Necropolitan

At the intersection of Black Sabbath, Deep Purple and Iron Maiden, there is <b>Green Lung</b>. The English stoner troupe’s fourth album combines their musical influences with their keen interest in British occultists Percy Bysshe Shelley, Aleister Crowley and Genesis P-Orridge (among others). <b>“Black Magic Radio”</b> fuses a Sabbathian riff to a haunted-house organ accompaniment while vocalist Tom Templar namechecks the Process Church and London’s Swinging ‘60s horror-themed café, Le Macabre. <b>“Necropolitan Line”</b> is a hectic heavy-’70s freakout with lyrics about the defunct Necropolis Railway, which ferried corpses and mourners between London and Surrey. Lead single <b>“Evil in this House”</b> imagines a paranormal investigation set to an epic Jon Lord/Tony Iommi jam. In a direct reference to Maiden’s “The Number of the Beast”, Green Lung bring in <b>Riley Pinkerton of Castle Rat</b> to read a passage from the Book of Revelation on <b>“Alostrael (Be My Babalon)”</b>.