Murder of the Universe (Album)

Murder of the Universe is King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard's tenth album. It was released on 23 June 2017. It is divided into three chapters: The Tale Of The Altered Beast, The Lord Of Lightning Vs. Balrog, and Han-Tyumi & The Murder Of The Universe.

## Murder of the Universe

### Track List:

**The Tale Of The Altered Beast**

1. A New World 0:57
2. Altered Beast I 2:24
3. Alter Me I 0:45
4. Altered Beast II 4:28
5. Alter Me II 1:26
6. Altered Beast III 2:14
7. Alter Me III 1:26
8. Altered Beast IV 5:10
9. Life/Death 0:59

**The Lord Of Lightning Vs. Balrog**

1. Some Context 0:16
2. The Reticent Raconteur 1:05
3. The Lord Of Lightning 5:07
4. The Balrog 4:29
5. The Floating Fire 1:54
6. The Acrid Corpse 1:01

**Han-Tyumi & The Murder Of The Universe**

1. Welcome To An Altered Future 0:55
2. Digital Black 2:46
3. Han-Tyumi The Confused Cyborg 2:22
4. Soy-Protein Munt Machine 0:30
5. Vomit Coffin 2:19
6. Murder Of The Universe 4:09

## Plot

**The Tale Of The Altered Beast**

*This chapter is narrated mostly in the second person with some sections from the Altered Beast's perspective.*

A human finds himself in an Altered world where he is found by an Altered Beast. The Altered Beast hunts the human down and takes over his mind. After the human is Altered he completely loses his empathy and starts to kill for sport. The Altered human eventually dies after the narrator implies that this will happen if he does not find someone to Alter.

**The Lord Of Lightning Vs. Balrog**

*This chapter is narrated in the first person.*

A group of humans are caught in a battle against the Lord of Lightning. After killing one of them the Lord takes the corpse and turns it into a Balrog. The Lord then departs to leave the humans to fight what used to be one of their own kind but after the humans realise they are doomed and start to bow down to the Balrog the Lord returns enraged to fight his creation. After slaying the Balrog the Lord then leaves again as the sun sets.

**Han-Tyumi & The Murder Of The Universe**

*This chapter is narrated in the first person.*

Humanity has been left with no choice but to put their minds into robotic bodies. One cyborg, Han-Tyumi, is unable to handle the mental strain of losing his survival instincts and becomes obsessed with gaining back the two things he sees as separating him from a human: death, and vomiting. Han-Tyumi creates an artificial human with steel bones and soy protein flesh and encases it in a chamber telling it to vomit so Han-Tyumi can experience it vicariously. Having a survival instinct the artificial human refuses stating: this is no way to live. Enraged Han-Tyumi plugs himself in and takes over the artificial human, Han-Tyumi then vomits so much that it destroys the artificial human's body, the planet, and, eventually, the universe itself.

## Trivia

* This is one of 3 albums with the same castle on the cover; the other two being Nonagon Infinity, and I'm in Your Mind Fuzz.
* A Brief History of Planet Earth was first used to reference Murder of the Universe.
* In the lyric book all of the lyrics in Han-Tyumi and the Murder of the Universe after Digital Black are laid over a black background with the exception of the words spoken by the soy protein munt machine.

1. ↑ https://kinggizzard.bandcamp.com/album/murder-of-the-universe
2. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQ4c2v6qTY4