After watching King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard play for two and a half hours to a nearly sold-out crowd at the Armory, something is immediately obvious: there is something for everyone at a Gizz show. Traveling from the land down under for a 39-date tour of the US, the band has been playing an entirely different setlist every night, a feat made possible by their vast discography. Though they’ve only been releasing music since 2012, King Gizzard is currently on their 26th studio album, four of which have been released since they were last in Minnesota in 2022. Across these albums, one can find songs covering genres such as psych-rock, metal, jazz, and electronica, all of which were present in Tuesday’s show.

First up on the bill were Brooklyn, New York rockers Geese (not to be confused with the jam band Goose), who provided an electrifying 30-minute opening set. They started things off with a new song titled “Islands of Men” and rocked out with "2122,” with the verse and chorus of The Replacements’ “Waitress in the Sky” sprinkled in. As they finished “Cowboy Nudes," singer Cameron Winter noted that they played the 7th Street Entry the last time they came to Minneapolis, a show I was also in attendance of. Despite this major venue upgrade, they seemed just as confident and energetic as they ran through more songs from last year's fantastic “3D Country” as well as another new track titled "Taxes.”

After a short set break, all six members of King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard took the stage to a roaring crowd. Multi-instrumentalists Cook Craig and Ambrose “Amby” Kenny-Smith were set up on the far sides of the stage while acting frontman Stu Mackenzie and guitarist Joey Walker stood center stage. As for the rhythm section, drummer Michael "Cavs" Cavanagh was perched atop a tall drum riser alongside bassist Lucas Harwood. After settling in, the band burst into "Pleura," an intense psych-rock track that encouraged some early movement in the audience. Following the second song, “O.N.E.” Walker told the crowd, “You know what time it is,” and called an audience member on stage. After being asked his name, the fan now known as “Joe” grasped the microphone and shouted “NUCLEAR FUSION” as an intro to the song of the same name from the fan favorite album “Flying Microtonal Banana.”

The energy only continued to grow stronger while songs began to seamlessly transition into one another and members shared vocal duties as they jammed through their set. The punk-psych track “Cellophane” contained teases of “I'm In Your Mind” and “Am I In Heaven?"—a few seconds of a riff or a chorus sprinkled in during the jammy section. Two new songs from the band's most recent album, “Flight b741,” followed in all of their bluesy glory.

Another recent album entitled “The Silver Chord” was featured heavily during an electronic section of the set. An extended “Theia” transitioned into title track “The Silver Chord” as the band crowded around a table filled with modular synths, samplers, and microphones. Mackenzie bounced around as he sang while Cavanagh stayed at his kit and provided a steady backbeat to the trance-inducing electronic jams that the remaining band members developed from the mess of synths.

Following some technical difficulties, the synth table was whisked away by their crew while the band donned their respective instruments to begin the final section of the show. Two songs from PetroDraconic Apocalypse, the band’s 2022 foray into thrash metal, rounded out the 20-song setlist as the crowd moshed in circle pits for the remainder of the show.