“Mind the doors!”: Check out Green Lung’s sinister new rock ’n’ roll single, Necropolitan Line

Green Lung have unleashed the second single from their forthcoming album Necropolitan, the almost-title-track Necropolitan Line. It finds the London-based doom ghouls sounding like an undead version of Swedish rockers The Hellacopters, as they tell a tale of the Capital’s Victorian railway system that was used to transport the dead between Waterloo Station and Brookwood Cemetery in Surrey.

"Is there a more fitting subject for a Green Lung song than the Necropolis Railway, a real-life train line that carried corpses and mourners across London in the late 19th Century?” asks singer Tom Templar. “Mix in some inspiration from 1972's London Underground-set shocker Death Line, a madcap neoclassical organ/guitar duel that evokes Richie Blackmore and Jon Lord at their finger-blistering best, and a record Lung BPM of 180, and you have the second single from our fourth album. We can't wait to play this one live for the first time at the Acid Bath show in Manchester on Thursday. Mind the doors!"

Check out the video now, featuring the band's legendary roadie Metal Joe...

Speaking to Kerrang! to announce Necropolitan last month, Tom added that the song is also, in part, about nighttime in the city, and having a big one at infamous drinking hole Helgi’s. As well as this, he told us how, even in death, passengers on the line were still ordered according to social status, even if the corpses wouldn’t actually know.

“Even though they were dead, there were first, second and third class. It was absolutely absurd. To me, it was a peak Victorian thing. I love the idea of like the dead basically emerging once a month to hunt the living and using this old necropolis railway.”

It's the second track to come from Necropolitan, following last month’s Evil In This House, with the album due to follow on September 11 via Nuclear Blast.

Green Lung play in Manchester this Thursday with Acid Bath and Conan, before hitting the road in December for their biggest headline tour to date.

Dance To The Grave Tour 2026

December

03 Antwerp, Trix
04 Frankfurt am Main, Batschkapp
05 Munich, Backstage
07 Vienna, Arena
08 Leipzig, Anker
10 Hamburg, Große Freiheit 36
11 Berlin, Astra Kulturhaus
12 Cologne, Carlswerk Victoria
13 Tilburg, O13
14 Paris, Bataclan
16 London, The Roundhouse
17 Bristol, Bristol Electric
18 Manchester, Manchester Academy
19 Dublin, The Academy
20 Glasgow, SWG3 Galvanizers

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