''Satanic Slumber Party'' is an EP by Australian-rock bands

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and

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, it was released on March 14, 2022, as a surprise release. The second track on the album, "Midnight in Sodom" had a music video released in promotion of the EP alongside the release of the record. It was directed by Nina Renee and Tropical Fuck Storm. The album was released digitally, and as a 7" EP. A limited edition 12" would be released titled "Hat Jam" that featured the EP and "

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". The cover art was made by

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of the band

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has described the EP as having influence from "

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Background

According to Tropical Fuck Storm bassist Fiona Kitschin, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard were recording their fourteenth studio album, ''

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'' at a house the band owned. One day while they were recording the album, the band and Tropical Fuck Storm all wore hats and recorded a jam called "Hat Jam". King Gizzard would use the jam as a basis for their 2022 song "

", while Tropical Fuck Storm turned it into ''Satanic Slumber Party''. The EP was first teased in August 2021, when

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announced that a collaboration between the two bands would be on the way on

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description, the fictional background for the EP is:

"Somewhere along a frayed thread of time, a King Gizz and a Tropical Fuck Storm convened under the cloak of night for a slumber party of the satanic persuasion…Pumped full of booze and adrenaline, two of psych-rock’s most powerful joined forces for a 20-minute “Hatjam” chockfull of sax skronks, brick-heavy distortion, and punchy riffs. Satanic Slumber Party arrives just in time for your possessed pleasure."

Fiona Kitschin has described the EP as “four guitars, three drummers, two synths, bass, harmonica, electronic sax and lots of singers and silliness. It’s like ‘

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’ by the

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except it’s evil.”

Track listing

Personnel

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– recording, mixing * Mike Deslandes – mixing * Lachlan Carrick – mastering Design * Satomi Matsuzaki – cover art * Ryan Hover – design

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