Clutch Reveal Video For 'Watered Lands' Title Track
(Cosa Nostra) Clutch have announced their fourteenth studio album, Wasted Lands, set for release on January 22, 2027 via the band's own Weathermaker Music. The announcement arrives alongside the release of its raucously groovy, riff-driven title track, "Wasted Lands," and accompanying official music video.
Written and recorded at their longtime Frederick, Maryland base, the Doom Saloon, Wasted Lands reunites Clutch with producer Machine for the first time since 2015's Psychic Warfare.
The sheer velocity of their creative collaboration can be felt from the first note of the record and is expertly displayed on today's release title track, "Wasted Lands". Neil Fallon's lyrical knack of conjuring characters from a handful of strange, sharply observed details and dropping them into Clutch songs with their own vibrant and storied mythologies has long been a defining characteristic of the Clutch canon. On "Wasted Lands," he conjures a creature so malign that H.P. Lovecraft and Stephen King are invoked only to make clear that even they could not dream it up. Rumor casts it as a government experiment, a heavenly angel or an omen preparing the ground for the end of days. Nobody knows for certain. The locals call it Neil Patrick Fallon.
Sharing some thoughts on today's release, Neil Fallon says, "The inspiration for the lyrics in Wasted Lands came about when it was brought to my attention that someone had been dragging my name on FaceBook (weird, right?). Apparently, I had reneged on a free t-shirt and dinner. I think it was a prize in a pay to play contest. Not to overstate the obvious, but it was a load of horse hockey. Many people tried to explain to this person that it was not me and that they had been hustled. But they simply would not believe it. So I thought, screw it, no half-measures. You want a monster? Let's give you one."
Beneath Fallon's lyrical story-craft, Jean-Paul Gaster, Dan Maines and Tim Sult lock into a classic-Clutch, riff-driven groove featuring a very intentional and strategically placed bass-drum hit from Gaster. One he knew would make the live crowd go wild. He shares
"There's a part where Neil says, 'Vegetable, mineral, man, or beast.' And I put a bass drum on, 'man or beast,' and Machine thought that was kind of weird. He was like, 'Man, you're covering up the vocal!' And I said, 'No, that bass drum is gonna make the crowd go nuts, I guarantee it.' And it does, because there's nothing more exciting than having a big bass drum slam through a PA, and Neil singing a vocal on top of it. I mean, I get goosebumps from that, you know?"
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