CLUTCH Releases New Single 'The Drifter Returns'
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Maryland rockers CLUTCH have released a new single, "The Drifter Returns", accompanied by an official lyric video. Check it out here.
CLUTCH has already performed "The Drifter Returns" live at some of its recent shows. It is the first track to be released from CLUTCH's upcoming follow-up to the "Sunrise On Slaughter Beach" album, which was released in September 2022.
In a December 2025 interview with U.K.'s Metal Hammer magazine, CLUTCH frontman Neil Fallon stated about the band's next LP: "We did begin a pre-production and writing session earlier [in 2025], but then we went back out on tour. There will be another writing session in January [of 2026], and the plan is to record in late January or early February [of 2026]. Nowadays, from finishing a record to mastering takes up to six months. And the great thing about being our own record label is that if it doesn't feel right to put it out at that time, we won't. We'd rather wait and make it as good as it can be. That's where we are at. There are a number of songs in the can, but I'm not going to predict when it might be released."
Asked if the new material "sounds good", Neil said: "Every year it gets harder and harder to come up with stuff, because you already have these existing records, but… yeah. We know that [as an album] it'll be alright."
Back in May 2025, CLUTCH revealed that it had reteamed with Grammy-winning producer Gene "Machine" Freeman (LAMB OF GOD, KYNG) for the recording sessions for the band's next studio album. Freeman previously worked with CLUTCH on 2004's "Blast Tyrant", 2013's "Earth Rocker" and 2015's "Psychic Warfare" LPs.
CLUTCH has been writing new music on and off around its touring commitments, preparing for what will be the band's fourteenth studio LP. Although CLUTCH previously announced it was working with producer Tom Dalgety once again, those plans appear to now have been abandoned.
(Source: www.blabbermouth.net)
