Green Lung – Necropolitan (Purple Vinyl, Gatefold)

Green Lung's Necropolitan is the London band’s fourth album, and it leans hard into the myths, occult lore and heavy-music history of their home city. Rather than treating that setting as backdrop, Green Lung use it as the album’s main engine, pushing their riff-led sound into something grander and more cinematic while keeping the gothic atmosphere and underground spirit that define the band.

The source material points to a record built on scale as much as hookcraft: towering guitars, a strong sense of drama, and songs that balance crushing weight with memorable choruses. Tom Dalgety’s production adds another useful clue to the album’s shape, suggesting a cleaner, more expansive frame for Green Lung’s blend of heavy rock, doom-flavoured muscle and occult pageantry. Titles like Black Magick Radio, Necropolitan Line and the singled-out Evil In This House underline how closely the record ties its storytelling to haunted urban imagery.

For anyone who came to Green Lung through This Heathen Land, Necropolitan sounds like a deliberate next step: still unmistakably theirs, but with a broader, more theatrical sweep. On vinyl, that sense of world-building is helped by the physical presentation, which turns the album’s London-underworld theme into something you can actually unfold and pore over.

Features

• Purple Vinyl, limited edition
• Gatefold sleeve
• 12-page booklet and map