CLUTCH Is Aiming To Begin Recording A New Album Next Year

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Clutch frontman Neil Fallon offered 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 file, which is able to observe the 2022 launch of Dawn On Slaughter Seashore.

“We have been getting collectively, on and off this 12 months, simply writing. After which that typically that simply means writing a riff, not essentially a track. However proper now, as we converse, behind me, [producer] Tom Dalgety, he flew in from Bristol [United Kingdom] a few nights in the past and he is accomplished a load of albums, he did our final file, Dawn On Slaughter Seashore,” stated Fallon.

“We’re doing a pre-production session this week. We’ll do one other one most likely in January. After which once more, proper earlier than we file, hopefully in March. And what meaning is we’re simply form of fleshing out these demos. So when it comes time to file them, we all know them and do not have an excuse to say, ‘I do not know learn how to play this track.”

When requested concerning the timeline of the musical concepts for the brand new album, Fallon defined, “I believe possibly the primary ones are possibly from March of final 12 months, however it was fairly piecemeal ‘trigger we might exit on the street 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 stated.

“However there is a riff that Tom stated we did on the final session nearly three years in the past that he’d prefer to kick round that was truly from — I believe 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 reside 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 give you lyrical concepts. I will jot ’em down in a pocket book or a voice memo on my telephone and I will give you an concept for lyrics. And typically they appear to write down themselves.

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

When questioned about whether or not the band considers how new materials can be obtained in reside performances, Fallon replied: “No. And I believe that is one of many issues that Clutch followers like about us. I believe there is a sincerity. In case you form of premeditate it, then it turns into much less of a creative enterprise and extra of a advertising scheme. And I believe 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 stated, ‘I do not know. I do not learn about this factor.’ After which that turned to be a number of the hottest songs that we put out. And so I am not a superb decide of that.”