- Country: United Kingdom
- Style: Occult heavy metal / doom
- Label: Nuclear Blast
- Release date: 11 September 2026
Seven garden cemeteries ring the city of London, all built in the Victorian age, ivy-choked angels and crooked headstones watching the traffic go by. Green Lung have built their fourth album around them, and Necropolitan feels like walking those paths at dusk, when the gates are about to close and the shadows start to move.
This time the band went to Rockfield Studios in Wales, the farmhouse where Black Sabbath, Queen and Judas Priest once worked, with producer Tom Dalgety handling everything from recording to mixing. They stripped back their usual dense layering and recorded much of the album live, and the result breathes and sweats: Hammond organ swirling like fog, Mellotrons moaning like ghosts, and riffs as heavy as a tombstone.
Tom Templar sings of death, nature and the old occult undercurrents of the city, and he sounds more commanding than ever. “Dance to the Grave” is a proper danse macabre, the kind of chorus you can imagine a whole crowd howling back at the stage, while “Black Magick Radio” is pure seventies swagger, all organ and guitar trading blows. “Necropolitan Line” races along with real locomotive energy.
Scott Black’s guitar solos are a highlight throughout, and the quieter moments, such as the slow-building “Together in Death”, give the record room to breathe before closing track “To the Gallows Born” ends things on an unexpected folk note.
If a couple of mid-album tracks lean a little too hard on familiar Sabbath patterns, it hardly matters. This is Green Lung at their most confident, and a proud new chapter for British heavy metal.
Best tracks:
Dance to the Grave
Black Magick Radio
Necropolitan Line
To the Gallows Born
Author’s rating: 8.5/10
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