Green Lung, the masters of occult riff-craft, today share new video ‘Ozymandias’, a Halloween treat, taken from their acclaimed fourth album Necropolitan (out now, Nuclear Blast).
Watch ‘Ozymandias’ here: https://youtu.be/CnVQuuf_RhE
Vocalist Tom Templar states: “We’re excited to share a new animation from the arcane imaginations of illustrator Richard Wells and animator Joseph Brett as a Halloween treat. ‘Ozymandias’ is one of our favourite songs on this album to play in the practice space, and we can’t wait to play it on tour in December. Adapted from Percy Bysshe Shelley‘s poem musing on the futility of human empire-building, his words couldn’t be more relevant for today.”
A huge step forward in songwriting and vision, Necropolitan is the album Green Lung have been threatening to make since their inception.
As well as a portrait of the triumph and power of death and nature over the dreams and dominion of humankind, Necropolitan is a grand celebration of the folklore, occult and heavy music scene of the band’s birthplace, the city of London. The album title derives from the seven garden cemeteries (necropoli) circling the city, all built in the Victorian era.
Order Necropolitan here:
https://greenlung.bfan.link/necropolitan
| Later this year, Green Lung will be embarking on their European Dance to the Grave Tour MMXXVI. Special guests will be High On Fire with support from Gnome. The tour poster was designed by the band’s frequent collaborator, Richard Wells. Dates: w/ High On Fire & Gnome 03-Dec BE Antwerp @ Trix 04-Dec DE Frankfurt am Main @ Batschkapp 05-Dec DE Munich @ Backstage 07-Dec AT Vienna @ Arena 08-Dec DE Leipzig @ Anker 10-Dec DE Hamburg @ Große Freiheit 36 11-Dec DE Berlin @ Astra Kulturhaus 12-Dec DE Cologne @ Carlswerk Victoria 13-Dec NL Tilburg @ O13 14-Dec FR Paris @ Bataclan 16-Dec UK London @ The Roundhouse 17-Dec UK Bristol @ Bristol Electric *SOLD OUT* 18-Dec UK Manchester @ Manchester Academy 19-Dec IE Dublin @ The Academy *SOLD OUT* 20-Dec UK Glasgow @ SWG3 Galvanizers For more information and tickets head to: https://www.greenlung.co.uk With producer Tom Dalgety (Opeth, Ghost) at the helm, this time handling everything from recording to mixing, the band decamped to Rockfield Studios in January 2026, following in the muddy footprints of some of their key inspirations, from Black Sabbath to Queen to Judas Priest. Sonically, they were set on capturing their megalithic live sound more accurately than ever – stripping back their usual dense, multilayered arrangements to their rawest, leanest form and recording much of the album live to capture their Sabbathian heaviness, frenzied Hammonds and haunting Mellotrons as faithfully as possible. The result is an album that combines the soaring hookiness of previous album This Heathen Land with an uncompromising rawness and heaviness, and takes the band’s distinctive brand of sonic storytelling to macabre new heights. If, two years following Black Sabbath‘s Back to the Beginning show and the death of Ozzy Osbourne, you had any doubts about the future of traditional British metal, Necropolitan lays them to rest. Here is a band taking the torch from the heavy metal godfathers and running with it, bursting with all the musicianship and storytelling flair that has kept the genre’s flame burning for a half-century, and using it to temper a lyrical and sonic world that is entirely their own. Green Lung are: Joseph Ghast (bass) Matt Wiseman (drums) Scott Black (guitars) Tom Templar (vocals) John Wright (organ) Green Lung online: https://www.instagram.com/greenlungband https://www.facebook.com/greenlungband https://www.greenlung.co.uk |
| Tracklisting: 01. Open the Hellmouth 02. Dance to the Grave 03. Black Magick Radio 04. Necropolitan Line 05. Evil in this House 06. Together in Death 07. Ozymandias 08. Alostrael (Be My Babalon) 09. To the Gallows Born |
