This is an extraordinary leap forward for one of the most exciting modern British metal bands. I use the term modern loosely as what Green Lung is doing is as throwback as it comes. They are unashamedly reappropriating occult rock and bringing it firmly into the 21st century. There is a jaunty accessibility to this album that draws the listener in before they strike you over the head with a fistful of paganism.

They have got the songwriting spot on and this is a faultless collection of immaculately sculpted and relentlessly catchy tunes. They have always had a level of euphoric reverence but “This Heathen Lane” season experimenting a lot more and looking to push that sound even further. ‘The Forest Church’ is probably the best individual track I’ve heard all year and ‘Song of the Stones’ feels so inventive and creative. Just a wonderful wonderful retro-modern album that is highly reverent of the past but has eyes also clapped firmly on the future.