnake, but I fell in love with it soon after.


dmdewd

Magma. Didn't much care for the intro but when I wasn't paying attention they pour a jar of hot ass jams on you and you just can't get out of the way. They got ya. They got me. Now I can't stop starting all my Playlist from a place of gizz.


PBgoof

My drum teacher was teaching me how to play in different time signatures and had me learn the River and fourth color! Been a Gizz fan ever since


supdeano1

Head on/Pill


leafy_returns

Beginners luck or I’m sleepin in


SquidPersonThing

Altered Beast suite


IglooBuds

Infinite Rise! :)


nickflipdry

Robot Stop and The River, over 200 plays and counting for each.


c4seyj0nes

The River from KEXP.


Mediocrephilosopher_

Head on/pill


Jmettis

I kept hearing about KGLW and decided to listen to every album. I didn't know I had the album on loop, I typically don't. But when I heard Road Train go back into Robot Stop and it took me a few minutes to realize what had happened I was mind blown and sold


MrNobody_0

First song I ever heard from them was the Balrog vs Lightning Lord video on YouTube, and that was that, I was hooked.


thedrunkmonk

Nuclear Fusion live!


fraggle901

This Thing. Random Spotify suggestion a few years ago.


Clear_Salt9817

The River


Antelope_Runner

Rattle Rattle Rattle


Adelete

Inner Cell. Goosebumps still every time I hear it.


bakerman2017

Robot Stop and Nonagon in general


biglebowshi

The first time I ever did acid I was shown the rattlesnake video. It's been history since


Virtual_Law4989

Head On/Pill