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Friday, September 25, 2026

Clutch Announce New Album ‘Wasted Lands’

Maryland rock institution Clutch have announced their fourteenth studio album, Wasted Lands, set for release on January 22, 2027 via the band’s own Weathermaker Music.
. An extensive variety of pre-order bundles are available now HERE. The announcement arrives alongside the release of its raucously groovy, riff-driven title track, “Wasted Lands”.

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

Across Wasted Lands, Clutch keep their riff-heavy foundations intact while making room for a sharper melodic streak. Tracks including “Colorado Fuel and Iron,” “Stage Fright” and “Loaf and Jug” build their considerable weight around chord progressions as much as individual riffs. “Beware the Fever” brings banjo onto a Clutch record for the first time, using a rough demo played by Fallon and recorded by Gaster during a writing session. Despite several attempts to re-record the performance, nothing quite came close so the original recording is what went on the record.

Fallon’s lyrics open in the rubble of the Georgia Guidestones on “The Drifter Returns” and close beneath an exploding star on “The Message is Clear.” The route between them runs through Colorado’s Highway 50, abandoned company towns, corporate appetites, creature-feature horror and deep space.

Clutch have assembled an extensive variety of physical pre-order items. The standard black vinyl edition, cassette and standard CD will be available everywhere, alongside the following exclusive editions:

Red vinyl, exclusive to clutchmerch.com
Red CD, exclusive to clutchmerch.com
Yellow Smoke vinyl, exclusive to US independent retail
Green Smoke vinyl, exclusive to Amazon.com
Sea Blue Smoke vinyl, exclusive to TalkShopLive
Blue vinyl, available internationally through HMV in the UK, JBL in Germany, FNAC in France and JB in Australia

Wasted Lands will be released worldwide on January 22, 2027 via Weathermaker Music. To pre-order the album and see all music and apparel products available in the US and additional territories, go to clutchmerch.com

US fans will have the opportunity to experience some of the new material from Wasted Lands for the first time when the band head out on their 16-date US headline tour next month with support from Slomosa and Blood Vulture. The run begins October 16 at The Fillmore Charlotte and closes November 7 at The NorVa in Norfolk, taking Clutch through the South, Midwest and Northeast ahead of the album’s January release. Tickets are available from clutchmerch.com

Download Tour Art HERE

CLUTCH US TOUR 2026

WITH SLOMOSA AND BLOOD VULTURE

Fri, Oct 16 | Charlotte, NC | The Fillmore Charlotte

Sat, Oct 17 | North Myrtle Beach, SC | House of Blues

Sun, Oct 18 | Jacksonville, FL | FIVE

Tue, Oct 20 | Tampa, FL | The Ritz Ybor

Thu, Oct 22 | New Orleans, LA | House of Blues

Fri, Oct 23 | Robinsonville, MS | Bluesville at Horseshoe Tunica

Sun, Oct 25 | Fayetteville, AR | Ozark Music Hall

Tue, Oct 27 | West Des Moines, IA | Val Air Ballroom

Wed, Oct 28 | Green Bay, WI | EPIC Event Center *Date changed