The album’s lead single, "Electric Worry" wasn't just another successful Top 40 rock single, but it's anthem like "Bang Bang Bang Bang, Vamanos, Vamanos" chorus and high energy guitar jam/drum solo ending became an instant Clutch classic. It was a hardened, simple blues approach with power that took the former Germantown High School compatriots to the next level. With a decade of experience behind them, Clutch was now passing and/or outlasting the majority of their mid/late 90's contemporaries.Ĭlutch's 7th studio album, 2005's "Robot Hive/Exodus" (DRT), produced by J.Robbins, was another breakthrough release, showcasing a diversity most rock bands could never dream of pulling off.Ģ007's "From Beale Street to Oblivion" took off where RH/E's final track "Gravel Road" left off. The band was now in top playing shape and writing the most challenging material of their career. The 36-month period from 2004 to 2007 saw heavy, non-stop touring of not just North America, but also England, mainland Europe, the Scandinavian territories, and Australia. These two pieces would eventually see the surface through Megaforce Records a few years later. In the meantime, the band had self-released the studio album "Jam Room" and their first concert release "Live at the Googleplex" on their own River Road Records. A year later however, the band was tortured with label problems, and it was three years before the sonically brilliant "Blast Tyrant" was released by indie label DRT Entertainment. The band enjoyed their first Top 40 single "Careful With that Mic". The band jumped to the larger Columbia label for 1998's Elephant Riders.Ĭlutch re-joined the Atlantic ranks in 2001 for their 4th studio album, the six-figure selling "Pure Rock Fury". Their debut LP, "Transnational Speedway League.," followed in 1993.Ī self-titled album appeared two years later, on Atlantic Records and afforded Clutch their first mainstream exposure, as the label released a trilogy of psychedelic-tinged singles, "Big News", "Spacegrass", "Escape from the Prison Planet." A lengthy and very successful North American tour with Marilyn Manson put an exclamation point on this early part of Clutch's career. Shortly after the release of Passive Restraints Clutch was picked up by EastWest Records. Earache released the legendary Passive Restraints EP. After releasing the classic 7” single “Pitchfork” the band caught the attention of Earache Records. The band built a local following through constant gigging. Formed in 1991 in Germantown, MD, Clutch features Neil Fallon (vocals), Tim Sult (guitar), Dan Maines (bass), and Jean-Paul Gaster (drums).
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