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Sunday Metal Song: Clutch, “50,000 Unstoppable Watts”

Posted in Sunday Metalhead Minute with tags , , , , on Sunday, May 17, 2009 by Ryan Buege

Clutch is back with a powerful new track called “50,000 Unstoppable Watts” from their forthcoming Strange Cousins from the West album, and our friends at the MetalSucks Clutch, Strange Cousins of the Westmansion were kind enough to offer an exclusive premiere. The release is due in stores on July 7th, and if this track is any indication, it looks like Clutch won’t be straying too far from the riff-heavy, groovy prog rock they’ve displayed on some of the exceptional releases they’ve put out this decade. In fact, while it’s hardly a sound that qualifies for the “metal” classification I’ve thrown on them in this post, it seems to marry the wicked boot-stomping heaviness that originally introduced me to Clutch with the swampy classic rock and blues that eventually started to infest their minds more seamlessly than ever. My prediction is that this will be the album to satisfy your summer hard rock craving; I hope Clutch finally get the radio play they deserve with Strange Cousins. Get this one while it’s hot!

LISTEN: Clutch, “50,000 Unstoppable Watts” (from Strange Cousins from the West, available 7/7)

Clutch to enter studio to begin recording new album

Posted in Music News with tags , , , , on Thursday, February 19, 2009 by Ryan Buege

Clutch‘s  From Beale Street to Oblivion was easily my favorite rock ‘n roll album of the year when it was released in 2007, but unfortunately the album never got the push from the rest of the music world that it rightly deserved. Even though the guys in Clutch are busy with a million different things (including their own bastard off-shoot jam/rockabilliy band The Bakerton Group), it doesn’t look like I’ll have to wait much longer to hear more of their awesome boogie rock:

“Management at Weathermaker Music has announced that Clutch will enter Magpie Cage recording studios in Baltimore with producer J. Robbins on March 20th, to work on their first studio record in over 2 years. The yet to be titled release is set for a June 30th worldwide release through Weathermaker. Robbins produced both The Bakerton Group’s El Rojo and Clutch’s critically acclaimed 2005 release Robot Hive/Exodus and we are very excited to be working with him on yet another Clutch release.”

Stay tuned for more on this one!