You’re Gonna Have to Wait Until 2025 for New Clutch
If you’ve been itching for new Clutch music ever since the release of Sunrise on Slaughter Beach roughly two years ago, you’re gonna have to wait for a while still. Even though work on new material is under way, we likely won’t hear any of it for some time still.
While speaking with TotalRock’s Hobo On The Radio show (as transcribed by Blabbermouth), frontman Neil Fallon revealed that the band’s already got their collective eye on their 14th full-length release.
“We are writing new material. I am definitely the slowest out of the bunch as far as writing lyrics, ’cause I try the same lyrics on different songs and try to find out where they can live.
“We probably — we won’t be recording until next year. And I’m gonna say hopefully the album will come out in the third quarter or fourth quarter of 2025. Which sounds like it’s far away, and I guess it is, to a degree, but that’s gonna come around pretty quick for us. We’re gonna do it with [Grammy-nominated producer] Tom Dalgety [Ghost, Royal Blood, Pixies] again. He was awesome. But that never stops us from playing these [new songs] live, which they’ll inevitably will be everyone’s favorite version and they’ll hate the record’s version, but that’s just the way it goes.”
Given the fact that the annual third quarter starts in July, it means we’re looking at at least 15 months before a new album could feasibly drop. Move that to fourth quarter and the album won’t be around until at least October. Feels like forever, I know.
While I personally can’t wait to hear more music from Clutch, I’m still jamming Sunrise on Slaughter Beach and catching them live whenever I can. Speaking of which, they’re heading out on tour later this month with Blacktop Mojo and The Native Howl. You can find the full list of shows, as well as links to get your hands on some tickets, below.
Clutch ‘New World Samurai’ Tour
w/ Blacktop Mojo and The Native Howl
4/26 Richmond, VA – The National [Tickets]
4/27 Wilmington, DE – The Queen [Tickets]
4/29 Bloomington, IL – The Castle Theater [Tickets]
5/1 Colorado Springs, CO – The Black Sheep [Tickets]
5/2 Estes Park, CO – The Stanley Hotel [Tickets]
5/3 Estes Park, CO – The Stanley Hotel [Tickets]
5/4 Aspen, CO – Belly Up Aspen [Tickets]
5/5 Grand Junction, CO Mesa Theater [Tickets]
5/7 Lubbock, TX – The Garden [Tickets]
5/9 Pelham, TN – The Caverns [Tickets]
5/10 Columbia, SC – The Senate [Tickets]
5/12 Pensacola, FL – Vinyl Music Hall [Tickets]
5/14 Columbia, MO – The Blue Note [Tickets]
5/15 Fayetteville, AR – JJ’s Live [Tickets]
5/17 Sioux City, IA – Anthem at the Hard Rock [Tickets]
5/18 Belvidere, IL – The Apollo Theatre AC [Tickets]
