In four short years of existence, Green Lung have risen from the murk of
the UK heavy underground to become a true cult band with a devoted
following. Debut album Woodland Rites, released independently in early
2019, quickly garnered attention, resulting in a single being named
‘Track of the Week’ in the Guardian, plays on Daniel P. Carter’s Radio
One Rock Show, a tour with fellow UK heavies Puppy and festival
appearances across Europe.
This brought the band to the attention of the wider music industry, and
after multiple offers from a variety of labels, the band decided to stay
true to their roots and sign with the Finnish audio wizards at Svart
Records, home to several of their doomy inspirations including Reverend
Bizarre and Warning. Svart’s deluxe reissue of the album, and the
preceding EP Free the Witch, sold out several pressings.
Two years later, the folk horror-obsessed fivesome have re-emerged from
their mulchy catacombs armed with dozens of freshly-whittled
riffs. Black Harvest, the sequel to Woodland Rites, is a more colourful
reimagining of the band’s sound - Dawn of the Dead to its
predecessor’s Night of the Living Dead.
Recorded at Giant Wafer Studios in rural mid-Wales over the course of
two weeks with longtime producer Wayne Adams (Petbrick, Big Lad), it’s a
more expansive and textured record than anything the band have done
before, boasting a cinematic quality and more attention to detail. All
samples were sourced from the local countryside and from instruments
found in the studio, including the haunting opening vocal of ‘The
Harrowing’ which was recorded on a whim after the band broke into the
local church (the organ can be heard creaking in the background). The
album was recorded in late autumn, and the seasonal atmosphere seeped
into the music, which is redolent of mists, falling leaves, and the
crumbling glory of the Magnificent Seven cemeteries of London, the city
the band call home.
The album also soaks in new sonics beyond the ‘Black Sabbath meets Brian
May’ blueprint of what went before. ‘The Harrowing’ takes the band’s
tradition of instrumental opening tracks to dizzy new heights, like
Atomic Rooster jamming with Boston, while ballad ‘Graveyard Sun’, based
on the folklore around the ‘Highgate Vampire’, adds gothic synth lines
that would give Type O Negative pangs of jealousy. That’s not to say the
hooks n’ heaviness approach that made the band’s name isn’t here in
abundance, as the Sabbath-meets-Purple chug and groove of revolutionary
lead single ‘Leaders of the Blind’ and the Hammer Horror riff frenzy of
‘Upon the Altar’ prove. Closer ‘Born to a Dying World’ is unlike
anything the band have written before; an endtimes ballad with an almost
gospel feel, tying the band’s omnipresent nature themes to the
Anthropocene.
01. | The Harrowing | 2'20 |
02. | Old Gods | 3'58 |
03. | Leaders of the Blind | 4'41 |
04. | Reaper’s Scythe | 4'23 |
05. | Graveyard Sun | 5'41 |
06. | Black Harvest | 2'39 |
07. | Upon the Altar | 4'37 |
08. | You Bear the Mark | 4'12 |
09. | Doomsayer | 5'26 |
10. | Born to a Dying World | 5'05 |
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