CLUTCH’s JEAN-PAUL GASTER Gives A Timeframe For The Band’s Next Album

New Clutch is within the works and drummer Jean-Paul Gaster has a reasonably stable grip on the way it’ll all play out. In accordance with Gaster in an interview with El Expreso Del Rock, Clutch has about 9 songs within the works that they will begin to hash out with producer Tom Dalgety. As soon as these are wrapped up, they will get filed away and it will be on to the following batch of songs.

“In the mean time, we now have about eight or 9 new music concepts, and our good friend Tom Dalgety, the identical producer from earlier than, he is gonna come and hang around with us subsequent week,” stated Gaster. “And we’re gonna begin working by way of these concepts. And we won’t file an album [next week], however we are going to work on these concepts and kind of refine them, good them, after which at that time, we’re gonna set these songs apart after which we’ll write one other batch. After which from there, we are going to make the file.”

Clutch bassist Dan Maines had roughly the identical feedback in a latest interview with iRock, saying: “We’re type of in the midst of some deep writing periods. We have been getting collectively fairly a bit, nevertheless it’s all specializing in new materials, attempting to put in writing songs for a brand new album. It is going rather well. We get collectively in a studio and we’re simply recording each single concept that we now have.

“If it will get to the purpose the place we have got two elements collectively that type of resemble a verse and a refrain, and everybody’s proud of it simply music-wise, we’ll file these concepts. After which we put that apart and transfer on to one thing else. And we add these recordsdata so that each one 4 of us can take heed to them at dwelling.

“And Neil [Fallon, Clutch vocalist] will take exhausting take heed to them and take into consideration vocal concepts for these elements. And we begin piecing collectively issues. Typically he’ll take heed to one thing from sooner or later that he thinks would possibly work rather well with one thing from the earlier week. And if it requires tempo adjustments or key adjustments to type of mix these two elements collectively, we’ll work on that. However, yeah, it is type of a really natural course of. Proper now I’d say we now have most likely a few stable 10 concepts that you would name songs, however they undoubtedly want just a little extra fleshing out. However, yeah, it is thrilling.”

Within the meantime, undoubtedly take a look at the 2023 “full” version of Dawn On Slaughter Seaside with three additional bonus tracks. It is glorious!

As for the brand new materials, Fallon stated in a latest chat with TotalRock’s Hobo On The Radio the album continues to be slated for a late 2025 launch – third or fourth quarter to be exact.

“We most likely — we cannot be recording till subsequent 12 months. And I am gonna say hopefully the album will come out within the third quarter or fourth quarter of 2025. Which sounds prefer it’s far-off, and I suppose it’s, to a level, however that is gonna come round fairly rapidly for us. We’re gonna do it with Grammy-nominated producer Tom Dalgety once more. He was superior. However that by no means stops us from taking part in these new songs stay, which they will inevitably be everybody’s favourite model and so they’ll hate the file’s model, however that is simply the way in which it goes.”