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Review: Green Lung - This Heathen Land
Green Lung
greenlung.co.uk
This Heathen Land

Label: Nuclear Blast Records
Year released: 2023
Duration: 42:19
Tracks: 9
Genre: Doom Metal

Rating:
4.5/5


Review online: June 5, 2025
Reviewed by: Sargon the Terrible
Review

This album came out a few years ago, but I have just now been digging in on this band. Green Lung are a deeply occult British Doom band, and they sound exactly like you would think from that descriptor: like the soundtrack to a Hammer movie. There is a similarity to Cathedral or Solstice in the general mood and feel of this, while the music has definite ties to Sabbath and Witchfinder General. The album kicks off with the big chorus of "The Forest Church" to get your head banging, and it does not let up from there, with swinging numbers like "Mountain Throne" and the retro organ sounds of "Maxine (Witch Queen)" to keep you going. This band switches nicely between more groovy, uptempo numbers and heavier, more driven cuts like "The Ancient Ways." Singer Tom Killingbeck has the perfect kind of voice for this, with just the right accent of Ozzy-styled nasality and a lot of really hooky vocal lines. Guitarist Scott Masson is a find as well, with some great riffs and ripping leads. If you like occult British Doom, then this is exactly what you are looking for.

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