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Metal Hammer's tracks of the week: August 14 2026

Mastodon, Green Lung and Noctule are among the best new metal songs you need to hear this week

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“The most fiendishly flamboyant good time since Ghost”: Green Lung’s first festival headline show cements them as the future of metal

At London’s Desertfest, the occult five-piece perform all of their darkly fun anthems while backed up by gorgeous videos, returning members and a malfunctioning, Eddie-like mascot

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No-frills thrash, heart-rending doom and demented black metal: the 10 best new metal songs you need to hear this week

Anthrax, Green Lung, Sicksense and Warning lead this week’s heavy picks – vote for your favourite here

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Stoner/doom stalwarts Green Lung return with riffy single Evil In This House ahead of first-ever festival headline show

The Londoners will headline Desertfest this weekend and release their fourth album, Necropolitan, in September

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The 30 best metal albums of the decade (so far)

From legends like Iron Maiden and Metallica to rising stars such as Bloodywood and Spiritbox, these are the metal albums that have defined the 2020s so far

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UK stoner/doom champions Green Lung to headline Desertfest London 2026; four other bands also confirmed

Desertfest will fill five Camden venues with the sounds of doom, stoner and psychedelic rock from May 15 to 17

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British metal has ruled the world this summer – just this once, I’m actually proud of my country

From Black Sabbath’s blockbuster farewell to Sleep Token’s first time as a Download festival headliner, all eyes have been on the British metal scene in recent months. Rightfully so.

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I’m a Ghost fanatic, and these great songs by similar-sounding artists will stop me going mad during the wait for their new album

Hooked on Tobias Forge’s satanic hymns? These anthems will keep you (and me) going until Skeletá drops next month.

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"Someone get Papa Emeritus on the phone." Green Lung just confirmed they're doom metal's breakout band with a massive London show

Green Lung's mix of Black Sabbath dread and Ghost theatricality makes them perfectly suited for massive venues

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Arctangent 2025 announces headliners Wardruna and Tesseract, adds over 50 bands to the lineup

Arctangent Festival 2025 is stacking up their bill with over 50 names, including Clown Core, Leprous, Mew, Slift, Green Lung and many more

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Watch rising doom metal shamans Green Lung bewitch Bloodstock festival in pro-shot footage

The folkloric up-and-comers will headline their biggest-ever UK shows in London and Manchester next year

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Green Lung announce European leg of Heathen Neverland tour, share additional UK and Ireland dates

Green Lung will be co-headlining shows with Unto Others across Europe in 2025

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“These shamans are about to bewitch metal’s mainstream”: Green Lung prove they’re the next big thing at awe-inspiring London show

Stoner stars-in-the-making Green Lung played a secret show at a London brewery – and proved they’re ready to hit the big time

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“Expect an old-school heavy metal show of epic proportions!” UK stoner metal champions Green Lung announce biggest-ever live shows, Unto Others supporting

The adored occultists will headline Manchester’s The Ritz and London’s Kentish Town Forum in February, with support from Unto Others and Satan’s Satyrs

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Rising UK stoner metal heroes Green Lung will bring rural gloom to a town near you on Midsomer tour 2024

The rising doom metal stars are set to support Opeth and Clutch on the road this summer

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“Anyone who doesn’t talk to their pets is a psychopath!” We asked a bunch of metal stars to tell us about their pets on International Pet Day

Dogs, cats, ponies, goats, ducks – to mark International Pet Day, we asked members of Killswitch Engage, Amon Amarth, Green Lung and more to tell us about the animals they share their lives with

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"When I was a kid, my obsession was rifling through the forest for mushrooms. Then I gravitated toward witchcraft." We spent a day amongst neolithic tombs and monoliths with occult metal sensations, Green Lung

British stoner-doom crew Green Lung are taking the metal world by storm. We spent an eerie but educational day with them exploring Britain's occult past

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The 10 best Ghost songs not by Ghost

Hooked on Tobias Forge’s satanic hymns? These 10 similar-sounding anthems will keep you going until the next Ghost album drops.

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The 10 best doom and stoner metal albums of 2023

The end is nigh - but you can still check out these brilliant stoner and doom records from 2023

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Metal Hammer writers name their best gigs of 2023

From the monolithic Metallica to rising stars like Green Lung, these are the greatest shows that Team Hammer saw this year

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"We haven’t had to take the devil's bargain just yet": meet Green Lung, the occult rockers who've stumbled on a formula for infernal success

Green Lung's horror theatricality and Zeppelin-style folk diversify the doom diet beyond Black Sabbath alone

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"There's the overwhelming sensation that we've all just witnessed something very, very special." Riffs, witches and a Dorset Ooser: Green Lung just showed Brighton why they could well be heavy metal's next Big Deal

Green Lung show Brighton why they're one of the most talked about bands in all of metal right now courtesy of an intimate but epic show at Patterns

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The best new prog music you must hear from Mariusz Duda, The Anchoress and more in Prog's Tracks Of The Week

The week's coolest new prog music to check out from Steeleye Span, Green Lung, The Chronicles Of Father Robin and more...

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"Wrapped up in a black cloak of thunderous doom rock, full of spectacle, bombast and fog-choked atmosphere": Green Lung's This Heathen Land

This Heathen Land is album number three from British stoner doom band Green Lung

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Green Lung's This Heathen Land: London's stoner-doom heroes have brewed up a beguiling, surprisingly diverse concoction of killer riffs, bewitching folklore and knockout songs

Green Lung are one of the most hyped young metal bands in the UK right now, and on This Heathen Land, they show exactly why

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