CLUTCH Is Aiming To Begin Recording A New Album Next Year

Clutch frontman Neil Fallon supplied updates on the band’s progress with their new album in a latest interview with Neil Jones of TotalRock. Fallon mentioned their songwriting periods and shared some insights on their inventive course of for the report, which can comply with the 2022 launch of Dawn On Slaughter Seaside. 

“We have been getting collectively, on and off this yr, simply writing. After which that typically that simply means writing a riff, not essentially a music. However proper now, as we communicate, behind me, [producer] Tom Dalgety, he flew in from Bristol [United Kingdom] a few nights in the past and he is achieved a load of albums, he did our final report, Dawn On Slaughter Seaside,” mentioned Fallon.

“We’re doing a pre-production session this week. We’ll do one other one in all probability in January. After which once more, proper earlier than we report, hopefully in March. And what which means is we’re simply form of fleshing out these demos. So when it comes time to report them, we all know them and haven’t got an excuse to say, ‘I do not know tips on how to play this music.”

When requested in regards to the timeline of the musical concepts for the brand new album, Fallon defined, “I feel possibly the primary ones are possibly from March of final yr, nevertheless it was fairly piecemeal ‘trigger we would exit on the highway after which nobody actually desires to get collectively after a present and say, ‘Hey, let’s jam.’ So, it was form of piecemeal, like I mentioned.

“However there is a riff that Tom mentioned we did on the final session virtually three years in the past that he’d prefer to kick round that was truly from — I feel we have been kicking that riff round since [2015’s] Psychic Warfare. It is type of like this orphan riff that — it is good; it simply wants to search out some pals to stay with.”

Fallon additionally delved into how he crafts the themes for his lyrics. He remarked, “I want I knew there was a really succinct system for doing this. However I will provide you with lyrical concepts. I will jot ’em down in a pocket book or a voice memo on my telephone and I will provide you with an concept for lyrics. And typically they appear to put in writing themselves.

“Different instances I will say, ‘Nicely, they do not actually sound that good. Let’s attempt it on this music.’ And finally, it is like… I do not know. You whittle away at stuff till you discover its closing kind. I discover that songs which have stood the take a look at of time are those that had been the quickest to put in writing. Those that take months, however normally these do not final very lengthy so far as stay rotation on stage.”

When questioned about whether or not the band considers how new materials might be acquired in stay performances, Fallon replied: “No. And I feel that is one of many issues that Clutch followers like about us. I feel there is a sincerity. In the event you form of premeditate it, then it turns into much less of a creative enterprise and extra of a advertising and marketing scheme. And I feel as a result of if we prefer it, then by extension Clutch followers prefer it, as a result of that is what we’re all right here for, so far as this band goes. There’s been events the place we have had songs and I’ve listened to it, and I mentioned, ‘I do not know. I do not find out about this factor.’ After which that turned to be a number of the hottest songs that we put out. And so I am not an excellent choose of that.”