Clutch’s Dan Maines Says the Band Has “a Solid 10 Ideas” for Their Next Album
We may have to wait until next year for a new Clutch record, but at least we know the dudes are working on new tunes. Now that we’re two years out from the release of Sunrise on Slaughter Beach, I am personally chomping at the bit for what comes next and I’m sure a lot of you feel the same.
During a recent interview with Chile’s iRock (transcribed by Blabbermouth), bassist Dan Maines shared some details about the work going into their next album.
“We’re kind of in the middle of some deep writing sessions. We’ve been getting together quite a bit, but it’s all focusing on new material, trying to write songs for a new album. It’s going really well.
“We get together in a studio and we are just recording every single idea that we have. If it gets to the point where we’ve got two parts together that kind of resemble a verse and a chorus, and everyone’s happy with it just music-wise, we’ll record those ideas. And then we put that aside and move on to something else. And we upload those files so that all four of us can listen to them at home. And Neil [Fallon, Clutch singer] will take a good hard listen to them and think about vocal ideas for those parts. And we start piecing together things. Sometimes he’ll listen to something from one day that he thinks might work really well with something from the previous week. And if it requires tempo changes or key changes to kind of blend those two parts together, we’ll work on that.
“But, yeah, it’s kind of a very organic process. Right now I would say we have probably about a solid 10 ideas that you could call songs, but they definitely need a little more fleshing out. But, yeah, it’s exciting.”
During the chat, Maines was asked for an updated timeline for the next album. According to him, it’s all about timing studio time with their extensive tour itinerary.
“We’ll go down to South America for the week’s worth of shows [in late July 2024] and then come back and try to do some more writing before we get into full kind of tour mode, which is summertime. We’re heading over to Europe for European festivals, and then we have a lot of touring that picks back up in the fall here in the U.S. So we’re trying to get all of our writing done now as much as possible. And it’s going pretty good.”
The Two-Headed Beast Tour
09/05 Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Paramount * [Tickets]
09/06 Atlantic City, NJ – Ocean Casino Resort * [Tickets]
09/07 Washington, DC – The Anthem * [Tickets]
09/08 Raleigh, NC – The Ritz * [Tickets]
09/10 Pittsburgh, PA – Stage AE * [Tickets]
09/12 Niagara Falls, ON – OLG Stage at Fallsview Casino * [Tickets]
09/13 New Haven, CT – College Street Music Hall * [Tickets]
09/14 Bushkill, PA – Berzerkus * [Tickets]
09/15 Hampton Beach, NH – Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom * [Tickets]
09/17 Boston, MA – House Of Blues * [Tickets]
09/19 Cleveland, OH – Jacobs Pavilion at Nautica * [Tickets]
09/20 Sterling Heights, MI – Michigan Lottery Amphitheatre at Freedom Hill * [Tickets]
09/22 Fort Wayne, IN – Performance Pavilion at Sweetwater * [Tickets]
09/24 La Vista, NE – The Astro * [Tickets]
09/26 Grand Rapids, MI – GLC Live at 20 Monroe * [Tickets]
09/28 Green Bay, WI – EPIC Event Center & [Tickets]
09/29 Maplewood, MN – Myth Live & [Tickets]
10/01 Des Moines, IA – Val Air Ballroom & [Tickets]
10/02 Kansas City, MO – The Uptown Theater & [Tickets]
10/04 Houston, TX – Bayou Music Center & [Tickets]
10/05 Dallas, TX – The Factory in Deep Ellum & [Tickets]
10/08 Los Angeles, CA – The Wiltern & [Tickets]
10/09 Tempe, AZ – Marquee Theatre & [Tickets]
10/10 Las Vegas, NV – Brooklyn Bowl & [Tickets]
* with Fu Manchu
& with Black Stone Cherry
