“Someone will send me photos of reindeer that inexplicably died in a circle and say, ‘This is so Green Lung!’ I’m like, ‘Yeah! This is working!’” How rising occult stars stumbled into a genre of their own

Green Lung standing in front of a large rock.

Scott Black spent his childhood immersed in the myths of the English countryside. The Green Lung guitarist grew up in rural Devon and used to pass the time playing with his friends in a disused quarry. Back at home, he’d be told that the quarry was stalked by a woodwose: a hair-coated wild man straight from Arthurian fables. And it wasn’t just a bedtime story that grown-ups invented for children’s ears, either.

“Even the old blokes at the pub that your dad would hang out with used to talk about it,” he tells Prog. “Growing up very close to Dartmoor, before the internet, all of those legends seemed very plausible.”